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Strategic investor in XPeng robotics round
XPeng's robotics business has raised over $900 million at a valuation above $6.3 billion, the largest single-round private financing in China's embodied AI industry. IDG Capital led the round, with Tencent and Alibaba joining as strategic investors.
Updated Aug 25
Shipped Qwen3.8-Max open weights under a new, more restrictive license
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max weights landed on Hugging Face on August 12, nine days after the API launch. The download is smaller than promised: it skips the 1-million-token context and image input of the hosted model, and the 27-billion-parameter version has not shipped.
Updated Aug 14
Apple's China AI partner and model-training supporter
For nearly two years, Apple could not turn on its AI features in China. Chinese law bars foreign firms from running their own generative AI models, so Apple had to lean on local partners. Now it has trained its own model, and Beijing has signed off.
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