(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyAlibaba Launches 20+ Apps With 50+ Innovation Features on HarmonyOS: From Qwen AI Agent to Amap AR Navigation, Ali Ecosystem Goes Deep on Huawei PlatformAlibaba delivers over 50 HarmonyOS-native innovations across 20+ apps including Amap AR walking, DingTalk AI meeting via Xiaoyi, Taobao immersive browsing, and Qwen unified drag-drop AI analysis. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·28 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyKimi K3 Officially Open-Sourced: Moonshot AI Releases 2.8 Trillion Parameter Model Weights, Technical Report, and Three Infrastructure TechnologiesMoonshot AI open-sources Kimi K3 with 2.8T MoE parameters, 896 routed experts, 16 active per token, 1M context window, plus MoonEP, FlashKDA, and AgentEnv infrastructure tools. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·28 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyQianwen Office Arrives: Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance Prepare for Final AI Office Agent Battle as Desktop Agent Traffic Hits 60M MonthlyAlibaba consolidates QoderWork, Wukong, and MuleRun into Qianwen Office as Tencent restructures QClaw into WorkBuddy and ByteDance drives Doubao, with top 3 holding 5622M of 6062M monthly desktop agent visits. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·28 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostFrom Moonshot to Enflame: how Tencent is betting big on China’s AI championsTencent Holdings is quietly reallocating its venture capital bets away from legacy internet assets to double down on China’s highest-profile artificial intelligence champions. While the tech giant’s sprawling portfolio spans mobile gaming, e-commerce and consumer goods globally, its AI strategy has rapidly accelerated. Earlier this month, Tencent trimmed its long-held stake in Kuaishou Technology days after backing a US$3 billion round for Kuaishou’s AI video unit, Kling AI. Tencent did not... (opens original source in a new tab)Iris Deng·27 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostWhat CXMT must do to grow global memory market share and build on its surge: analystsShares of ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) could more than double from Monday’s close as the Chinese chipmaker expands its global dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) market share to 18 per cent by 2028, according to Nomura, which set a price target of 116 yuan. The listing of CXMT, the country’s top maker of DRAM chips, sparked investor momentum as its shares surged 466 per cent to close at 49 yuan. It has become the most valuable company listed on the mainland Chinese market. Its market cap. (opens original source in a new tab)Howard Liu·27 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostProfits in China’s chipmaking sector soar 2,500% in first half amid AI boomChina’s major chip manufacturers saw their profits skyrocket a staggering 2,579.5 per cent in the first half of 2026, fuelled by unprecedented demand for artificial intelligence and computing power, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday. The state agency attributed the surge to accelerated integration of AI across various fields, which in turn generated massive demand for computing power, according to Yu Weining, chief statistician of the NBS department... (opens original source in a new tab)Ann Cao·27 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)Rest of WorldIn China, people are renting out their faces to AINew platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity. (opens original source in a new tab)Kinling Lo and Viola Zhou·27 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)Rest of WorldIn China, people are renting out their faces to AINew platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity. (opens original source in a new tab)Kinling Lo and Viola Zhou·27 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostCXMT surge shows why China stock buyers see IPOs as one-way betChipmaker CXMT surged more than fivefold on its Shanghai trading debut to become the largest mainland-listed company by market value as the artificial intelligence boom stokes demand for memory chips. The stock closed at 49 yuan, versus a sale price of 8.66 yuan. That gave the Hefei-based company a market capitalisation of 3.3 trillion yuan, surpassing Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. It traded as high as 55.03 yuan during the day on the tech-heavy Star Market. CXMT raised 57.92 billion. (opens original source in a new tab)Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma·27 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyOptical Computing Reaches Commercialization Inflection Point: Lightelligence PACE 3 Photonic Chip With 256x256 Matrix, First Real-World Deployed Photonic Computing at WAIC 2026Lightelligence demonstrates first real-world deployed photonic computing at WAIC with Tianshu Light Cube access control system, announces PACE 3 chip with 256x256 photonic matrix for low-latency inference. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·27 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyHeguang Quantum Accelerates Photonic Quantum Computing Commercialization With Deterministic Error Correction Breakthrough and Distributed ArchitectureHangzhou-based Heguang Quantum completes seed round, achieves first deterministic photonic quantum error correction code generation, targets HQ10 quantum accelerator sales by 2027 for hybrid classical-quantum computing. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·27 July 2026
