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date: 2026-08-14
subject: "Zhipu to publish GLM-5.3 weights | DeepSeek open-sources Harness | Unitree at 18,000 humanoids"
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**Zhipu released its GLM-5.3 coding model today** and said it will publish the weights two weeks later, putting into circulation a system whose 84.5% score on Berkeley's CyberGym vulnerability benchmark rates above U.S. models. **DeepSeek open-sourced its agent framework Harness** under the permissive MIT license, giving away the software layer that turns a model into a working agent and letting rival subagents such as Claude Code run inside it. **Unitree said Wednesday it has produced** about 18,000 bipedal humanoid robots in total, almost all of that volume is recent with its entire 2025 humanoid output was over 6,500 units.

# Top Stories

- **AI developer Zhipu will publish the weights of its coding model that leads on a flaw-finding benchmark** — Zhipu released its GLM-5.3 coding model today and said it will publish the model's weights in two weeks, once it finishes a security assessment and hardening process. Anyone will then be able to download the system that scores above Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol at finding software flaws. On CyberGym, a University of California, Berkeley benchmark that scores whether an AI agent can reproduce known vulnerabilities, Zhipu puts GLM-5.3 at 84.5% compared to 83.8% for Mythos and 83.6 for GPT-5.6 Sol. However, on ExploitBench, which tests writing working exploits, still trailed U.S. models despite more than doubling its predecessor's scores. Working with several Chinese security teams since GLM-5.2, Zhipu says it ran the model against real codebases and identified 2,436 vulnerabilities across 269 projects, some sitting in the code for decades. [Wallstreetcn](https://wallstreetcn.com/articles/3779432)

- **DeepSeek open-sources the software layer around its models, and rival agents run inside it** — DeepSeek published a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness, releasing the source code under the permissive MIT license. That gives away the layer that turns a model into a working agent, the software that calls tools, keeps sessions and decides what the model sees next. Model, tools, sandbox, scheduling and the agent loop are all plugins. Rival subagents plug in behind the same interface, among them Claude Code, Codex and anything speaking the ACP agent protocol. Every tool call runs one pipeline, passing an approval step, permission checks and a sandbox before it executes, and code the model writes to call tools cannot skip that path. The preview ships four modes, including a minimal shell-and-file-edit mode for benchmarking and one that lets the agent inspect its own runtime and assemble new modes. [InfoQ China](https://www.infoq.cn/article/de9AljWc4ejW2KAyW8dD)

- **Unitree puts its cumulative humanoid production at about 18,000 robots** — Unitree said Wednesday it has produced about 18,000 bipedal humanoid robots in total, a count that excludes its wheeled and other humanoid-type machines. Almost all of that volume is recent, since the company produced more than 6,500 humanoids in all of 2025. Unitree entered the humanoid market in 2023 with the H1, its first full size model, reached volume production only in 2025 and now sells the H, G and R humanoid series alongside its four-legged lines. It also supplies components, among them robot hands, collaborative arms and lidar, the laser scanner a robot uses to measure distance and map its surroundings. Proceeds from its planned listing on Shanghai's STAR Market would fund a manufacturing base with annual capacity of 190,000 units, split between humanoids and four-legged robots and built over two years. [Gasgoo](https://auto.gasgoo.com/news/202608/13I70469194C601.shtml) [Jinrongjie](https://m.jrj.com.cn/madapter/stock/2026/07/07143557726329.shtml)

# Policy & Regulation

- **Shenzhen's state-owned firms opened 168 live deployments to outside technology suppliers** — Shenzhen's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, which owns the city's state enterprises, says they opened 168 of their own operating settings to outside technology suppliers over the past year, 100 of them AI related. The arrangement gives a demonstration project what it usually lacks, a live environment inside a large enterprise. The commission says it is the first in the national state-owned assets system to open scenarios this way. Shenzhen Bus Group reports that its self-driving bus demonstration line has run more than 120,000 kilometers safely. Shenzhen SEZ Construction Group built a plastering robot for finishing interior walls, and Shenzhen Metro says drone inspection has entered operations at its station running on Huawei's HarmonyOS operating system. [Shenzhen Government Affairs](https://www.sz.gov.cn/cn/xxgk/zfxxgj/zwdt/content/post_12936319.html) [govt]

# AI & Foundation Models

- **DeepSeek raises the price of calling its models, up to twelvefold at peak hours** — DeepSeek will raise the prices developers pay to call its models on Aug. 17, an increase it announced yesterday alongside the release of the full V4 Pro. The steepest rise lands where DeepSeek was cheapest, on repeated prompt text it already holds in memory and bills far below fresh input, which goes up about twelvefold at peak hours. Output prices rise from 6 yuan ($0.84) to 27 yuan ($3.80) per million tokens, the units of text a model reads and writes, and fresh input roughly triples. The company is also splitting the day into morning and afternoon peak windows, charging half the peak rate outside them, and says the split is meant "to more rationally allocate resources." A developer quoted in the report said the new rates are "not cheap anymore" and now sit level with comparable models. [Sina Tech](https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2026-08-13/doc-inineuqm9880912.shtml) [state-affiliated]

# Chips & Semiconductors

- **Optics supplier Focuslight clears customer batch testing on next-generation data-center optics** — Focuslight told an earnings briefing that some of its micro-optics for near-package and co-packaged optical designs have completed batch validation at customers. Those designs move the light-generating engine next to or onto the switch chip, an alternative to the plug-in transceivers that now carry traffic between data center switches. Its micro-optics for those pluggable transceivers already ship in large volume to some customers, and the newer designs added several customers in the first half of 2026. Microlens arrays for optical circuit switching, which routes light directly rather than converting it into electrical signals, have entered mass production and are ramping at a major customer. Focuslight says its existing production capacity is already locked up by customer orders and demand plans. [Yicai](https://www.yicai.com/brief/103318744.html) [state-affiliated]

- **Horizon's combined cockpit-and-driving chip wins a platform slot at a Chinese EV maker** — Horizon said its partner PATEO won a design nomination from a leading domestic electric vehicle maker, which commits Horizon's Starry chip to that automaker's next vehicle platform. Cockpit and driving functions traditionally run on separate hardware, and Starry pools their compute on one chip, unifying the system and the data across both. Horizon's own figures put the saving at about half the in-vehicle hardware space and 1,500 to 4,000 yuan ($210 to $560) per vehicle in hardware cost. The company released Starry in April 2026, calling it China's first chip to combine cockpit and driving functions for a whole vehicle, and named the automaker iCAR its first adopter. Horizon puts the Starry 6P variant on a 5nm process with 650 TOPS of compute, or 650 trillion operations per second. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/989/690.htm)

- **Chip-parts maker Zhenbao will build a $73 million consumables base in Wuhan** — Zhenbao Technology will invest 520 million yuan ($73 million) in a research and production base for semiconductor components in Wuhan's Optics Valley. Silicon carbide parts, high-purity silicon precision parts and aluminum nitride ceramics are consumables rather than equipment, replaced continuously inside the chambers where circuit patterns are etched into wafers and new layers laid on top. Zhenbao, founded in 2016 and listed on the STAR Market in June, says its parts are already validated at several mainstream domestic wafer fabs. It carries the national "little giant" designation, given to small firms concentrated in a priority technology niche. Optics Valley now hosts more than 300 integrated circuit companies, and the base, planned as a three-year build, will supply fabs in central China. [Gasgoo](https://auto.gasgoo.com/news/202608/13I70469198C601.shtml)

- **SMIC raises wafer prices as AI orders outrun the capacity it can add** — SMIC's average selling price rose 5.7% in the second quarter from the first, while shipments rose 14.4%. Capacity grew 1.7% over the same three months, so the contract chipmaker, which builds designs other companies own, met the extra demand mostly by running installed lines harder. SMIC attributes the shipment growth mainly to surging AI demand for supporting chips and to customers pulling orders forward. Customers "want wafers as fast as possible and as many as possible," Co-CEO Zhao Haijun told the company's earnings call today. It shifted more capacity into back-end processes during the quarter, the later steps that finish wafers already in the line, to ship more. [Caixin](https://www.caixin.com/2026-08-14/102474104.html)

# Robotics & Autonomous Systems

- **Robot-hand maker Zhongke Guiji orders 200,000 tactile sensors to scale up production** — Zhongke Guiji will buy 200,000 sets of tactile sensors from Fulai New Material under a cooperation agreement, enough to support production of 40,000 industrial-grade dexterous hands. The order covers the sensors for a capacity plan that calls for stable annual output near 30,000 of those hands by the end of this year. A dexterous hand is the multi-fingered gripper that lets a humanoid robot handle an object rather than only move it. Zhongke Guiji was incubated out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Automation, the institute's first commercialization spinout approved under a new model. Fulai, a flexible-sensing specialist, supplies the materials and the volume manufacturing, while Zhongke Guiji says the core components of its Casia Hand series are entirely domestically sourced. [Gasgoo](https://auto.gasgoo.com/news/202608/13I70469197C601.shtml)

- **Delta Intelligence and Wuji will publish a shared standard for robot manipulation data** — Delta Intelligence and dexterous-hand maker Wuji Technology signed a cooperation agreement and plan to publish a data standard for whole-body coordinated manipulation, with a model training baseline, within the year. Existing manipulation datasets mostly record only the hand's independently movable joints, the companies say, so models learn to finish a task while leaving the robot's overall posture unworkable in a real setting. Under the agreement, Wuji's lightweight capture gloves become the collection terminal, paired with Delta's model training, to unify data format, annotation criteria and quality standards. Wuji CEO Pan Yunzhe said a hand's value rests on how well it fits the model driving it, more than on its joint count alone. The standard is meant to cover fine assembly work, such as inserting wire harnesses and tightening threaded fasteners. [GeekPark](https://geekpark.net/news/368811)

# Digital Infrastructure

- **Mobile and fixed networks still do not talk to each other on China's factory floors** — A Securities Daily survey published Friday found China's next generation communications buildout stalling on incompatible interfaces between mobile and fixed networks. A 2024 notice from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and 10 other departments called for 5G and gigabit fiber networks to be built together. At Voyah's Yunfeng car plant, a 5G private network paired with an all fiber fixed line network cut energy and space costs by more than 30%. The plant is targeting one vehicle off the line every 40 seconds. Carriers in Guangdong and elsewhere are piloting a commercial version, bundling a 10-gigabit optical connection with a private network on 5G-Advanced, the upgrade step between 5G and 6G. [Sina Tech](https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2026-08-14/doc-ininfrtx2985332.shtml) [Gov.cn](https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/202409/content_6972409.htm)