China shipped almost 20,000 humanoid robots in 2025, fueling a new independent repair industry of 'robot doctors' who fix robots faster and cheaper, though they face challenges such as scarce custom c…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax's H3, released on the same day two weeks ago, have propelled China to dominate the AI video race, with nine of the top 10 text-to-video systems on Artificial Analy…
The FCC is preparing restrictions on Chinese optical transceivers, causing shares of Zhongji Innolight and Eoptolink to briefly fall nearly 10% in a single day, though Coherent's factory in Wuxi compl…
China's enterprise AI market is moving beyond the model race, with 2025 data from the China Large Model Procurement Monitoring Report recording more than 7,500 large-model-related procurement contract…
DeepSeek released the API version of DeepSeek-V4-Flash, an agentic upgrade with improved tool use and multi-step task completion, priced to undercut competitors. Meanwhile, CXMT went public on Shangha…
Liang Wenfeng, founder of Chinese quant trading firm High-Flyer and AI lab DeepSeek, is viewed abroad as a symbol of China's technological rise after DeepSeek's R1 model trained at a fraction of Weste…
Chinese AI models Kimi K3 and DeepSeek are forcing Silicon Valley to rethink assumptions about the AI race, with Moonshot pausing new Kimi K3 subscriptions less than 48 hours after launch due to overw…
DeepSeek and Moonshot's Kimi K3, not China's other AI labs, have shaken Silicon Valley by disproving two foundational assumptions about AI: DeepSeek challenged the cost curve by matching frontier perf…
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told investors during a four-hour fundraising meeting that the company's sole goal is achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), rejecting distractions such as 3D …
China has built more than 400 humanoid robot models and accounts for nearly 70% of global quadruped robot sales, but at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, the robots were repeti…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-source model likely the largest by parameter count globally, ahead of WAIC. Apple selected Alibaba to power AI on every iPhone in China. Mea…
Tencent's office-agent platform WorkBuddy has become China's largest product in its category with 8.85 million monthly active users, according to a report from Chinese research firm Analysys. The AI a…
A humanoid robot's cost breakdown shows precision reducers (21%), motors (19%), lead screws (19%), sensors (14%), controllers (12%), and structural parts (10%) account for 95% of its ¥350,000 ($51,707…
China's universities added 10,200 new undergraduate majors and canceled or suspended 12,200 others during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), according to China's Ministry of Education, as the…
For the first time, China now has more robotics unicorns than e-commerce unicorns, according to industry data. On July 4, Alibaba and ByteDance pulled their custom AI agent features ahead of a new reg…
On July 4, Alibaba and ByteDance removed consumer-facing custom AI agent features from their platforms ahead of China's expected July 15 introduction of a dedicated regulatory framework for anthropomo…
Chinese AI users are jailbreaking models like DeepSeek by claiming the year is 5022 and moral codes no longer apply, revealing a sophisticated prompt-engineering culture born from China's tightly cont…
Chinese users are jailbreaking AI models like DeepSeek, Tencent's Yuanbao, and Alibaba's Qianwen to generate erotic fiction through a practice called "breaking the armor" (pòjiǎ), which defeats safety…
Chinese open-source model GLM-5.2, released by z.AI under an MIT license, is challenging U.S. AI leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI by offering competitive coding and agentic-workflow performance on a …