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Xiaomi’s SU9 LUX trademark points to possible larger luxury sedan ift.tt/nWOVXTU

Xiaomi’s SU9 LUX trademark points to possible larger luxury sedan · TechNode

Xiaomi has registered the “XIAOMI SU9 LUX” trademark for vehicles, adding to reports that it is developing a larger executive sedan. The trademark record

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Rokid brings voice-based ride-hailing to AI glasses through Tencent partnership ift.tt/zhY4S6M

Rokid brings voice-based ride-hailing to AI glasses through Tencent partnership · TechNode

Rokid has partnered with Tencent Mobility Services to launch ride-hailing through its AI glasses. Announced on October 16, the service lets users state a

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Former Huawei engineer’s robot AI startup Gewu Tongzhi raises nearly RMB 100 million ift.tt/guWaBZr

Former Huawei engineer’s robot AI startup Gewu Tongzhi raises nearly RMB 100 million · TechNode

Hangzhou-based robot AI startup Gewu Tongzhi has completed an angel funding round of nearly RMB 100 million, according to reports published on October 18.

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Meituan leads Series D funding for collaborative robot maker FAIRINO ift.tt/2eVuvng

Meituan leads Series D funding for collaborative robot maker FAIRINO · TechNode

Chinese collaborative robot maker FAIRINO has completed Series D financing led by Meituan, following a Series C+ round led by Meituan’s Long-Z investment

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DeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash-1017 with stronger coding and agent capabilities ift.tt/jxahv91

DeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash-1017 with stronger coding and agent capabilities · TechNode

DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash-1017 on October 17, updating its Flash model with improvements in reasoning, coding, agent tasks and visual understanding.

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DeepSeek launches web search and page-fetching APIs for AI agents ift.tt/T8XtyBr

DeepSeek launches web search and page-fetching APIs for AI agents · TechNode

DeepSeek has launched Search and Fetch APIs, opening its proprietary search engine to developers building AI agents and applications that retrieve

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While Software Ate the World, This Company Ate Its Own Software Business ift.tt/yMW6h48

While Software Ate the World, This Company Ate Its Own Software Business · TechNode

Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart, a TechNode Group publication. In 2023, AI software was DataCanvas’s business. By the first half

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Kling AI 4.0 suggests a shift in AI video competition from visual quality to directorial control ift.tt/gaFhbSq

Kling AI 4.0 suggests a shift in AI video competition from visual quality to directorial control ·...

AI video generation is no longer just about producing a visually impressive clip. For creators looking to use AI to make short films, advertisements or

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Robot AI developer Ruoyu secures Pre-A funding led by Sunway Communication ift.tt/U9QTAhW

Robot AI developer Ruoyu secures Pre-A funding led by Sunway Communication · TechNode

Shenzhen-based robot AI developer Ruoyu Technology has completed a nine-figure RMB Pre-A funding round led by Sunway Communication, 36Kr reported on

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Apple Intelligence to enter China beta testing this month, Tim Cook confirms ift.tt/WO8Npgt

Apple Intelligence to enter China beta testing this month, Tim Cook confirms · TechNode

Apple will release a beta version of Apple Intelligence in China later in October, executive chairman Tim Cook confirmed in an interview in Shanghai on

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Ant Group open-sources 560-billion-parameter Ling-3.1-flash AI model ift.tt/8XWjJRN

Ant Group open-sources 560-billion-parameter Ling-3.1-flash AI model · TechNode

Ant Group has released the weights of Ling-3.1-flash, making its AI model available for developers to deploy on their own infrastructure. The model has

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Smartphone maker Transsion completes Hong Kong listing, raising about HKD 3.06 billion ift.tt/UukTdri

Smartphone maker Transsion completes Hong Kong listing, raising about HKD 3.06 billion · TechNode

Transsion Holdings, the Chinese smartphone maker behind TECNO, Infinix and itel, began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 15 under stock

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Desktop manufacturing startup InfiMaker raises tens of millions of dollars in Pre-A+ funding ift.tt/qlg1zYP

Desktop manufacturing startup InfiMaker raises tens of millions of dollars in Pre-A+ funding ·...

Chinese desktop manufacturing startup InfiMaker has completed a Pre-A+ funding round worth tens of millions of dollars from IDG Capital and Kunlun

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XPENG opens MONA L05 SUV presales from RMB 169,800 ift.tt/xdrCGW1

XPENG opens MONA L05 SUV presales from RMB 169,800 · TechNode

XPENG opened presales for its MONA L05 five-seat SUV in China on October 15, with five variants priced between RMB 169,800 and RMB 191,800. The official

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Xiaomi open-sources audio AI model that can identify where sounds come from ift.tt/2gElwj0

Xiaomi open-sources audio AI model that can identify where sounds come from · TechNode

Xiaomi has open-sourced MiDashengLM-Spatial, an audio-language model that combines general sound understanding with spatial awareness. The company

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🦿 China’s exoskeleton market exceeded RMB 1.6B in 2025, according to IDC. RoboCT is among the companies expanding exoskeleton technology beyond medical rehabilitation into everyday mobility. Read the full story: technode.com/2026/10/16/from… #DragonLab #RoboCT #Robotics #ChinaTech
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Teaching Robots the Shape of Reality: Hesai’s Kosmo turns real places into 3D assets ift.tt/FdQaBeI

Teaching Robots the Shape of Reality: Hesai’s Kosmo turns real places into 3D assets · TechNode

Editor’s note: This article was written by Lucia, a TechNode reporter. Physical AI is moving beyond pre-programmed robots toward systems that can

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From Rehabilitation Rooms to Everyday Steps: RoboCT’s Exoskeleton Bet ift.tt/EAq83Bj

From Rehabilitation Rooms to Everyday Steps: RoboCT’s Exoskeleton Bet · TechNode

Editor’s Note: RoboCT develops exoskeletons for rehabilitation and mobility assistance. IDC’s 2026 report on China’s 2025 exoskeleton market places RoboCT

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More Than a Market: UK Biotechs Look to China for R&D, Trials and Capital ift.tt/O3pc701

More Than a Market: UK Biotechs Look to China for R&D, Trials and Capital · TechNode

Editor’s note: This article was written by Lucia, a TechNode reporter. The big picture: Nine UK life sciences companies participated in a business

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Scientific simulation and AI-data startup SciVisual raises tens of millions of RMB ift.tt/0xgAl9E

Scientific simulation and AI-data startup SciVisual raises tens of millions of RMB · TechNode

Chinese scientific simulation and AI-data startup SciVisual has completed angel and angel-plus funding rounds totaling tens of millions of RMB,

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