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⚔️Out of the Trough: How Huawei's Ascend Chips Climbed Back
A translation of a five-hour interview transcript between Zhang Xiaojun and Liao Heng, a Huawei Fellow and chief semiconductor scientist, on Ascend, US…
Aug 10
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Tony Peng
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🗞️Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max, Unitree Prices $9B Robotics IPO, and DeepSeek's Price Hike
China AI Weekly Digest (Aug 2–Aug 8, 2026)
Aug 9
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Tony Peng
7
1
🚫Banning Chinese Open-Weight Models Would Hurt the U.S. More Than Help It
A short essay on why banning Chinese open-weight models is a bad idea for the U.S.
Aug 3
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Tony Peng
10
6
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🗞️CXMT Soars 472% in Record Shanghai IPO, Kimi K3's Open Weights, and DeepSeek's Viral Investor Notes
China AI Weekly Digest (Jul 25–Aug 1, 2026)
Aug 2
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Tony Peng
10
1
1
July 2026
🗞️Kimi K3 Rattles Silicon Valley, Moonshot's $50B Pre-IPO Sprint and a Rogue OpenAI Model Stopped by Chinese AI
China AI Weekly Digest (July 19–25, 2026)
Jul 25
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Tony Peng
6
2
👀Liang Wenfeng on AGI, Compute, and Why DeepSeek Stays Open Source
Full translation of DeekSeek Founder's four-hour investor meeting: the AGI roadmap, the US-China gap, Huawei chips, and open source.
Jul 23
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Tony Peng
15
3
6
🌝Moonshot AI’s High-Stakes Bet: Inside Kimi K3 and the Shift in Chinese AI Strategy
K3 is an ambitious, even risky attempt to get rid of the old stereotype of Chinese models as a cheap alternative.
Jul 20
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Tony Peng
17
4
7
🗞️Xi's First WAIC, Moonshot's Market-Rattling K3 and an $8.5B Memory-Chip IPO
China AI Weekly Digest (July 11–18, 2026)
Jul 20
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Tony Peng
10
3
🖥️Chinese AI Labs Have the Models. Now They're Building the Coding Agents.
Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, Z.ai, and Moonshot are all shipping coding agents. Revenue is only the surface reason.
Jul 13
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Tony Peng
19
2
4
June 2026
🤖Zhipu AI Chief Scientist Tang Jie: Making Machines Think Like Humans
Tang looks back on the evolution of Zhipu AI, the maker of GLM-5.2, and shares his insights on the future of AI.
Jun 30
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Tony Peng
9
5
😱How Chinese Researchers Plan to Build Self-Improving AI
If achieved, this would be the holy grail of AI, the Technological Singularity.
Jun 23
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Tony Peng
22
6
👐🏻As Anthropic Tightens Access, Chinese AI Labs Open Their Models
How MiniMax, Zhipu, and Moonshot capitalized on the sudden U.S. ban on Anthropic's Mythos & Fable models by releasing M3, GLM-5.2, and K2.7-Code.
Jun 15
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Tony Peng
16
2
4
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