MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 is an open-weight frontier model with a 1M-token context window, native multimodal input, and strong agentic coding at $0.60/M input tokens.
Articles Tagged "China"
DeepSeek Nears $7.4B Close With Tencent and CATL
DeepSeek's maiden external funding round is nearing completion at up to $59B valuation, with Tencent and EV battery giant CATL as the biggest outside investors.
China Locks Down AI Talent at Alibaba and DeepSeek
China's government has extended travel restrictions to AI researchers at Alibaba, DeepSeek, and other private firms, requiring official approval before they can leave the country.
DeepSeek Locks 75% V4-Pro Discount - API War Escalates
DeepSeek makes its 75% V4-Pro discount permanent, leaving output tokens 34x cheaper than GPT-5.5 and resetting market expectations for enterprise API costs.
Chinese Models Claim 60% of OpenRouter Token Traffic
Chinese AI providers now handle over 60% of all tokens routed through OpenRouter, up from less than 2% just a year ago.
SU-01
SU-01 is a 30B-A3B MoE reasoning model from Shanghai AI Lab that achieves gold-medal performance on IMO 2025, USAMO 2026, and IPhO 2024/2025 using a three-stage training recipe and test-time scaling.
US and China Agree to AI Guardrails at Beijing Summit
Trump and Xi announced plans for a formal AI safety channel at their Beijing summit, but expert skepticism and stalled chip deals complicate the picture.
MiniMax M2.7 Review: The Model That Trains Itself
MiniMax M2.7 is the first open-weight frontier model to automate 30-50% of its own training pipeline - but a controversial license change and sluggish speed complicate the story.
Moonshot AI Goes From $4.3B to $20B in Six Months
Moonshot AI closed a $2B round at a $20B valuation, four-times its end-2025 value, on the strength of its Kimi open-weight models and $200M ARR.
DeepSeek Nears $45B as China's Big Fund Leads Round
China's state semiconductor fund is leading DeepSeek's first-ever VC raise at a $45B valuation, signaling a strategic shift from chip investment to backing AI model labs directly.
Huawei Eyes $12B as Nvidia Cedes China AI Market
Bernstein projects Nvidia's China AI chip share falls from 66% to 8% in 2026 while Huawei targets $12B in revenue, with ByteDance alone committing $5.6B in Ascend 950PR orders.
China Blocks Meta's $2B Manus Deal - Founders Barred
China's NDRC ordered Meta to reverse its $2B Manus acquisition and barred the startup's founders from leaving China, ending the 'Singapore washing' strategy that let Chinese AI firms dodge Beijing oversight.
