Chips
Alibaba introduces Zhenwu V900 as its AI infrastructure ambitions expand
Alibaba's T-Head unveiled a new accelerator at Apsara, positioning its chips as part of a broader training and inference system.
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Models
AWS brings Moonshot's Kimi K3 to Amazon Bedrock
AWS announced Bedrock availability on September 18, adding another distribution channel for the Chinese model developer.
Robotics
RobotPlusPlus announces Series C funding for industrial robots working at height
The Beijing company says its latest financing will support overseas expansion and embodied-AI development.
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Research / Sep 22Xiaomi's HySparse2 targets lower computing demands for long-context AI agents
Models / Sep 22SenseTime makes its U1 Pro image model available for production use
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Li Qiang visits Shanghai AI test base and calls for manufacturing adoption
China's premier emphasized industrial AI during a September 22 inspection, according to Xinhua's official account.
Research
Xiaomi's HySparse2 targets lower computing demands for long-context AI agents
Xiaomi researchers describe an attention design that reduces the computation and memory needed to process long inputs. Their paper reports gains over two research baselines, with important limits on what the results establish about real-world performance.
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