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ZTE ensures 2026 Jiangsu Football City League opening ceremony with 5G-A, powering robot traffic police debut

The Register 29 April 2026, 10:23

ZTE deployed a 5G-A private network solution at the 2026 Jiangsu Football City League opening ceremony to support two R050 humanoid traffic police robots managing crowds and traffic. The network achieved uplink speeds of 2 Gbps, downlink speeds of 6 Gbps, latency below 10 ms, and 99.99% reliability. The deployment demonstrates a scalable model for using robots in security and traffic management at large sporting events.

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Pioneering the future of smart sports with the world’s first practical deployment of 5G-A "EasyOn·Robot" private networks for humanoid traffic police

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The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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