
GLM-5
Zhipu AI's GLM-5 is a 744B MoE model with 40B active parameters, trained on 100K Huawei Ascend chips, scoring 77.8% SWE-bench and 50 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index - MIT licensed.
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Zhipu AI's GLM-5 is a 744B MoE model with 40B active parameters, trained on 100K Huawei Ascend chips, scoring 77.8% SWE-bench and 50 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index - MIT licensed.

Junyang Lin, the 32-year-old architect behind Alibaba's Qwen open-source AI models, announces his departure in a brief tweet - the fourth major exit from Tongyi Lab in two years.

China's National People's Congress opens this week with a 15th Five-Year Plan that puts $70 billion in semiconductor subsidies and AI-plus manufacturing at the center of its tech race with the West.

Huawei debuts its Atlas 950 SuperPoD at MWC Barcelona - 8,192 NPUs delivering 8 ExaFLOPS - marking its first overseas showcase of the AI supercomputer that directly targets Nvidia's cluster dominance.

Zhipu AI's 744B open-source model GLM-5 was trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips and now competes with GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus on major benchmarks.

Two Chinese open-weight trillion-parameter MoE models with ~32B active parameters each - DeepSeek V4 bets on cost and context, Kimi K2.5 bets on Agent Swarm and verified benchmarks.

DeepSeek will release V4, a natively multimodal trillion-parameter model with a 1M token context window, in the first week of March - optimized for Huawei Ascend chips, not Nvidia.

Full specs and analysis of the Cambricon MLU590 - 192GB HBM2e, ~2,400 GB/s bandwidth, TSMC 7nm, and what it means for AI inference outside the NVIDIA ecosystem.

Huawei Ascend 910B specs, benchmarks, and real-world performance. 64GB HBM2e, ~1,200 GB/s bandwidth, ~600 TFLOPS FP16 - the chip that trained DeepSeek.

Huawei Ascend 910C specs, benchmarks, and performance analysis. 96GB HBM2e, ~1,800 GB/s bandwidth, ~800 TFLOPS FP16 - China's flagship AI chip under US sanctions.

DeepSeek has denied Nvidia and AMD pre-release access to its upcoming V4 model while granting Huawei and domestic Chinese chipmakers a multi-week optimization window, signaling a strategic pivot toward building a parallel AI software ecosystem on Chinese silicon.

Baidu's third consecutive quarter of revenue decline wiped $11 billion off its market cap, exposing the gap between its AI ambitions and the advertising business still funding them.