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Every milestone should explain what we understood, which reality we entered and what we made happen.

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Development at a glance30 updates across 3 years
JOURNAL / 2024—2026

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2026

Models, hardware and industry impact enter reality together.

09 / 2026INDUSTRYMilestone

Three AI standards co-drafted by East Mind take effect

On September 18, three standards including the Enterprise AI Application Capability Maturity Model and Assessment took effect. East Mind participated as a drafting organization, with team members as drafters. Twelve enterprises received the first certifications.

09 / 2026RECOGNITIONMilestone

Selected for the 2026 Entertainment AI Top 100

On September 18, East Mind was included in the 2026 Entertainment AI Top 100.

08 / 2026AWARDMilestone

Recognized at the 2026 NVIDIA Startup Showcase in Chongqing

On August 28, the team received an Outstanding Enterprise certificate. Overseas marketing lead Chaojing shared progress in models, products and international marketing, joined by graduate student representatives from Southwest University.

08 / 2026AWARDMilestone

Awarded at the inaugural Shenzhen Innovation Competition OPC final

On August 27, East Mind won an award at the inaugural OPC final, building on its regional-final participation the previous year and exchanging experience with fellow technology projects and businesses.

07 / 2026AWARDMilestone

Two awards at the seventh Extraordinary Awards

On July 16, ahead of WAIC, East Mind received an AI Native Product Award for emotion-management wearables and an AI Business Case Award for a cultural tourism IP agent at the Shanghai AI Business Summit.

06 / 2026MEDIAMilestone

Design director Jdong featured in a CCTV Finance interview

On June 29, East Mind shared the interview with design director Jdong, discussing Eastern cultural heritage, design and AI through practical creative work.

06 / 2026PRODUCTMilestone

X-Iching Aura Ring enters mass production

The wearable moves from prototype validation toward delivery for everyday use and wellness applications.

05 / 2026RECOGNITIONMilestone

Selected for the 2026 Global AI 100

Fortune Insight lists East Mind alongside Zhipu, MiniMax, Kimi and other AI pioneers in its annual global review.

04 / 2026EXHIBITIONMilestone

Exhibited at Global Sources Electronics Hong Kong

AI wellness and cultural products entered the Physical.ai Lab and joined the Spirit in the Shell roundtable.

04 / 2026PARTNERSHIP

Co-building Qianyi AI

East Mind works with Jinan tourism, Shandong University and partners to develop AI applications for cultural tourism.

03 / 2026MEDIAMilestone

Featured on CCTV’s Winning in AI+

More than four million online viewers saw AI and Eastern culture enter a national public-media context.

03 / 2026MARKET

Nearly 40 tourism partnership intentions

AI tourism and cultural products connect attractions, cultural institutions and artist collaborations through ongoing interaction.

01 / 2026MODELMilestone

Xunling receives national model registration

East Mind joins the first registered group of 2026, receiving authoritative validation of model safety, compliance and innovation.

01 / 2026ECOSYSTEMMilestone

Ecosystem agreement signed with Lenovo

The Daosheng Wanxiang platform begins ecosystem collaboration across enterprise contexts and industry partners.

2025

From model iteration to technical, market and ecosystem validation.

12 / 2025AWARDMilestone

Intel AI+ Growth Program Outstanding Enterprise

East Mind receives recognition for technology, business model and market progress, plus an innovation award at the program roadshow.

10 / 2025AWARDMilestone

AI AGENT Global Competition Best Heritage Award

The CAAI-hosted competition recognizes Xunling’s combination of AI technology and Eastern cultural continuity.

10 / 2025RECOGNITIONMilestone

First-wave recommended AI AGENT project

East Mind enters the first official recommendation list, drawing attention to both agent technology and cultural expression.

09 / 2025HARDWAREMilestone

First wearable-hardware prototype completed

Physical sensing research lays groundwork for Aura Ring and companion wearable products.

08 / 2025ACCELERATORMilestone

Selected for Intel AI+ Enterprise Growth Program

East Mind gains chip optimization, technical training and market support, and wins the business-decision simulation challenge.

08 / 2025AGENT

Xunling multimodal agent enters internal testing

Xunling moves beyond text Q&A toward multimodal understanding and general-agent foundations.

06 / 2025MODELMilestone

Xunling Houyi 3.5 development completed

Building on Houyi 2.5 multimodality, the model further improves reasoning and complex-problem handling.

05 / 2025MODELMilestone

Xunling Chinese–English version launched

The model expands from Chinese scenarios into bilingual interaction, supporting international research and cross-border work.

05 / 2025TECH PARTNERSHIPMilestone

Agreement signed with Alibaba DAMO Academy

Integration with Tongyi Qianwen expands the technical foundation for model research, products and industry partnerships.

04 / 2025ECOSYSTEMMilestone

Joined Google Cloud Startup Success Program

Higher-tier cloud infrastructure, AI services and technical advisory support accelerate product engineering.

03 / 2025ECOSYSTEMMilestone

Entered global technology startup ecosystems

East Mind joins AWS, Google Cloud, NVIDIA Inception and Shenzhen’s large-model ecosystem community.

01 / 2025MODEL RELEASEMilestone

Xunling 1.0 Houyi released

The early model advances from rapid Q&A into deeper reasoning and complex-problem solving.

2024

From company formation to a first model: the initial zero to one.

12 / 2024MODEL RELEASE

Xunling 1.0 Xingchen released

The first commercial language model enters rapid Q&A with multi-turn dialogue and contextual understanding.

12 / 2024ECOSYSTEM

Joined five technology startup ecosystems

East Mind enters startup-support programs from Google, Amazon, Volcano Engine, NVIDIA and Intel.

09 / 2024COMPANY

Hong Kong East Mind established

The overseas founding entity creates a base for international business, collaboration and cross-border operations.

08 / 2024COMPANY

Shenzhen East Mind established

The domestic founding entity is registered, marking the starting point for AI model research and productization.

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