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1. 2d
   StepFun and Silicon Partner conclude five-day AI builder program at ACC

   StepFun and Silicon Partner held a five-day “AI Startup Apprentice” program during ACC 2026, culminating in a final pitch on October 25. Participants moved from initial demos through technical and product work, growth and commercialization guidance, user testing and iteration before presenting updated products. Step Plan benefits, StepFun models and related development resources supported the work, while BuilderHub recorded progress, version notes and feedback. Examples included a desktop AI character and a household item-location mini program. StepFun’s Go to Market and developer relations head Gong Guandan said Step Code was then on its fourth version, averaging one update every three working days.

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2. 4d
   Huawei Xiaoyi lab details its path toward proactive multimodal assistants

   In an interview with LeiPhone AI, Liu Rui, founding director of Huawei’s Xiaoyi Large Model Application Lab, described the lab’s work on moving AI assistants from passive, question-and-answer interactions toward proactive services. He presented Aura, a persistent assistant designed to process continuous visual and audio context, along with the open-source image-generation model Boogu, the Math Canvas visual-reasoning project, the Omni-Interact evaluation benchmark, and agent-training work including GHPO and COVE. Claims about Boogu’s generation quality and training cost, as well as the lab’s other results, came from Liu’s account of the research.

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3. Oct 11
   Pangbote raises hundreds of millions of yuan Series B for AI sports training

   AI sports hardware company Pangbote has closed a Series B round of several hundred million yuan, led by Shanghai Guotou Xiandao Fund with Yuanhe Puhua and Pudong Venture Capital participating and existing investor BlueRun Ventures China increasing its stake, according to 36Kr; Gaohu Capital was exclusive financial adviser. The company had previously completed three Series A rounds. Proceeds will go toward its sports large model, motion vision and training-decision technology, plus global expansion and additional sports categories. Starting from table tennis ball machines, Pangbote built a “hand-eye-brain” architecture: its PACE tennis ball robot raised more than $2.7 million on Kickstarter from October 2024, and its Aura all-in-one AI coach robot, released in May 2026, passed $1 million in five hours and more than $4 million in total crowdfunding. The company says it has over 300,000 global users, more than 2 billion cumulative serves, and 1 million table tennis plus over 200,000 tennis ball-trajectory datasets; on Sept. 28 the Australian Open named it an official partner, official ball machine partner and official ball machine supplier to the Australian National Tennis Academy.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 0

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