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Robotics08/18/2026Report: Xiaomi Establishes Embodied Intelligence and Applications Department, Led by Former ByteDance Seed Embodied Intelligence Head Kong TaoAccording to reports, Xiaomi’s Robotics Division recently underwent a major restructuring and established a new Embodied Intelligence and Applications Department, led by Kong Tao, the former head of embodied intelligence at ByteDance Seed. The department has integrated multiple teams, including Chen Long’s VLA team and Cai Rui’s robotics embodied intelligence division. Kong Tao will have full responsibility for all business directions in Xiaomi’s embodied intelligence efforts. #XiaomiRobotics#
Industry Watch08/18/2026Anthropic, Macquarie, and GIC Announce Theseus Infrastructure Data Center Joint VentureTheseus Infrastructure will be primarily owned by Macquarie and GIC, developing and operating AI infrastructure customized to Anthropic's needs. Anthropic will become the primary tenant and bear any potential increases in consumer electricity prices
Industry Watch08/18/2026NVIDIA Leads Formation of a $500 Billion Artificial Intelligence Computing Infrastructure Financing PlatformThis platform will transform AI infrastructure within the NVIDIA ecosystem into an asset class investable by global capital, creating sizable dedicated pools of funds for NVIDIA customers at attractive interest rates.
Robotics08/18/2026Overwhelming Lead: Chinese Manufacturers Accounted for More Than 97% of Global Humanoid Robot Shipments in the First Half of This YearThe latest data from Smart Analytics Global (SAG) shows that China has achieved an overwhelming shipment lead in the global humanoid robot market. In the first half of 2026, Chinese manufacturers accounted for more than 97% of global humanoid robot shipments, with AgiBot and Unitree Robotics taking the top two spots and clearly outpacing U.S. competitors such as Tesla, Figure AI, and Agility Robotics.
Industry Watch08/18/2026Nobel Prize Winner Demis Hassabis Reportedly Once Intended to Leave Google Parent AlphabetHassabis originally wanted to leave at the same time as Jeff Dean, but Alphabet believed that losing two artificial intelligence business leaders within a short period would cause its stock price to crash. Hassabis was ultimately persuaded to become chairman of Google DeepMind.
Product Updates08/18/2026Alibaba’s Qwen Open Platform Goes Live, Enabling Conversational Services for Renting Homes and Cars, Sending Packages, and MoreQwen Open Platform officially launched on August 10, opening three types of terminal services—mobile, PC, and AI glasses—to ecosystem partners and developers. The first batch includes more than ten partners across fields such as SF Express, Ziroom, and Yingmi Fund. Users can @ relevant services or tap an agent to try them. In the future, AI agents will support complex requests; for example, SF Express can remember an address and send a package directly. #QwenOpenPlatform#
Robotics08/18/2026Unitree Technology Launches IPO Subscription Today, Bringing A-Shares Their “First Humanoid Robot Stock”Unitree Technology officially launched its IPO subscription today at an issue price of 150.80 yuan per share, implying a valuation of approximately 60.993 billion yuan. As one of the few profitable robotics companies worldwide, the company plans to raise approximately 6.099 billion yuan in this IPO, with the funds focused on intelligent robot R&D and manufacturing base construction. The subscription results for the “first humanoid robot stock” have drawn considerable attention.
Robotics08/18/2026Wang Xingxing: Unitree Robotics Will Actively Explore More Product Forms Such as Humanoid Robots and MechaUnitree Robotics Chairman Wang Xingxing said during today's roadshow that after listing, the company will focus on developing new forms such as humanoid robots and quadruped robots, while promoting robots' replacement of high-risk manual labor. The company's issue price is 150.8 yuan per share, and subscriptions will open on August 10. #UnitreeRoboticsListing#
Product Updates08/18/2026Unity China CEO Zhang Junbo: World Models Are Here, but “Generating a Game with One Sentence” Is Still UnrealisticUnity China CEO Zhang Junbo believes AI can lower the barrier to game development, but games are systems engineering that require gameplay, numerical systems, and long-term operations—far more complicated than “generating a game with one sentence.” He also announced the fully upgraded Tuanjie Engine 2.0, which adds support for multiple console platforms. #AIGameDevelopment# #UnityChina#
Robotics08/18/2026Humanoid Robot Housekeeping Services Become Reality at $30 per HourCurrent AI technology is still unable to fully control humanoid robots autonomously. Typically, the robots are operated by real people in a central control room, while AI serves an assistive role.
Models & Technology08/18/2026Tencent Hunyuan: Research Agent Hyra, Based on the Hy3 Model, Solves a 50-Year-Old Unsolved Problem in Additive CombinatoricsTencent Hunyuan announced today that its research agent Hyra has found a key construction, providing a complete answer to an open problem in additive combinatorics that had remained unresolved for more than half a century.
Robotics08/18/2026DEEP Robotics Unveils Next-Generation Embodied All-Scenario Humanoid Robot: Dual Breakthroughs in Emotion Perception and Spatial ActionDEEP Robotics officially announced its next-generation embodied all-scenario humanoid robot today, claiming dual breakthroughs in emotion perception and spatial action.
Models & Technology08/18/2026Appeals Court Overturns Original Ruling, Legally Clears Perplexity Agent to Access Amazon E-CommerceThe appeals court said that, legally, it was users of the Perplexity AI Comet browser who accessed Amazon’s platform with the help of an AI tool, rather than Perplexity AI itself.
Models & Technology08/18/2026Kioxia Officially Announces GP1 XL-FLASH PCIe Gen6 SSD with 100M Random Read IOPSIt uses Kioxia’s second-generation XL-FLASH storage-class memory, enabling finer-grained 512-byte data access, endurance of up to 50 DWPD, and support for emerging AI storage architectures that introduce high-speed flash media into GPU memory systems.
Industry Watch08/18/2026TrendForce Forecasts 90% Growth in Capital Expenditures by the World's Nine Largest Cloud Service Providers This YearTrendForce has also raised its forecast for the growth in AI server shipments in 2026 from the previous 28% to 31%.
Models & Technology08/18/2026Alibaba’s Qwen Qwen3.8-Max Model Officially Launched, with 2.4 Trillion Total ParametersThe model has 2.4 trillion parameters and delivers comprehensive upgrades across programming, office work, and other fields. It can complete complex open-ended tasks with minimal human intervention, and its model weights will be open-sourced next week. #AlibabaQwen# #AIFoundationModels#
Models & Technology08/18/2026Ziyuan Robotics Releases and Open-Sources the HOST Framework, Enabling Robots to Learn New Skills by Watching VideosZiyuan Robotics released and open-sourced the HOST framework today. Robots need only watch a human video lasting several dozen seconds to learn a new skill, achieving a success rate as high as 62%. The framework uses a “task-progress alignment” method, reducing the required data by 50 times and increasing speed by 500 times compared with traditional approaches. In the future, it may enable household robots to learn without specialized training. #Robotics#
Models & Technology08/18/2026General-Purpose Video Model MiniMax H3 Officially Open-Sourced, Supporting Multimodal Context and 2K ResolutionMiniMax H3 has been officially open-sourced. It is a general-purpose omni-modal generation system that can understand text, images, videos, and audio, and generate videos of up to 2K resolution and 15 seconds in length, along with stereo audio. It supports 11 languages and multiple input modes. #AIOpenSource# #MiniMax#