Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon, and Ant Group have joined the PyTorch Foundation as members, with Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon as Platinum members and Ant Group as a Gold member, following Huawei's membershi…
Nvidia's H200 AI chips are quietly entering China through gray-market channels despite U.S. export controls, with volumes in the hundreds, enough for cluster bring-ups and inference optimization but n…
Hua Hong Semiconductor reported second-quarter net profit of $38.6 million, up 385.9% year over year, on record revenue of $717.5 million, while SMIC's net profit more than tripled to $479.2 million o…
Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has begun its pre-IPO tutoring process, hiring Citic Securities to guide preparations for a mainland China listing, with a mandatory tutoring period of at least three mon…
Chinese AI company Zhipu is approaching 7 million registered API users on its MaaS open platform, adding roughly 2 million since early July, and has activated more than 50,000 domestically developed A…
China's stock traders cut leveraged bets by 14% in July, with margin debt falling to 2.59 trillion yuan ($383.4 billion) from a record 3.01 trillion yuan on June 25, according to Wind data. The unwind…
China is pursuing a full-stack AI strategy integrating domestic chips, infrastructure, models, and applications, aiming to lead the AI race without Western dependency, according to an analysis citing …
Shanghai-based GPU designer MetaX has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO with Huatai International, targeting a listing by end of 2026, as Beijing escalates pressure on domestic AI firms to aban…
Z.AI, the Chinese AI lab formerly known as Zhipu, has partially started operating a 1-gigawatt data centre built entirely with Chinese-made chips, marking the first large-scale proof that domestic sil…
China is allowing select AI companies including Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek to buy Nvidia's H200 chips after a year-long ban, as a stopgap to ease training bottlenecks while domestic chipmakers l…
Zhipu AI, the Chinese AI lab behind the GLM series of open-source models, is exploring the development of a custom AI chip to address surging demand and US export controls. The company has initiated e…
DeepSeek chose to partner with Huawei and other Chinese chipmakers rather than building its own AI chips, a decision that signals a strategic shift in China's semiconductor landscape. The AI lab gave …
Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI chip budgets to domestic suppliers within a year, up from 30% currently, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence survey. The shift is driven by U.S. ex…
Chinese chip suppliers led by Huawei and Cambricon are set to capture nearly 80% of China's AI server market by 2026, up from 46% in 2025, as geopolitical tensions and Beijing's push for self-reliance…
ByteDance is in talks to buy at least 50,000 AI chips from Chinese GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX this year, aiming to reduce dependence on Nvidia amid US export controls. The chips would primarily serve in…
ByteDance is in talks to buy at least 50,000 AI chips from Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX for inference workloads powering its Doubao chatbot, Reuters reports. If completed, the deal would make Iluvata…