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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.

China’s AI Large Models Lead Global Token Usage: Industry Shifts and Implications

China’s AI large models have claimed the top spot in global weekly token usage, a pivotal shift that signals the industry’s move from technical parameter competition to large-scale commercial application, and marks China’s transition from an AI technology follower to a market leader in the global

Tencent’s WeChat Pushes Into AI Agents With ClawBot Plug-in, Turning Chat Into a Control Layer for OpenClaw

WeChat, Tencent Holdings’s flagship social app, is moving unusually fast to make itself the default “remote control” for AI agents, as it rolled out an official plug-in called ClawBot that lets users operate the open-source OpenClaw agent directly inside chats. The March 22 launch marks a notable

ChinaBiz Briefing: Alibaba’s AI Surge, Hardware Wars, and EV Margins

The Big Picture: Today’s news underscores a critical pivot in China’s tech sector: the transition from "land grab" to "value extraction." Whether it’s Alibaba closing the gap with OpenAI, Huawei and Vivo pushing hardware boundaries, or Chery using exports to subsidize domestic price

Alibaba Pivots Future to AI Cloud as Core E-Commerce Engine Sputters in Q3

Alibaba is increasingly relying on its booming artificial intelligence and cloud computing divisions to offset a rapid deceleration in its legacy e-commerce operations, signaling a structural pivot in its primary growth engine. The Hangzhou-based tech giant reported a meager 1.7% year-over-year total revenue growth for

Cloud Giants Push Through AI-Driven Price Hikes as Token Demand Strains Compute and Networks

Global cloud providers are resetting pricing power in 2026 as AI inference demand collides with higher supply-chain and infrastructure costs, accelerating a broad-based shift from “scale-first” growth to margin protection. Alibaba Cloud and Baidu AI Cloud on March 18 became the latest major vendors to raise prices

Xiaomi Claims Viral “Hunter Alpha” Models as MiMo V2 Trio, Pressuring China’s Agent AI Pricing

Xiaomi used a triple model release to claim ownership of the viral “Hunter Alpha” and “Healer Alpha” systems on OpenRouter, reframing what developers had speculated might be a DeepSeek V4 preview into a price-aggressive push for agent-ready AI. The company said the anonymous models that topped OpenRouter’s

IM Motors’ “Ultra Agent” Bets on Qwen and Drive-by-Wire as LS8 Pre-Sales Near

IM Motors is repositioning the smart EV race around “embodied AI” by fusing cockpit intelligence with assisted driving and anchoring it on production-grade drive-by-wire hardware—an approach it says will debut in the LS8 ahead of pre-sales on March 26, 2026. At a March 18 technology

Moonshot AI CEO Challenges Deep Learning Orthodoxy in GTC Debut, Unveiling ‘Efficiency-First’ Architecture

Yang Zhilin, the founder of Moonshot AI, used his solitary platform as the only Chinese large model entrepreneur at NVIDIA’s GTC 2026 to propose a radical overhaul of deep learning’s foundational blocks. His thesis is stark: the decade-old standards governing AI scaling—from optimizers to residual connections—

Tencent Says Cloud Hit “Scaled Profitability” as AI Spend Reshapes Its Growth Mix

Tencent Holdings said its cloud business achieved scaled profitability for the first time in 2025, marking a turning point for a unit long viewed as capital-intensive and positioning AI-driven demand as a new profit engine. In its latest earnings release on March 18, Tencent reported 2025 revenue of

MiniMax Debuts ‘Self-Evolving’ M2.7 Model to Rival Global Heavyweights

MiniMax, the Shanghai-based artificial intelligence unicorn, has launched M2.7, a new flagship model designed to autonomously optimize its own training infrastructure. By successfully deploying the model to rewrite its internal codebases and reinforcement learning harnesses, MiniMax is signaling a pivot toward "AI-native" organizations, aiming to

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