China AI roundup: embodied upgrades, AGI layoffs, and a new agent standard
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-07-23
A China AI roundup spans embodied systems, layoffs, coding agents, and standards
- Amap/Alibaba said its ABot embodied system has been upgraded across the stack, with five new models covering perception, decision-making, execution, memory, and motion. The company frames it as a closed-loop system linking world models, base models, and embodied-agent architecture.
- Amazon reportedly laid off staff in its AGI division, while Uber cut 10% of its customer support jobs as part of a broader AI-driven reorganization.
- A leaked DeepSeek investor meeting emphasized that the company’s real goal is AGI, with consumer and enterprise products treated as side effects of technical progress.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued the U.S. should not ban or restrict Chinese AI models, saying the market misread the impact of DeepSeek and Kimi.
- Tencent Cloud launched CodeBuddyNPC, a cloud agent that can plan tasks, write code, submit PRs, run tests, and keep iterating until delivery.
- China also announced a national standard package for agent interoperability, billed as the country’s first full-lifecycle interoperability standard system for intelligent agents.
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