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Unitree Robotics has launched the GD01, a mass-produced rideable transformer robot priced at roughly $537,000, featuring both bipedal and quadrupedal movement modes. The device targets commercial and luxury markets in China while the company prepares for a Shanghai stock exchange listing.
The author shares their experience visiting Silicon Valley, noting that tech giants' campuses are secluded and enclosed, differing vastly from the bustling entrepreneurial atmosphere ordinary visitors expect.
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger discusses China's aggressive adoption of AI agents for workplace automation, contrasting subsidy incentives with employment risks elsewhere. The talk highlights how employees are mandated to automate tasks daily using tools like OpenClaw under threat of termination.
A new open-source tool automates the entire research paper refinement process, using Claude Code for execution and a separate model for evaluation to iteratively improve papers overnight. The system successfully upgraded a borderline rejected paper to submission-ready status through autonomous GPU experiments and narrative adjustments.
DeepSeek has rejected investment from Alibaba to maintain corporate independence and avoid restrictive ecosystem integration clauses, despite significant interest from Chinese tech giants. The company seeks funding primarily for computational power and talent retention while minimizing external control over its commercialization agenda.
Chinese developer @yadong_xie notes that within a single year AI has shifted from merely helping write code to fully taking over rendering, calling global tech progress a 100× speed-up.
Huashu Design launches a tool that lets users whip up 80-point promo videos in 30 minutes with any AI agent; demo showcases a spot for Kimi K2.6.
Details emerge of Pinduoduo’s 2023 executive probe: evidence destroyed on the spot, company fined RMB 1.5 bn for violations, and no AI spending spree despite huge cash reserves.