1+ week, 4+ day ago   (124+ words) Z.ai brings AI services to e-commerce with first Tmall store TechNode Z.ai, the overseas brand of Chinese AI model developer Zhipu, has opened the company’s first official store on Tmall, bringing paid AI services to a mainstream e-commerce platform. Users…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (86+ words) PokeBot Raises Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Pre-A Funding TechNode PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a pre-A round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners. The months-old company is developing household…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (141+ words) Tencent rolls out Hy3 in WorkBuddy’s international edition with limited-time free access TechNode Tencent has integrated its Hy3 large language model into the international edition of WorkBuddy, marking the model’s first rollout in the global version of the AI workspace. Users worldwide…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (134+ words) Amap, Alibaba’s digital mapping and navigation platform, has launched ABot-World Studio and opened it for testing. The product combines interactive video generation with 3D Gaussian splatting,... Amap, Alibaba’s digital mapping and navigation platform, has launched ABot-World Studio and opened it for…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (118+ words) ByteDance launches Seedance 2.5 video-generation model TechNode ByteDance has released Seedance 2.5, the latest version of its Seed video-generation model. The model can generate a 30-second high-quality video clip in a single run and supports multi-turn extension for longer sequences. Users can…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (634+ words) When people think of advanced manufacturing, they typically picture multimillion-dollar industrial machines operating inside factories, not a compact device sitting on a desk. But that’s precisely the perception InfiMaker, a startup founded in 2024, is trying to change. The startup positions…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (170+ words) BYD to unveil first humanoid robot in early August TechNode BYD yesterday released a teaser poster hinting that its first humanoid robot will make its public debut in early August. The announcement follows earlier comments from BYD executives signaling the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (123+ words) Xiaomi introduces Xiaomi-Robotics-U0 for embodied AI and robot generation TechNode Xiaomi on Wednesday unveiled Xiaomi-Robotics-U0, a 38-billion-parameter multimodal autoregressive foundation model for embodied AI. The company said the model unifies four core capabilities within a single framework: embodied scene generation,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (152+ words) Alibaba on Monday released HappyHorse 1.1, the latest version of its video generation model, while simultaneously launching the HorsePower AI Video... Alibaba on Monday released HappyHorse 1.1, the latest version of its video generation model, while simultaneously launching the HorsePower AI Video…...