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<a href="/company/tencent">Tencent</a> has begun beta testing Yuanbao Pai, a group social feature for its <a href="/industry/ai">AI</a> assistant Yuanbao. The feature supports AI-powered chat summaries, group activities, and collaborative content creation, extending Tencent’s AI applications from personal assistance to multi-user social scenarios.

<a href="/company/geely">Geely</a> has launched the EX2 in Indonesia and confirmed the start of local production, marking a key step in its localization strategy. The EX2 is now assembled locally with 46.5% local content, becoming the third Geely model produced in the country as the automaker steps up its push into Southeast Asia’s <a href="/industry/ev">EV</a> market.

<a href="/company/ant-group">Ant Group</a> subsidiary Robbyant has open-sourced LingBot-World, a real-time interactive world model for embodied intelligence and simulation. The company said the model supports millisecond-level interaction, nearly ten minutes of stable video generation, and benchmark performance comparable to Google’s Genie 3.

<a href="/company/deepseek">DeepSeek</a> could be expanding its focus to AI-powered search and agent-based tools, media reports said, citing recent job postings from the Chinese <a href="/industry/ai">AI</a> startup. The company is hiring to build a multilingual, multimodal AI search engine and infrastructure to support persistent agents that can operate with minimal human input.

Chinese chipmaker Hygon’s processors were found immune to a recently disclosed hardware vulnerability, known as StackWarp, that affected several generations of AMD processors. Analysts attributed the immunity to Hygon’s use of its self-developed CSV3 security technology rather than AMD’s SEV-SNP.

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<a href="/company/tencent">Tencent</a> said Sogou Input Method has rolled out its <a href="/industry/ai">AI</a>-focused 20.0 update, upgrading voice input, translation, and typing models. The company said the AI features now serve more than 100 million users, with daily voice input usage approaching two billion, reportedly the highest in the input method segment.

Vietnamese automaker Kim Long Motor said it will partner with China’s <a href="/company/byd">BYD</a> to build a USD 130 million battery plant in central Vietnam. Kim Long will fund the project, while BYD will provide technical support, with production focused on commercial <a href="/industry/ev">EV</a> batteries before expanding to passenger EV batteries.

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<a href="/company/baidu">Baidu</a> AI Cloud has raised its 2026 <a href="/industry/ai">AI</a>-related revenue growth target to 200%, from 100%, according to people familiar with the matter. The move comes as Baidu pushes to lead the AI cloud market with a full-stack strategy spanning chips, cloud infrastructure, large models, and AI agents.

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