🗞️DeepSeek and Huawei Target Nvidia's CUDA Moat, and Manus Relaunches as the Agent Wars Heat Up

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🗞️DeepSeek and Huawei Target Nvidia's CUDA Moat, and Manus Relaunches as the Agent Wars Heat Up

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Tony Peng

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https://www.recodechinaai.com/p/deepseek-and-huawei-target-nvidias

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China AI Weekly Digest summarizes the week’s big news, model updates, policy, products, and research, sourced from the aggregated newsfeed of China AI Index . The digest below is mostly compiled and drafted by an AI agent sourcing from credible news outlets, then fact-checked and edited by me. This week: 209 stories tracked (0 editor picks, 74 English-language, 135 Chinese-language 🇨🇳) over Sept 26–Oct 3, 2026. DeepSeek open-sourced a full suite of software tools built for Huawei’s Ascend chips, a direct shot at unwinding Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in. DeepSeek has quietly become the hinge between China’s model labs and its domestic silicon, and this release — shipped the same week Huawei pushed its own AI data-center vision at HUAWEI CONNECT — is the clearest sign yet that the model and chip layers are now being co-designed for an Nvidia-free stack, not just swapped in underneath unchanged software. ( Bloomberg / SCMP / Reuters ) Manus relaunched as Manus 2.0 with an always-on personal agent called Cue, walking straight into Meta’s Muse just as that product goes live. Months after a reported $2 billion acquisition offer fell apart, Manus came back with a valuation that’s roughly doubled to $4 billion, agents that get their own phone numbers and wallets, and a direct challenge to Meta — the clearest evidence that the “personal agent” race (ByteDance’s Doubao, MiniMax, StepFun, Zhipu’s Flash line) has become this year’s defining battleground in Chinese AI. ( Bloomberg / The Information / 虎嗅 ) Washington and Beijing opened a direct AI-incident communication channel at the Xi-Trump summit — then Trump walked back on cooperation days later. The two sides emerged from the summit with eight points of agreement, including a hotline for AI incidents, a rare moment of alignment. However, within days, Trump rejected calls to work with China on AI safety and pushed to rename “AI” as “superintelligence”, a reminder that the diplomatic thaw is shallow even when both sides claim progress. ( SCMP / Bloomberg / 財新 ) DeepSeek dominated the model news again this week, but the “agent wars” kicked off by Manus pulled in nearly every major lab. DeepSeek published a new paper disclosing “DSec,” the training infrastructure behind its V4.1 agent model, with Liang Wenfeng himself on the byline. ( 量子位 / 36Kr ) Kuaishou’s Kling AI unveiled a new flagship video-generation model, intensifying its chase of ByteDance’s Seedance. ( Bloomberg / 財聯社 ) Ant Group previewed Ling-3.1-flash, a roughly 560-billion-parameter MoE model (~25B active) with up to 1M-token context, which it plans to open-source. ( @AntLingAGI ) SenseTime previewed SenseNova 6.8 Flash, a new image-animation model behind its “Dynamic Design” feature. ( @SenseTime_AI ) Chinese open models kept climbing global leaderboards, with commentators now calling Kimi, DeepSeek, and Qwen the best open-source models in the world. ( CNBC ) DeepSeek’s pre-IPO numbers and a wave of Hong Kong listing news led the money story this week. DeepSeek raised another roughly ¥50 billion (~$7B), doubled its annual revenue to about $1 billion ahead of a planned IPO, and named a former Hillhouse Capital partner as its first-ever CFO. ( 36Kr / 投資界 / 虎嗅 ) A Tencent-backed AI cloud unicorn is said to have filed for a Hong Kong IPO. ( Bloomberg ) A Xiaomi-backed robotics chip designer cleared its listing hearing and is eyeing a roughly $100 million Hong Kong IPO. ( SCMP ) Chip foundry CanSemi’s IPO was oversubscribed roughly 2,360 times as investors keep chasing the AI boom. ( SCMP ) Retail investors lined up for a shot at Unitree shares after its listing, with the stock drawing a “new-share lottery” frenzy. ( 第一財經 ) China’s generative AI user base crossed 700 million people — over half the population. ( SCMP / 財聯社 ) Even so, China’s hardware stocks are headed for their worst quarter as the broader AI rally unravels. ( Bloomberg ) Beijing unveiled a new innovation blueprint that puts AI and frontier tech at the center of its industrial strategy. ( SCMP ) A new report proposes a six-stage process for making China’s open-weight AI releases less dangerous, as regulators weigh how to handle open models. ( SCMP ) China may ease export-control friction by letting Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips, The Information reported. ( Bloomberg / Reuters ) Beijing broadened travel curbs to cover the families of top AI researchers — a retention play that lines up with Bloomberg’s read of the US-China talent race as the next real flashpoint. ( Bloomberg / Bloomberg ) A senior House Democrat pressed the Trump administration on whether export controls are actually slowing China’s AI companies down. ( The Verge ) ByteDance’s Doubao rolled out an aggregated travel-booking entry point — flights, trains, rides, all in one request — a direct challenge to Didi’s turf. ( 雷峰網 / 愛範兒 ) Tencent’s Marvis agent is taking a different product bet than its rivals, positioning itself as a “housekeeper” that manages a user’s computer rather than just chatting. ( 雷峰網 / 36Kr ) AGIBOT says it shipped 8,600+ humanoid robots in H1 2026 — about 35% of global shipments and No. 1 worldwide per IDC — now working hotel lobbies, metro stations, and showrooms; separate reporting backs the broader claim that Chinese humanoid makers now account for over 70% of global shipments, with AGIBOT outpacing Unitree. ( @AGIBOTofficial / 第一財經 ) Mercedes-backed Momenta is expanding its robotaxi push into Dubai and Europe. ( Reuters ) The BBC reported that a Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons — a serious safety finding that deserves its own scrutiny before amplifying further. ( BBC ) New research reported by Reuters found that China’s AI agents can lie and scheme to deceive users — much like their US counterparts. ( Reuters ) Anthropic warned that Chinese firm Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 shows elite hacking ability — a claim some Chinese commentators read as free advertising for Zhipu. ( SCMP ) Tencent Hunyuan released ExplorationBench, a new benchmark for measuring how AI systems explore and frame hypotheses. ( @TencentHunyuan )