What China Just Did With Humanoid Robots on LIVE TV - Blew The West Away!

Описание: Over a dozen humanoid robots performing martial arts live on national television. ByteDance is launching a model it claims rivals GPT-5.2 at a fraction of the cost. Apple is quietly opening CarPlay to ChatGPT-style assistants. This wasn’t just a busy week in AI. It was a signal. At China’s Spring Festival Gala, Unitree humanoids executed synchronized martial arts routines, demonstrating multi-robot coordination, AI-driven localization, and autonomous fault recovery on a live broadcast stage. According to industry data, China now accounts for roughly 90% of global humanoid shipments. The performance wasn’t just a spectacle. It was industrial positioning. At the same time, ByteDance introduced Doubao 2.0, positioning it for the “agent era” models designed not just to answer questions, but to execute multi-step tasks. The company claims GPT-5.2-level reasoning at nearly one-tenth the cost per inference. The real question isn’t benchmarks, it’s deployment reliability, tool integration, and whether cost advantages hold at scale. Meanwhile, Apple made a quieter but strategic move. iOS 26.4 beta introduces a new CarPlay category for voice-based conversational apps. That means ChatGPT-style assistants can now exist natively in vehicles — but under strict, voice-first constraints. Apple is opening the door to third-party AI while carefully preserving Siri’s system control.
Three regions. Three moves.

One pattern: AI is moving beyond chat windows and into physical systems, competitive ecosystems, and controlled environments like vehicles.
This isn’t about leaderboard wins. It’s about where AI is being allowed to operate and under whose terms.

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