The Number
- DeepSeek lists deepseek-flash at $0.15/M input (cache miss, off-peak) and $0.60/M output, per its pricing docs as of 2026-10-09.
- Qwen3.6-flash prices at $0.03/M input on OpenRouter, among the cheapest China-lab routes listed, as of 2026-10-09.
- Kimi K3 is now the flagship on Moonshot's platform, carrying its own K3-tier cache pricing, per Moonshot's pricing docs as of 2026-10-09.
Top of the Fold
- Lenovo's self-built code agent TianxiCode tops SWE-bench-Live at a 71% resolve rate, putting a hardware house at the front of the agent-coding board, per 量子位.
- DiffuSpace closes two rounds totaling several hundred million yuan, the largest diffusion-LLM raise on record, led by Matrix, Shunwei and Legend Capital with Huawei Hubble following, per 智东西.
- Manus confirms a $500M round, the largest single raise for a Chinese agent startup, per 极客公园.
- ByteDance's TRAE merges its Work and Code products into one entry spanning agent and IDE modes, per 量子位.
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- Shenzhen's Kunwei Technology raises 400M yuan led by XVC and Sequoia China to build low-frequency ultrasound that images through the skull in real time, framed by its founder as the brain-science equivalent of Nvidia, per 极客公园.
- ByteDance researchers trace DeepSeek's uneven answers to token position in the prompt rather than the question itself, circulating as a reproducibility finding, per 量子位.
- Tsinghua-linked 星动纪元 claims the top embodied-model spot by decoupling video prediction from action learning rather than training them together, company-stated, per 量子位.
- openJiuwen open-sources an enterprise AgentOS pitched at multi-agent coordination with self-evolution, a drop not a capability proof, per 量子位.
- Otherwise quiet across the Chinese community overnight.
The Backstory
- Tian Keyu, the Peking University PhD once sued by ByteDance in the 2024 intern-sabotage case who also took a NeurIPS 2024 best-paper award, has quietly raised near $30M at a $2B valuation from Wuyuan and IDG for a 10-person world-model lab, per 雷峰网.
The Kicker
- GeekPark spent ten days living with Today AI, a China personal-assistant app from Teambition founder 齐俊元, after noting the US versions all speak Gmail and Slack and go mute on domestic apps, per 极客公园.
