China’s rapid advancements in AI – from cutting-edge models to new regulations – made headlines in June 2025.
ByteDance launched Doubao-1.6 multimodal reasoning model and cut AI API prices by more than 60% in June 2025. SenseTime unveiled SenseChat upgrades powered by SenseNova V6, enabling real-time audio, video, and visual reasoning, including a Cantonese version for Hong Kong in June 2025. <li Alibaba’s DAMO Academy and Zhejiang Cancer Hospital announced the DAMO GRAPE AI model for early gastric cancer screening, published in Nature Medicine on June 24, 2025, from a 100,000-patient study. Huawei began mass production of the Ascend 910C AI chips and rolled out the AI CloudMatrix 384 training system (384 Ascend 910C chips) in June 2025,