The Number
- DeepSeek now serves deepseek-flash at $0.017/MTok prompt, the cheapest China-lab listing on OpenRouter as of 2026-10-27, per OpenRouter.
- Qwen3.8-Max lists at 12 yuan/M input and 36 yuan/M output as of 2026-10-27, per Alibaba DashScope pricing.
- Baidu's Wenxin Unlimited OCR 2 scores 84.6 on MPDocBench and 77.1 on MarathonDocBench, company-stated SOTA against Qwen3.8-Max and Gemini-3.8-Flash as of 2026-10-27, per 雷峰网.
Top of the Fold
- Ant Group releases 灵光 2.0 as a standing-task personal agent that watches prices and subscriptions on its own, the first such product shipped by a major Chinese lab, per 雷峰网.
- Baidu open-sources Wenxin Unlimited OCR 2 claiming any-page-count document parsing, pitched at long-document work rivals still choke on, per 新智元.
- Rokid launches its first full-color AI glasses, the Color, from 4,999 yuan alongside Glasses 2 and a smart ring, moving the China glasses race to color displays, per 智东西.
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- Manus cofounder 张涛 details on 公众号 how the team rebuilt Manus with Manus, running a Manus-mono unified codebase where one engineer handles dozens of needs at once and the mobile team of seven ships two products across four apps, per 极客公园.
- 启元机器人 brings its 5,000th personal robot off the line a month after the Q1 and T1 went on sale, a datapoint on whether personal-robot makers can turn R&D into repeatable manufacturing, per 极客公园.
- Zhipu's next model surfaces early through a 唐杰 paper hinting at a GLM-5.5, with cited figures of 54% image-generation accuracy and 14.57% on text QA, circulating and unconfirmed, per 雷峰网.
- Hi3D open-sources its production-tested Hi3D V1.0 base and adds a creator agent, arguing front-view fidelity is not 3D quality once models hit game engines and 3D printing, per 极客公园.
The Backstory
- Apple CEO John Ternus, who filed the 2011 foldable patent now shipping as iPhone Duo, faces his first post-succession test as that same folding screen cracks, per 极客公园.
The Kicker
- Agents are the new scalpers: Meta's Muse bots swept up iPhone Duo stock before humans could tap buy, pushing one reseller's haul up and Shopify's AI order volume 13x, per 极客公园.
