DeepSeek's Platform Play, Qwen's 3 Billion Downloads, and the Manus Unwind — China AI Weekly
DeepSeek moved from model lab to platform company this week — launching V4-Pro to general availability, open-sourcing its Harness agent framework, …
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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 …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek's $10B+ Debut Round, Alibaba's Qwen Agent Ecosystem Takes Shape
This was the week China’s AI ecosystem delivered two signal events: DeepSeek — the famously self-funded, open-weight disruptor — opened its …
Alibaba Qwen 3.7 Max: First Chinese Frontier Model Challenges GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus at Half the Price
China’s AI ecosystem landed a genuine frontier model this week. Alibaba’s Qwen 3.7 Max — the first Chinese model to compete head-to-head …
Ant Group's Ring-2.6-1T: MIT-Licensed Trillion-Parameter Reasoning Model Reshapes Open-Weight AI
China’s AI ecosystem stopped being predictable this week. Ant Group’s InclusionAI open-sourced a trillion-parameter reasoning model under …
Moonshot AI Hits $20B as China's AI Monetization Era Begins
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot series, closed a $2 billion funding round this week at a valuation exceeding $20 billion …
DeepSeek V4 Unleashes Vision, Shakes China AI Chip Markets
DeepSeek went nuclear this week — launching V4, its most powerful open-source model to date, and simultaneously adding AI vision capabilities for the …
OpenClaw Weekly: Google Meet, Voice Overhaul, Security Alert
OpenClaw shipped two releases this week with a capability that changes the conversation for enterprise teams: Google Meet is now a bundled participant …
DeepSeek V4 for Microsoft-Shop Enterprises: A CIO's Decision Framework
A developer on your team has already downloaded DeepSeek V4 this week. Maybe two. The weights went up on Hugging Face under an MIT license on April …
DeepSeek V4 Multimodal Launch: What It Means for Enterprise AI
DeepSeek is about to ship its most ambitious release yet. DeepSeek V4 leaked this week with three distinct modes — Vision, Expert, and Fast — marking …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek V4 Goes All-In on Huawei
This was the week China’s AI ecosystem stopped hedging on self-sufficiency. DeepSeek confirmed its upcoming V4 model will run exclusively on …
AI Governance in 2026: The Compliance Cliff Enterprise IT Can't Ignore
The EU AI Act’s high-risk system deadline is August 2, 2026 — five months out — with fines up to €35M or 7% of global revenue Colorado’s …