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The Freight-App Battle a Chinese “Uber for Trucks” Couldn’t Win ift.tt/oy4Ga05

The Freight-App Battle a Chinese “Uber for Trucks” Couldn’t Win · TechNode

In 2018, Kuaigou Dache spent RMB524 million on sales and marketing, more than its RMB453 million in revenue. Eight years later, its listed parent, GOGOX,

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Tencent’s short-drama service reportedly tops 100 million monthly users ift.tt/AYzLSKq

Tencent’s short-drama service reportedly tops 100 million monthly users · TechNode

Tencent’s Lvpaopao short-drama mini-program reached 143 million monthly active users in August, according to QuestMobile data reported by Jiemian. Weekly

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Desktop 3D-printer startup Baishida secures angel-plus funding ift.tt/qVdNFrP

Desktop 3D-printer startup Baishida secures angel-plus funding · TechNode

Chinese desktop 3D-printer startup Baishida has completed an angel-plus funding round exclusively backed by Still Water Lake Venture Partners. The amount

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Baidu reportedly developing world model as autonomous-driving ambitions expand ift.tt/JIjSPNW

Baidu reportedly developing world model as autonomous-driving ambitions expand · TechNode

Baidu is developing a world model and is expected to share research progress soon, according to an October 28 report by STAR Market Daily. World models

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BYD names Yangwang Altior luxury flagship sedan ahead of UAE debut ift.tt/3F6izbk

BYD names Yangwang Altior luxury flagship sedan ahead of UAE debut · TechNode

BYD’s luxury brand Yangwang has named its upcoming executive flagship sedan Altior, known as Dingyao in China, ahead of a planned debut in the United Arab

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HOVERAir maker Zero Zero Robotics reportedly becomes a unicorn ift.tt/6oUaL08

HOVERAir maker Zero Zero Robotics reportedly becomes a unicorn · TechNode

Zero Zero Robotics, the Chinese company behind HOVERAir self-flying cameras, has reportedly reached a $1 billion valuation in its latest funding round.

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Brain-computer interface startup NeuroXess raises RMB 700 million in Series B funding ift.tt/sFWgEU3

Brain-computer interface startup NeuroXess raises RMB 700 million in Series B funding · TechNode

Chinese brain-computer interface startup NeuroXess has raised RMB 700 million in Series B funding, co-led by SDIC Juli, Shenzhen Capital Group and Qinzhi

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Dongshan Precision’s Acquisition-Led AI Bet Meets a Cooler Market ift.tt/bV9zGr4

Dongshan Precision’s Acquisition-Led AI Bet Meets a Cooler Market · TechNode

Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart, a TechNode Group publication. Dongshan Precision is bringing a much more profitable business to

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ByteDance Is Rewiring Its AI Video Bet ift.tt/0KkXyot

ByteDance Is Rewiring Its AI Video Bet · TechNode

ByteDance is consolidating two of its AI video products. ByteDance’s CapCut unit recently folded Xiaoyunque into Jimeng while keeping Xiaoyunque’s

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DeepSeek reportedly ramps up hiring as it maps out new growth plans ift.tt/rfjSiuE

DeepSeek reportedly ramps up hiring as it maps out new growth plans · TechNode

DeepSeek is rapidly expanding its team as it outlines new growth plans to investors, according to an October 27 report by Chinese technology outlet Ifeng

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Ant launches LingGuang 2.0 AI assistant for ongoing personal tasks ift.tt/t3eSEaz

Ant launches LingGuang 2.0 AI assistant for ongoing personal tasks · TechNode

Ant Group has launched LingGuang 2.0, upgrading its AI assistant with persistent memory and the ability to continue managing tasks after users leave a

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BYD launches third-generation Qin Plus DM-i ift.tt/F3au9tK

BYD launches third-generation Qin Plus DM-i · TechNode

BYD launched its third-generation Qin Plus DM-i plug-in hybrid sedan on October 27, with limited-time prices ranging from RMB 76,900 to RMB 97,900.

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Robot electronic-skin startup MoSense raises around RMB 100 million in angel-plus funding ift.tt/y27GrwR

Robot electronic-skin startup MoSense raises around RMB 100 million in angel-plus funding · TechNode

Shanghai-based MoSense, which develops full-body tactile sensing systems for robots, has raised around RMB 100 million in an angel-plus round led by CDH

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Desktop robot startup CyboPal secures investment from TCL and Shenzhen Capital Group ift.tt/MoaeLhr

Desktop robot startup CyboPal secures investment from TCL and Shenzhen Capital Group · TechNode

Chinese desktop robot startup CyboPal has secured a new strategic funding round from TCL Industries’ investment arm and Shenzhen Capital Group. The amount

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ByteDance launches AI studio for short-drama production ift.tt/vwQULqr

ByteDance launches AI studio for short-drama production · TechNode

ByteDance’s Jimeng AI has launched a short-drama studio that brings script development, character and scene creation, storyboarding, video production and

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Tencent open-sources AI model for real-time Chinese-English interpretation ift.tt/CJVBQGm

Tencent open-sources AI model for real-time Chinese-English interpretation · TechNode

Tencent has released Hy-SimulMT, an open-source model for simultaneous Chinese-English interpretation. It processes incoming speech continuously and

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Volkswagen considers taking Xpeng-developed vehicle architecture to Europe ift.tt/CsNudea

Volkswagen considers taking Xpeng-developed vehicle architecture to Europe · TechNode

Volkswagen is considering using vehicle software architecture developed with China’s Xpeng in its mainstream European models, according to Manager

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Why Biotech Needs Partners—and an Informed Public ift.tt/Q4ESALF

Why Biotech Needs Partners—and an Informed Public · TechNode

On the day he spoke with TechNode, Shuyuan Ling published a WeChat blog on targeted cancer therapy—why it centers on molecular targets, the treatments

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Agile Robots plans up to 2,000 research humanoids through Nvidia partnership ift.tt/pAhVsqK

Agile Robots plans up to 2,000 research humanoids through Nvidia partnership · TechNode

Agile Robots plans to produce between 1,000 and 2,000 compact humanoid robots next year through a partnership with Nvidia, CEO Zhaopeng Chen told Reuters.

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Affordable humanoid robot maker Noetix reportedly files for Hong Kong IPO ift.tt/nJHvxa8

Affordable humanoid robot maker Noetix reportedly files for Hong Kong IPO · TechNode

Chinese humanoid robot company Noetix Robotics has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering that could raise several hundred million

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