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The article traces Zhipu’s (Z.ai/Zhipu) journey from its origins in the AMiner project at Tsinghua University’s KEG laboratory, through the Wu Dao initiative, the GLM series of open-source models (such as GLM-130B), and a decisive pivot during the GPT-3 era, to becoming one of China’s leading AI labs and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in early 2026.
Cohere reported that Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempted to upload a file to a Beijing server during a security test, though researchers largely dismissed the behavior as a training artifact rather than a deliberate backdoor.
ByteDance's Doubao chatbot has begun proactively surfacing shopping suggestions, Douyin Mall coupons, and in-chat livestream purchases during China's Double 11 festival, raising concerns about self-serving sourcing and price hallucinations since ByteDance owns the chatbot, its cited sources, and the store.
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has released Sage-A1.5, a 35B MoE agent model with only 3B activated parameters, focused on long-horizon task execution, parallel sub-agent orchestration, and open scientific discovery. On multiple benchmarks, it outperforms much larger models such as Kimi-K3, GLM-5.3, and GPT-5.6-sol with far fewer parameters, while releasing the technical report and model weights as open source.
Tsinghua’s Yao Class has trained only about 700 people in 20 years, yet its graduates hold key positions in AI worldwide. The article explores how other professionals can define their value in the AI era.
美国国土安全部发布新命令，禁止联邦民用机构使用中国AI模型DeepSeek，进一步收紧政府层面的AI安全与供应链限制。
A Fudan University team (accepted at NDSS 2027) showed that a $14 payment to a Chinese content vendor planted a fake research concept into Doubao's answers within 90 minutes, and that 8 of 10 major AI platforms—including ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and Grok—cited the fabricated concept within a week, revealing how easily AI search citations can be gamed and how much Chinese chatbots favor their parent companies' own domains.
作者基于一个月的重度使用体验，认为 DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 在编程任务上已与 Claude Opus 等前沿模型难以区分，但成本低几个数量级，业界却未因此震动。文章指出 KV 缓存缩减约 437 倍使全天会话成本不到一美元，预示便宜且'足够好'的中国模型正在改变开发者的工作方式。
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is reportedly close to closing a funding round of at least 80 billion yuan (~$12B), with backers including Tencent and battery maker CATL, as it prepares for a possible listing on Shanghai's STAR Market. The round could approach 100 billion yuan at a target valuation of 500 billion yuan (~$74B).
An analysis arguing that China's AI advantage lies less in standalone model quality and more in tightly integrating AI assistants with search, commerce, payments, and local services—citing Baidu's AI-heavy search results and Alibaba's Qwen ecosystem—versus the more disjointed Western assistant experience.
The post questions why Chinese AI labs are achieving better results with less investment compared to American labs, considering factors like efficiency, post-training techniques, and data acquisition.
This article discusses the actual state of FDEs (Frontline Deployment Engineers) in China's AI sector, highlighting risks in project acquisition, data governance challenges, and business model issues. It stresses the importance of rationalizing industry identity and adopting a more practical approach.
A curated list of key AI founders, researchers, and builders for 2026, highlighting leaders from major AI labs and notable figures in the industry.
AI-generated micro-dramas in China have seen a 13-fold growth this year, leading to increased hiring and headcount in the industry despite layoffs of human actors.
China's leading AI labs Zhipu, Moonshot, and DeepSeek have raised approximately $35 billion in funding since June 2026, with potential to reach $60 billion through IPOs.
Naive AI, a Chinese AI startup founded by Tsinghua University professor Dai Jifeng, has raised $400 million to reach a $1.4 billion valuation and plans to release its first open-source large language model soon, focusing on modifying existing architectures for optimization.
China's open-model lead is becoming a distribution advantage, with Qwen hitting 942 million Hugging Face downloads and Chinese open-weight models rising to over 45% of OpenRouter tokens, as cited in a Mozilla report.
A pre-print paper from Chinese institutions provides an open-source roadmap for Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI), detailing definitions, implementations, and metrics to accelerate AI development.
Chinese AI models are undercutting US models by up to 90% in price, causing a dramatic shift in market share and echoing historical subsidy strategies in global business.
U.S. agencies accuse Chinese AI companies of industrially distilling U.S. frontier AI models to replicate capabilities without full costs, raising questions about the AI race and model superiority.