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Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of the Largest Distillation Campaign Against Claude to Date
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of the Largest Distillation Campaign Against Claude to Date Anthropic has informed US senators and the White House that...
22.06.2026Alibaba opens up Code Review: A hybrid architecture for quality
Alibaba opens up Code Review: A hybrid architecture for quality Alibaba has released Open Code Review as open source, a CLI tool that ran internally...
21.06.2026The Economics of China's Cut-Price Models
The Economics of China's Cut-Price Models DeepSeek launched V3 at $0.27 per million input tokens, while GPT-4o was charging $2.50 at the time, about...
21.06.2026One API for 50+ Chinese Models: Access to the Price Revolution
One API for 50+ Chinese Models: Access to the Price Revolution AIWave provides a translation layer between your own application and eight Chinese...
17.06.2026China (IV): Alibaba is Building the AI Factory that Spans All Levels of the 'AI Stack'
China (IV): Alibaba is Building the AI Factory that Spans All Levels of the 'AI Stack' Alibaba has introduced its first model series for robots,...
13.06.2026China Crosses AI App Threshold: 446 Million Users in a Quarter
China Crosses AI App Threshold: 446 Million Users in a Quarter As of March 2026, QuestMobile counts 446 million monthly active users of AI-native...
13.06.2026WeChat Becomes an Agentic Everyday Companion
WeChat Becomes an Agentic Everyday Companion Tencent is pushing e-commerce deeper into the WeChat ecosystem, and this is the next step in a...
13.06.2026China's 618 Festival Becomes a Test Bed for Three AI Commerce Models
China's 618 Festival Becomes a Test Bed for Three AI Commerce Models At the 618 Shopping Festival, China's largest mid-year retail event, three...
10.06.2026Deepseek Tops Ramp's Trending List in June 2026 as US Firms Reach for Cheaper AI
Deepseek Tops Ramp's Trending List in June 2026 as US Firms Reach for Cheaper AI According to Ramp, Deepseek tops the list of fastest-growing...
10.06.2026China Plans $295B for AI Data Centers and Locks Out Nvidia
China Plans $295B for AI Data Centers and Locks Out Nvidia According to Bloomberg, China is drafting a plan to invest around 2 trillion yuan (about...
01.06.2026Token Costs (2): Alibaba's Qwen Booms Locally on Apple Silicon
Token Costs (2): Alibaba's Qwen Booms Locally on Apple Silicon Apple Silicon has fundamentally changed the AI landscape. A 16 GB MacBook Pro now runs...
27.05.2026Doubao Cashes In: Why Bytedance Now Charges 5088 Yuan
Doubao Cashes In: Why Bytedance Now Charges 5088 Yuan Bytedance's AI assistant Doubao is launching a pricing experiment that is making the Chinese...
27.05.2026Tencent's Flood of Agents Tests Its AI Catch-Up Strategy
Tencent's Flood of Agents Tests Its AI Catch-Up Strategy Between March and May 2026, Tencent flooded the market with AI agents: WorkBuddy for office...
27.05.2026The Great Firewall of Talent: Beijing Locks Down Its AI Researchers
The Great Firewall of Talent: Beijing Locks Down Its AI Researchers China is tightening exit controls for top AI talent at private companies like...
23.05.2026Microsoft and Uber Say Goodbye to Claude Code
Microsoft and Uber Say Goodbye to Claude Code Microsoft and Uber have weaned their engineering teams off Anthropic Claude Code. Microsoft is pulling...
22.05.2026Alibaba is Rebuilding Its Cloud for Agents, Not for Humans
Alibaba is Rebuilding Its Cloud for Agents, Not for Humans Alibaba Cloud did something remarkable this week: the company launched its first...
22.05.2026Alibaba's Numbers Leave Silicon Valley in the Dust
Alibaba's Numbers Leave Silicon Valley in the Dust Alibaba posted an operating profit of $42.8 billion in the first quarter of 2026, for the first...
17.05.2026Topsy-Turvy World: Nvidia Can Now Ship H200s, but China Is No Longer Ordering
Topsy-Turvy World: Nvidia Can Now Ship H200s, but China Is No Longer Ordering US authorities have allowed Nvidia to sell up to 75,000 H200 chips to...
15.05.2026ByteDance and Alibaba Push into AI Education
ByteDance and Alibaba Push into AI Education China's tech giants are making a massive push into the education market. ByteDance is positioning its...
14.05.2026China's AI Efficiency Moat – How Western Controls Created Stronger Competition
China's AI Efficiency Moat – How Western Controls Created Stronger Competition Azeem Azhar was in Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai and visited 14...
08.05.2026Recap: Beijing Auto Show 2026
Recap: Beijing Auto Show 2026 The Beijing Auto Show 2026 featured 1,451 vehicles on 380,000 square meters, but the crucial numbers were elsewhere:...
02.05.2026OpenAI gets nervous and takes shots at Chinese AI models
OpenAI gets nervous and takes shots at Chinese AI models A dark money group called Build American AI, funded by investors close to OpenAI, is paying...
28.04.2026Decoupling: China Blocks Meta's AI Startup Acquisition
Decoupling: China Blocks Meta's AI Startup Acquisition Meta is facing a technically and legally unprecedented task: the $2.5 billion acquisition of...
21.04.2026Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Alibaba's Next Move in the AI Race
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Alibaba's Next Move in the AI Race Alibaba is releasing an early version of its next proprietary language model with...
19.04.2026DeepSeek Needs Money and is Building Data Centers
DeepSeek Needs Money and is Building Data Centers DeepSeek is suddenly seeking outside capital – at least $300 million – at a valuation of over $100...
16.04.2026Price War in the Chinese Video AI Market: HappyHorse vs. Seedance
Price War in the Chinese Video AI Market: HappyHorse vs. Seedance Alibaba's HappyHorse has dethroned Bytedance's Seedance 2.0: with 1411 points, the...
12.04.2026Eight out of ten Europeans distrust US and Chinese companies
Eight out of ten Europeans distrust US and Chinese companies A new survey shows: 80% of Europeans distrust American and Chinese technology companies...
11.04.2026Alibaba (II): Image Generation Becomes Production-Ready for Brands
Alibaba (II): Image Generation Becomes Production-Ready for Brands Alibaba introduces Wan2.7-Image, an AI model for image generation that solves two...
11.04.2026Alibaba (I): New AI Factory Buries Open Source
Alibaba (I): New AI Factory Buries Open Source Alibaba is reorganizing its AI division with surgical precision. CEO Eddie Wu sent out two circulars...
09.04.2026Token Prices are Falling, but Training Costs are Not
Token Prices are Falling, but Training Costs are Not Last week, Anthropic cut off access for third-party tools to Claude Pro and Max subscriptions....
05.04.2026Decoupling: Deepseek v4 No Longer Needs Nvidia
Decoupling: Deepseek v4 No Longer Needs Nvidia The upcoming Deepseek v4 will run entirely on Huawei chips, a significant milestone in China's pursuit...
05.04.2026Netflix Open Sources VOID: An AI Framework That Deletes Video Objects and Recalculates Their Physics
Netflix Open Sources VOID: An AI Framework That Deletes Video Objects and Recalculates Their Physics Netflix has released an AI framework that...
05.04.2026Goodbye GDP: China's Token Economy as the New Economic Indicator
Goodbye GDP: China's Token Economy as the New Economic Indicator China's government took a remarkable step in March 2026: The National Data...
04.04.2026China's OpenClaw Hype: Tencent Cloud Wants to Sell More Than Just Tokens
China's OpenClaw Hype: Tencent Cloud Wants to Sell More Than Just Tokens Tencent is repositioning itself in the AI market: at the Cloud City Summit...
03.04.2026Alibaba Makes Qwen Closed Source
Alibaba Makes Qwen Closed Source Alibaba has released three closed AI models within three days, most recently Qwen3.6-Plus with a 1 million token...
02.04.2026Veo 3.1 Lite is Google's Aldi Moment: Same Product, Half the Price
Veo 3.1 Lite is Google's Aldi Moment: Same Product, Half the Price Google Deepmind is launching its most affordable video model to date with Veo 3.1...
01.04.2026The Last Mile Has Many Losers
The Last Mile Has Many Losers Meituan has won the Chinese delivery war, but at what cost? The market leader now controls 70% of the food delivery...
24.03.2026One billion new colleagues for ClawBot
One billion new colleagues for ClawBot On March 22, Tencent launched a tool that connects WeChat with the OpenClaw agent. ClawBot appears as a...
24.03.2026Benedict Evans gives the West a reality check on China's AI
Benedict Evans gives the West a reality check on China's AI Benedict Evans dedicates his latest premium issue to the Chinese tech landscape,...
20.03.2026China's Tech Giants in an AI Agent Frenzy
China's Tech Giants in an AI Agent Frenzy China's tech giants are currently experiencing their “shrimp farming” frenzy: Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba...
10.03.2026Datacenters controlling drones that fight datacenters
Datacenters controlling drones that fight datacenters Three drone attacks hit critical infrastructure in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates this...
07.03.2026OpenAI Further Emancipates Itself from Redmond with GitHub Alternative
OpenAI Further Emancipates Itself from Redmond with GitHub Alternative OpenAI is developing an in-house alternative to Microsoft's GitHub after its...
07.03.2026Alibaba Overtakes Amazon in AI
Alibaba Overtakes Amazon in AI Alibaba's Qwen app processed nearly 200 million orders during the Chinese New Year festival—from movie tickets to...
05.03.2026GPT-5.3, Gemini 3.1, Qwen 3.5: The Same Bet
GPT-5.3, Gemini 3.1, Qwen 3.5: The Same Bet OpenAI, Google, and Alibaba released new AI models within 24 hours—all with the same strategy: faster and...
03.03.2026Perplexity Releases Frugal Embedding Models
Perplexity Releases Frugal Embedding Models Perplexity has introduced two open-source embedding models that compete with Google's and Alibaba's...
18.02.2026The Myth of China's '996' Work Culture
The Myth of China's '996' Work Culture An article in Foreign Policy questions the Western perception of '996' work culture (9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days...
17.02.2026Alibaba counters with Qwen 3.5
Alibaba counters with Qwen 3.5 Alibaba has introduced Qwen 3.5, a new language model for “agentic AI.” The company claims the model can autonomously...
11.02.2026China (III): Alibaba's RynnBrain builds AI's body awareness
China (III): Alibaba's RynnBrain builds AI's body awareness Alibaba's DAMO Academy has introduced RynnBrain, an open-source model that helps robots...
09.02.2026China's Market: Deepseek, Distribution, and Darwin
China's Market: Deepseek, Distribution, and Darwin The Chinese AI ecosystem is solidifying a structure where distribution power triumphs over model...
04.02.2026China's Open-Source LLMs Are Winning Over the Global South
China's Open-Source LLMs Are Winning Over the Global South China's AI models like DeepSeek are rapidly gaining market share in countries outside the...
01.02.2026New Models for the Chinese New Year
New Models for the Chinese New Year Just in time for the Chinese New Year, ByteDance (Doubao 2.0) and Alibaba (Qwen 3.5) are preparing to launch...
28.01.2026China (II): Alibaba's Qwen3-Max-Thinking Steps Up
China (II): Alibaba's Qwen3-Max-Thinking Steps Up Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has introduced Qwen3-Max-Thinking, a reasoning model that,...
23.01.2026ByteDance Challenges Alibaba in the AI Cloud Market
ByteDance Challenges Alibaba in the AI Cloud Market ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is taking on Alibaba in the Chinese cloud and AI market....