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Alibaba's Qwen to Power Apple Intelligence in China, Bringing a Chinese Foundation Model into Apple's AI Ecosystem

Alibaba Group (阿里巴巴)'s large language model Qwen (通义千问) will provide core AI capabilities for Apple Intelligence in mainland China, following regulatory approval for Apple's AI services in the country.

WAIC 2026 Guide | AI Partnership for a Brighter Future

The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) will take place in Shanghai, China from July 17 to 20, Centered on the theme "AI partnership for a brighter future".

Alibaba Leads Series C+ as AIsphere’s Total Series C Funding Reaches RMB 2.98 Billion

Chinese AI video-generation company AIsphere (爱诗科技) has completed its overall Series C financing, raising a cumulative RMB 2.98 billion across the round to support model development, international product growth and commercial deployment.

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work Agent, Pushing AI from Conversation Toward Autonomous Task Execution

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, an AI agent designed to complete complex tasks over extended periods, marking another step in the evolution of artificial intelligence from conversational assistance toward autonomous workflow execution.

Chinese AI Models Gain Ground in U.S. Enterprise Market as Low Costs Drive Adoption

Chinese artificial intelligence models are rapidly gaining traction among U.S. businesses, with their share of enterprise token usage on AI routing platform OpenRouter reaching as high as 46%, according to data cited by CNBC. The figure represents a sharp increase from an average of around 11% a year ago and suggests that Chinese AI providers are becoming increasingly competitive in the world’s largest commercial AI market.

Anthropic Plans US$15 Billion Australia Data Center Investment, Signaling a New Phase in Global AI Infrastructure Competition

Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company behind the Claude large language model, is planning to procure at least 1.4 gigawatts (GW) of data center computing capacity in Australia, with an estimated investment of US$15 billion (A$21.6 billion).

Nakai Quantum Raises Multi-Million-Yuan Seed Round Led by GL Ventures

EO reported on July 2 that Nakai Quantum (纳开量子), a Chinese quantum-computing startup focused on ultracold-atom and neutral-atom technologies, has completed a seed funding round worth tens of millions of yuan. The round was led by GL Ventures (高瓴创投), with participation from Inno Angel Fund (英诺天使基金), Longstone Capital (长石资本), and Feitu Capital (飞图资本).

Unpacking China | Key Chinese Firms to Watch This Week （21/06/2026-27/06/2026）

Amid fast-paced changes that fill the business community with excitement, angst and trepidation, EqualOcean will publish a series of roundup articles to document the major events related to Chinese companies going global every week.

EqualOcean Releases 2026 Chinese GoGlobal Digital Content and Entertainment Brands Top 10 at GGF2026

SHANGHAI, June 11, 2026 — EqualOcean officially released its 2026 Chinese GoGlobal Digital Content and Entertainment Brands Top 10 during the GoGlobal Forum of 100 2026 (GGF2026), one of China’s leading annual forums dedicated to globalization and international business expansion.

EqualOcean Releases 2026 Chinese GoGlobal Emerging AI Applications Brands Top 10 at GGF2026

SHANGHAI, June 11, 2026 — EqualOcean officially released its 2026 GoGlobal Emerging AI Applications Brands Top 10 during the GoGlobal Forum of 100 2026 (GGF2026), one of China’s leading annual forums dedicated to globalization and international business expansion.

NVIDIA (英伟达) Introduces Isaac GR00T Humanoid Robot Reference Design Based on Unitree (宇树科技) H2 to Deepen Embodied Intelligence Ecosystem Layout

NVIDIA (英伟达) launched its open Isaac GR00T humanoid robot reference design based on the Unitree (宇树科技) H2 platform to accelerate research-level development and push its embodied intelligence ecosystem into the physical world.

Unpacking China | Key Chinese Firms to Watch This Week （24/05/2026-30/05/2026）

Amid fast-paced changes that fill the business community with excitement, angst and trepidation, EqualOcean will publish a series of roundup articles to document the major events related to Chinese companies going global every week.

Zhuma Innovation completes Angel+ round financing, defining consumer-grade spatial cameras to capture new data for embodied world models

Zhuma Innovation has completed tens of millions of RMB in Angel+ financing and aims to use its consumer-grade spatial camera Pebble as an entry point to convert real-world 3D spatial data into computable and trainable assets for content creation, spatial intelligence, and robotics/embodied AI model training.

Unpacking China | Key Chinese Firms to Watch This Week （17/05/2026-23/05/2026）

Amid fast-paced changes that fill the business community with excitement, angst and trepidation, EqualOcean will publish a series of roundup articles to document the major events related to Chinese companies going global every week.

HiDream.ai announces completion of a new round of hundred-million-level financing, and the official release of the native full-modal large model.

Completing another round of hundred-million-level financing, HiDream.ai releases the over-200-billion-parameter native full-modal large model HiDream-O1-Image-Pro.

Approaching.AI has completed a Pre-A round financing of several hundred million yuan

Approaching.AI announced the completion of a Pre-A round financing worth hundreds of millions of yuan.

Computing power is productivity: An infrastructure competition concerning the next ten years

As of the end of March 2026, the total scale of national intelligent computing power has reached 1882 EFLOPS (FP16), and the number of standard racks in active computing centers has reached 14.45 million, more than doubling compared to two years ago.

Survival Rules for Turbulent Times: A Compilation of the 20 Most Unmissable Core Insights from the 2026 Tsinghua PBCSF Forum

A dialogue between Zhu Min, former Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China and former Vice Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; Michael Spence, 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Economics and Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business; and Masaaki Shirakawa, former Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the 2026 Tsinghua PBCSF Global Finance Forum.

Synthetic Biology: Who Will Emerge as the Winner?

The 21st century is the century of biology. Synthetic biology is believed to be a ‘World Changing’ industry. But the potential risks like cost control and commercialization pathways are fatefully tied to the ups and downs of countless investment decisions and the destiny of the many new start-ups getting involved. We look forward to seeing an emerging ‘giant’ on the horizon of this exciting industry.

Bloomage: Injecting Biotechnology into Beauty Care

Listed on the Chinese Star Market in November 2019, Bloomage was trading at CNY 138.01 as of June 24, 2020, over 38% higher than the IPO price of CNY 100.