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China's Tech Giants Spent RMB 4.5 Billion (US$620 Million) on a Spring Festival AI Blitz — The Results Reveal More Than the Rankings

China's internet majors poured RMB 4.5 billion (US$620 million) into an AI marketing offensive during the 2026 Lunar New Year holiday, deploying red-packet giveaways, subsidized consumer purchases and live-event sponsorships to drive user adoption at scale. The campaign produced record daily active user figures

China's EV Giants Pivot to Humanoid Robots as Auto Price Wars Erode Margins to Breaking Point

China's electric vehicle manufacturers are making an aggressive push into humanoid robotics, driven not merely by technological ambition but by a stark commercial imperative: years of brutal price competition have compressed industry profit margins below the 4.5% industrial average, forcing automakers to seek new revenue streams before

Honor Unveils 'Robot Phone' and Humanoid Robot at MWC 2026, Signals Deeper AI Pivot

Honor made its most ambitious product statement to date at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, unveiling the industry's first so-called "Robot Phone" alongside a consumer-oriented humanoid robot — moves that underscore a fundamental repositioning of the Chinese smartphone maker away from hardware cycles and

China's EV Market Enters Seasonal Trough as BYD's Overseas Sales Overtake Domestic for First Time

China's electric vehicle market hit a seasonal low in February 2026, with all ten major automakers reporting month-on-month declines amid post-holiday production disruptions and fading policy tailwinds — but the data masks a deeper structural shift that could reshape the competitive landscape for the rest of

China's National AI Fund Makes First Bet on Embodied Intelligence, Backing Galaxy General Robotics in $344M Round

Galaxy General Robotics(Galbot) has closed a RMB 2.5 billion yuan (approximately US$344 million) funding round, marking a pivotal moment for China's humanoid robot sector: the country's national-level artificial intelligence investment vehicle has placed its first direct wager on an embodied intelligence company,

ChinaBiz Briefing | Chips, Robots, Smartphones and the Race for AI's Next Interface

China's technology sector is moving on multiple fronts simultaneously. From NIO spinning out a chip subsidiary into a standalone asset to Unitree's humanoid robots finding deployment in a Kyoto temple, the day's news reflects a single underlying dynamic: Chinese hardware and deep-tech companies

Baidu's AI Bet Pays Off: Revenue Share Disclosure Marks Strategic Inflection Point

Baidu has crossed a threshold that few Chinese technology companies have reached: its artificial intelligence business is no longer a cost center — it is a profit engine. The company's fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings, released on February 26, revealed for the first time that AI-related

XPeng's Second-Generation VLA to Launch March 2 With Volkswagen as Launch Customer, Signaling China's Growing AI Driving Ambitions

XPeng is set to unveil its second-generation Vision-Language-Action model on March 2, positioning the technology not merely as an incremental upgrade to its autonomous driving stack but as what the company calls the world's first mass-production-grade physical world large model — a distinction that

Alibaba's Qwen Enters AI Wearables Race, Targeting Glasses, Earbuds and Smart Rings

Alibaba Group is preparing to launch a line of AI-powered wearable hardware under its Qwen personal AI assistant brand, marking a significant strategic pivot that positions the e-commerce and cloud giant as a direct competitor to Meta Platforms and OpenAI in the fast-emerging consumer AI hardware market.

DeepSeek's DualPath System Targets the Hidden Bottleneck Throttling AI Agents

DeepSeek has co-authored a landmark systems research paper with teams from Peking University and Tsinghua University, proposing a new inference architecture called DualPath that addresses one of the most consequential but least visible constraints on large-scale agentic AI deployment: storage I/O bandwidth. The paper arrives as the