Models
Four Chinese models take four of OpenRouter’s top five weekly slots
DeepSeek, Z.ai, Xiaomi and Tencent occupy places two through five for September 28–October 4. The figures measure tokens routed through one platform.
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The capabilities, trade-offs and people behind China’s AI models.
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Hong Kong AI team reports local-language adoption across public services
A new Xinhua report examines how HKGAI is adapting language models for Hong Kong residents and government services, rather than announcing a new model release.
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Huawei's openJiuwen Launches X-Router Self-Evolving Model Routing Engine With Ascend Chip Affinity
Huawei's open-source AI agent platform openJiuwen has released X-Router, a self-evolving model routing engine designed to dynamically assign agent tasks to the most cost-effective model without sacrificing quality. Benchmarked on PinchBench, X-Router reduced inference costs by 44.6% while maintaining near-baseline task scores, demonstrating practical progress in China's domestic AI agent infrastructure.
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OpenAI Attributes Adversarial Distillation Campaign Targeting Model Reasoning to Moonshot AI Personnel
OpenAI disclosed a coordinated campaign to extract its models' hidden reasoning and linked a core group behind the activity to people associated with Moonshot AI, the maker of the Kimi language model. Researchers independently demonstrated that the same extraction technique remained exploitable on Microsoft Azure weeks after OpenAI patched its own API, exposing a protection gap across third-party cloud platforms.
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Manus Returns Post-Meta With Version 2.0, Confirms China Market Preparations Underway
Chinese-founded AI agent startup Manus has launched version 2.0 with a new personal agent app called Cue and an upgraded Studio workstation, marking its first major release since resuming independent operations after being spun off from Meta. The company confirmed it is actively building a team and preparing products for the Chinese domestic market while continuing partnerships with local model providers.
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ByteDance Doubao AI Assistant Adds Travel Booking and Navigation to Become Life Services Entry Point
ByteDance's Doubao AI assistant has integrated flight tickets, train tickets, ride-hailing and navigation services in a full rollout announced on September 30, positioning the chatbot as a transactional life-services platform. The upgrade partners with domestic travel and mobility providers to enable end-to-end booking within the app.
