China
Local AI Hubs Could Create a New Privacy-First Software Ecosystem
UGREEN has introduced HomeAgent, a family of local AI hubs combining storage, computing, smart-home control and agentic AI inside the home rather than sending every interaction to external cloud services. For smaller software and IoT companies, the more important development is architectural: increasingly capable local AI hardware could support applications where privacy, latency or recurring cloud costs make conventional hosted AI unattractive.
Electric Vehicle Insurance Is Becoming a Vertical AI Software Market
Beijing-based Cheche Group has launched five specialised AI agents covering electric vehicle insurance pricing, claims and internal settlement workflows. The more interesting signal for smaller software companies is that insurance around connected vehicles is becoming data-rich enough to support specialised software layers rather than relying only on conventional policy administration.