Wulanchabu AI complex launches as Qwen gains new integrations
China’s AI compute news centered on a major Inner Mongolia data-center launch, new Qwen integrations, foundation-model releases, and semiconductor infrastructure moves.
• Envision Group said its Wulanchabu Galaxy Base in Inner Mongolia has started operations, with a planned park capacity of 2 GW, 120,000 square meters of building area, million-card parallel operation support and million-P-scale computing power.
• Tencent’s WorkBuddy has reportedly become one of the company’s highest-priority AI application products, with support across distribution channels, computing power, organization and ecosystem resources.
• Apple’s Simplified Chinese Mac user guide says Apple Intelligence can work with Alibaba’s Qwen model through a Qwen extension on eligible mainland China Macs running macOS 26.6 or later.
• Arcfox said Qwen Flash Shopping has made its in-car debut, allowing Arcfox Alpha T7 owners to order milk tea with a single sentence.
• Ant Group open-sourced Ling-3.0-flash, a Bailing native hybrid reasoning model with 124 billion total parameters and 5.1 billion activated parameters, offering API access and private deployment options.
• Alibaba officially released Qwen3.8, advancing coding and office productivity, according to a weekly digital-intelligence roundup.
• SK Hynix is reportedly evaluating options for its Chongqing semiconductor packaging and testing plant, including bringing in investors, with a potential stake sale valuing the plant at around $3 billion.
• Greenwoods Asset Management exited or reduced several major tech positions in the second quarter while redeploying capital into semiconductor equipment and data-center infrastructure.