Ideas, evidence and the questions shaping what comes next.
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.
A Chinese computing-industry report projects 197 million active agents in China by 2030, up from 4.95 million in 2026.
A September 21 Hunyuan research update studies the trade-off between sample efficiency and training throughput.
A September 17 report argues that financing, alongside chip access, shapes the pace of China's AI buildout.
Open-RAIL provides an engineering layer between robot hardware and vision-language-action or world-action models.
Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B combines visual scene interpretation with components for three-dimensional perception and driving trajectories.
