Tuesday, September 01, 2026 — MiniMax opens real-time AI video: footage in 3 seconds, faster than playback. Fudan proposes a Life Operator for unified life modeling.

Hermes’ new group chat mode has users calling it a Grok bot killer. Claude announces a permanent 25% quota increase, but users report 17% less actual quota—check the fine print. A post-95s founder building AI 3D models raises ~5 billion yuan in half a year. Another world-generation model turns a single image into a 3D dream house with swappable furniture. The first embodied intelligence listing with eyes, brain, and hands lands nine cornerstone investors. So what? China’s AI trade is rotating from chatbots to real-time video, 3D world models, and embodied agents—capital and IPOs are now chasing robots, not just prompts.

Hermes’ new group chat mode has users calling it a Grok bot killer. Claude announces a permanent 25% quota increase, but users report 17% less actual quota—check the fine print.