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#china-technology

Two dozen humanoid robots performed the world's first continuous freestyle table-vaulting parkour, the first aerial flip, continuous single-leg flips, a two-step wall-assisted backflip, and the first 7.5-rotation Airflare grand spin, CGTN reported. The performance marked a stark contrast with last year's show, when robots twirled handkerchiefs and performed simple movements. Four firms Unitree, Magiclab, Galbot, and Noetix partnered with the gala in deals reportedly worth about 100 million yuan ($14m), according to the South China Morning Post.

As generative artificial-intelligence models become more sophisticated and eat up more energy to produce images and videos, the electronic chips that power them are reaching their limits of speed and efficiency. Optical chips - semiconductor chips that run on light rather than electricity - could solve these problems, say researchers working in the field. Such chips, also called photonic chips, are still years away from being integrated into consumer computers and are unlikely to wholly replace electronic chips.