Chinese AI lab DeepSeek closed its first external funding round at a $50B+ valuation and warned investors not to recruit its employees.

New Chinese model reports highlight DeepSeek and Qwen as growing forces in open-source AI competition.

Chinese companies are embedding AI into cars, robots, and industrial products as the technology shifts toward edge devices.

DeepSeek’s latest model improved performance but did not deliver a major market jolt in a rapidly shifting AI race.

Chinese AI models from DeepSeek, Qwen, and Moonshot are cheaper, more adaptable, and nearly as capable as leading US platforms, raising competitive concerns.

DeepSeek previews its most powerful model yet, V4, with 1.6 trillion parameters built on Huawei hardware amid escalating US AI theft accusations.

Chinese autonomous driving developer DeepRoute.ai says more than 300,000 cars are now equipped with its advanced driver assistance system.

DeepSeek released a preview of its V4 model, asserting it can compete with leading AI from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic in open-source AI competition.

Cheap Chinese AI models are rapidly attracting global users, creating new stock market winners in China as the AI token economy reshapes the industry.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is in talks to raise at least $300 million at a $10 billion valuation, signaling growing investor confidence in China's AI sector.

A Stanford study finds China has dramatically closed the AI performance gap with the US since 2023, while the flow of AI talent to America is slowing.

China is pursuing a 'token economy' strategy backed by open-source AI models and real-world applications, even as US export controls continue to constrain chip access.

Alibaba confirmed it secretly developed HappyHorse-1.0, an AI video model that debuted at the top of global benchmarks, surpassing rivals with audio-visual synchronization capabilities.

Alibaba and China Telecom unveiled a new AI data center in China featuring 10,000 of Alibaba's self-developed Zhenwu semiconductors for training and inferencing.

Alibaba releases its third closed-source AI model, signaling a strategic pivot away from open-source to protect proprietary technology and boost profit.

Tencent revealed plans to launch its Hunyuan 3.0 large language model in April 2026 and is developing an advanced AI agent for WeChat, as its 2025 revenue surged 14% to $108.8 billion.

Anthropic publicly accused Chinese AI laboratories of systematically extracting knowledge from its Claude models through distillation attacks, releasing new detection and prevention research as the US debates AI chip export controls.

Alibaba launches Qwen 3.5 with advanced agentic capabilities, featuring a 397B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture to compete globally.

China's rapid AI advancement threatens US dominance with low-cost tech offerings and $8.69B national AI fund, analyst warns tech shock just getting started.

Zhipu AI debuts 744B-parameter GLM-5 flagship model with 30-60% subscription hikes and 67-100% API fee increases, marking China's first major LLM price jump in 2026.