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China's AI Companies Are Winning Users, But Losing Money

Chinese AI startups are winning over global developers with low-cost open-weight models, but soaring compute costs and heavy losses show that widespread adoption has not yet created a profitable business model.

International Business Times

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Side With Nvidia in Escalating Battle Over Who Controls AI's Future

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Side With Nvidia in Escalating Battle Over Who Controls AI's Future

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg support Nvidia in a Silicon Valley debate over AI's future, advocating for open-source models against rivals urging regulatory containment due to security concerns.

International Business Times UK

China's Moonshot, Z.AI, and DeepSeek are challenging U.S. AI labs—and beating them on cost

China's Moonshot, Z.AI, and DeepSeek are challenging U.S. AI labs—and beating them on cost

“The AI ecosystem in China is probably much better than people thought."

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Cheaper, open and intelligent: Chinese AI models gain ground, as they make inroads in the US

Chinese AI models are gaining popularity in the U.S. for their affordability and efficiency

The Independent UK

Washington Wants To Limit Chinese AI Models. One Of Them Helped Contain OpenAI's Cyber Incident.

The debate in Washington over Chinese artificial intelligence models has largely centered on national security, intellectual property, and technological competition. This week, it gained an unexpected new data point.

International Business Times

OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days

OpenAI confirmed to Hugging Face only this week that models it was testing carried out the July 11 attack on the AI platform's production infrastructure.

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Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidia silicon

Chinese AI developer Z.ai (formerly Zhipu) has finished building a 1GW data center stocked exclusively with domestically made chips and has switched part of it on.

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Markets may have just experienced their second DeepSeek shock, this time thanks to a Chinese AI lab named after a Pink Floyd album

Markets may have just experienced their second DeepSeek shock, this time thanks to a Chinese AI lab named after a Pink Floyd album

K3 might undermine the conventional wisdom that U.S. firms can maintain their extended lead by simply outspending Chinese competitors on computing power.

Moonshot’s Kimi K3 pushes Chinese AI into Fable-level territory

Moonshot’s Kimi K3 pushes Chinese AI into Fable-level territory

“K3 stands as Moonshot AI's most powerful open-source coding model to date,” Moonshot AI wrote in a press release.

Beijing looking at curbing foreign access to China's top AI models

Beijing looking at curbing foreign access to China's top AI models

Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over ‌the past month about potentially restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI models, including those yet to be released, three people familiar with the discussions said.

Chinese AI Models Are Winning Customers On Price. Now OpenAI And Anthropic Face A New Cost War.

Chinese AI Models Are Winning Customers On Price. Now OpenAI And Anthropic Face A New Cost War.

DeepSeek, Z.ai and Alibaba's Qwen are gaining traction among U.S. companies as enterprises prioritize lower operating costs without giving up competitive AI performance.

International Business Times

Is This The New ChatGPT Killer? Cheap Chinese AI Model Stuns Silicon Valley

Is This The New ChatGPT Killer? Cheap Chinese AI Model Stuns Silicon Valley

The Chinese AI model GLM-5.2 is gaining attention for its cost-effective performance, challenging perceptions of Chinese AI capabilities and sparking debate on its potential to rival Western models.

International Business Times UK

What is GLM 5.2? The new Chinese AI model that’s rivalling Anthropic

What is GLM 5.2? The new Chinese AI model that’s rivalling Anthropic

China's GLM-5.2 rivals Claude and GPT-5.5 and was released a day after the US export ban on Anthropic models.

China's answer to Claude's Fable 5 comes top of the HTML web design contest as the CEO tells Elon Musk GLM will reach Mythos-class before Q1 2027

China's answer to Claude's Fable 5 comes top of the HTML web design contest as the CEO tells Elon Musk GLM will reach Mythos-class before Q1 2027

GLM-5.2 tops web leaderboard using strong templates, library integration, and pricing advantage over Claude Fable 5

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CEO of Chinese Anthropic rival tells Elon Musk that China will have a Fable 5-class AI model before next year — it ‘won’t take that long’ says Jie Tang in response to Musk's prediction of a Q1 target

Elon Musk estimated that Chinese AI firms would have an LLM with Mythos level capability by the first quarter of 2027. However, the CEO of Beijing-based Z.ai responded to the comment, saying that their company will achieve this soon, but did not give a concrete timeline.

The Economic Times

China's Z.ai GLM-5.2 tops OpenAI’s GPT 5.5 model on key benchmarks

Chinese startup Z.ai has launched GLM-5.2, a powerful AI model for complex coding projects. This new large language model boasts a massive 1 million token context window, allowing it to handle extensive software development tasks. GLM-5.2 is available under an open-source license, offering an alternative to proprietary AI systems. It…

'Near-unlimited AI coding for $50': Mini PC bundle gives programmers up to 288,000 prompts over 90 days

GMKtec’s bundle offers large-scale AI coding access with mini PCs, though usage limits and activation delays may affect real usability.

China went from uninvestable to unavoidable—and Hong Kong is cashing in with a slew of AI-centric IPOs

The boom in initial public offerings is boosting the city’s stature among the world’s exchanges.

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Blazing hot IPOs, an AI agent craze, and a new word for ‘token’: Here’s what’s happening in the world of Chinese AI

China hopes to build a “token economy,” backed by open-source models and real-world AI applications—even as U.S. export controls still hold things back.

The Independent UK

‘Most harmful’ AI revealed in new safety study

None of the eight leading AI firms scored well when evaluated for existential risk

AI 'less regulated than sandwiches' and no tech firm has AI superintelligence safety plan, study

Eight leading AI companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and DeepSeek, do not have credible plans to prevent catastrophic AI risks, a new study shows.

Zai Lab Revenue Triples, As It Struggles To Break Cycle Of Mounting Losses

Key takeaways: Zai Lab reported its revenue grew 194% last year, but its loss also increased by 162% as it spent heavily on R&D and marketing The company hopes heavy R&D spending can reduce its dependence on licensed products by improving its capacity to innovate By Ken Lo

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