**Spotlight**
**Lei Jun Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Stories of Xuanjie Chip and Car Manufacturing: Betting 10 Years of Fortune, Achieving Complete Transformation in 5 Years**
On September 25, the 2025 Lei Jun Annual Speech was held at the National Convention Center. Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, delivered his sixth personal annual speech themed "Change," sharing the stories behind the Xuanjie chip and Xiaomi automobiles. During the product launch session following the speech, Lei Jun unveiled multiple new products across Xiaomi's comprehensive ecosystem, including the Xiaomi 17 series flagship, Xiaomi customization services, Xiaomi Pad 8 series, Mijia three-zone washing machine Pro, Mijia refrigerator Pro with micro-fresh dual-system French built-in design, and Xiaomi TV S Pro Mini LED 2026.
As Lei Jun stated in his annual speech: "From confusion to transformation, sometimes there are mountains and rivers in between, sometimes just a thin layer of paper. As long as we continue to work hard and keep growing, everyone and every team has the opportunity to 'defy fate.'"
**JD.com Releases AI Panorama, Plans Sustained Investment Over Next Three Years to Build Trillion-Scale AI Ecosystem**
At the 2025 JD.com Global Technology Explorer Conference, JD.com unveiled its AI panorama, systematically showcasing its overall AI strategic layout. The company plans sustained investment over the next three years to drive various industries toward forming a trillion-scale artificial intelligence ecosystem.
JD.com Group CEO Xu Ran stated in her speech that JD.com will continue investing over the next three years to drive the formation of a trillion-scale AI ecosystem. Currently, the latest version of JD.com's JoyInside has been integrated into hardware products from over 30 leading brands and has partnered with more than 10 leading robotics brands including Zhongqing and Unitree.
**Musk and OpenAI Face New Disputes as xAI Accuses Company of Stealing Trade Secrets**
According to foreign media reports, Musk's AI startup xAI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Wednesday in the Northern District of California Federal Court. In the complaint, xAI seeks damages and jury trial, claiming that the ChatGPT developer's actions provided it with unfair competitive advantages in artificial intelligence.
The focus of xAI's lawsuit against OpenAI centers on several former employees, including Xuechen Li, who was among xAI's first 20 employees. Li left in July this year to join OpenAI and is accused of downloading all code before departure and concealing the transferred data. xAI also mentioned discovering additional sensitive information on Li's devices.
**Lei Jun Responds to "Xiaomi 17 Naming Controversy": The Public Response Quite Surprised Me**
During the interview session following his annual speech, Xiaomi Group Chairman and CEO Lei Jun addressed the "Xiaomi 17 naming controversy." He stated, "This time we changed from Xiaomi 16 to Xiaomi 17, and the public response quite surprised me." He explained, "Through this renaming action, we hope people will take a fresh look at Xiaomi phones and express our determination to challenge for world number one."
"The public response to the name change quite surprised me. I think the main reason is that Xiaomi has been making phones for 15 years, and many people have stereotypical impressions of Xiaomi, some even quite stubborn views," Lei Jun said frankly. "Today everyone needs to take a fresh look at Xiaomi phones, because the Xiaomi 17 generation represents a generational upgrade in product capabilities - it's explosive, and compared to the entire iPhone 17 series, it surpasses in many aspects."
**Yangtze Memory Technologies Reportedly Planning DRAM Market Entry, Including High Bandwidth Memory**
According to latest foreign media reports, domestic memory chip manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies is also interested in expanding its business into the high bandwidth memory sector, which has seen surging demand due to artificial intelligence.
Yangtze Memory is currently China's largest NAND flash manufacturer, serving as an integrated device manufacturer (IDM) that combines design, production, packaging, testing, and system solutions. The company provides global partners with 3D NAND flash wafers and chips, embedded memory chips, consumer-grade and enterprise-grade solid-state drives, and other products and solutions widely used in mobile communications, consumer electronics, computers, servers, and data centers.
**Ant Group Tops International BIRD Leaderboard, Setting New Record for Chinese Companies**
According to the global authoritative evaluation benchmark BIRD-Bench website, Ant Group's data analysis intelligent agent Agentar-SQL has surpassed AT&T, Google Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and many other domestic and international vendors to rank first globally. This represents the highest achievement by a Chinese company on this leaderboard.
Notably, Ant Group's Agentar-SQL achieved first place on both the BIRD leaderboard's execution accuracy ranking (81.67 points) and execution efficiency ranking (77 points). This indicates that Ant Group's technological innovation in intelligent data querying has achieved global leadership.
**XPeng Motors Announces Multiple New Models Entering European Five-Country Markets**
XPeng Motors announced it is accelerating European market expansion and has officially entered Switzerland recently. Since launching its European strategic layout starting with Norway in 2021, XPeng has continued advancing its globalization process. To date, its sales and service network covers over 46 countries and regions globally.
Simultaneously, XPeng announced it will officially enter the Austrian market in October 2025, further establishing presence in Central Europe and improving regional strategic layout. Additionally, XPeng will simultaneously enter Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia, further expanding its Southeast European market presence.
**New Products**
**Honor Magic 8 Series Real Device Revealed: First Batch to Feature Qualcomm Fifth-Generation Snapdragon 8 Elite**
According to Honor's latest official announcement, the new Honor Magic 8 series will be among the first to feature the fifth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite flagship platform. This chip is manufactured using TSMC's third-generation 3nm process, with the CPU section continuing the "2+6" all-big-core architecture - 2 Oryon v2 super cores with frequencies up to 4.6GHz, and 6 big cores maintaining 3.62GHz high frequency. The GPU integrates a more powerful new-generation Adreno GPU with 1.2GHz frequency.
The new Honor Magic 8 series is expected to launch in October as one of the first fifth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite flagships.
**"Explosive Dual-Chip" Coming in October! Realme GT8 Pro to Feature Fifth-Generation Snapdragon 8 Elite + Gaming Graphics Chip R1**
According to Realme's latest official announcement, the new Realme GT8 Pro will be among the first to feature the fifth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile platform and debut the gaming graphics chip R1, disrupting industry expectations with its "explosive dual-chip" hardcore configuration.
Based on previously leaked information, the new Realme GT8 Pro will feature a 6.78-inch AMOLED panel supporting 144Hz refresh rate, peak brightness up to 7000nit, and second-generation 3D ultrasonic fingerprint recognition functionality.
The new Realme GT8 Pro is scheduled to launch in October and is currently available for pre-order on major e-commerce platforms.