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Aito Unveils New M9 as It Bets on Sensor-Heavy Upgrades to Defend Premium SUV Lead

Aito has formally unveiled the new-generation Aito M9, positioning the flagship sport utility vehicle as a technology-driven upgrade aimed at consolidating its standing in China’s high-end luxury new-energy SUV segment. Announced on April 13, the model introduces what the brand describes as generational improvements spanning

Geely launches AI-driven i-HEV with 48.4% efficiency, advancing “no-charge” electrification

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group’s Geely Auto Group is betting that the next leg of China’s electrification will be led by hybrids that behave like EVs without relying on charging, unveiling an AI-enabled i-HEV system it says delivers a record 48.41% engine thermal efficiency and as

Alibaba touts “HappyHorse” video model after anonymous benchmark win, signaling broader multimodal AI push

Alibaba Group Holding has moved to formalize an unexpected win in generative video, acknowledging it built “HappyHorse 1.0” after the model appeared anonymously on Artificial Analysis’ Video Arena and reached No.1 in both text-to-video and image-to-video within 48 hours—an outcome that reshapes investor

Beijing’s Humanoid Robot Half Marathon Adds Autonomous Scoring as Honor Joins a 100-Team Field

Beijing’s 2026 Humanoid Robot Half Marathon is turning from a spectacle into a technology benchmark, as organizers push teams toward autonomy and consumer-electronics brand Honor joins a field that has quintupled from last year. Honor said its “Lightning” and “Yuanqizai” robots will race on April 19 in Beijing’

Honor Unveils “YOYO Claw” Agent PCs, Targeting Lower AI Costs With 50% Token Cut and Local-First Security

Honor is pushing AI deeper into the PC by shipping an on-device agent preinstalled out of the box, betting that lower usage costs and system-level security can turn “AI PCs” from niche experiments into everyday productivity machines. At a product technology briefing in Xi’an on April 13,

ChinaBiz Briefing | Huawei Expands Form Factors, DeepSeek V4 Push, Tencent Agent Stack, Robotics Shift

China’s tech landscape is accelerating across AI, robotics and next-generation hardware. Huawei is pushing beyond traditional smartphone form factors, while DeepSeek and Tencent expand AI infrastructure and agent ecosystems. At the same time, robotics players are shifting from demonstration to deployable capability, and EV makers continue incremental upgrades

Leapmotor Updates C10 and C16 With Split Headlights and Higher Output, as 2026 Volume Target Looms

Leapmotor Automobile has filed updated versions of its C10 and C16 SUVs in China’s latest Ministry of Industry and Information Technology catalogue, revealing styling and powertrain changes designed to keep its core C-series competitive as the company pursues an ambitious 2026 sales goal. The refreshed C10 and C16

Kepler Robotics pivots to force-tactile data after securing A++ round

China’s industrial humanoid race is shifting from model architecture to data ownership, as Kepler Robotics rolled out what it calls the country’s first “native full-perception force-tactile data collection system” and said it has closed an “hundreds of millions of yuan” A++ funding round to double down

DeepSeek V4 Targets Late April Launch, Betting on Trillion-Parameter Efficiency

Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek is scheduled to release its next-generation flagship model, DeepSeek V4, in late April 2026, pivoting the industry's focus toward extreme inference efficiency with a new one-trillion parameter architecture. The timeline, disclosed internally by founder Liang Wenfeng, signals an aggressive product cycle

Nio’s Li Bin Rules Out Robotaxis, Pitches Battery-Cell and Chip Standardization to Cut Industry Costs by RMB 100 Billion a Year

Nio Inc. founder and CEO Li Bin said the Chinese EV maker will not build robotaxis or humanoid robots, choosing instead to concentrate capital and engineering resources on core passenger vehicles as the sector grapples with rapid product churn, oversupply and margin compression. Speaking on April 11 at the 2026