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Ant Group's LingBot-Depth 2.0 spatial perception model achieves 12 world-first benchmarks, with its 1.1B parameter LingBot-Vision foundation model surpassing Meta's 7B DINOv3.
Guangzhou-based AIFU Semiconductor ramps BAW filter chip production to 1 billion units, breaking Broadcom and Qorvo's 5G RF filter monopoly with proprietary single-crystal aluminum nitride technology.
According to market research firm Counterpoint Research, smartphone sales in China fell 13% year over year during the month-long 618 shopping festival, as major brands raised prices to offset higher memory costs. Between May 26 and June 21, all major Chinese smartphone brands except Huawei posted double-digit sales declines. Promotions were less aggressive than last year, dampening consumer demand. Honor’s sales dropped 33%, while Xiaomi’s fell 24%. Ivan Lam, Senior Analyst at Counterpoint Research, said: “Some Chinese smartphone brands priced both their new and existing models higher than comparable devices a year ago. Discounts during this year’s 618 shopping festival were also generally less aggressive, both in terms of price reductions and the range of products included in promotions.” [Jiwei, 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.
Simplexity Robotics, an embodied AI robotics startup founded less than a year ago, announced the first batch delivery of 100 units of its all-scenario robot i7 Pro, ...
On May 28, 2026, Nature Communications published a paper titled "Multimodal deep learning model for AI-based functional prognostic risk stratification in patien...
On July 4, Diagens held the "Medical AI Ecosystem Innovation Symposium and iMedLoop Global Medical Imaging Data Platform Launch" at the Diaoyutai State Gu...
Despite dozens of attempts from startups and tech giants alike, AI-powered browsers have failed to displace Chrome as users' default gateway to the web.
PKU team unveils the world's first phase-change memristor neural dynamical system chip, achieving 2.12ms step latency and up to 478x speedup over NVIDIA A100 for brain modeling.
On Monday, Tencent launched Hunyuan Hy3, a new reasoning model that integrates both fast and slow thinking. Built on a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, Hy3 features 295 billion total parameters with 21 billion activated parameters and supports a context window of up to 256K tokens. Hy3 has been integrated into several Tencent products and services, including WorkBuddy/CodeBuddy, Yuanbao, Marvis, and ima. Its API is now available through Tencent Cloud’s TokenHub platform. Tencent has priced Hy3 at RMB 1 ($0.15) per million input tokens and RMB 4 ($0.59) per million output tokens. Cached input tokens are billed at RMB 0.25 ($0.037) per million tokens. [TechNode reporting] 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.
China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft successfully arrives at asteroid 2016 HO3 after a 400-day, 1-billion-kilometer voyage, beginning scientific exploration and sample collection.
UBTECH’s newly unveiled full-size humanoid robot U1 has drawn widespread attention, particularly the U1 Ultra (male version), which carries a price tag of RMB 990,000 ($146,000). However, its reported battery life of just two to four hours has sparked criticism from some who argue it is not enough to last through a night. In response, UBTECH said that a two to four-hour battery life is currently typical for full-size humanoid robots across the industry and that the U1’s endurance is in line with the industry standard. The company also said that the robot is positioned as an emotional companion, a direction it said is supported and recognized by Chinese authorities, rather than being marketed as a boyfriend, girlfriend, or romantic partner. [Jiemian, 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.
Alibaba's Qwen launches CosyVoice input method app with AI-powered voice input, achieving near-100% English recognition accuracy and intelligent text polishing via large model integration.