Z.ai says its new GLM-5.2 tops open-weight rankings and beats Claude Code in some tests, putting Chinese AI models and Huawei-backed training in focus.

China is preparing a five-year, roughly $295 billion plan to build AI data centers and computing hubs nationwide.

Huawei plans new smartphone chips and a LogicFolding approach as China’s AI hardware race and Nvidia rivalry accelerate.

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

China's DeepSeek is on the verge of releasing its V4 multimodal model — capable of generating text, images, and video — while reportedly denying early optimization access to Nvidia and AMD, instead granting it exclusively to domestic chipmakers Huawei and Cambricon ahead of China's annual parliamentary sessions.