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China’s AI scene has been busy. Three stories stood out this week, and none of them involve benchmark-hugging press releases. Huawei’s “Tao’s Law” He Tingbo, Huawei’s semiconductor chief, took the stage at ISCAS 2026 in Shanghai on May 25 and…
China’s AI labs are not slowing down. In the past week alone, DeepSeek locked in a permanent 75% API price cut, ByteDance floated a $70 billion annual AI infrastructure budget, and at least three domestic teams dropped new models or…
DeepSeek’s V4 series has been out for a month. The company made its temporary discounts permanent. The open source community built something that makes the API even cheaper. Reasonix is a terminal coding harness built specifically for DeepSeek’s API. It…
China’s AI labs have spent the last month one-upping each other with releases so large they sound like typos. DeepSeek dropped a 1.6 trillion parameter model. Moonshot followed with a 1 trillion parameter multimodal agent. StepFun put out a 196…
DeepSeek dropped V4 on April 24, and the numbers are worth looking at. One million tokens of context. A Pro version and a Flash version. Input pricing at 2 yuan per million tokens for Pro, 0.5 yuan for Flash. The…
DeepSeek released a preview of V4 on April 24, 2026. Two variants: V4-Pro at 1.6T total parameters with 49B active, and V4-Flash at 284B total with 13B active. Both ship with 1M context length as standard. The company says V4-Pro…
China’s AI labs have spent the last six months one-upping each other on parameter counts. The results are real. The hype is also real. Here is what actually shipped. Alibaba goes all-in at Cloud Computing Conference 2025 Alibaba Cloud held…
Chinese AI labs have spent the last six months in a release cycle that looks less like research and more like a product sprint. DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI, Zhipu AI, ByteDance, and StepFun have all dropped major models since April…
DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, ByteDance. Four names. Four models released in the past six months that are sitting at or near the top of every public leaderboard that matters. I have been watching this space for two years, and I do…
Three major Chinese AI releases landed in the first four months of 2026. Each one makes a different bet on what matters next: reasoning depth, coding stamina, or raw cost efficiency. I have been watching the benchmark sheets fill up.…