(China Daily) Chinese artificial intelligence agent Manus platform announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with Alibaba Group's Qwen team to integrate all of its functions into homegrown AI models and computing power platforms.

Alibaba told China Daily that Manus and the Qwen team are carrying out cooperation in open-source models, and it is looking forward to working with more global AI innovators.

Technical teams of the two companies are collaborating closely, and committed to jointly develop AI agent products tailored for Chinese users.

The partnership follows Manus' rapid popularity on social media, driven by its ability to handle complex tasks like screening resumes, analyzing stocks and building websites.

(China Daily) SAIC Volkswagen has launched the Teramont Pro SUV, featuring the Sino-German joint venture's latest gasoline powertrain and intelligent cockpit technology.

The model is sold under a fixed-price strategy, with prices ranging from 269,900 yuan ($37,047) to 319,900 yuan.

"We will continue to pursue technological breakthroughs, using technology to illuminate the future of automotive craftsmanship," said Tao Hailong, president of SAIC Volkswagen.

(China Daily) Chinese electric vehicle company, XPeng Motors, unveiled its 2025 G6 and G9 auto models on Thursday, as it bets on autonomous driving and fast charging technologies to stand out amid intensified competition in the EV market.

The upgraded EVs, featuring ultra-fast charging and Turing AI autonomous driving technologies, signal a bold push to democratize premium smart EV innovations in the mainstream market.

(China Daily) Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers are gearing up for accelerated growth in the Australian market, as Canberra ramps up regulatory measures to smooth the country's transition to greener transportation.

At the recent Everything Electric show in Sydney, which ran for three days starting on March 7, Chinese EV makers took center stage among the diverse range of items on display.

(Xinhua) China on Saturday launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket, placing a remote sensing satellite into space.

The rocket blasted off at 12:11 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and sent the Gaojing-3 02 satellite into the preset orbit.

The mission also launched the Tianyan-23 satellite.

It was the 564th flight mission of the Long March series rockets.

(Xinhua) Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on Thursday released a new version of its Quark application, a comprehensive AI assistant powered by Alibaba's Qwen-based advanced reasoning model.

Quark is the first within Alibaba's general user-facing businesses to fully leverage its proprietary foundation models, marking an important milestone in Alibaba's strategy to integrate AI across its businesses.

(China Daily) Open-source chip design architecture RISC-V is gaining in popularity in China, experts said, as domestic tech companies such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd work to sharpen their technological strengths in semiconductors amid the rapidly evolving era of artificial intelligence.

RISC-V technology manages memory systems shared between CPUs, and has been open and free for use since its debut in 2010. Developers can use it to design a chip tailored to their unique needs.

(Xinhua) China's National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) has released a pricing guideline for neural system care services, specifying brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) as an independent category.

According to the NHSA, this move aims to boost the clinical application of the cutting-edge technology to benefit patients in need, against the backdrop of BCIs' rapid development over recent years.

(China Daily) Chinese scientists have recently achieved the fabrication of single-atom-layer metals with a thickness of merely one-millionth the thickness of an A4 paper sheet, setting a new record for the thinnest metal materials. This marks the world's first realization of stable two-dimensional forms of non-layered metals.

(Xinhua) Chinese scientists have successfully conducted an ice-cap detection experiment in Antarctica using a domestically developed ultra-wideband hyperspectral microwave radiometer, as reported by China's 41st Antarctic expedition team.

The team conducted joint air-ground experiments using helicopters and snowmobiles to successfully carry out remote sensing detection of temperature distribution beneath the Antarctic ice.
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