On September 22, 2026, Li Auto presented ME Brain 1.0 as an embodied system, ME VLM as a vision language model and ME U0 as an understanding and action model.
At AICC2026, Inspur announced a 128 chip MetaBrain SD200 Ultra that it says can run 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3 at under 5.85 ms per generated token.
By September 2026, China had launched a 12 satellite AI computing batch, begun experimental orbital cloud services and reported a 120 Gbps peak satellite to ground laser downlink.
Bernstein reports that Huawei’s Kirin 9050 Pro beats Apple’s A17 Pro in Geekbench 6 multicore, yet trails the newer A20 Pro by about 30% overall.
Alibaba said on September 22, 2026, that Qwen 4 is in training, not released; its 5–10 trillion parameter target applies to later Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 models, not a confirmed Qwen 4 specification.
At Apsara 2026, Alibaba Cloud mapped Model, Harness and Context to AI Native Cloud, Agent Native Cloud and Context Engine.
Alibaba highlighted Qwen3.8 LiveTranslate and five Qwen Audio 3.1 models at Apsara 2026.
After a researcher found ZCode uploading repository snapshots, including Git history, Zhipu open sourced the tool and removed the Repo Wiki upload workflow in v3.14.0.
Huawei’s OceanStor M900 extends SuperPoD KV caching from chip memory and DRAM onto shared SSD storage, with a claimed 64 PB of capacity per cluster.
In a reported 80B total, roughly 3B active MoE comparison, HySparse2 uses 5.02× fewer prefill FLOPs and 2.69 GB rather than 12.09 GB of KV cache at 1 million tokens versus Hybrid SWA.
Qwen Intelligence is Alibaba’s software platform for phone makers, not a new Alibaba phone.
Qwen Book is Alibaba Cloud’s proposed AI agent computer, unveiled in September 2026.