China AI, Robotics & Semiconductor Briefing

US telecommunications regulator FCC blocked the US sale of 2 device models equipped with chips from Huawei subsidiary HiSilicon for the first time. MiniMax released the weights of its 428-billion-parameter multimodal...

The General Office of the State Council released Opinions on establishing an employment-friendly development mode tailored to AI technology development, outlining 18 tasks across 6 dimensions to expand job creation...

Cambricon’s earnings, Tencent’s open world model and the telecom data center pivot reveal an integrated AI ecosystem. Produced and provided by lawyer Kyungjin Kim. Follow on Apple Podcasts: China AI, Robotics &...

DeepSeek fully open-sourced its production inference engine, DeepInfer, marking the first time a top-tier global AI model company has opened its proprietary inference engine. Telecom carrier China Telecom established an...

The MemTensor team in Shanghai released and open-sourced 'MemT-1.0', integrating past memory directly into model computation. Rather than re-reading conversational context from the beginning each time, the model...

DeepSeek released its "V4.1 Flash 1017" model and opened its proprietary web search functionality to external users, enabling AI assistants to operate without relying on foreign search services. At the China...

Chinese researchers successfully utilized an advanced domestic artificial intelligence model to solve a longstanding mathematical challenge known as the three-dimensional Ghys conjecture, with the proof rigorously...

The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology tallied global humanoid robot shipments at over 22,000 units in the first half of this year, representing an approximately 300% increase year-over-year...

China's Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology released a proposed revision to the Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export, adding 40 technologies—including 23 artificial...

EUV light sources, custom AI chips, and Step5 Preview. Edge AI and physical robots. Produced and provided by lawyer Kyungjin Kim. Follow on Apple Podcasts: China AI, Robotics & Semiconductor Briefing...

DeepSeek directly enters the robotics brain sector, leading a seed investment round in robotics AI startup Winverse AI. Unitree faces simultaneous declines in share price and rental rates as China's humanoid robotics...

Nature Will (自然意志), a Chinese physical-AI lab, has unveiled Natura-1, billed as the first general foundational model for the physical world. A single 50-billion-parameter model takes in language and video and drives a...

Infinigence AI (无问芯穹) secured a 2.3 billion yuan Series C funding round, representing the largest single investment in China's AI-native infrastructure sector. The China International Industry Fair in Shanghai opened...

We review DeepSeek's consideration of attracting up to 100 billion yuan in investment and CXMT's 34.9 billion yuan DRAM capacity expansion. We also cover the upcoming expiration of the waiver for the application of the...

We explore the expansion of China's AI infrastructure through the report of DeepSeek attracting approximately 12 billion dollars in investment, the release schedule of Huawei Ascend, and SMIC's earnings. Produced and...