China domestic AI compute and giant-model race

Alibaba Commits $53 Billion To AI Stack Featuring China's Most Powerful AI Chip

• Alibaba Unveils 20 GW Data Center Plan to Power 10 Trillion Parameter AI29 days ago

Alibaba Qwen-Image-2.1 Takes #1 Open Source Spot in Image Arenas

• Alibaba Qwen-Image-2.1 Takes #1 Open Source Rank in Both Image Arenas28 days ago
• Alibaba Launches 7B Qwen-Image-2.1 Model for Unified Image Generation and Editing30 days ago
• Tencent Launches Hy Image3.5 AI Preview for $0.024 Per 2K Image29 days ago
• Alibaba Releases 7B Qwen-Image-2.1 With Native Transparent PNG Support30 days ago

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 Pro Tops Open Weight Index With 46 Score and RL Stack

• Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 Takes No. 1 Open Weight Rank on Vals Index25 days ago
• Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro Ties Grok 4.7 as Top Open Weight AI Model26 days ago
• Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 Pro Tops Open Model AI Index With 1.02 Trillion Parameters29 days ago
• Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6's Flash Leads Open Weight Models on Vals Index25 days ago
• Xiaomi MiMo V2.6 Pro and Flash Rank No. 1 and No. 2 on Vals Index28 days ago
• Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 Pro Hits 46 Score to Lead Open Weights Models29 days ago
• Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 Pro Leads Open Weight Intelligence Index With 46 Points Over Grok 4.729 days ago
• MiMo-V2.6-Pro Hits 72.57 on DeepSWE Benchmark to Near Top Rank 7430 days ago

Meituan's 1.6T Parameter LongCat 2.5 Targets Autonomous AI Agents

• Stealth AI Model Space Bunny Debuts With 1M Context Window26 days ago
• OpenCode Makes Meituan 1.6T Parameter LongCat 2.5 Free for 2 Weeks24 days ago

China May Clear ByteDance and Alibaba to Buy New Nvidia Chips

• China Probes Broadcom's 90% Share in State AI Data Centers28 days ago
• China Audits Broadcom Switches Across 90% of State Data Centers28 days ago
• China Audits Broadcom Hardware in State Centers to Shift to Local AI28 days ago
• US Bill Bars Chinese Optical Transceivers from National Security Systems25 days ago

Alibaba Plans 20GW Global Cloud Capacity to Scale AI Buildout

• Google Invests $15.2B in Finland in Largest Europe Deal23 days ago

DeepSeek Teams Up With Huawei on AI Programming Tools

• DeepSeek Orders 160,000 Huawei Chips to Shift AI Pretraining from Nvidia20 days ago
• DeepSeek Open Sources AI Toolset to Make Huawei Ascend Viable for Training21 days ago

SpaceXAI Holds Microsoft Compute Lease Talks to Enter AI Cloud Market

• Tencent Leases 100,000 Oracle AI Chips Unavailable in China for $7B20 days ago

China Grid Buildout Targets AI Power

• China Plans $3.9T Grid Buildout to Turn Wasted Power Into AI Edge9 days ago
• Tencent Leases 100,000 Nvidia GPUs from Oracle to Bypass China Gaps8 days ago
• China Repurposes 1M Nvidia Gaming Chips for AI Work8 days ago
• China Builds AI Data Centers in Hinterland to Absorb Excess Power13 days ago

Tencent to Raise Around $5.7 Billion From Dollar, Yuan Bonds

DeepSeek and Huawei Design AI Chips for Next Year to Challenge Nvidia

• ByteDance to Become 2nd Large Customer for MediaTek AI Chips6 days ago

US Bans Third Party AI Based on DeepSeek from Federal Systems

• DeepSeek to Take Majority of Huawei Ascend 960DT Chip Supply1 day ago

China's Rural Villages Pay Price for AI Push Amid Grid Bottlenecks

• Xi Jinping Calls for Coordinated Compute Electricity and Water Planning3 days ago

China Denounces US DeepSeek Ban