Documents: China's military is focused on harnessing AI to deploy swarms of drones, robot dogs, and other autonomous systems, learning from hawks and coyotes
Beijing's military focuses on swarming drones that can pick off prey or robots that can chase down enemies
Sources: China has told Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance that they can prepare orders for Nvidia's H200 chips, suggesting Beijing is close to approving imports
Nvidia says it's seeing “strong” demand from China for its H200 chips but is awaiting approvals from both Washington and Beijing before sales could begin
Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX's shares jumped as much as 755% in its Shanghai debut, after a heavily oversubscribed ~$585.8M IPO, pushing its market cap past ~$42B
All you need to know about the Chinese chipmaker Reuters : MetaX shares surge 700% on debut as China's AI chip push gathers speed Namrata Sen / Benzinga : Chinese GPU Maker MetaX Shares Surge Over 600...
Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips
seeks to rival Huawei, but production remains a concern Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : Cambricon targets triple chip output to rival Nvidia in China
PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B+ so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B+, up from $9.24B in 2023
The big story — Sitting in his new Beijing office, AI2 Robotics Founder and CEO Eric Guo wistfully reflected on fundraising challenges …
MIT and Hugging Face study: the share of downloads of Chinese-made open AI models rose to 17% in the past year, surpassing US developers' 15.8% share, a first
Beijing-backed technology gains ground as American giants hold fast to ‘closed’ AI strategies — China has overtaken the US …
Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M+ users globally
AIsphere's PixVerse has over 100 million users globally, more than double the number it had at the start of the year
Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their own internally designed chips to train their AI models, partly replacing AI chips made by Nvidia
Trouble Ahead for Nvidia? Deborah Sophia / Reuters : Alibaba, Baidu begin using own chips to train AI models, The Information reports Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : Top China silicon figure calls on ...
Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese tech companies remain keen on Nvidia's AI chips despite Beijing strongly discouraging them from such purchases
Alibaba (9988.HK), ByteDance and other Chinese tech firms remain keen on Nvidia's (NVDA.O) artificial intelligence chips despite regulators …