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Manifold Space, founded by Wu Wei, a former executive from SenseTime, recently completed a funding round worth hundreds of millions of yuan. The investors include China National New Capital Fund, Yifeng Capital under Temasek, Beijing Automotive Industrial Investment, and Xineng Venture Capital. Existing shareholders also made additional investments. The company has completed six funding rounds within just one year of its establishment, with a total amount of nearly 1 billion yuan, rapidly rising to the forefront of the industry.

At the Fourth Chain Expo, Intel partnered with domestic tech companies to launch the "AI Family Brain" solution. Based on the third-generation Core Ultra processors, it introduces a locally efficient AI brain, creating a new smart home ecosystem and marking a significant breakthrough in edge AI within the smart home industry.

JD.com open-sourced the world's first full-stack real-time video interaction model, JoyAI-VL-Interaction, with deep support from vLLM-Omni. It breaks the traditional passive response mode, enabling AI to actively 'watch and speak,' marking a shift from waiting for queries to autonomous observation and instant interaction.....

Commercial marketing posters are the first point of contact, but small and medium-sized merchants generally face issues such as lack of design resources, high outsourcing costs, and the need for minute-level delivery. Traditional design is inefficient and homogenized. Although AI generation brings new ideas, it struggles to balance aesthetic effects with commercial implementation standards, becoming a critical challenge that needs to be breakthrough in the industry.

OpenAI and Samsung sign largest-ever enterprise AI deal, deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to over 120,000 employees globally. The agreement covers all Korean staff and the Device eXperience (DX) division's global teams, marking a new phase of enterprise AI adoption. Samsung has about 262,000 employees, with DX as a core user group.....

Japan's investment blueprint to FY2040 mobilizes over 370 trillion yen across 17 strategic areas, with Physical AI as the core at 10.5 trillion yen. It refers to systems that perceive, decide and execute physical operations, targeting industrial automation, unmanned transport and infrastructure inspection to counter labor shortages.....

On June 22, Hong Kong's AI sector surged. Zhipu, dubbed the 'global No.1 large model stock,' soared over 40% intraday to a high of HK$2,980, becoming the first HK stock firmly above HK$2,000. Its market cap topped HK$1 trillion, up over 2,000% since its January listing. The rally was fueled by large model rivalry and U.S. regulatory moves.....

At WWDC2026, LM Studio and Apple demoed Kimi K2.6, a trillion-parameter MoE model from Moonshot, on just four Mac Studios. With 1T total params, 32B active, it supports long context, multimodal and agent tasks, breaking cloud GPU monopoly and enabling frontier AI on consumer hardware.....

OpenAI strikes its largest enterprise AI deal with Samsung, equipping over 120,000 employees with ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex. The rollout spans all Samsung staff in Korea and its DX global team, aiming to boost intelligent office operations and productivity.....

ByteDance's Doubao app is testing ride-hailing in Beijing and Hangzhou, marking an expansion of large model applications from dialogue to physical services. Users can verbally request trips within the chat interface, with automatic pickup and destination recognition, eliminating third-party redirects—a key step in reshaping local life service traffic entry points.....

In June 2025, COL launched XIAOYAO, a global platform for English novel creation. Powered by its XIAOYAO large model, it offers AI-assisted tools for ideation, character management, plot continuation, and polishing, plus cross-lingual localization to turn Chinese narratives into English. This marks the systematic overseas replication of China's “IP + AI + short drama” ecosystem.....

Alibaba launched HappyHorse1.1, a video generation model enhancing dynamic expressiveness, subject consistency, instruction following, visual quality, and audio capability. It offers smoother, more natural movements and stable subjects, with a major performance boost over v1.0.....

Xiaomi's open-source Miloco 2.0 smart home solution uses MiMo large model, integrated as Agent into OpenClaw. It upgrades interaction, function, memory, shifting from rule-based to autonomous reasoning, enabling proactive AI with memory, person recognition, and execution. Code on GitHub.....

Sheryl Sandberg advised Brandeis graduates to abandon life planning amid AI's reshaping of work. She warned that hot jobs may vanish, urging flexibility and adaptability over rigid decade-long plans.....

At WWDC, LM Studio and Apple ran Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 model on a cluster of four Mac Studios. The Mixture-of-Experts model has one trillion parameters, demonstrating Apple Silicon's potential for massive AI workloads.....

Norway's Prime Minister Støre announces phased restrictions on generative AI in schools to prevent negative impacts on learning. For ages 6-13, a complete ban; for 14-16, cautious use under strict teacher supervision; for 17-19, conditional use allowed.....

Amazon is in talks to sell its AI chip Trainium externally, shifting from cloud-only to hardware sales for data centers, intensifying AI compute competition from cloud leasing to direct chip sales.....

On June 21, at the 2026 APEC China CEO Forum, JD founder Liu Qiangdong announced fully opening all JD AI technologies to global partners, signaling a push for AI accessibility and barrier-breaking. He said enterprises should be promoters of cooperation, not wall-builders of tech barriers.....

Microsoft's enterprise AI system Copilot Cowork is now globally available, with over half of Fortune 500 companies deploying it during preview. To cater to businesses of all sizes, Microsoft is restructuring its business model beyond a single solution, signaling a major AI strategy shift and strong market penetration.....

Amazon's AI chief revealed discussions to sell its self-developed Trainium AI chip to external companies, extending beyond its exclusive AWS cloud offering. This shift shows Amazon adapting its strategy from cloud-only sales to direct chip sales, aiming to meet evolving AI infrastructure needs and customer demands.....