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Meituan Waimai will give restaurant merchants across China free access to an AI store manager that diagnoses operations, inspects stores, manages menus and helps new outlets, then tracks the results.

At CNCC 2026, Alibaba's Qwen AI algorithm lead said personal agents need models, memory and an ecosystem working together, and described a map of 8,000+ atomic capabilities across 30+ industries.

Baidu Health upgraded its AI health assistant with a camera that accepts video and speech, plus services routing users to 150,000 hospital doctors. Baidu stresses doctors, not AI, make diagnoses.

Lenovo showed a preview of its palm-sized AI Host P7 at CSDN's 1024 developer conference and opened an early-access program. Two domestic chips let it run models of up to 125B parameters locally.

Alipay AI Pay opened PAYATHON 2026 for developers of apps, skills and agents, with five payment tracks, a prize pool of 200,000 yuan and judging that weighs real paying users.

A China Mobile-led national AI pilot base for the auto sector opened a shared compute, data and model platform, with six agents for design, process planning, inspection, maintenance and driving.

360 founder Zhou Hongyi says the company's sovereign AI operating system, covering compute, models, knowledge bases and an agent factory under customer control, is now used by some organizations.

At its 1024 developer festival, iFLYTEK's open platform launched Agent OS for enterprise agent teamwork, APA for recorded workflow skills, the XFYUN CLI and a TaaS platform for business use.

Fudan researchers built RoboSkill, which turns methods a robot agent discovers into reusable text-and-code skills and adds touch sensing, cutting task time sharply in simulation and on real robots.

iFLYTEK Healthcare upgraded its Spark medical model to V3.7, merging speech, imaging and language for medical agents. The company says it scored 99.6 on Shanghai AI Lab's MedBench 5.0.

Chongqing-based Dawa Technology's Scenes AI updates a persistent world state from a normal camera feed. It runs a 34B sparse model at 720p and 25fps on a single consumer RTX card.