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Huawei, Chery introduce second joint model following setback by Jill SHEN

华为 and Chinese automaker CHERY on Tuesday began taking orders for the second model under their premium electric vehicle brand Luxeed, priced between RMB 268,000 and RMB 348,000 ($37,654 and $48,894) and featuring what an executive called the world’s most advanced driver assistance system.?

China’s cyberspace chief makes Time100 AI list, along with Baichuan AI founder by Cheyenne Dong

Time magazine listed China’s cyberspace chief, Zhuang Rongwen, and ByteDance CEO Jiang Rubo in its latest TIME100 AI, featuring individuals that it deems to be the top 100 influential figures in artificial intelligence. Wang Xiaochuan, founder of Baichuan, one of China’s AI unicorns, also made the Time list.

Huawei releases world’s first triple-fold smartphone Mate XT by Jessie Wu

On the same day Apple launched the iPhone 16 series, 华为 unveiled its highly anticipated triple-fold smartphone?Mate XT . The industry’s first mass-produced triple-fold device, it starts at 19,999 RMB ($2,810), making it the most expensive phone in Huawei’s history.

China’s Sora competitor Vidu teases feature to maintain subject consistency by Cheyenne Dong

China’s Tsinghua University-backed Shengshu Technology has showcased a subject consistency feature for its AI video generation model Vidu, just over a month after the product became available for global users.

China’s BYD builds $2.8 billion global R&D center, filing says by Jill SHEN

BYD in a recent regulatory filing is seen to be planning a 35.6 million square feet global research and development center in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, where the auto giant is headquartered, as part of the company’s latest push to drive tech innovation.