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China (II): DeepSeek's $7 Billion Round Opens a New Front in the AI Race
China (II): DeepSeek's $7 Billion Round Opens a New Front in the AI Race Chinese AI provider DeepSeek has raised more than $7 billion in its very...
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...
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 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...
27.05.2026Tencent Brings AI Assistant to the Operating System Level
Tencent Brings AI Assistant to the Operating System Level Tencent is integrating its AI assistant Marvis directly into the operating system—a move...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
08.04.2026China Produces 470 AI Dramas a Day, Proving Quality is a Luxury
China Produces 470 AI Dramas a Day, Proving Quality is a Luxury In January 2026, China's platforms launched more than 14,600 AI-generated short...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
17.03.2026Appliances 2.0: Robots and Humans for Daily Rental
Appliances 2.0: Robots and Humans for Daily Rental China has built a functioning market for renting robots in less than twelve months, with...
14.03.2026China Subsidizes One-Person Companies with AI — The New Gold Rush
China Subsidizes One-Person Companies with AI — The New Gold Rush Chinese local governments are outbidding each other with subsidies for one-person...
13.03.2026QClaw: The $50 Billion Crab from Shenzhen
QClaw: The $50 Billion Crab from Shenzhen Tencent's new AI agent, QClaw, leaked in Chinese tech communities and went viral within hours. By Tuesday,...
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...
05.02.2026China's Advantage in Consumer AI
China's Advantage in Consumer AI Kai-Fu Lee, founder of 01.ai, argues that China will surpass the US in the development of consumer AI applications....
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...
27.01.2026China: AI and Hardware Merge
China: AI and Hardware Merge Chinese LLM unicorn StepFun has raised over $720 million in a Series B+ round, backed by investors like Tencent. The...
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....