China Executive Insights
Cainiao is opening its global warehouse network to AI and robotics firms for real-world training, with 100+ test scenarios, and launched a three-day overseas delivery service for tech hardware.
Alibaba's MNN team at Taobao open-sourced MNN-Pocket-0.3B, a 173MB INT4 on-device model it says decodes about 350 tokens per second offline on an iPhone 18 Pro.
Ant Group launched Ling-3.2-flash, a native multimodal model with 560B total and 25B active parameters and 1M context; the API costs $0.30/$0.90 per million tokens, free for two weeks.
Tencent has scaled Hy4's inference cluster tenfold after WorkBuddy users hit quotas on day one, and cites second place among Chinese models on Artificial Analysis.
An AI agent identity registration and resolution platform was unveiled at Wuzhen, while 20 organizations including Huawei, Alibaba and Tencent signed an agent self-discipline pact.
NetEase Youdao launched an interactive math tutoring agent that teaches step by step, takes follow-up questions on any step and draws diagrams on a dynamic whiteboard.
Geekplus showed its RS Hyper climbing robot at CeMAT Asia; the company rates RoboShuttle Hyper at 6,000 totes per hour per 1,000 sq m, with a Max workstation handling 800 an hour.
DeepSeek Harness hit 1.54 million daily users and about 92 trillion tokens a day, with some 35,000 third-party plugins; an official plugin marketplace and author program are next.
Baidu released ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base, a raw pretraining checkpoint with 280B total and 14B active parameters, 128K training context and 1M-token support, for further training.
SuperCLUE's October 2026 office-agent test scored Doubao Work 85.33 overall, with Kimi Work and Tencent WorkBuddy close behind across document, writing and data tasks.
Huawei showed its first HarmonyOS desktop PCs, Qingyun HM650 for enterprises and HM650G for government buyers, both with the Kirin X90, at a Wuhan office-industry summit.
Alibaba Cloud says its Lingjun Zhenwu M890 SuperPoD now runs Moonshot AI's 2.8T Kimi K3.1 Pro on day zero via vLLM and SGLang, with Zhongwei invite testing and Panmai 920 NICs.