China’s rapid advancements in AI – from cutting-edge models to new regulations – made headlines in June 2025.
ByteDance launched the Doubao-1.6 multimodal reasoning model and cut AI API prices by over 60% in June 2025. SenseTime unveiled SenseChat upgrades with real-time audio, video, and visual reasoning, including a Cantonese version for Hong Kong. Alibaba’s DAMO Academy and Zhejiang Cancer Hospital announced the DAMO GRAPE AI model for early gastric cancer screening, published June 24 in Nature Medicine.
