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In-depth analysis of China’s AI industry, covering artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, robotics, AI chips, and large language models. This section tracks policy shifts, commercialization progress, and competitive dynamics shaping China’s rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.

ChinaBiz Briefing | DeepSeek's $6.9B Round, Tencent's Sell-Off, Kling's Rise, Horizon-VW Deal

China's technology and capital markets delivered a dense slate on July 23 — spanning AI funding, autonomous driving, video generation, commercial space, and global auto expansion. The common thread: Chinese companies are no longer competing at the margins of global industries. Across sectors, they are building foundational infrastructure, locking

Kling AI's Rise: How Kuaishou Built China's First Commercially Viable Video Generation Model

What Is Kling, and Why Does It Matter? Kling is a video generation model developed by Kuaishou, one of China's two dominant short-video platforms. Launched in June 2024, it allows users to generate high-definition video clips—up to two minutes at 1080p—from text prompts or

DeepSeek Closes $6.9B Round as Liang Wenfeng Lays Out AGI Roadmap and Chip Strategy

DeepSeek has closed its first-ever external funding round at more than RMB 50 billion (US$6.94 billion), abandoning founder Liang Wenfeng's long-held "no fundraising, no IPO, no commercialization" doctrine — a strategic reversal that reframes the Hangzhou-based AI laboratory as a fully capitalized

City on Tencent’s 7% Plunge: Market Panic, AI Rotation, and 72% Upside

On July 22, 2026, shares of Chinese tech behemoth Tencent Holdings took a sudden and severe beating, plunging more than 7% during Asian trading hours. The sudden bloodbath left retail investors scrambling for answers, but according to a flash note released by Citi Research on the very same day, the

ChinaBiz Briefing | Innolight's $8B IPO, NIO's Chip Pivot, AI Office Wars, and China's Auto Reckoning

China's technology and capital markets are converging around a single thesis on July 22: AI infrastructure is real, it is scaling, and the companies closest to the physical layer — silicon, optical interconnects, compute systems — are attracting the most serious capital. Meanwhile, two structural crises — in autos and in

Innolight Launches HK IPO With $3.45 Billion Cornerstone Backing From Temasek, Alibaba, Tencent

Zhongji Innolight, the world's largest optical transceiver manufacturer by revenue, opened its Hong Kong public offering on Tuesday, drawing cornerstone commitments totaling approximately $3.45 billion from 33 institutional investors — a lineup that ranks among the most formidable in recent Hong Kong IPO history. The company, trading under

China's Domestic Computing Power Push: Chips, Fabs, and Supernodes Explained

China’s AI compute race is moving from models to infrastructure — and the next battle is silicon This article is based on Guolian Minsheng Securities’ July 2026 report, “Three Arrows of Domestic Computing Power: Chips, FABs, and Supernodes,” which examines the structural shift reshaping China’s AI infrastructure stack. What

China’s AI Office Race Enters Consolidation as Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance Shift Strategy

Tencent has seized the desktop AI office entry point with 20.97 million monthly visits in June 2026, but a wave of product consolidations at Alibaba and ByteDance signals that the competitive landscape is about to be redrawn before the ink on the first-half rankings has dried. The catalyst

Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0, brings AI Image Generation to Enterprise Productivity

Alibaba has released Qwen-Image-3.0, the third-generation image generation foundation model in its Qwen series, positioning the technology not as a creative novelty but as a deployable commercial production tool — a strategic pivot that directly challenges incumbents across design, e-commerce, education, and media workflows. The model

ChinaBiz Briefing | Tencent Lead WAIC, Huawei Leads Smartphones, Zhipu Builds Silicon Stack

China's technology sector is undergoing a simultaneous stress test on two fronts: AI infrastructure is straining under demand that has outpaced supply by a factor of three, while a memory super-cycle is redrawing the smartphone competitive map in ways that may persist through the decade. Today'

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