ERNIE 5.1
Baidu's ERNIE 5.1 is a text-focused MoE model that claims the top Chinese model slot on LMArena with 800B parameters built at 6% of comparable training costs.
Articles Tagged "China"
US Confronts ASML Over Suspected EUV Exports to China
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ASML executives that the Trump administration believes EUV-related chipmaking gear may have reached China in violation of export controls. ASML denies any such transfer and says it has never shipped EUV equipment to China.
GLM-5.2
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 is a 744B open-weight MoE model with a 1M token context window, MIT license, and first-day support for eight coding agents at roughly 1/10th the cost of US frontier models.
Google Sues Phishing Ring That Weaponized Gemini AI
A Chinese cybercrime network sold $88/week phishing kits that used Google's own Gemini AI to generate fake sites impersonating banks, carriers, and government agencies at scale.
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.
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.
