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Alibaba’s Qianwen Open-Sources an 80B Coding Model Optimized for Agents and Local Development
Alibaba’s Qianwen has open‑sourced Qwen3‑Coder‑Next, an 80B parameter model designed for coding agents and local deployment that combines hybrid attention with MoE to lower inference costs. The release aims to accelerate enterprise adoption in China by enabling on‑premise use and customization, while raising questions about IP, safety and the infrastructure needed to realize claimed efficiency gains.
Fei‑Fei Li Says the Next AI Frontier Is Not Language but the World Itself
Fei‑Fei Li told the Cisco AI Summit that AI’s next major frontier is spatial intelligence: models that understand and simulate 3D physical space. Her company World Labs has produced Marble, a “world model” designed for persistent, physically consistent virtual environments with applications from robotics training to therapy, while cautioning that data scarcity and real‑world complexity make general‑purpose robots a distant prospect.
AMD Delivers Record 2025 but Tepid Q1 Guidance Sparks Sell‑Off — China Exports and AI Race Loom Large
AMD closed 2025 with record revenue and profit, driven by strong data‑centre and client CPU performance, but its Q1 2026 revenue guidance — a midpoint implying a small quarter‑on‑quarter decline — disappointed investors. Export restrictions on the MI308 product and limited visibility into future China sales added uncertainty, triggering a sharp after‑hours sell‑off despite management’s bullish long‑term growth targets.
Wenchang Poised for a Busy Year: Hainan Firm to Support Nearly 30 Launches in 2026
Hainan International Commercial Space Launch Company says Wenchang Aerospace Launch Support Co. will back nearly 30 launches in 2026, including maiden flights and new ground-workstations. The announcement highlights a significant ramp-up in China’s commercial launch activity, with implications for industry capacity, regional economics in Hainan, and global competition in satellite deployment.
China’s No.1 Document Puts AI at the Centre of a Push to Modernize Agriculture
China’s 2026 No.1 document elevates artificial intelligence as a central tool for agricultural modernization, pairing technical directives with institutional reforms to accelerate real‑world deployment of drones, IoT and robotics. The move aims to convert pilot successes into whole‑chain improvements in productivity, while creating market opportunities and testing the resilience of Chinese rural governance and financing models.
Wenchang Gears Up for a Launch Surge: Hainan Aims to Support Nearly 30 Missions in 2026
Hainan's Wenchang launch-support company plans to back almost 30 launches in 2026, prioritising mature-vehicle missions, inaugural flights of new models and activation of new workstations. The push underscores Beijing's drive to scale commercial launch capabilities but will test logistics, range capacity and supply chains while reshaping competitive dynamics in the global launch market.
Moore Threads Unveils Homegrown AI Coding Service as China Pushes for Software Sovereignty
Moore Threads has introduced a domestically hosted intelligent programming service intended as an onshore alternative to foreign AI coding assistants. The launch reflects China's push for an indigenous AI stack, and its success will hinge on technical reliability, enterprise integrations, and handling of IP and data-compliance issues.
China's Zhiyuan Stages a Robot Gala as Humanoid Industry Moves from Demos to Products
Zhiyuan Robotics will forgo the 2026 Spring Festival Gala to host Robot Wonderful Night, a live-streamed spectacle featuring hundreds of performing robots, as it concentrates resources on embodied intelligence R&D. The event underscores a broader industry pivot from demonstration to productization amid booming forecasts for humanoid robots, rising memory costs driven by AI demand, and shifting infrastructure needs for compute and power.
Alibaba Stakes 3 Billion RMB on 'Action' AI to Win the Spring Festival Battleground
Alibaba is investing RMB 3 billion in a Spring Festival campaign that stitches its Qianwen AI into commerce and local services to serve as an action-capable assistant. The move contrasts with Tencent’s cash-driven social push and ByteDance’s entertainment-focused AI experiences, and could determine which platform secures the mainstream AI entry point in China.
China’s Tech Giants Burn Billions in a New Year ‘Red-Envelope’ Bet to Buy AI Habit
China’s leading tech firms have poured 45 billion yuan into Spring Festival promotions that tie cash rewards to usage of AI assistants, aiming to convert holiday curiosity into habitual use. The campaign marks a strategic shift from traffic grabs to direct competition for the status of ‘AI super‑entry,’ but its long‑term success will depend on retention and differentiated product value.
Tencent’s Billion‑Yuan Red‑Envelope Push: A Sprint to Seed Long‑Term AI Habits
Tencent distributed RMB 1 billion in red envelopes to promote its AI app Yuanbao ahead of the 2026 Lunar New Year, briefly overloading servers and generating broad, short‑term engagement. The campaign bought reach inside Tencent’s vast social graph, but turning festive trials into lasting AI habits will depend on product depth, day‑to‑day usefulness and sustained infrastructure investment.
Materials and Manufacturing Tie-Up Aims to Push China’s Humanoid Robots into Mass Production
Zhongke Huiling has signed a three‑party agreement with Guangda Tongchuang and Delos to co‑develop lightweight structural and exterior materials for its CASBOT Lingbao humanoid robots, pairing materials R&D with manufacturing capacity to accelerate engineered, scalable delivery. The move highlights materials as a critical enabler of commercial humanoids but does not remove remaining technical and market hurdles.