The Number
- DeepSeek-flash runs $0.15/M input tokens at cache-miss off-peak, half the peak rate, per DeepSeek's pricing docs as of 2026-10-13.
- Qwen's top tier qwen3.8-max-prime lists at 24 RMB/M input tokens, double the standard qwen3.8-max at 12 RMB, per Alibaba DashScope pricing as of 2026-10-13.
- 无问芯穹 adds a 2.3B RMB single round for 4.3B RMB total, a domestic AI-infra funding record, per 量子位 2026-10-13.
Top of the Fold
- Alibaba's Qwen ships three AI wearables including the N1 Pro glasses at 2,600 RMB with iris verification and eye tracking, pushing Chinese assistant hardware past the phone, per 智东西 2026-10-13.
- Qwen opens applications for 千问Go, a personal agent that files flight-delay claims and chases price-protection refunds, as every major Chinese lab races the same lane, per 雷峰网 2026-10-13.
- ByteDance's Seed stands up a dedicated model safety and alignment unit under 严林, the first frontier Chinese lab to break the function out on its own, per 雷峰网 2026-10-13.
Untranslated
- Fudan's 邱锡鹏 team raises over 1B RMB two years in for a model that perceives, understands and responds to live audio-video in real time, per 极客公园 2026-10-13.
- 梁文锋 is in close contact with embodied-AI founders and DeepSeek reportedly plans to lead the round for ex-Tencent scientist 胡瀚's robot startup Winverse AI, circulating and unconfirmed, per 量子位 and 新浪科技 2026-10-13.
- Huawei's Hubble fund backs a 23-person-average team led by a 1998-born PhD building ultra-thin color-changing electronic skin for robots, per 量子位 2026-10-13.
- A paper from Sun Yat-sen and NTU flags that multimodal document parsers silently drop and scramble lines, offering ProSA as a fix, preprint, per PaperWeekly 2026-10-13.
The Backstory
- 其域创新 (XGRIDS) built what it calls the largest air-ground 3D Gaussian model, 23.5 sq km of 闽宁镇 from 186,000 images and 15B lidar points at 6.2B Gaussians, used in a CCTV documentary, per 雷峰网 2026-10-13.
The Kicker
- East Asian ed-tech founders are selling the cram-school grind back to the world: ByteDance's Gauth passed 2B installs and 53.4M MAU as of September 2026, per 虎嗅 2026-10-13.
