Tuesday, September 08, 2026 — Vivago R1 ships unlimited-length AI video, 60-sec “Huaqiang Buys a Melon” demo already live. A 2B Chinese open-source model beats Google Gemma 4 12B.

DeepSeek urgently hiring 150 people; agent proficiency is a hard requirement. Agent chops are now table stakes, not a bonus. Chinese AI startups raised over 300B yuan in half a year—77 deals above 100M. Deep Control lands CATL and Saudi Aramco’s strategic arm. Europe’s OpenAI grabs 23.4B. ARM launches a robot capability grading framework and a full design ecosystem. Robotics is getting standardized like chips before it scales. Money, models, and hiring all point the same way: China AI is moving from chat demos to deployed agents and robots.

DeepSeek urgently hiring 150 people; agent proficiency is a hard requirement. Agent chops are now table stakes, not a bonus.