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China’s H1 game market sees mobile growth, PC boom, continued slump in web and console games
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China’s H1 game market sees mobile growth, PC boom, continued slump in web and console games

According to data released at the China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference (ChinaJoy), China’s mobile gaming market generated RMB 135.21 billion ($19.98 billion) in actual sales revenue during the first half of the year, up 7.9% year over year. The PC game market posted RMB 45.29 billion ($6.69 billion) in actual sales revenue, marking a 27.92% year-over-year increase. Meanwhile, the web game market generated RMB 2.02 billion ($300 million) in actual sales revenue, down 8.47% from a year earlier, extending its decline for a third consecutive year. The console game market recorded RMB 961 million ($142 million) in actual sales revenue, a 7.06% year-over-year decrease. [China Star Market, in Chinese] Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Your support helps TechNode continue to provide credible, on-the-ground journalism and industry insights about the Chinese tech industry.

July 30, 2026
AgiBot WITA-Omni Full-Modal Model Tops DailyOmni Global Leaderboard: Beating Google Gemini, ByteDance Doubao, and Alibaba Qwen at Embodied Cross-Modal Understanding
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AgiBot WITA-Omni Full-Modal Model Tops DailyOmni Global Leaderboard: Beating Google Gemini, ByteDance Doubao, and Alibaba Qwen at Embodied Cross-Modal Understanding

AgiBot WITA-Omni scores 85.21 on DailyOmni benchmark, 6 of 8 indicators first place, using Thinker-Talker-Actor architecture that synchronizes speech, action, and expression on a single timeline.

July 30, 2026
Chinese Robots Begin Restructuring the Global Supply Chain as TIANZHIHANG Attempts Reverse Integration From Surgical Robots to Orthopedic Implants and Overseas Markets
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Chinese Robots Begin Restructuring the Global Supply Chain as TIANZHIHANG Attempts Reverse Integration From Surgical Robots to Orthopedic Implants and Overseas Markets

TIANZHIHANG plans to acquire MicroPort Orthopedics, compressing years of overseas regulatory, clinical trust, and distribution network building into a single transaction as Chinese robotics companies move beyond product-level export.

July 30, 2026
Same Day Jensen Huang Champions Open Source, Ant Bailing Releases 124B Ling-3.0-flash Execution Model: Beating 1T-Ring-2.6 in 11 of 12 Benchmarks at 12% the Parameters
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Same Day Jensen Huang Champions Open Source, Ant Bailing Releases 124B Ling-3.0-flash Execution Model: Beating 1T-Ring-2.6 in 11 of 12 Benchmarks at 12% the Parameters

Ant Bailing Ling-3.0-flash at 124B total/5.1B activated parameters achieves 15 first-place and 19 second-place across 34 evaluation dimensions, tying DeepSeek V4 Flash for top average score.

July 30, 2026
ByteDance and Alibaba Couldn’t Stop It: Tencent WorkBuddy Quietly Took the AI Office Agent Top Spot in Four Months With 20.97 Million Monthly Visits
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ByteDance and Alibaba Couldn’t Stop It: Tencent WorkBuddy Quietly Took the AI Office Agent Top Spot in Four Months With 20.97 Million Monthly Visits

Tencent WorkBuddy reached 20.97M monthly visits in June 2026, surpassing ByteDance Trae (12.79M) and Alibaba QoderWork (7.88M) combined, leveraging the OpenClaw ecosystem and WeChat enterprise integration.

July 30, 2026
Domestic Chinese LLMs Too Expensive for Heavy Users: Per-Token Cost Advantage Vanishes When Real Development Workflows Reach Tens of Billions of Tokens Daily
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Domestic Chinese LLMs Too Expensive for Heavy Users: Per-Token Cost Advantage Vanishes When Real Development Workflows Reach Tens of Billions of Tokens Daily

Chinese heavy AI coding users spend 300 yuan/week on Codex vs 7800 yuan/day on domestic models like GLM-5.2, as subscription bundling rather than per-token pricing determines real-world cost.

July 30, 2026
BYD AI Team Revealed for First Time: HyWorldVLA Hybrid World Model Achieves SOTA on NAVSIM v1 With 90.59 PDMS Marking BYD Entry Into Autonomous Driving Foundation Models
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BYD AI Team Revealed for First Time: HyWorldVLA Hybrid World Model Achieves SOTA on NAVSIM v1 With 90.59 PDMS Marking BYD Entry Into Autonomous Driving Foundation Models

BYD AI team publishes HyWorldVLA with hybrid pixel-latent world modeling and VLA architecture, scoring 90.59 PDMS on NAVSIM benchmark, from team including HIT robotics researchers.

July 29, 2026
AI Teammates Enter the Enterprise: Tencent Cloud CodeBuddy NPC Reimagines Next-Generation R&D Workflow With AI Native Git Paradigm
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AI Teammates Enter the Enterprise: Tencent Cloud CodeBuddy NPC Reimagines Next-Generation R&D Workflow With AI Native Git Paradigm

Tencent Cloud launches CodeBuddy NPC with AI Native Git paradigm, letting developers @ summon NPC teammates that autonomously handle issue investigation, code development, PR submission and CI repair.

July 29, 2026
Alibaba Tencent and 360 Simultaneously Enter the AI Office Agent Arena: Your Desktop Becomes the New Battleground as WorkBuddy Qianwen Office and 360 AI Target Productivity Dominance
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Alibaba Tencent and 360 Simultaneously Enter the AI Office Agent Arena: Your Desktop Becomes the New Battleground as WorkBuddy Qianwen Office and 360 AI Target Productivity Dominance

Tencent WorkBuddy leads with 20.97M monthly visits, Alibaba consolidates into Qianwen Office under new DingTalk CEO, 360 launches AI assistant with 100M token grants targeting one-person companies.

July 29, 2026
Alibaba Qoder Open-Sources Better Harness: An Open-Source Analysis and Continuous Improvement Tool for Programming Agent Workflows From Alibaba Cloud
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Alibaba Qoder Open-Sources Better Harness: An Open-Source Analysis and Continuous Improvement Tool for Programming Agent Workflows From Alibaba Cloud

Qoder releases Better Harness on GitHub, a three-layer open-source framework for coding agent workflow analysis covering Harness Engineering practices, evaluation models, and runnable implementations.

July 29, 2026
China Advanced Packaging Enters New Wave of Investment as 400 Billion Yuan in Projects Target Chiplet 3D Integration and AI Chip Substrates
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China Advanced Packaging Enters New Wave of Investment as 400 Billion Yuan in Projects Target Chiplet 3D Integration and AI Chip Substrates

Nearly 10 advanced packaging projects totaling 400B yuan announced between May and July 2026, spanning 2.5D/3D, Chiplet, Fan-Out, and automotive chip packaging for AI and HPC.

July 29, 2026
Samsung weighs using Chinese-made DRAM to expand share in China’s budget smartphone market
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Samsung weighs using Chinese-made DRAM to expand share in China’s budget smartphone market

According to South Korean media outlet Asia Times, China’s smartphone market has contracted significantly amid turbulence in the global semiconductor industry driven by rising chip and component prices. Samsung Electronics is reportedly considering adopting cost-competitive Chinese-made DRAM chips as a way to strengthen its position in China’s entry- and mid-level smartphone market. Sources said Samsung is exploring a reverse thinking strategy by incorporating low-cost Chinese mobile DRAM and other locally sourced semiconductor components into its smartphones. The move is intended to reduce manufacturing costs while boosting shipments of budget and mid-range devices in China. The strategy aims to capitalize on a market gap created as local smartphone makers scale back shipments due to higher component costs fueled by booming demand for AI data centers, which has driven up semiconductor prices. [Icsmart, in Chinese] Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Your support helps TechNode continue to provide credible, on-the-ground journalism and industry insights about the Chinese tech industry.

July 29, 2026