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55% of China’s tokens are burned in short dramas, and 58% in the United States are burned in codes: the flow of tokens exposes two “survival methods” of AI

This article examines GitHub Copilot user and paid subscription data, and AI skit computing power costs to clarify two key figures that are easily confused in the industry, compares the differences between flow-based and productivity-based AI, dismantles the business logic behind the flow of tokens, peels off false narratives circulated in the industry, and restores the true payment and cost profile of the current AI industry.

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港人北上就医更方便了！ Ant Health and Manulife Hong Kong launch cross-border commercial insurance direct payment service

On November 10, Manulife Life Insurance (International) Co., Ltd. ("Manulife Hong Kong") and Ant Health jointly announced the launch of a new cross-border medical support service for eligible Manulife Hong Kong customers. Manulife Hong Kong has also become the first insurance company in Hong Kong to cooperate with Ant Health to provide cross-border medical direct payment. It is understood that eligible customers in Manulife Hong Kong can activate the electronic "medical insurance card" provided by Ant Health on AlipayHK, search for designated hospitals, and arrange outpatient treatment through the 24-hour appointment hotline. If the doctor recommends designated treatment, such as hospitalization, day surgery or outpatient cancer treatment, the customer can apply for the cross-border commercial insurance direct payment service - eligible medical expenses will be settled directly by the insurance company with the hospital. In the past, insurance customers who were interested in seeking medical treatment in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area often needed to follow up through different channels one by one, from searching for suitable hospitals, making appointments, applying for pre-approval, and processing payments. The new service integrates these key links, allowing customers to more easily grasp relevant arrangements, thereby enjoying a smoother, more convenient, clearer and more transparent cross-border medical treatment experience. Li Xuming, chief health director of Manulife Hong Kong and Macau, said, "As customers' needs are no longer limited to traditional protection, we are committed to creating more coherent health solutions, allowing customers to more easily obtain the medical services they need and control the entire medical treatment process. Now more and more customers live, work or travel in Hong Kong and other cities in the Greater Bay Area, and expect medical support The service can match their lifestyle. As the first insurance company in Hong Kong to launch cross-border medical direct payment services with Ant Health, we combine insurance, medical services and digital innovation to simplify the cross-border medical treatment process for customers. This cooperation fully reflects Manulife’s commitment to becoming a trusted health partner and helping them obtain cross-border medical services more securely and conveniently.” This service combines Manulife Hong Kong’s insurance expertise,

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Lingguang 2.0 has been online for two weeks, and the cumulative number of managed transactions has exceeded 3 million.

On November 11, Ant Group’s personal AI assistant Lingguang announced the latest data: Since the launch of Lingguang 2.0 on October 27, the cumulative number of managed transactions has exceeded 3 million, and the cumulative number of tasks has exceeded 11 million. This is another disclosure of transaction custody data since the launch of Lingguang 2.0. On November 5, Lingguang announced that it had hosted more than 1.16 million transactions within a week of its launch, performed more than 3.6 million tasks cumulatively, and had more than 20 million users. Different from traditional AI product indicators such as user size and number of conversations, transaction hosting volume measures how many things a user has handed over to AI for continuous follow-up. Its growth reflects that the use of personal AI assistants is extending from instant question and answer and single task execution to long-term transaction management. The key to this change is that AI shifts from responding to instructions to continuously fulfilling contracts. Traditional AI assistants usually complete an interaction after the user initiates a question or instruction. The "Help Me Manage" function launched by Lingguang 2.0 allows users to hand over matters that require long-term attention to AI after authorization, which will continuously monitor the status and proactively remind and perform corresponding operations when conditions are met or critical nodes are reached. For example, parents can ask Lingguang to continue to follow the DingTalk class group and summarize important notifications and to-do items; consumers can host ticket price change monitoring and automatic membership renewal reminders; users can also connect smart home devices to let AI automatically perform operations based on preset conditions. What these scenarios have in common is that the task does not end in a conversation, but requires the AI ​​to maintain attention and take timely action without continued user intervention. Supporting this capability are long-term task scheduling, cross-session context management and external service connection capabilities. As of November 3, Lingguang has connected to more than 40 external connectors such as Alipay, DingTalk, Quark, Feishu, etc., expanding the scope of AI services to work,

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Wenxin 5.5 Flash Preview released! Comprehensive upgrades in programming, 3D modeling, knowledge work, content creation, and more

On November 11, Baidu’s latest basic model Wenxin 5.5 Flash Preview was officially released. Wenxin 5.5 Flash Preview has a total parameter volume of 280 billion, each Token activates 14 billion parameters, supports a context of up to 1 million Tokens, and has outstanding performance in programming, 3D modeling, knowledge work, content creation, etc. Currently, Wenxin 5.5 Flash Preview has achieved competitive scores in multiple benchmark tests such as Terminal-Bench and AutomationBench, and maintained the ultimate decoding speed. Programming ability is a highlight of Wenxin’s new model. Wenxin 5.5 Flash Preview covers a wide range of coding scenarios, from repair iterations in real code bases to complete construction of complex applications. Especially in long-term development tasks, the model shows stronger planning, execution and continuous iteration capabilities, which also greatly improves the game development effect of Wenxin 5.5 Flash Preview. The model has undergone special training for game development scenarios and is adapted to mainstream development tools. It completes game design, function production and scene construction based on users' creativity and needs, allowing users to more easily turn game ideas into experiential works. At the same time, Wenxin’s new model is particularly outstanding in parametric modeling and spatial reasoning. By strengthening the model's special training in using tools such as Blender and CAD, Wenxin 5.5 Flash Preview's 3D modeling and design capabilities have been significantly improved. With the help of tools, Wenxin 5.5 Flash Preview can accurately understand and infer the shape, proportion and spatial relationship of objects from text descriptions, and use the program to

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During the chip boom, when valuations increased tenfold in three months, even 50 million didn’t allow him to start a business.

Author｜Bao Yonggang Editor｜Liu Wei With 50 million yuan on the table, Dr. Zhang finally decided not to start a business. He had just left an acquired company and caught up with the new wave of chip entrepreneurship. A well-known VC is willing to spend 50 million yuan to let him form a team and become CEO. Dr. Zhang frequently meets with investors and identifies core members, and the project has reached the start-up stage. After a while, he stopped. After talking with investors and people in the market, Dr. Zhang felt that his abilities did not fully match what he really needed to start a business. Placing it in the spring of 2026, this is an abnormal decision. At that time, the valuation of popular chip projects could increase tenfold in three months, and technical backbones of major manufacturers were constantly being persuaded to start their own businesses. Most people were worried about missing the window, but Dr. Zhang chose to stay on the sidelines when the money was already in front of him. Wang Xiaofeng is already on the court. Wang Xiaofeng, who has a technical background, has worked for several domestic AI chip companies. What attracted him to starting a business was that he could finally do something according to his own judgment. What he is doing is one of the hottest directions in 2026, LPU chips. During a financing exchange, an investor asked him: What programming model should LPU adopt? For GPUs, the answer is SIMT. There is no ready answer for LPU chips. Wang Xiaofeng knows very well that this is not a problem that can be solved with a few pages of PPT. If he could calm down and study for two or three months, he felt that he could at least make a preliminary plan. The problem is, he doesn't have these two or three months. "There is no time at all, and I can't calm down to study slowly. Everyone in the team is under great pressure." It's not because the company has no money. After receiving the first investment in early 2026, it took more than half a year to advance three or four rounds of financing, and its valuation increased from the initial few hundred million yuan to nearly one billion yuan. Dr. Zhang chose not to start a business when faced with 50 million yuan, but Wang Xiaofeng was pushed by rounds of financing.

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After AI took over operations, AliExpress potential market Double 11 sales surged by more than 50%

This year’s overseas Double 11, orders from Chinese cross-border merchants appeared in many unexpected “unpopular” markets. The reporter learned from AliExpress, Alibaba’s cross-border e-commerce platform, that in the seven days before the Double 11 promotion, the average daily transaction volume in potential country markets outside AliExpress’s main markets surged by more than 50% year-on-year. With the help of AI smart hosting, merchants can expand their business to more markets that they usually have no business in. How active are consumers outside the spotlight in “buying”? AliExpress data shows that in the Falkland Islands, where “there are more penguins than people”, buyers participating in the sale placed an average of 5.5 orders per person. The place is not big, but the shopping enthusiasm is not small; In the Svalbard Islands in the Arctic Circle, the sun has "off duty" in November, but consumers are not idle. This year's Double 11, Svalbard opened orders for the first time, and the most purchased items were toy figurines; Cape Verde, the "African dark horse" who became famous in the World Cup, impressed people on the football field, but the shopping list was quite pragmatic: the most purchased items on AliExpress were cars and spare parts, beauty and health products; Mali, one of the hottest countries in the world, and Norway, which is freezing cold, were equally enthusiastic about Double 11, and their GMV doubled... Orders from “unpopular” markets are converging into a new growth pole. During this Overseas Double 11, AliExpress's four major regions of South America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Africa have seen overall growth in potential countries, with markets such as Colombia, Peru, Switzerland, and Norway showing active performance. In the past, merchants knew that AliExpress could “sell to the world from one store”, but if they really wanted to receive these orders, they had to deal with different language, logistics, pricing and promotion rules. Recruit a few more people, or let them go first? Many businesses choose the latter. This year, AliExpress launched intelligent operation agents in countries and regions with potential to hand over these trivial tasks to AI. Once the merchant activates it with one click, the system can automatically optimize the product details page, sign up for activities, match logistics routes, and also provide

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