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China’s upgraded Jiaolong submersible carries AI systems after 7,000-metre trials

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Source: South China Morning Post

China’s crewed submersible Jiaolong reached a maximum depth of 7,056.9 metres during three dives in the Philippine Basin in the western Pacific, according to Xinhua on 27 October. The upgraded submersible carries a fault-diagnosis and decision-support system that provides troubleshooting procedures, previous fault records and technical documents when equipment malfunctions. It also carries an intelligent exploration system, built by the National Deep Sea Base Management Centre on a multimodal large AI model, which was trained on more than 800,000 images of deep-sea organisms and seabed materials and interprets Jiaolong’s camera footage in real time. Xinhua did not disclose the depths at which the AI was tested.

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The South China Morning Post reports that decision-support technology like Jiaolong’s fault-diagnosis system could eventually be adapted for nuclear-powered submarines, although the Chinese exploration system currently focuses on visual analysis and has no military sonar target-recognition role.

When
29 Oct 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0536
Where
China
Who
National Deep Sea Base Management Centre; Zhang Yi, Li Jinpeng, Sun Yongfu

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WTA-N-2026-0536: “China’s upgraded Jiaolong submersible carries AI systems after 7,000-metre trials.” wheresthe.ai, 29 Oct 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/cn-china-showcases-ai-systems-on-upgraded-jiaolong-submersib-2026-10/ (source: South China Morning Post).

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