AI Without Nvidia: China’s Silicon Declaration of Independence

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China AI Midweek — August 12, 2026

China boosts AI pitch to Europe amid US rivalry; Huawei scales AI chips; FCC targets Chinese optical

AgiBot: The Three-Year-Old Company That Became the World’s Largest Humanoid Maker

44% global market share, 562% growth, a Hong Kong IPO on the way — inside the new[…]

Pony.ai: The Chinese Autonomous Driving Company That’s Already on European Roads

Pony.ai runs driverless robotaxis in China, is listed on Nasdaq, has Toyota as a backer — and[…]

Tripo AI: The Chinese Startup Turning Text Into 3D Models in Seconds

Tripo AI generates production-quality 3D models from a photo or text prompt in under 10 seconds. Backed[…]

Alibaba Cloud: China’s Answer to AWS — and Europe’s Next Infrastructure Question

Alibaba Cloud is China’s AWS — and it’s quietly building European infrastructure and open-source AI models that[…]

DeepSeek: The Chinese AI Lab That Shocked Silicon Valley

DeepSeek shocked Silicon Valley with a frontier reasoning model trained at a fraction of the cost. Here’s[…]

Baidu Ernie vs. Tencent Hunyuan: Two Strategies, One Goal

Baidu bets on a vertical stack, Tencent on its platform empire. A side-by-side look at Ernie and

China AI Weekly — March 22, 2026

Our first weekly briefing: OpenClaw takes over WeChat, plus the stories and numbers that mattered this week[…]

The Lobster That Conquered China: How OpenClaw Became the Biggest AI Story of 2026

How an open-source AI agent with a lobster mascot went from niche developer tool to China’s biggest[…]