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PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a pre-A round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners. The months-old company is developing household robots for tasks including clothes folding and cooking. A demonstration showed one of it

StepFun, a Chinese AI company, is reportedly reorganizing around two strategic lines: foundation models and agent devices. Its phone business is being moved into a separate company, while the original entity continues to operate the model business; the plan has not been officiall

Nvidia is reportedly seeking a Chinese base-station maker to combine its AI computing platform with wireless network equipment for 6G systems aimed at overseas markets, according to people in the communications supply chain. The report said Nvidia and a Shenzhen-based company, 佳贤

BYD said its Japan-specific small electric car built for the kei-car segment, Racco, had received more than 700 orders after its July 28 launch. Japanese industry data counted only 125 sales during Racco’s first four days, but BYD said most were dealer-registered test-drive vehi

Huawei-backed luxury-car brand Maextro has launched the V800 and V680, its first flagship minivans, expanding the brand’s lineup beyond the S800 sedan. The V680 starts at RMB648,000, while V800 versions are priced from RMB766,000 to RMB1.016 million. Both range-extended models o

Baidu has reportedly begun integrating its internal office agent dodo with Baidu Dazi, moving dodo’s research and development staff and resources into the Dazi team. dodo is used inside Baidu through its messaging app, web and desktop client to summarize meetings, process documen

Apple is reportedly considering China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), a memory-chip maker, as a supplier of mobile DRAM including LPDDR5X, which is used in smartphones and other devices. Talks over pricing have hit a hurdle. CXMT is reportedly seeking prices at or above qu

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming reportedly told the company’s Seed AI research team last month that it would not rely on AI distillation to improve its models, even if that meant temporarily falling behind rivals. AI distillation is a training method in which a smaller model learn

Huawei has launched the MateBook Pro S, a 798-gram laptop powered by its Kirin XE90 PC processor, with prices starting at RMB7,999. The 14.2-inch flexible OLED laptop offers 3.1K resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. Higher-end privacy-screen and collector versions reach RMB10,29

DeepSeek said in a notice that it plans to raise prices for its API services soon, warning users that the increase could be substantial. The company has not published a new price schedule, so the change is planned rather than effective. DeepSeek’s current API pricing distinguish

This week, the latest global automaker sales rankings for the first half of 2026 were released, marking the first time that three Chinese automakers have simultaneously ranked among the world’s top 10 by sales. The latest rankings reflect the continued growth of China’s automotiv