TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced an AI-plus-consumer goods special action at a national conference in Shijiazhuang on September 8. The initiative aims to boost textile clusters, local specialty food zones, smart home interoperability, and biomanufacturing. It also seeks to enhance consumer market quality through classic industry development and global brand cultivation.
TREE NEWS update: On September 8, Tencent Docs announced a full-end upgrade of its AI services with the launch of AI Workbench. Built on WorkBuddy’s Agent kernel framework and Tencent Docs’ self-developed editing engine and professional Skills, AI now handles complete workflows in real files and office tasks. The existing human-machine co-writing feature is integrated, allowing AI to directly modify original files beyond content generation.
TREE NEWS update: Perplexity, a Silicon Valley AI unicorn, unveiled Portable Computer, a local agent product powered by Alibaba’s latest open-source model Qwen3.8-27B. Optimized for Nvidia’s DGX Spark hardware, the PPLX 27B series algorithm enables the Qwen model to handle file processing, data analysis, and programming tasks locally.
TREE NEWS update: French AI company Mistral has completed a €3 billion funding round led by Samsung, valuing the firm at over €21 billion. The investment marks one of the largest rounds for a European AI startup, underscoring growing global interest in AI technology. Details on the use of funds were not disclosed.
TREE NEWS reports: Wang Naiyan, former head of Xiaomi’s L3 autonomous driving technology, has founded an embodied brain startup and is currently seeking financing. The venture focuses on embodied intelligence, a field combining AI with physical robotics. No funding details or company name were disclosed.
TREE NEWS update: DeepSeek has opened 150 backend/server engineer positions, a hiring scale equivalent to one-third to one-half of its current team. Team lead Tianyi Cui cited “many new directions, systems and needs” as the reason. The expansion is driven by surging data, training tasks, agent environments and user requests, requiring a major upgrade and rewrite of existing backend systems.
TREE NEWS update: Anthropic has decided to abandon its acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Decart. The deal, which had been under consideration, will not proceed. No further details were provided.
TREE NEWS update: XPeng Motors announced on Weibo that its humanoid robot production line is now operational. The first mass-produced general-purpose humanoid robot completed automated final assembly and autonomously walked off the line.
TREE NEWS update: Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s chief scientist, urged AI labs to adopt mandatory safety standards, warning that the industry may need to slow down. He noted OpenAI finds it increasingly difficult to monitor advanced models’ reasoning, highlighting the need for stricter oversight as AI capabilities grow.
TREE NEWS update: OpenAI researchers released a video showing GPT-6 Astra flawlessly completing all 48 levels of the ‘I’m not a robot’ CAPTCHA game, raising doubts about the effectiveness of such verification methods. The AI model passed the entire verification process, not just a single stage.
TREE NEWS update: King Charles III of the United Kingdom will chair an artificial intelligence industry conference later this month. The event underscores the monarchy’s engagement with emerging technology sectors. Further details on the agenda and participants were not disclosed.
TREE NEWS update: OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki urged the industry to maintain ‘extreme caution’ regarding the speed of AI development. His comments highlight growing concerns about rapid advancement in artificial intelligence. The statement underscores the need for careful consideration of the technology’s trajectory.
TREE NEWS reports: Lobster AI’s first report on Chinese office Agent users shows DeepSeek V4 Flash leads model calls with 52.2%, rising above 75% with its visual variant. New models reach nearly 50% user penetration within three days. Top cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen) account for 27% of users, while 62.79% come from beyond top 10 cities.
TREE NEWS update: On September 7, Unitree released a video stating that its UnifoLM-X2-1.0 model broke through bottlenecks in world-action large model instantaneous planning, decision-making, and dynamic interactive execution, achieving fully autonomous fighting by a humanoid robot. The development validates the fundamental feasibility of large-scale deployment of world-model-driven humanoid robots.
TREE NEWS reports: Researchers at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, led by Professor Xie Peng, have advanced multidimensional multiplexed optical computing. Building on their ‘Meteor-1’ ultra-high-parallel optical computing chip, they integrated wavelength- and space-division multiplexing with shared multi-task matrix networks. The architecture enables parallel processing of multi-task, multimodal information, validated in remote sensing image registration and recognition. Findings were published in Laser & Photonics Reviews.
TREE NEWS update: On September 7, at Huawei’s full-scenario new product launch, Tencent’s WorkBuddy debuted on the watch platform. It is now compatible with HUAWEI WATCH 5 series, Ultimate 2, ULTIMATE DESIGN series, and the newly released WATCH 6 series, offering voice memos, meeting and interview recording-to-notes, and inspiration drafting.
TREE NEWS update: On Sept 7, Tencent Hunyuan and WorkBuddy announced full rollout of optimized Hy4 preview, addressing issues like long thinking and excessive self-verification in complex tasks. The update reduces task rounds and token consumption without losing performance, as confirmed by benchmarks and human evaluation.
TREE NEWS update: OpenAI updated the GPT-6 Astra product page, adding model performance, enterprise applications, safety capabilities, and API pricing. Astra scores 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, 97.6% on FrontierMath Tier 4, and 57.9% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, beating GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5.1. It will roll out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in coming days, plus API, Azure, and AWS Bedrock. Full launch timing remains undisclosed.
TREE NEWS update: Google and Cathay Pacific announced a partnership to use artificial intelligence to address one of aviation’s toughest climate challenges. The collaboration was reported by Bloomberg, marking a notable convergence of tech and airline industries in emissions reduction efforts.
TREE NEWS update: Humain, an artificial intelligence company owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, is assembling a team to prepare for a potential initial public offering. CEO Tareq Amin announced on LinkedIn that he is seeking exceptional talent to join the IPO preparation team, tasked with developing investor strategies and preparing roadshow materials.