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Xiaomi Goes Racing: Chinese Tech Giant Debuts Its First VGT Concept, Promises Real Car at MWC 2026
Xiaomi unveiled the Xiaomi Vision GT, a Vision Gran Turismo concept car, at its Barcelona global launch and said a physical version will be shown at MWC 2026. The move marks the first VGT designed by a Chinese brand and signals Xiaomi’s effort to use high‑profile design projects to build automotive credibility and international recognition.
DeepSeek’s DualPath Promises to Halve AI Inference Costs — But Questions Remain
DeepSeek has introduced DualPath, an inference architecture it says can double efficiency and lower the compute cost of running large AI models. The move reflects a broader industry shift toward software and architectural optimisations that could reduce reliance on cutting‑edge chips, but real‑world validation and integration challenges remain.
The 'Guess the Car' Challenge: What a Viral Doubao Game Reveals About Consumer AI in China
A viral NetEase challenge asking Doubao to identify a car from a few clues illustrates both the improving capabilities of Chinese conversational AI and the limits posed by ambiguity, data needs and privacy concerns. While useful for marketing and e-commerce, such features also spotlight questions about model confidence, data governance and user safety.
Spring Gala’s Robot Debut Falters — A Public-Relations Setback for China’s Tech Showmanship
Robotic performers at China’s Spring Festival Gala experienced visible timing and control problems during a high-profile debut, provoking ridicule online and complicating a carefully staged narrative of technological prowess. The episode underscores the gap between lab demonstrations and live, large-scale applications and suggests a need for more cautious, incremental public deployments of robotics.
China Issues First National Standard Framework for Humanoid Robots — Industry Poised at a Turning Point
China has released a national standard system for humanoid robots and embodied intelligence that covers the full supply chain and lifecycle, aiming to accelerate commercialization and regulate safety and ethics. The move arrives as domestic firms show technical progress and growing orders, but the field’s core AI 'brain' remains a bottleneck that will determine whether humanoids reach mass production.
Meta Retreats on Ambitious In‑House AI Chip — Turns to AMD, Nvidia and Google to Fill the Gap
Meta has paused work on a high‑end internal AI training chip, Olympus, after design and stability issues, opting instead for a simpler internal design and large purchases from AMD, Nvidia and Google. The move underscores the difficulty of competing with Nvidia’s performance and software ecosystem and signals a pragmatic industry shift toward external partnerships to secure AI compute capacity.
Nvidia Targets the ‘Inference’ Bottleneck with a New Generation of AI Chips
Nvidia is designing a new class of chips optimized for AI inference, prioritizing latency, throughput and energy efficiency for real‑time model serving. The move aims to lower the cost of running large models at scale and strengthens Nvidia’s position across the AI value chain while intensifying competitive and geopolitical pressures in the semiconductor industry.
ChatGPT Nears Billion‑User Threshold as OpenAI Secures a Record $110bn War Chest
OpenAI says ChatGPT has reached 900 million weekly active users and more than 50 million paid subscribers, as subscription additions accelerated early in the year. The announcement coincided with a roughly $110 billion financing round led by Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank, lifting OpenAI’s pre‑money valuation to about $730 billion and underscoring both the opportunity and the cost of scaling generative AI globally.
When Beats Don’t Boost: Why Nvidia’s Record Quarter Prompted a Market Rethink
Nvidia posted another extraordinary quarter, yet its stock tumbled as investors worried the company’s GPU advantage is shrinking. Structural shifts — from training to inference, rising alternative silicon and cloud providers’ vertical integration — are compressing margins and forcing Nvidia to seek new revenue streams while defending its core franchise.
Trump Orders Federal Ban on Anthropic, Threatens Legal Action as U.S. AI Procurement Frays
President Trump ordered all U.S. federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI products immediately, with a six-month phase-out for certain defence-related uses and threats of civil and criminal penalties. The move raises legal, operational and geopolitical questions about how governments procure and regulate advanced AI systems.
Alibaba Open-Sources CoPaw Agent to Seed a Localised AI-Agent Ecosystem
Alibaba Cloud has open-sourced CoPaw, a desktop AI-agent toolkit that enables custom Skills, local-model integration and native connections to multiple messaging platforms, with one-click local or cloud deployment. The move aims to accelerate enterprise adoption of customised agents while funnelling successful deployments toward Alibaba’s cloud and Qianwen models.
Starlink to Power Archer’s Air Taxis, Bringing LEO Internet Into Urban Air Mobility
Archer Aviation will equip its Midnight eVTOLs with Starlink low‑Earth‑orbit satellite internet to provide high‑bandwidth, low‑latency connectivity for passengers and aircraft operations. The collaboration aims to solve persistent connectivity gaps in urban air mobility, but it faces technical, regulatory and security hurdles before it can support commercial passenger service.