MiniMax has released H3-Image, an open-weight image model that turns text into a 4K picture in about ten seconds. The Shanghai company is betting that fast, downloadable generators can win developers who want control over where their images are made.
Tencent has opened an internal beta for E-Ciyuan, its first AI game-companion agent, which reads the screen in real time and talks to players. It arrives as AI companionship shifts from novelty chatbots toward context-aware, multimodal products.
Tang Jia San Shao, one of China's most famous web novelists, has stopped publishing new books but still earns tens of millions of yuan a year. He kept the game and film rights to his Douluo series and built a company around them, turning old stories into lasting assets.
Honor of Kings' farm mini-game now lets players stack land into nesting plots, and the first tier-three plot reportedly needs 6.7 billion in savings. Most players sit in their 80s and 90s, with top accounts past level 101.
A new Tencent comedy series overseen by Zhao Benshan and directed by his son Zhao Yinan has drawn unusually blunt criticism, much of it aimed at its wall-to-wall Northeast dialect. The show, 'Zou Ma Shang Ren,' leans on a familiar troupe of comic actors and a family pairing in front of and behind the camera.
Apple has struck a deal with Alibaba to embed the Qwen model inside Apple Intelligence in China, letting Siri, writing tools and visual search call on Chinese text and image understanding. Testing opens on 4 November with the latest iOS developer beta, ahead of a full release in December.
Short and medium-length series are becoming a serious business in China, with one show's first season reportedly earning over 33 million yuan in revenue sharing. New titles like 'Bionic Maze' and 'The Appraisal' are testing whether compact storytelling can sustain a profitable model.
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