China AI Weekly: Distillation Wars & DeepSeek's $75B IPO
The US–China AI rivalry entered a new phase this week. A joint NSA, CISA, and FBI advisory publicly named six Chinese AI labs for …
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China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's 160K Huawei Chip Megaproject
DeepSeek ordered 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators for a gigawatt-scale data center in Inner Mongolia — potentially the largest Huawei AI chip …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek at $74B, Alibaba Raises $10B
DeepSeek closed in on a ~$7.4 billion funding round at a ~$74 billion valuation, hired investment banks, and set its sights on a 2027 STAR Market IPO …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek V4-Pro GA and Qwen's 3B Downloads
DeepSeek moved from model lab to platform company this week — launching V4-Pro to general availability, open-sourcing its Harness agent framework, …
DeepSeek's $74B Pivot, Kimi K3's Open-Weight Earthquake, and ByteDance's 10T Bet — China AI Weekly
DeepSeek formally launched V4 Pro, raised prices up to 14x, and reopened an $8 billion funding round at a $74 billion valuation. Moonshot AI released …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's $8B Round Resumes, Alibaba's 2.4T Qwen3.8-Max, and China's AI Enforcement Era Begins
The week of August 1–8, 2026 may be remembered as the moment China’s AI industry shifted from building momentum to projecting power. DeepSeek …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek V4-Flash's Agentic Leap, Qwen 3.8 Max's 2.4T Multimodal Giant, and China's First Binding AI Agent Rules
The week of July 24 – August 1, 2026 was a blockbuster for Chinese AI. DeepSeek shipped the official V4-Flash API with agentic benchmark scores that …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's Funding Freeze and AGI Gambit, Kimi K3's Frontier Breakthrough, and Huawei's Exascale Sovereignty
The week of July 18–25, 2026 delivered what may be the most consequential seven days in China’s AI story since DeepSeek R1 shocked the world in …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's $74B Valuation and IPO Path, Kimi K3's 2.8T Parameter Shockwave, and Xi's Global AI Governance Play
The week of July 11–18, 2026 may be remembered as the moment China’s AI ambitions crystallized into a coherent geopolitical and industrial …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's Custom Chip Gambit, Zhipu's $4B Raise, and the Anthropomorphic AI Crackdown
China’s AI ecosystem is entering a new phase of strategic self-sufficiency. The week of July 4–11, 2026 brought a wave of developments that …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's $50B Valuation, Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and Shifting Regulatory Tides
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, China’s tech ecosystem continues to accelerate. The period from late June to early …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's Disruption, Regulatory Freezes, and Geopolitical Tensions
This week in China’s artificial intelligence sector highlights a landscape defined by rapid technical achievements, significant regulatory …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's $7.4B Raise, World's First Agentic AI Law, and the Permanent Price War
The Week That Was June 2026 marks a structural inflection point for China’s AI ecosystem — a week where four converging megatrends reshaped the …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek V4 Goes Mainstream, US Closes Chip Loophole, and ERNIE 5.1 Rewrites the Efficiency Playbook
The week of June 8–13 saw the Chinese AI ecosystem solidify around several emerging themes: parameter efficiency as a competitive weapon, the agent …