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DeepSeek has opened a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness, an open-source agent harness positioned against Anthropic’s Claude Cowork. The project provides a web interface for running AI agents and uses a plugin-based structure for adding capabilities. The project, also known as dsh, is powered by DeepSeek’s Cordis architecture and can be launched with npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web. DeepSeek says the preview is still changing rapidly and may introduce compatibility-breaking changes. The repository i

HongShan, the China-focused venture capital firm formerly known in English as Sequoia China, has invested in ZXMOTO, the Chongqing-based motorcycle maker founded by Zhang Xue. The two sides will work together to develop world-class products and compete on international racing circuits. ZXMOTO focuses on high-performance motorcycles and entered the World Supersport class of the FIM Superbike World Championship in 2026. The company has not disclosed the size or structure of HongShan’s investment.

DJI has launched the Osmo 360 II, an 8K 360-degree camera, in China with a starting price of RMB3,299. The camera uses a 1-inch panoramic imaging sensor and offers 14.5 stops of dynamic range. It supports native 8K/60fps panoramic video, AI Super Night Scene 2.0, subject tracking, NFC one-tap pairing and AI-assisted editing, while offering 105GB of built-in storage. DJI is selling two packages priced at RMB3,299 and RMB3,999. [IT Home, in Chinese]

CXMT Corporation, a Chinese DRAM maker, overtook Tencent on Aug. 13 to become China’s most valuable listed company by market capitalization. CXMT’s market value reached about RMB3.54 trillion, compared with Tencent’s roughly HK$4.01 trillion, or about RMB3.45 trillion. CXMT went public on Shanghai’s STAR Market on July 27 at RMB8.66 a share. It opened at RMB49.50, up 471.59%, pushing its market value above RMB3.31 trillion. The stock later rose above RMB55 intraday, briefly bringing its market c

WeChat’s official account WeChat Pai has said that its Moments platform will never add an edit-after-posting function. The statement was published on Aug. 14 in an article titled “Why doesn’t Moments have an edit function?” The explanation said a Moments post records what a user was thinking or feeling at a particular moment, and that changing it later would not alter what other users had already seen. Users can still adjust the audience for a published post. If a post contains a typo or the wro

Xiaomi Automobile Technology has received a Chinese utility model patent for a “logo lifting device and vehicle.” The patent, CN224617606U, was granted on Aug. 11 and describes a vehicle system that can raise and switch between two logos. The mechanism uses a mounting frame, a movable block and a drive system that moves the block along a guide with straight and curved sections. The patent filing says existing lifting-logo designs can be complex and heavy and may affect vehicle range. It does not

DeepSeek will introduce peak and off-peak pricing for its API from Aug. 17. Peak hours will run from 9 a.m. to noon and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Beijing time, while other hours will be classified as off-peak. Off-peak prices will be set at half the peak rates. For deepseek-v4-flash, peak pricing will be RMB0.10 per million tokens for cache-hit input, RMB3 for cache-miss input and RMB9 for output. The corresponding off-peak prices will be RMB0.05, RMB1.5 and RMB4.5. For deepseek-v4-pro, peak prices

On Wednesday, Phantom Blade Zero dropped a brand-new 11-minute gameplay demo and opened pre-orders across all platforms. The video quickly racked up around eight million views on Chinese video platform Bilibili in just one day, while the game has shot to No. 1 on Steam’s global best-sellers chart. Phantom Blade Zero is a dark wuxia-themed third-person action RPG developed and published by Beijing-based S-Game. The game is built on Unreal Engine 5 and features a dark, atmospheric art style and

Lovable, a Stockholm-based software creation platform, has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and co-led by EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund. New investors include Tencent, Balderton Capital, Carmignac, Kaszek Ventures, LTS Growth, World Innovation Lab and Regent. Lovable provides tools that allow users to create software and business applications without traditional programming expertise. The company said users have created more th

Honor has launched its Robot Phone, a smartphone equipped with a four-degree-of-freedom titanium gimbal and a system-level AI agent architecture. The phone measures about 9.59 millimeters thick, weighs 248 grams and includes a 7,060mAh battery and a 6.31-inch display. The 12GB+512GB version is priced at 9,999 yuan, while the 16GB+1TB version costs 12,999 yuan. Pre-orders began on Aug. 12, with sales scheduled to start on Aug. 18. Honor said the phone’s YOYO Pro agent can execute longer instructi

Alibaba Cloud has launched Qwen AI Arena, a challenge and evaluation platform for AI agents. The platform creates tasks based on real business scenarios and provides developers with models, runtime environments and evaluation tools to submit and test agent solutions. Its first challenge focuses on cross-border e-commerce. Participants must generate product listings for the US, South Korean and Brazilian markets, including English, Korean and Portuguese copy, product images and videos. Automated

Tencent said its Hy3 model’s weekly usage increased by more than 68 times compared with its predecessor after the model moved from preview to its formal version. The company also plans to release a larger-parameter Hy4 model in the near term, although it has not disclosed a release date or technical specifications. Hy3 has been integrated into Tencent products including WorkBuddy, CodeBuddy, Yuanbao and ima. The same update said WorkBuddy recorded more than 20 million PC visits in June, while Te

China’s tablet market shipped 7.96 million units in the second quarter of 2026, down 4.4% from a year earlier. Commercial tablet shipments rose 67.1%, while consumer shipments fell 9.8%. Huawei ranked first in shipments, followed by Apple and Lenovo. Xiaomi and Honor ranked fourth and fifth, respectively. The commercial market’s growth was partly driven by early procurement ahead of expected price increases, while higher costs and weaker consumer demand continued to weigh on the consumer segment

DeepSeek’s API documentation now lists deepseek-v4-pro as an available model, with the current version identified as DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813. The model supports the Responses API and tool calls, with a context length of 1 million tokens and a maximum output of 384,000 tokens. The listed price is $0.003625 per million input tokens for cache hits, $0.435 for cache misses and $0.87 per million output tokens. [DeepSeek API Docs]

Tencent’s WeChat AI team has detailed a new scaling approach for its WeLM model family. The team trained WeLM-HD4-80B and WeLM-HD4-617B models using a method called Hidden Decoding, which expands each token into multiple internal computation streams without increasing the main Transformer backbone. The 80B model activates 3 billion parameters, while the 617B model activates 23 billion. Both models outperformed their matched autoregressive baselines across nine shared benchmarks in the team’s tes

Insta360 founder and CEO JK Liu said the company is developing two mirrorless cameras with different designs. One of the models will use a form that consumers may not have seen before, following an interview held after the opening of Insta360’s first direct-run store in Japan. The company is considering new ways to combine interchangeable-lens camera technology with AI and automated shooting features. Liu said Insta360 may show a prototype at the 2027 CP+ camera exhibition in Japan, but the comp

Honor has scheduled the China launch of its Robot Phone for Aug. 12. The device combines a smartphone with a motorized gimbal camera and AI-assisted subject tracking. Honor has also highlighted an imaging collaboration with ARRI. Pricing, sales channels and broader availability were not disclosed in the announcement. [IT Home, in Chinese]

Alibaba Cloud’s Lingjun Zhenwu M890 supernode instance has entered service in China, with Ulanqab as its first deployment region. Enterprise customers can provision 64-card, high-speed-interconnect computing units through the cloud without building their own data centers. The instance is designed to handle inference for mixture-of-experts models with up to 10 trillion parameters. Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8-Max are already providing services through the instance. [Yicai, in Chinese]

Code found in iOS 27 beta 5 points to Apple preparing a mainland China-specific version of Apple Intelligence, but does not confirm a launch date or a local partner. The strings say user requests would be processed on-device and would not be sent to Apple or the local company providing the required security mechanism. The code also says Apple would collect information anonymously and share it in aggregate, while the security mechanism would be downloaded and updated automatically. The beta code

DeepSeek is recruiting for an IDC data-center team in Beijing, Hangzhou and Ulanqab, with roles covering data-center planning, construction, testing and operations. The listings indicate that the company is expanding its infrastructure efforts beyond model research and software development. The job descriptions seek candidates in electrical engineering, HVAC, automation, energy, communications, computer science, environmental engineering and civil engineering. They refer to traditional IDC facil