The Number
- Qwen's office suite crosses 30M users a month after launch, with enterprise accounts over half, per 雷峰网.
- Qwen3.7-flash lists at $0.03/MTok input on OpenRouter, the cheapest paid China-lab model routable there as of 2026-09-06, on OpenRouter.
- Three space-compute startups disclosed rounds over 100M yuan each in five days, 8/31 to 9/4, per 虎嗅.
Top of the Fold
- Kimi, MiniMax and StepFun are in talks to open Tmall storefronts selling token subscription packs, after Zhipu opened its Tmall store on 9/2, per 上海证券报 via 极客公园.
- Tmall launched a token top-up center on 9/3 with Alibaba Cloud, Zhipu, Kimi, MiniMax and DeepSeek, moving model subscriptions into mainstream e-commerce, per 极客公园.
- Moonshot lists Kimi K3 as its flagship with a 1M-token context window on its pricing docs, per platform.moonshot.cn.
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- Zhejiang University and HKU released LayerRecall, a lightweight memory router meant to stop autoregressive video models swapping a character's identity after they leave frame, a preprint at arXiv 2608.28460, per 新智元.
- B站 closed its first AI creation contest with over 80% of entrants working solo, a signal on how thin China's AI-video teams still run, per 量子位.
- Otherwise quiet across the Chinese community overnight.
The Backstory
- 智东西 reports IFA 2026 in Berlin reads like a Chinese hardware showcase, with the show's CEO dating the shift to now after Japan (2007) and Korea (2011-2018), as recorded by 智东西.
The Kicker
- A 2015 travel variety show, 花儿与少年2, is trending again as netizens dub it internet's fifth classic novel, with search volume up 89.94% day-on-day, per 虎嗅.
