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On the closing day of Shanghai's World AI Conference, the Chinese humanoid maker detailed an upgrade to its physical-world foundation model and a push abroad — showcasing its MATRIX-3 robot, priced from around $81,000.
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The inaugural peer-reviewed conference, chaired by Andrew Yao with Richard Sutton as co-chair, accepted 57 of 282 papers and swaps static PDFs for papers with embedded demos and runnable code.
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With standard leaderboards saturated and contaminated, Chinese AI leaders argued real-world task performance — and metrics like 'daily active agents' — should replace static benchmarks.
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At WAIC, executives signaled a shift away from uniform low prices toward segmentation, splitting the market into cheap mass tiers, pricier premium plans and free quotas for light users.
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At WAIC, Ant, Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu each pushed agent platforms for business clients; Ant's 'commercial AI agent super factory' ships with 200 pre-built digital-expert templates.
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The Chinese robotics firm unveiled the A3 Ultra humanoid, an education platform, a heavy-payload industrial arm co-built with JD Logistics, and a direct-drive dexterous hand — pitched around reliable delivery, not one-off demos.
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The eastern city plans AI compute wired directly to renewable plants, projecting 60 trillion tokens a year and a 62.5% jump in output from the same hardware.
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Unveiled at WAIC in Shanghai, Qwen3.8-Max-Preview is Alibaba's first trillion-plus multimodal model — but it launched as a closed API preview, with open weights only promised and the ranking based on Alibaba's own tests.
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