The Number
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash lists at $0.22/M input cache-miss off-peak, half that on peak, per DeepSeek's pricing docs on 2026-09-02.
- GLM-5.2 and MiniMax-M3 both sit at $0/MTok free tiers on OpenRouter, undercutting every paid Chinese model there, as of 2026-09-02.
- Enflame prices its 科创板 IPO at 142.18 yuan/share, 43.03M shares, subscription open 2026-09-02, per its offering announcement.
- China's smart-compute base hit 2,185 EFLOPS FP16 at mid-year, up 177% year-on-year, per MIIT figures cited by 虎嗅.
Top of the Fold
- Alibaba updates its flagship to Qwen3.8-Max, which it puts first globally on front-end coding, a company-stated claim to verify, per 量子位.
- Enflame's 科创板 subscription draws Tencent and Xiaomi into its strategic placement, Tencent's vehicle taking 1.75M shares at 4.06%, per its offering announcement.
- Tencent opens the WorkBuddy platform to over 100 partners across hardware, apps and developers, its first full ecosystem play since the March launch, per 雷峰网.
- ByteDance restructures Seed into four first-level units under 吴永辉, centralizing pretrain data and RL, per 晚点 as read by 雷峰网.
- Alibaba Cloud opens public beta of 万有无界, a multi-agent collaboration workbench running Qwen3.8-Max, per 雷峰网.
Untranslated
- A three-person team cut the NanoGPT Speedrun record from 84s to 76s in two straight passes with no extra GPUs or data, breaking an eight-month plateau, per 夕小瑶科技说.
- Ant Group ships OmniTable, a unified wide-table system claiming 5.6x throughput on 35PB of corpus, its paper named VLDB 2026 industrial best paper, a company-stated figure, per 量子位.
- OPPO and OpenKG release MobileMem, described as the first benchmark for on-device AI memory, built with Zhejiang, Tongji and Southeast universities, per 雷峰网.
- 李博杰 open-sources his book on AI agents, drawing 28,000 GitHub stars in two weeks, a month after the DeepSeek interview row he stirred, per 雷峰网.
- Otherwise quiet across the Chinese community overnight.
The Backstory
- MORPHI, eight months old, shows a robot doing a 15-minute unbroken home chore chain of seventy-plus actions, built by 黄青虬, a former Huawei ADS lead who ran its self-driving algorithm team, per 极客公园.
The Kicker
- A humanoid from 智元 walked off the World Humanoid Robot Games with 18 golds and 46 medals total, all on production units rather than show samples, per 雷峰网.
