China AI Weekly: DeepSeek V4-Pro GA and Qwen's 3B Downloads
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's V4-Pro GA and IPO prep, Qwen passes 3 billion downloads, Tencent takes over Manus, and China's first AI agent rules take effect.
China AI Weekly
China AI Weekly tracks the fast-moving Chinese AI ecosystem: model releases and benchmarks from DeepSeek, Alibaba Qwen, ByteDance Doubao, Zhipu, Moonshot and others, plus chip and export-control developments. It is written for CIOs, architects, and engineering leaders who need to understand what China’s AI progress means for enterprise strategy. Published weekly by Kevin Kaminski of Big Hat Group.
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- China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's $8B Round Resumes, Alibaba's 2.4T Qwen3.8-Max, and China's AI Enforcement Era Begins
- 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
- China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's Funding Freeze and AGI Gambit, Kimi K3's Frontier Breakthrough, and Huawei's Exascale Sovereignty
- China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's $74B Valuation and IPO Path, Kimi K3's 2.8T Parameter Shockwave, and Xi's Global AI Governance Play
- China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's Custom Chip Gambit, Zhipu's $4B Raise, and the Anthropomorphic AI Crackdown
- China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's $50B Valuation, Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and Shifting Regulatory Tides
- China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's Disruption, Regulatory Freezes, and Geopolitical Tensions
- China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's $7.4B Raise, World's First Agentic AI Law, and the Permanent Price War
- China AI Weekly: DeepSeek V4 Goes Mainstream, US Closes Chip Loophole, and ERNIE 5.1 Rewrites the Efficiency Playbook
- China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's $10B+ Debut Round, Alibaba's Qwen Agent Ecosystem Takes Shape
- Alibaba Qwen 3.7 Max: First Chinese Frontier Model Challenges GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus at Half the Price
- Ant Group's Ring-2.6-1T: MIT-Licensed Trillion-Parameter Reasoning Model Reshapes Open-Weight AI
- Moonshot AI Hits $20B as China's AI Monetization Era Begins
- DeepSeek V4 Unleashes Vision, Shakes China AI Chip Markets
- Kimi K2.6 Takes the Open-Source AI Crown — Enterprise Brief
- DeepSeek V4 Multimodal Launch: What It Means for Enterprise AI
- China AI Weekly: DeepSeek V4 Goes All-In on Huawei