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Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised 1.7 billion led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Ben Horowitz joining the board. Uber also invested. Atoms, rebranded from Cloud Kitchens, aims to build a platform for robots, expanding into mining via its Pronto acquisition.
Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised 1.7 billion led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Ben Horowitz joining the board. Uber also invested. Atoms, rebranded from Cloud Kitchens, aims to build a platform for robots, expanding into mining via its Pronto acquisition.
Ji Hao Technology, a leader in AI-driven perception and interaction solutions for smart terminals, filed for a Hong Kong Stock Exchange main board listing. Its proprietary AI model focuses on physical space human-machine interaction, powering devices like smartphones and smart glasses. The company ranked second in China's smartphone biometric recognition market with 14.5% share in 2025. Revenue grew from 208M yuan in 2023 to 469M yuan in 2025, with gross margin of 37.6% and adjusted net profit of 20.5M yuan, achieving a turnaround.
Ji Hao Technology, a leader in AI-driven perception and interaction solutions for smart terminals, filed for a Hong Kong Stock Exchange main board listing. Its proprietary AI model focuses on physical space human-machine interaction, powering devices like smartphones and smart glasses. The company ranked second in China's smartphone biometric recognition market with 14.5% share in 2025. Revenue grew from 208M yuan in 2023 to 469M yuan in 2025, with gross margin of 37.6% and adjusted net profit of 20.5M yuan, achieving a turnaround.
MiniMax, a generative AI unicorn, announced its global enterprise and developer customers exceeded one million, with a user base of 300 million. B-end customer count surged fivefold in six months. In the past two months, annual recurring revenue more than doubled, surpassing $150 million by February 2026. Daily token consumption for its M2 series model increased sixfold, and new registered users quadrupled, highlighting rapid B-end commercialization.
MiniMax, a generative AI unicorn, announced its global enterprise and developer customers exceeded one million, with a user base of 300 million. B-end customer count surged fivefold in six months. In the past two months, annual recurring revenue more than doubled, surpassing $150 million by February 2026. Daily token consumption for its M2 series model increased sixfold, and new registered users quadrupled, highlighting rapid B-end commercialization.
Zhipu AI and partners implemented the ZCube network architecture in its GLM-5.1 coding production environment, achieving a system-level breakthrough. The new architecture reduced switch and optical module capex by 33%, increased average GPU inference throughput by 15%, and cut first token latency by 40.6%. It solves structural bottlenecks in large-model inference by replacing traditional hierarchical designs with a flat, bipartite graph interconnection for perfect traffic load balancing.
Zhipu AI and partners implemented the ZCube network architecture in its GLM-5.1 coding production environment, achieving a system-level breakthrough. The new architecture reduced switch and optical module capex by 33%, increased average GPU inference throughput by 15%, and cut first token latency by 40.6%. It solves structural bottlenecks in large-model inference by replacing traditional hierarchical designs with a flat, bipartite graph interconnection for perfect traffic load balancing.
Baidu Maps partners with three Chinese national authorities on traffic safety transport and meteorology to integrate real time official data The collaboration enables proactive warnings for adverse weather and long range road risks like accidents or construction aiming to enhance all day road travel safety through dynamic route planning and alerts
Baidu Maps partners with three Chinese national authorities on traffic safety transport and meteorology to integrate real time official data The collaboration enables proactive warnings for adverse weather and long range road risks like accidents or construction aiming to enhance all day road travel safety through dynamic route planning and alerts
ByteDance's Volcanic Engine launched the industry-first "Agent Package" Agent Plan, accelerating AI from coding aids to general agents. It integrates ByteDance's own models (Doubao-Seed, etc.) and third-party models like GLM-5.1. The plan features a "Model and Harness" dual-drive architecture, enhancing real-time data and memory with tools like online search. It offers tiered subscriptions with a transparent billing unit (AFP) and lowers the barrier for developing complex Agent applications, shifting competition focus to toolchain integration and ecosystem implementation.
ByteDance's Volcanic Engine launched the industry-first "Agent Package" Agent Plan, accelerating AI from coding aids to general agents. It integrates ByteDance's own models (Doubao-Seed, etc.) and third-party models like GLM-5.1. The plan features a "Model and Harness" dual-drive architecture, enhancing real-time data and memory with tools like online search. It offers tiered subscriptions with a transparent billing unit (AFP) and lowers the barrier for developing complex Agent applications, shifting competition focus to toolchain integration and ecosystem implementation.
Soufun Group has established the Japan AI Foundation Model Development Company in Tokyo with investment from eight core firms including Honda Sony NEC and three major banks plus expected Japanese government support The consortium aims to develop a 1 trillion parameter Physical AI model by 2030 focusing on perception and interaction with the physical world SoftBank and NEC will lead R&D while Honda and Sony will apply it to autonomous driving and robotics The model will be open to other Japanese companies to reduce reliance on overseas AI and boost Japans competitiveness in spatial intelligence and smart manufacturing
Soufun Group has established the Japan AI Foundation Model Development Company in Tokyo with investment from eight core firms including Honda Sony NEC and three major banks plus expected Japanese government support The consortium aims to develop a 1 trillion parameter Physical AI model by 2030 focusing on perception and interaction with the physical world SoftBank and NEC will lead R&D while Honda and Sony will apply it to autonomous driving and robotics The model will be open to other Japanese companies to reduce reliance on overseas AI and boost Japans competitiveness in spatial intelligence and smart manufacturing
ByteDance has open-sourced its biological AI model, Protenix-v1. This model replicates and reportedly matches or exceeds the performance of AlphaFold3, predicting structures for proteins, nucleic acids, and ligands. Released under the Apache 2.0 license with an evaluation toolkit, it aims to accelerate drug development and synthetic biology research.
ByteDance has open-sourced its biological AI model, Protenix-v1. This model replicates and reportedly matches or exceeds the performance of AlphaFold3, predicting structures for proteins, nucleic acids, and ligands. Released under the Apache 2.0 license with an evaluation toolkit, it aims to accelerate drug development and synthetic biology research.
Amazon launches Kindle Translate a free AI translation service for Kindle Direct Publishing authors in beta It initially translates between English Spanish and German The tool aims to help authors reach more readers as less than five percent of Amazon titles are multilingual Readers can preview works labeled as Kindle Translate
Amazon launches Kindle Translate a free AI translation service for Kindle Direct Publishing authors in beta It initially translates between English Spanish and German The tool aims to help authors reach more readers as less than five percent of Amazon titles are multilingual Readers can preview works labeled as Kindle Translate
Google DeepMind's Genie 3, a real-time interactive world model, generates consistent 3D environments for AI agent training, advancing toward AGI with self-taught physics and promptable events, though limited to short interactions.
Google DeepMind's Genie 3, a real-time interactive world model, generates consistent 3D environments for AI agent training, advancing toward AGI with self-taught physics and promptable events, though limited to short interactions.
