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[CHINA PULSE] Daily · November 4, 2026

[CHINA PULSE] Daily

robotics

China's Robot Funding Drops to $1.6B in October — Down 67% From June Peakdeveloping

中国机器人行业10月融资额降至110亿元,较6月峰值下滑67%
ITjuzi data published Wednesday shows monthly robotics fundraising has cooled sharply as investors demand proof of commercial traction, not just capable prototypes.

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robotics

GenRobot AI Closes $100M Series A+ — SAIC, Baidu, and Galbot Lead Strategic Ticketdeveloping

GenRobot AI完成亿美元A+轮融资,上汽、百度、Galbot领衔战略投资
The robot-AI training-data specialist pulled in strategic capital from an automaker, a search giant, and a humanoid peer — a cross-sector consortium that signals where data pipelines sit in the embodied-AI stack.

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labs

Meituan's LongCat-2.5: 1.6 Trillion Parameters, Zero Nvidiadeveloping

美团发布LongCat-2.5:1.6万亿参数,全部跑在国产芯片上
The delivery giant ships a full-scale agentic model trained and inferred on a 50,000-chip domestic cluster — no Nvidia in the stack.

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labs

UPDATE — Qwen Beta Goes Live Inside Apple Intelligence on Wednesdaydeveloping

更新:通义千问周三正式进入苹果Apple Intelligence测试版
The iOS developer beta that dropped Wednesday is the first moment Chinese users can touch Qwen inside Siri — full rollout waits for iOS 27.3 in December.

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business

ByteDance: Overseas Markets Now Roughly Half of Seedance 2.0 Revenuedeveloping

字节跳动披露:即梦2.0约半数营收来自海外市场
A fresh revenue split disclosed Wednesday shows ByteDance's cinematic video-generation model has found substantial paying customers outside China within weeks of launch.

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labs

Tencent Plots Consumer AI Search Engine on Yuanbao Rails

腾讯筹备面向消费者的AI搜索产品,底层复用元宝架构
An insider tells Huxiu the product pairs AI answers with web results and inherits QQ Browser and Sogou technology — entering a market Baidu and ByteDance already dominate.

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robotics

Baidu Launches Apollo World Model to Train Robotaxis in Simulated Environments

百度发布Apollo世界模型,以仿真环境加速自动驾驶训练
The foundation model generates synthetic driving scenarios at scale, letting Apollo cut dependence on real-road edge-case data collection.

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policy

NPC Standing Committee Briefed on AI in Financial Supervision — Xinhua Report Signals Formal Regulatory Pushdeveloping

全国人大常委会听取金融监管应用AI报告,新华社报道标志正式监管推进
A government work report submitted to the NPC calls for deploying AI in financial oversight and consumer protection — a first formal legislative signal.

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chips

UPDATE — TechNode Confirms Ascend Fleet Shift: DeepSeek Moves Huawei Chips From Inference Into V5 Pre-Trainingdeveloping

更新——TechNode证实DeepSeek将华为昇腾集群从推理扩展至V5预训练
New detail: Liang Wenfeng puts the Ascend-to-Nvidia performance gap at 4-to-1, a cost DeepSeek is absorbing for supply-chain security.

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chips

Oracle Cancels $7B Tencent Chip Lease After White House Pressure

甲骨文在白宫施压下取消与腾讯70亿美元芯片租赁协议
Trump officials approached Oracle directly; Guangdong separately pushed Tencent toward domestic silicon.

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chips

China's $70B RTX Pro 5500 Backlog: Nvidia Says It Can Fill ~1% in Four Months

中国企业对英伟达RTX Pro 5500积压订单达700亿美元,英伟达称四个月内仅能交付约1%
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent alone ordered 3M+ units of the last Nvidia chip legally available in China.

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business

Alibaba Sells 100,000 QwenWork AI Subscriptions in 30 Minutes on Singles' Day Livestream

阿里巴巴借双十一直播30分钟售出10万份千问办公订阅,相当于约2万亿个AI Token
Li Jiaqi's Taobao Live broadcast marks the first time generative AI took center stage at the world's largest shopping festival.

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labs

Kimi K3.1 Pro Open Weights Land on Wednesday — Moonshot's 2.8T Model Ships Cyber-Scrubbed and Opendeveloping

Kimi K3.1 Pro开放权重周三如期发布 Moonshot 2.8万亿参数模型剔除网络攻防数据
Moonshot hits its November 4 deadline, releasing K3.1 Pro weights with an explicit note that offensive cyber capability was removed at training.

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chips

Nvidia's 51%-Non-China Rule: FT Reveals Private Contractual Mechanism Behind the Compute Firewalldeveloping

英伟达51%非中国算力条款曝光:《金融时报》披露出口管制之外的私人合规机制
New contracts now require cloud clients globally to prove at least 51% of AI compute serves non-China demand — a vendor-imposed rule that goes beyond published export controls.

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business

UPDATE — Beijing Deploys ¥100B+ PBoC Swap Line as STAR50 Holds Near 40% Troughdeveloping

更新——北京动用逾千亿央行互换支撑科技股,科创50仍接近四成跌幅低位
Thirty-one fund managers and brokers applied for more than ¥100B in liquidity as Beijing tries to arrest the AI stock slide — not engineer a new rally.

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labs

DeepSeek Publishes Super-Agent Architecture — Dual-Layer, Event-Driven, Always-On

DeepSeek公开Super-Agent架构:双层异步、事件驱动、持续在线
DeepSeek's formal write-up describes a production system already running continuously inside Harness — its most detailed agentic engineering disclosure to date.

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labs

Alibaba Qwen Enters Apple Intelligence — China Dev Beta Opens Tuesdaydeveloping

阿里通义千问接入Apple Intelligence,中国开发者测试版今日上线
Qwen powers Siri, Writing Tools, and Visual Intelligence for Chinese iPhone users starting November 4; full rollout in iOS 27.3 this December.

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chips

Baidu's Kunlunxin HK IPO Slips to 2027 as CSRC Approval Stalls

百度昆仑芯港股IPO因证监会审批迟滞或推至2027年
The $2B Hong Kong listing filed confidentially in January is stuck in CSRC review; Baidu shares fell more than 1% on Tuesday.

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labs

DeepSeek Clocks 71 Trillion Tokens on OpenRouter — 37% of a Record Platform Week

DeepSeek单周在OpenRouter产生711亿Token,占平台创纪录周总量的37%
Fresh weekly data shows DeepSeek's labs added 11 trillion tokens week-on-week — nearly double the net gain of the entire rest of the platform.

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business

ByteDance Now Dominates China's AI-Powered Short Drama Market, Doubao at 419M Monthly Usersdeveloping

字节跳动主导中国AI短剧市场,豆包月活用户达4.19亿
Short dramas are consuming a significant share of China's total AI capacity, with ByteDance holding the commanding position.

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business

State 'National Team' Pushes ETF Volumes to ¥120B — Highest Since January — as AI Stocks Slide

AI股承压之际,国家队推动ETF成交额达1200亿元,创今年1月以来新高
Beijing's stabilization reflex fires on the same day its own financial regulator warns about AI overconcentration.

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labs

DeepSeek Open-Sources 'Super-Agent' — Coding Bot Watches Team Chats, Fixes Bugs Unsummoneddeveloping

DeepSeek开源「Super-Agent」:监听团队群聊、主动修复Bug的编程智能体
The MIT-licensed dsh-superagent prototype monitors GitHub and Feishu, dispatches parallel worker sessions, and posted a median task time of 12.4 minutes.

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chips

Huawei's Ascend 960DT Will Run on Smuggled Korean HBM — One Unit Now at $4,000 in Chinadeveloping

华为Ascend 960DT将依赖走私韩国HBM——单颗HBM3E中国市价已涨至4000美元
The Information reports HBM is entering China via server packages, stripped after arrival; Huawei is telling 960DT buyers to source memory themselves, and Cambricon has raised chip prices 20–30%.

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business

China's Financial Regulator Warns AI Investment Is Crowding Out Traditional Industry

国家金融监管总局警告:AI投资过度集中正挤压传统产业融资空间
NFRA vice head Xiao Yuanqi at HKMA's Global Financial Leaders Summit: concentrated AI capital raises leverage and squeezes borrowing capacity for conventional firms.

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