Databricks Hits $188B While Defaulting to Chinese AI for Code
Databricks signed a term sheet for a $188 billion valuation days after quietly making a Chinese open-weight model its default coding engine over Anthropic.
Articles Tagged "China"
Kimi K3 Review: Best at Code, Worse at Honesty
Moonshot's Kimi K3 tops LMArena's Frontend Code Arena and undercuts Opus 4.8 on cost per task, but a tripled price tag, a rising hallucination rate, and an unresolved distillation question complicate the win.
China's WAICO and America's Pax Silica Split AI World
Beijing's new World AI Cooperation Organization signed up 29 nations in Shanghai, weeks after Washington's rival Pax Silica bloc grew to roughly two dozen. Kazakhstan joined both.
Kimi K3 Tops Frontend Arena Just as Its Price Triples
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 jumped 17 spots to #1 on LMArena's Frontend Code Arena, but the win comes with a tripled price tag and a weaker showing on broader intelligence benchmarks.
China Clears Apple Intelligence After Two-Year Wait
China's internet regulator approved Apple Intelligence for the local market, but only after Apple agreed to run Alibaba's Qwen and Baidu's models instead of its own.
Nvidia's H200 Chips Reach China - Congress Isn't Happy
Commerce official Jeffrey Kessler confirms H200 AI chip shipments to China have begun, but calls the volume 'trivial' as lawmakers spar over export-control gaps.
China Weighs Copying US-Style AI Model Controls
China's Ministry of Commerce is discussing restrictions on overseas access to Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai's most advanced AI models, mirroring the export control regime Beijing has spent years fighting.
US AI Giants Sold Services to Pentagon-Blacklisted Firms
OpenAI and Google provided AI services to Singapore affiliates of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent - all three on the Pentagon's 1260H list of companies with alleged military ties.
ZCode Launches Free - GLM-5.2 Comes for Claude Code
Z.ai's free agentic IDE ships Goal Mode, multi-agent coordination, and pricing up to 82% cheaper than Claude Code - with a concrete China data law risk that teams need to weigh.
DeepSeek Moves Into Chip Design to Beat Export Controls
DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip, confirmed by Reuters sources - the first semiconductor project in the lab's history, driven by US export controls that cut off China from Nvidia hardware and HBM memory.
China's Companion Law Forces Doubao, Qwen Offline
China's new AI anthropomorphic interaction rules take effect July 15, forcing ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down persistent AI companion features and permanently delete user conversation data.
LongCat-2.0 Review: China's Stealth Coder
Meituan's 1.6T open-source coding model secretly topped OpenRouter for two months before revealing itself - and the price-to-performance math is hard to argue with.
