China AI Digest (Aug 28, 2026)

Three podcasts, one decision: whether to give the thing away. Crossing meets Huang Yi, the 22-year-old whose humanoid startup RoboParty raised over $100m in five rounds while open-sourcing its entire robot stack — and who says embodied AI's "brain" has run barely two kilometres of a 42km marathon. Zhang Xiaoyun has Tsinghua's Sun Yutao read Moonshot's Kimi K3 technical report line by line: 2.8 trillion open parameters, with the real moat sitting in the kernels and the scheduling. And ChinaTalk's Anton Leicht explains why junior jobs, data-centre backlash and open weights are turning AI into a political crisis.