Policy
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.
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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.
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.
Models
SenseTime makes its U1 Pro image model available for production use
SenseTime is moving U1 Pro into production use, with enterprise API access handled through a whitelist.
Models
Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2.6 models and reinforcement-learning resources
Xiaomi released Pro and Flash variants of MiMo-V2.6, alongside a smaller distilled model and research materials.
Research
New report forecasts a sharp increase in China's active AI agents
A Chinese computing-industry report projects 197 million active agents in China by 2030, up from 4.95 million in 2026.