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PandailyAsiaXiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro Lands on Tencent WorkBuddy and TokenHub With a 1M Context Window Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro is now live inside Tencent's WorkBuddy desktop AI agent, Xiaomi's technical account said on October 20.

10.21

PandailyAsiaXiaomi Open-Sources Xiaomi-Lens-0, a 4B Model That Points to Image Regions Pixel by Pixel Xiaomi has open-sourced Xiaomi-Lens-0, a 4-billion-parameter multimodal model that can mark the exact image region it is talking about while it answers.

10.21

PandailyAsiaPeking University and PrimeBot's HIL-UMI Collects Robot Correction Data Without a Robot Arm A team led by Hao Dong at Peking University, working with Shanghai personal-robot maker PrimeBot, has introduced HIL-UMI, a method for post-training vision-language-action models that collects…

10.21

PandailyAsiaAnt Group and vLLM Open-Source Humming, Quantized Inference Kernels With Zhenwu 810E Support Ant Group and the vLLM community have open-sourced Humming, a just-in-time compiled GEMM kernel library for quantized large language model inference.

10.21

PandailyAsiaMETASTONE Launches TokenFleet to Schedule LLM Inference Across GPU Clusters and Data Centers METASTONE, an independent compute operator, has introduced TokenFleet, a distributed scheduling framework for large language model inference.

10.21

PandailyAsiaSenseTime Open-Sources SenseNova-RoboRSI Embodied AI Harness and a 27B Robot Brain Model SenseTime has open-sourced SenseNova-RoboRSI, a framework for evaluating embodied AI systems, together with an embodied model called SenseNova-RoboRSI-27B-Preview.

10.21

PandailyAsiaStars Micro System Unveils C82-4G PCIe 6.0 Switch, an 800G AI NIC and a Multi-Mode RAID Chip WuXi Stars Micro System Technologies has introduced three interconnect chips aimed at AI servers and clusters.

10.20

PandailyAsiaChina Telecom Open-Sources Xing4.0-29B-Intent to Turn Commands Into Structured Parameters The XingChen AGI lab at China Telecom Artificial Intelligence Technology has open-sourced Xing4.0-29B-Intent, a model built for one narrow but critical job in AI agents: working out what a user wants…

10.20

PandailyAsiaSpacemiT Pairs V100 RISC-V Server CPU With Three Servers, Kunlunxin M100 Validation and Linux SpacemiT did not launch its V100 server processor on its own. At the RISC-V China Summit in Shenzhen on October 19, the company and the XiangShan open-source processor team also introduced three…

10.20

PandailyAsiaDAMO Academy's XuanTie E908A Is an Automotive RISC-V CPU IP Aimed at ASIL-B and ASIL-D Designs Alibaba's DAMO Academy has introduced XuanTie E908A, an automotive-enhanced RISC-V processor design, at the RISC-V China Summit in Shenzhen on October 19.

10.20

PandailyAsiaChery Debuts Ziwei In-House Chips: C100 Central Computer, S1500 SiC Power Chip and M-Series MCUs Chery has shown its first family of self-developed chips under the Ziwei name. Unveiled on October 20 at the 2026 Chery Global Innovation Conference, the lineup spans three product series and five…

10.20

PandailyAsiaStartLux-Decision v1.1 Tops Decision Index 0.3.2 With Open Models That Think Only When Unsure StartLux has released StartLux-Decision v1.1, a family of open decision models, and its 27B Instant model now sits at the top of the Decision Index 0.3.2 leaderboard on Hugging Face.

10.20

PandailyAsiaTencent's Marvis AI Butler Lands in the Kylin Software Store With Support for Domestic CPUs Tencent's AI butler Marvis is now available in the Kylin software store, bringing the operating-system-level assistant to China's widely used domestic desktop platform.

10.20

PandailyAsiaTencent Launches Free WorkBuddy Education Edition With 2,000 Monthly Credits for Every Teacher Tencent has launched a public-welfare education edition of WorkBuddy, its AI agent workspace, and opened it to teachers across China at no cost.

10.20

PandailyAsiaAgiBot's Lingxi X2 Handles 46,686 Patient Queries at Peking University People's Hospital Front Desk AgiBot says its Lingxi X2 humanoid has become a regular at the outpatient guidance desk of Peking University People's Hospital in Beijing, in a project built with Ant Group's AI health app Afu.

10.20

PandailyAsiaX Square Robot Launches X2Real, an Evolving Simulation Benchmark It Says Tracks Real-Robot Results Embodied AI startup X Square Robot has released X2Real, a simulation benchmark designed to measure how robot foundation models will perform in the physical world, and to keep growing its test set as…

10.20

PandailyAsiaAnt Group Open-Sources Ming-3.0-tts, Small Speech Models With Voice Design and Fine Control Ant Group's inclusionAI team has open-sourced Ming-3.0-tts, a speech-generation family that aims to put fine-grained voice control into models small enough for local deployment.

10.20

PandailyAsiaLawaken Opens Pre-Sale of X-AI Memory Glasses From ¥699 With MCP Agent Hooks Lawaken has opened pre-sale of its X-AI memory glasses from 699 yuan for a gun-metal classic wire frame, with other frames listed at 899 yuan and titanium brow-bar styles at 1,099 yuan.

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