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China’s AI model race is just getting more crowded, with Meituan, Xiaomi and miHoYo staking their claimes (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chinas-ai-model-race-just-getting-crowded?offer=rtsu-engagement-25%2Crtsu-featured-articles-pro&cio_link_id=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__fdf5a422be964ff89d6d1d29e5b9a558e4a7be1c486ca4a9738590d5f968db20&utm_campaign=%5BClaude%5D+RTSU%3A+China&utm_content=15569&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=10692). #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖

China offers 15-year research grants to the world’s brightest young scientists (https://southchinamorningpost.cmail20.com/t/t-l-ydjukidl-yhtkxshy-j/) #Going to China 🇨🇳

US-sanctioned Chinese companies are increasingly turning to open-source research to innovate and reverse-engineer restricted foreign technology, with a 72 per cent surge in scientific literature citations in their patent applications, according to a new study. While the United States said it expanded its Entity List to safeguard national security and preserve its technological edge, an analysis of Chinese patent filings over the 12 years until 2022 showed that US restrictions on access to technology had driven Chinese firms to widely source publicly available scientific knowledge and conduct more of their own research. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3367792/us-sanctions-boost-chinas-science-driven-innovation-over-70-study-finds?utm_source=cm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GME-O-enlz-uv&UUID=f9aaf50d26626de042873bfe2733d91d&utm_content=20260919_China_Science_FW&CMCampaignID=a6476d52663d1432f99a2c37e3d9b60c

Two Chinese DRAM ventures launched in 2016 with government backing. A decade later, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Fujian Jinhua (JHICC) offer sharply different stories about what it takes to build a memory chip business under U.S. technology restrictions. #Podcasts We ❤️ #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 #Artificial Intelligence #A Glance of China 行摄中国 https://voiceofcontext.substack.com/p/how-us-tech-restrictions-helped-build?utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

Alibaba on Tuesday unveiled a powerful new AI chip for training and running models, highlighting the rapid progress in China’s domestic semiconductor capabilities. #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 During its annual Apsara tech conference, Alibaba said its new AI chip, Zhenwu V900, delivers three times the performance of its predecessor, Zhenwu M890, which was released in May. The V900 is scheduled for mass production and commercial release in the first quarter of next year, it said. Alibaba also plans to launch new central processing units designed for agentic AI workloads, Yitian 720 and Yitian 730, next year. CEO Eddie Wu said the company aims to boost the total capacity of its data centers around the world to more than 20GW by 2032, as it tries to narrow the gap with U.S. hyperscalers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Liu Dayiheng, Alibaba’s head of LLM development, said that the company’s next-generation model, Qwen4, is currently in training and will be coming out soon. Liu also announced a roadmap for future generations of models including Qwen4.5 and Qwen5, which are expected to be much larger in size, with 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameters. Alibaba’s chip unit, T-Head, has an important role to play as China accelerates its adoption of domestic chips to reduce its dependence on Nvidia. On Sunday, DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors that a major priority for his company is to use more domestic chips to train its models, adding that he expects Huawei Technologies to start delivering training chips to DeepSeek as early as the fourth quarter this year. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/alibaba-ai-alibabacloud-zhenwu-v900-.html

Pacing problem: can AI fears overcome US-China race dynamics and force a slowdown? #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3368503/pacing-problem-can-ai-fears-overcome-us-china-race-dynamics-and-force-slowdown?utm_source=cm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GME-O-enlz-uv&UUID=810ab81034dec15e3bb0ff25f2547918&utm_content=20260924_Tech_FW&CMCampaignID=fd1b81d5937f37eea8167227c012eb34

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday it had fined the parent company of startup accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center, the first penalty issued under an outbound investment restriction program targeting China’s tech sector. #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 California real estate company Amidi Group was fined $200,000 for failing to notify Treasury of a Chinese subsidiary’s investment into Noematrix, a Shanghai-based robotics startup. The Outbound Investment Security Program, which took effect in January 2025, forbids Americans from investing in certain tech sectors in China and requires notification of investments in others. In April, a Chinese fund controlled by Amidi invested $92,478 in Noematrix. The Treasury didn’t explain the basis for the calculations of the fine, which more than doubled the value of the investment. The department said the fine was issued in July, and didn’t require the investment to be unwound. https://finance.biggo.com/news/c8d74944-fde9-4650-849b-64852d733ed3