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S.Ride and <a href="/company/didi">Didi’s</a> Japan business will partner to expand ride-hailing options for foreign travelers, with overseas bookings on Didi’s app dispatched to S.Ride taxis. Launching in mid-February, the service will cover central Tokyo and nearby cities, significantly increasing vehicle availability in the capital.

Chinese RISC-V chipmaker SpacemiT has launched its <a href="/industry/ai">K3</a> AI CPU, targeting edge and intelligent terminals with a pure RISC-V design. The chip delivers up to 60 TOPS of AI compute, integrates eight CPU cores running at up to 2.4 gigahertz, and supports as much as 32 gigabytes of memory, with initial deliveries planned for April 2026.

Indonesia Stock Exchange CEO Iman Rachman resigned after MSCI warned the market risked a downgrade to frontier status, triggering a selloff that erased over USD 80 billion in value. The Jakarta Composite Index fell more than 8% in two days, with foreign investors dumping about USD 645 million of shares as regulators rushed to propose reforms.

<a href="/company/openai">OpenAI</a> is preparing for a potential IPO in the fourth quarter, holding informal talks with banks and expanding its finance team, people familiar with the matter said. The move comes as competition with Anthropic and other <a href="/industry/ai">AI</a> rivals intensifies and as OpenAI seeks capital to fund large-scale infrastructure and chip investments.

<a href="/company/chery">Chery Group's</a> iCar will globally debut its V27 hybrid SUV in Dubai on February 8, marking its entry into the Middle East market. The model features a boxy design, a range-extended electric powertrain with more than 1,000 kilometers of combined range, and has completed over one million kilometers of global testing.

Cainiao and Zelos have completed a deep integration of their autonomous vehicle businesses, with Cainiao injecting assets and cash to become a shareholder in Zelos. Cainiao will stop directly producing and selling autonomous vehicles, while Zelos will operate under a dual-brand structure.

<a href="/company/alibaba">Alibaba</a> subsidiary T-Head Semiconductor has launched the Zhenwu 810E <a href="/industry/ai">AI</a> processor, now deployed in large Alibaba Cloud clusters and serving more than 400 customers. The chip features 96 gigabytes of HBM2e memory and 700 gigabytes per second of interconnect bandwidth and is used to train and run Qwen models.

JD Cloud has launched Moltbot with a prebuilt image on its lightweight cloud hosts, enabling three-step deployment without manual configuration. The assistant runs in an isolated cloud environment and supports long-term local memory, cross-platform messaging, and real task execution after API key setup and guided onboarding.

<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.

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