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From company formation and model iteration to product delivery, industry collaboration and international recognition, East Mind keeps Eastern culture, world models and the real market on one development path.

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07 / POSITION

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

24selected progress nodes
17key milestones
2024—26development timeline
Development at a glance24 updates across 3 years
JOURNAL / 2024—2026

News archive

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Year

24 updates

2026

Models, hardware and industry impact enter reality together.

06 / 2026PRODUCTMilestone

X-Iching Aura Ring enters mass production

Continuous-sensing hardware moves from prototype validation into delivery as a close-to-body signal interface for the world model.

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 deepen AI tourism and AI education.

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

The world model gains a physical sensing interface, laying 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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