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Saturday

  1. Baidu

    Baidu Apollo Go Opens Test Rides in London and Hong Kong

    In October, Baidu Apollo Go invited media for the first time to test ride the RT6 in London, and together with FREENOW by Lyft plans to achieve fully driverless operation next year and launch commercial services in 2027; during the same period, it launched Hong Kong's first large-scale public test rides in Tung Chung, providing free rides to more than 1,000 residents from October 21 to November 3, after having already driven 280,000 kilometers safely in Hong Kong. Apollo Go also received the 2026 Self-Driving Industry Awards Consumer Service Award.

    In October, Baidu Apollo Go invited media for the first time to test ride the RT6 in London, and together with FREENOW by Lyft plans to achieve fully driverless operation next year and launch commercial services in 2027; during the same period, it launched Hong Kong's first large-scale public test rides in Tung Chung, providing free rides to more than 1,000 residents from October 21 to November 3, after having already driven 280,000 kilometers safely in Hong Kong. Apollo Go also received the 202

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Friday

  1. Leiphone

    iFlytek Chairman and President Voluntarily Cut Salaries, Each Forgoing Over 20 Million Yuan; Baidu Confirms Wu Tian's Departure, Wenxin Model to Announce New Progress Next Week

    iFlytek Responds to Executive Compensation Questions: Chairman Liu Qingfeng and President Wu Xiaoru Voluntarily Lowered Their Annual Salaries, Actually Receiving 4.1 Million Yuan and 3 Million Yuan Respectively for 2025, With Both Seeing Their Payable Compensation Reduced by Over 20 Million Yuan. Baidu Confirms That Group Vice President and Baidu Research Deputy Director Wu Tian Has Departed, and the Wenxin Model Will Announce New Progress Publicly Next Week. The U.S. Department of Justice Has Launched an Antitrust Investigation Into Nvidia's $12.9 Billion Acquisition of Hugging Face, Focusing on GPU Bundling and Control of AI Ecosystem Distribution Nodes.

    iFlytek Responds to Executive Compensation Questions: Chairman Liu Qingfeng and President Wu Xiaoru Voluntarily Lowered Their Annual Salaries, Actually Receiving 4.1 Million Yuan and 3 Million Yuan Respectively for 2025, With Both Seeing Their Payable Compensation Reduced by Over 20 Million Yuan. Baidu Confirms That Group Vice President and Baidu Research Deputy Director Wu Tian Has Departed, and the Wenxin Model Will Announce New Progress Publicly Next Week. The U.S. Department of Justice Has L

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  2. Jiwei.com

    Beken Corporation Competes for the IC Industry Awards Annual AI Market Breakthrough Award with Edge AI Chip BK7259

    Beken Corporation is a candidate for the "Annual AI Market Breakthrough Award" at the 8th IC Industry Awards with its high-performance edge AI chip BK7259. The BK7259 adopts an M52+M55 dual-core architecture and an ARM Ethos U65 NPU, providing 0.25 TOPS of edge-side computing power. It is the first to integrate the Ethos-U65 microNPU into a Wi-Fi 6 MCU, with deep sleep current as low as 2µA, and completes edge-side 3D facial recognition in about 200ms.

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  3. 36Kr · AI

    The 2nd West Bund International Technology Consumer Carnival WTCC 2026 Concludes: Over 400 Brands, Nearly 100 New AI Products Debut

    The 2nd West Bund International Technology Consumer Carnival (WTCC 2026) concluded on October 25, bringing together more than 400 leading global technology brands and nearly 100 new AI products for concentrated debuts, and for the first time organizing the exhibition around the theme "AI for a Lifetime" across eight life stages. The first Shanghai "AI + Consumption" Innovation Competition collected nearly 800 participating projects; the first prize winner in the application group, Qwen AI Glasses, has already opened a flagship store with Wuliangcai on Nanjing East Road. Mosu Space will continue to provide roadshow, incubation, computing power, and investment and financing matchmaking support for award-winning and high-quality projects.

    The 2nd West Bund International Technology Consumer Carnival (WTCC 2026) concluded on October 25, bringing together more than 400 leading global technology brands and nearly 100 new AI products for concentrated debuts, and for the first time organizing the exhibition around the theme "AI for a Lifetime" across eight life stages. The first Shanghai "AI + Consumption" Innovation Competition collected nearly 800 participating projects; the first prize winner in the application group, Qwen AI Glasse

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  4. 36Kr · AI

    MaaS Has Arrived: Anthropic Turns an Operating Profit for the Quarter, China's Public Cloud MaaS Revenue Reaches 10.63 Billion Yuan in Half a Year

    Anthropic's revenue in the second quarter of this year was 11.555 billion US dollars, achieving an operating profit of 974 million US dollars for the first time, with about 80% of revenue coming from pay-as-you-go billing. IDC data shows that in the first half of 2026, China's public cloud MaaS market revenue reached 10.63 billion yuan, up 889.4% year on year, and its share of public cloud PaaS revenue rose from 5.2% in the second half of last year to 21.0%. Zhipu's open platform and API revenue was 825 million yuan, accounting for 86.5% of total revenue; Volcano Engine ranked first with a 45.1% share. The article argues that model services can now generate gross profit, and the unit of competition has shifted to inference optimization and delivery capability.

    Anthropic's revenue in the second quarter of this year was 11.555 billion US dollars, achieving an operating profit of 974 million US dollars for the first time, with about 80% of revenue coming from pay-as-you-go billing. IDC data shows that in the first half of 2026, China's public cloud MaaS market revenue reached 10.63 billion yuan, up 889.4% year on year, and its share of public cloud PaaS revenue rose from 5.2% in the second half of last year to 21.0%. Zhipu's open platform and API revenue

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  5. Yicai

    Zhiyuan Proposes Worken Effective Intelligent Work Hours, Robot Billing Model Still Awaits Validation

    At its Innovation Day on October 29, Zhiyuan proposed the concept of Worken (effective intelligent work hours), using "number of active robots × autonomous working hours × output efficiency ratio" to measure the actual output of autonomous robot operations, and has already calculated Worken for scenarios including the Nanchang Longcheer production line, Guangzhou Metro, and Zhuhai Chimelong, among which the 300 robots at Chimelong reached 33,480 Worken. This billing method is currently conducted only internally at Zhiyuan and has not yet formed a business model; the company is applying for the Worken trademark. Peng Zhihui also released new products including GO-3 Preview and WITA Omni1.0, and stated that in the first half of this year Zhiyuan ranked first globally with 9,700 units shipped and a share of over 43%.

    At its Innovation Day on October 29, Zhiyuan proposed the concept of Worken (effective intelligent work hours), using "number of active robots × autonomous working hours × output efficiency ratio" to measure the actual output of autonomous robot operations, and has already calculated Worken for scenarios including the Nanchang Longcheer production line, Guangzhou Metro, and Zhuhai Chimelong, among which the 300 robots at Chimelong reached 33,480 Worken. This billing method is currently conducted

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  6. Yicai

    Will AI take jobs or create jobs? Experts and corporate executives assess the employment landscape

    At the 2026 HRA Human Capital Sustainable Development Ecosystem Conference, multiple experts, scholars and corporate executives assessed that AI has a dual effect on employment—both displacement and creation—and the consensus in theoretical circles is optimism in the long term and pessimism in the short term. Yang Zhiming, former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, provided data: last year China had 220 million skilled workers, but only 74 million highly skilled workers, accounting for 33%, lower than the 50% in Germany and Japan. The General Office of the State Council has issued the "Opinions on Adapting to the Development of Artificial Intelligence Technology to Help Build an Employment-Friendly Development Model," deploying 18 major tasks in 6 areas.

    At the 2026 HRA Human Capital Sustainable Development Ecosystem Conference, multiple experts, scholars and corporate executives assessed that AI has a dual effect on employment—both displacement and creation—and the consensus in theoretical circles is optimism in the long term and pessimism in the short term. Yang Zhiming, former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, provided data: last year China had 220 million skilled workers, but only 74 million highly skilled

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  7. Sina Tech

    Zhiyuan Unveils GO-3 Preview Foundation Model, Genie Master Framework, and Genie G2 Max Robot

    At the Embodied Work Productivity sub-forum of the 2026 Zhiyuan Innovation Day, Zhiyuan unveiled the embodied foundation model GO-3 Preview, the embodied Agent framework Genie Master, and the heavy-load embodied industrial robot Genie G2 Max. GO-3 Preview adopts the unified WRAM architecture for understanding, prediction, and action generation; on 100 tasks across 20 skill categories, its Zero-Shot average success rate rose from 13.4% to 56.4%, and in model-scale expansion experiments it rose from 56.2% to 73.2%; it has also topped the three major evaluation leaderboards RoboDojo, RoboTwin, and RoboColiseum. Co-President Yao Maoqing proposed three capability standards—measurable, replicable, and sustainable—and the event also presented data including a 98.3% success rate on a phone packaging task and the Genie G2's convenience-store task success rate rising from 28.6% on the first day to 85.7% by the fifth day.

    At the Embodied Work Productivity sub-forum of the 2026 Zhiyuan Innovation Day, Zhiyuan unveiled the embodied foundation model GO-3 Preview, the embodied Agent framework Genie Master, and the heavy-load embodied industrial robot Genie G2 Max. GO-3 Preview adopts the unified WRAM architecture for understanding, prediction, and action generation; on 100 tasks across 20 skill categories, its Zero-Shot average success rate rose from 13.4% to 56.4%, and in model-scale expansion experiments it rose fr

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  8. Leitech

    AgiBot, together with Tsinghua University and Infinigence AI, releases the CEL collective experience learning paradigm

    AgiBot, together with Tsinghua University and Infinigence AI, has released the collective experience learning paradigm CEL, which enables robots to use their peers' real operational trajectories as learning material, with humans only responsible for judging outcomes. On five real-machine tasks—flower arranging, clothes folding, phone charging, stool assembly, and phone packaging—the policies trained with CEL all exceeded the average level of 6 human teleoperators, leading by up to 16.7 percentage points, with an overall success rate of 97.5%; in the phone packaging task, the number of robots participating in training expanded from 16 to 96, and the success rate rose from 86.7% to 98.3%. The accompanying FERT algorithm uses failure trajectories to identify weaknesses and retrieves successful segments for prioritized sampling, while the FATS fault-tolerant asynchronous training system completed a cumulative 9,834 rounds of task collection in the 96-robot experiment, with the machine-time loss caused by 30 failures accounting for only 1.3% of the cluster's total operating time.

    AgiBot, together with Tsinghua University and Infinigence AI, has released the collective experience learning paradigm CEL, which enables robots to use their peers' real operational trajectories as learning material, with humans only responsible for judging outcomes. On five real-machine tasks—flower arranging, clothes folding, phone charging, stool assembly, and phone packaging—the policies trained with CEL all exceeded the average level of 6 human teleoperators, leading by up to 16.7 percentag

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  9. Phoenix Technology

    XHEART Releases Large-Model Chip X7 Ultra with 700 TOPS of Compute

    XHEART has released the X7 Ultra, a new-generation chip designed for billion-parameter-level smart-driving large models, with 700 TOPS of compute. The company says that in real-world tests using a partner's production Transformer smart-driving model, compute utilization reached 98.7%, and that while matching the model performance of industry flagship chips, memory bandwidth consumption dropped by 80% and inference energy efficiency improved by 100%. The X7 series has shipped a cumulative 200,000 units in 8 months of mass production, equipping 10 production vehicle models, with the first launch model being the SAIC Volkswagen ID.ERA 9X; at the same event, Momenta released the R7 Ultra world model, whose parameter count is 5 to 10 times higher than the previous generation.

    XHEART has released the X7 Ultra, a new-generation chip designed for billion-parameter-level smart-driving large models, with 700 TOPS of compute. The company says that in real-world tests using a partner's production Transformer smart-driving model, compute utilization reached 98.7%, and that while matching the model performance of industry flagship chips, memory bandwidth consumption dropped by 80% and inference energy efficiency improved by 100%. The X7 series has shipped a cumulative 200,000

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  10. TMTPost · AGI

    When DeepSeek Becomes a Subculture: Whale Girls, Teacher D, and an Anti-Commercial Narrative

    DeepSeek has spawned a fan-creation subculture among young people: anthropomorphic figures such as "Whale Girl" and "Teacher D" have emerged around its whale logo, along with memes, fan animations, desktop pets, and game mods—yet the company has never officially run the community. This popularity stems from its "anti-commercial" narrative—the API was cut in price at least four times between April and May this year, the DeepSeek-V4-Pro API was permanently reduced to a quarter of its original price, and the official DeepSeek V4 Flash API launched in July. But disputes over fan identity, the generation of rule-breaking content by bypassing safety reviews, and the future listing label could all become risk variables.

    DeepSeek has spawned a fan-creation subculture among young people: anthropomorphic figures such as "Whale Girl" and "Teacher D" have emerged around its whale logo, along with memes, fan animations, desktop pets, and game mods—yet the company has never officially run the community. This popularity stems from its "anti-commercial" narrative—the API was cut in price at least four times between April and May this year, the DeepSeek-V4-Pro API was permanently reduced to a quarter of its original pric

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  11. TMTPost · AGI

    ByteDance World Model Exposed: Zhang Yiming's Strategy and Its Divergence from Google Genie 4's Approach

    A TMTPost article states that ByteDance has listed world models as one of its four major AI priorities for 2026, with the goal of releasing at least one version by the end of the year, benchmarked against Google Genie 3, and that users can enter cloud-generated worlds via Pico headsets using voice and motion. The article also reviews Google Genie 4, released on October 28, which supports real-time changes to weather, camera movement, and the introduction of characters using natural language, and adds sound for the first time. The article also mentions that ByteDance's internal evaluations show its world model's overall performance is about 10% behind the then-current global SOTA, with generation metrics at about 20fps.

    A TMTPost article states that ByteDance has listed world models as one of its four major AI priorities for 2026, with the goal of releasing at least one version by the end of the year, benchmarked against Google Genie 3, and that users can enter cloud-generated worlds via Pico headsets using voice and motion. The article also reviews Google Genie 4, released on October 28, which supports real-time changes to weather, camera movement, and the introduction of characters using natural language, and

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  12. TMTPost · AGI

    Moore Threads' quarterly non-GAAP net profit turns positive for the first time, as domestic GPUs enter the delivery competition stage

    Moore Threads' revenue in the third quarter of 2026 was 1.552 billion yuan, up 1773.92% year on year, with non-GAAP net profit attributable to shareholders of 20.0724 million yuan, turning positive on a single-quarter basis for the first time, for a non-GAAP net margin of about 1.29%. Cumulative revenue for the first three quarters was 3.289 billion yuan, non-GAAP net profit attributable to shareholders remained a loss of about 131 million yuan, and net cash flow from operating activities was -3.309 billion yuan. The article also compares the performance of peers such as Cambricon, Hygon Information, and MetaX, noting that the share of inference demand is rising, and that HBM and foundry capacity remain the main constraints on the growth of domestic GPUs.

    Moore Threads' revenue in the third quarter of 2026 was 1.552 billion yuan, up 1773.92% year on year, with non-GAAP net profit attributable to shareholders of 20.0724 million yuan, turning positive on a single-quarter basis for the first time, for a non-GAAP net margin of about 1.29%. Cumulative revenue for the first three quarters was 3.289 billion yuan, non-GAAP net profit attributable to shareholders remained a loss of about 131 million yuan, and net cash flow from operating activities was -3

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  13. TMTPost · AGI

    Zhiyuan Innovation Day proposes Worken effective intelligent work hours metric, 9,700 units shipped in first half

    At its 2026 Innovation Day, Zhiyuan proposed the Worken (effective intelligent work hours) metric, with the formula being the number of active robots multiplied by autonomous working hours and then multiplied by the output efficiency ratio, used to measure the value actually created by robots. Zhiyuan disclosed that its 20,000th robot rolled off the line in September, with 9,700 units shipped in the first half, a global market share of over 43%, and revenue approaching 2 billion yuan. The company said the Longqi production line has been running stably for more than 7 months; during a 6-day livestream, robots performed a cumulative 64,824 operations with a success rate of 99.99%, and the on-site operations human-to-machine ratio dropped from nearly 1:1 to 3:1, with a target of 10:1 by the end of the year and 20:1 next year.

    At its 2026 Innovation Day, Zhiyuan proposed the Worken (effective intelligent work hours) metric, with the formula being the number of active robots multiplied by autonomous working hours and then multiplied by the output efficiency ratio, used to measure the value actually created by robots. Zhiyuan disclosed that its 20,000th robot rolled off the line in September, with 9,700 units shipped in the first half, a global market share of over 43%, and revenue approaching 2 billion yuan. The compan

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  14. Intelligent Manufacturing Network

    Xiaomi Unveils New-Generation Bionic Hand: 21 Degrees of Freedom Derived from 1,827 Factory SOPs

    Xiaomi has announced core information about its new-generation bionic hand, including 21 degrees of freedom, hybrid drive with 26 motors, and 1,500-point full-palm tactile sensing. The 21 degrees of freedom come from motion-capture data of 1,827 of the 2,579 standard operating procedures at Xiaomi's automobile factory; simulations show that the average stable grasp success rate at the 17-to-21 degrees-of-freedom tier is 15% to 38% higher than at the 6-to-15 tier, with gains slowing beyond 23. The palm primarily uses tendon-driven actuation plus 5 direct-drive degrees of freedom, weighs 324 grams, and can consume over 100W per hand under harsh operating conditions; there is currently no timeline for mass production, cost, or external supply.

    Xiaomi has announced core information about its new-generation bionic hand, including 21 degrees of freedom, hybrid drive with 26 motors, and 1,500-point full-palm tactile sensing. The 21 degrees of freedom come from motion-capture data of 1,827 of the 2,579 standard operating procedures at Xiaomi's automobile factory; simulations show that the average stable grasp success rate at the 17-to-21 degrees-of-freedom tier is 15% to 38% higher than at the 6-to-15 tier, with gains slowing beyond 23. Th

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  15. Intelligent Manufacturing Network

    CASBOT completes a funding round in the hundreds of millions of yuan (Series A++), with over 400 million yuan in shoe-making robot orders on hand

    CASBOT recently completed a funding round in the hundreds of millions of yuan (Series A++), jointly invested by Zhilai Investment, Yonghua Investment, Maotian Investment, Yuanhe Chenkun, Guoke Kezhi, Luning Investment and others, with the funds used for mass production and delivery of products, research and development of embodied brain technology, and market expansion. The company said that the total value of embodied shoe-making robot orders on hand this year has exceeded 400 million yuan, with equipment production scheduling reaching thousands of units. Its self-developed embodied large model CAS-brain and the lightweight CASBOT PA perception-action model, the latter of which is planned to be open-sourced in the second half of 2027.

    CASBOT recently completed a funding round in the hundreds of millions of yuan (Series A++), jointly invested by Zhilai Investment, Yonghua Investment, Maotian Investment, Yuanhe Chenkun, Guoke Kezhi, Luning Investment and others, with the funds used for mass production and delivery of products, research and development of embodied brain technology, and market expansion. The company said that the total value of embodied shoe-making robot orders on hand this year has exceeded 400 million yuan, wit

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  16. Intelligent Manufacturing Network

    The 2nd New Energy Smart Station Construction Conference 2026 will be held in Suzhou on November 26-27

    CPEM National Power Equipment Management Network will hold the 2nd New Energy Smart Station Construction Conference 2026 and the New Energy Station Unattended Technology Exchange Conference in Suzhou, Jiangsu on November 26-27, 2026. The 2026 New Energy Industry Intelligent Inspection Conference and the "New Intelligence Award" ceremony will be held concurrently, with a conference scale of 500+ participants. The conference topics cover the top-level design of smart stations, unattended operation models, centralized control centers, UAV/robot/satellite remote sensing intelligent inspection, AI power forecasting and fault diagnosis, cybersecurity, and remote control verification, among other directions.

    CPEM National Power Equipment Management Network will hold the 2nd New Energy Smart Station Construction Conference 2026 and the New Energy Station Unattended Technology Exchange Conference in Suzhou, Jiangsu on November 26-27, 2026. The 2026 New Energy Industry Intelligent Inspection Conference and the "New Intelligence Award" ceremony will be held concurrently, with a conference scale of 500+ participants. The conference topics cover the top-level design of smart stations, unattended operation

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Wednesday

  1. Zhidongxi

    Weinan Hexin Completes Over 1 Billion Yuan C2 Round of Financing, Cumulative Financing of 3 Billion Yuan in Half a Year

    Hangzhou-based compute-in-memory AI chip company Weinan Hexin has completed an over 1 billion yuan C2 round of financing, led by Jiantou Investment, with the funds used for product development iteration and supply chain mass production stocking. Combined with the C1 round completed in September, the company raised over 2 billion yuan within two months and a cumulative 3 billion yuan in half a year. Its 3D-CIM architecture targets large model inference; all three chips for edge-side and cloud-side have been taped out, with customer sampling and the start of mass supply expected in early 2027.

    Hangzhou-based compute-in-memory AI chip company Weinan Hexin has completed an over 1 billion yuan C2 round of financing, led by Jiantou Investment, with the funds used for product development iteration and supply chain mass production stocking. Combined with the C1 round completed in September, the company raised over 2 billion yuan within two months and a cumulative 3 billion yuan in half a year. Its 3D-CIM architecture targets large model inference; all three chips for edge-side and cloud-sid

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  2. ZhiDongXi

    Iluvatar CoreX First Live Demonstration of TianGai 300 and On-Device Terminal TY1200

    Iluvatar CoreX held the first live demonstration of its general-purpose GPU TianGai 300 and the on-device compute terminal TY1200, and previewed the next-generation on-device product TY2000 with a nominal compute of 600T. The TianGai 300 has 144GB of memory, delivering Attention performance 1.05 times that of the H200 under a 64K long context and MoE throughput 1.15 times that of the H200 on the GLM-5.3 model; the TY1200 offers 300 TOPS INT8 dense compute, with measured TPS surpassing NVIDIA's Thor T5000. The TianGai 300 IXL144 supernode integrates 144 GPUs in a single rack and aggregates about 10.1TB of memory, reducing the cost per million effective tokens by about 40% compared with mainstream international solutions.

    Iluvatar CoreX held the first live demonstration of its general-purpose GPU TianGai 300 and the on-device compute terminal TY1200, and previewed the next-generation on-device product TY2000 with a nominal compute of 600T. The TianGai 300 has 144GB of memory, delivering Attention performance 1.05 times that of the H200 under a 64K long context and MoE throughput 1.15 times that of the H200 on the GLM-5.3 model; the TY1200 offers 300 TOPS INT8 dense compute, with measured TPS surpassing NVIDIA's T

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Thursday

  1. Zhi Dong Xi

    Dowson Tong Previews That the Official Version of Hunyuan Hy4 Will Add Visual Understanding for the First Time

    Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, announced at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit that the official version of the Hunyuan large model Hy4 will be released soon. Compared with the Hy4 Preview open-sourced on August 28, it is comprehensively upgraded, strengthens long-horizon tasks and real productivity task capabilities, significantly improves chain-of-thought efficiency, and adds visual understanding for the first time; Hy4 Flash, which focuses on cost-effectiveness, will also be launched soon. Tencent also released the cross-application AI collaboration system Buddy One and Tencent Drive for the Agent era, and upgraded Agent Runtime, making systematic enhancements around context management, tool calling, secure sandboxes, observability, and evaluation. Dowson Tong also disclosed that over the past year, the number of active overseas customers of Tencent Cloud grew about threefold, and overseas AI demand achieved triple-digit growth.

    Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, announced at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit that the official version of the Hunyuan large model Hy4 will be released soon. Compared with the Hy4 Preview open-sourced on August 28, it is comprehensively upgraded, strengthens long-horizon tasks and real productivity task capabilities, significantly improves chain-of-thought efficiency, and adds visual understanding for the first time; Hy4 Flash, which focuses on cost

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