China-led compute-power standard approved amid chip and model updates
China’s AI compute sector saw a new international power-management standard, space-computing activity, and developments across domestic chips, foundation models, and inference pricing.
• China’s proposal for an IEC standard on data-center microgrid monitoring and energy management was approved, becoming the first IEC international standard focused on coordinated computing and power for data centers.
• China Mobile’s Space-Based Intelligent Computing Payload 1.0 entered orbit aboard the Honghu-03 satellite on LandSpace’s Zhuque-3 reusable Y2 rocket, with tests of integrated communications, computing, and intelligence to follow.
• ByteDance’s Seed foundation-model unit created four new first-level departments, including Pretrain Data, which will manage multimodal data for its Omni model and data needed to pretrain ultra-large models.
• Volcengine said Tesla has officially integrated Doubao, with rollout underway and early user feedback describing more natural and responsive voice interaction.
• DeepSeek announced price increases across its API lineup, while reports linked the move to increasingly tight computing-power resources.
• Guangzhou district-backed platforms are selling model inference by the token, while banks are experimenting with loans sized to that consumption.
• Baidu said Chinese buyers want local AI chips because of supply-chain issues, while Tianji Data and Hygon agreed to cooperate on integrating domestic chips and databases.
• Loongson said its 3B6600 processor uses a highly autonomous 1Xnm process and reaches the performance level of mainstream x86 CPUs built on 7nm or more advanced nodes, while Huahai Qingke shipped its first next-generation dicing system to a leading Chinese advanced-memory maker.