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China AI Weekly — October 25, 2026
Chinese vendors shipped 95% of global humanoid robots as EU readies a ‘kill switch’ for Chinese firms, deepening tech competition.
This month
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Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe
In Lisbon, Galbot’s listed speakers are its robots. China’s most valuable unlisted humanoid company runs 170+ robot kiosks at home…
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Manus AI: The Agent Company Beijing Would Not Let Go
Meta agreed to pay $2 billion. Beijing said no. Six months later Manus raised $500 million on its own —…
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ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box
Fifty million downloads, a Samsung pre-install deal, a STAR Market IPO in preparation — and no European office, customer or…
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Six Companies Europe Hasn’t Met
Six Chinese companies speaking in Lisbon next month. A model inside Samsung phones, a humanoid factory in Serbia, a robot…
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China AI Weekly — October 18, 2026
Beijing defines a frontier model — two trillion parameters — and exempts open weights from its new export draft. Apple…
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Thirty-Eight Seats in Lisbon
We counted the speakers at Web Summit 2026: China sends 38, almost exactly as many as Germany. The composition says…
Earlier
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China AI Weekly — October 04, 2026
DeepSeek open-sources a CUDA alternative for Huawei’s chips, Huawei claims the Chinese accelerator lead, US prosecutors charge a…
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The Number Alibaba Didn’t Publish
Alibaba called the Zhenwu V900 China’s most powerful AI chip and published no FLOPS, no process node and…
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China AI Weekly — September 26, 2026
Chinese models now carry the majority of tokens on two developer platforms. Alibaba puts chip, cloud and model…
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Ox Alpha Was Chinese: What Zhipu’s GLM-5.3-Flash Proves — and What It Doesn’t
For a week, the most-used anonymous model on OpenRouter had no owner. It was Zhipu’s GLM-5.3-Flash, matching Claude…
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Xiaomi’s German Eight: The AI Company on Wheels Just Hired Car Dealers
Xiaomi signed MoUs with eight German dealer groups at IFA Berlin. Three of them already sell Chinese cars…
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Open Weights, Two Meanings: What China’s Four-Model Month Reveals
Four Chinese labs shipped frontier open-weight models in a month. The speed is the obvious story. The licences…
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China AI Weekly — August 30, 2026
China unveils a new five-year AI chip plan, Nvidia returns to China, and Tencent open-sources an advanced 770B…
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Alibaba’s $10 Billion AI Bet Has a European Address
The largest share placement in Hong Kong’s history — 60% for global computing infrastructure, 40% for hyperscale AI…
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China AI Midweek — August 26, 2026
Uber-Pony.ai to deploy 2,000 robotaxis in Europe; Alibaba leads HK$80B AI funding; AI regulation map update.
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Microsoft, Amazon and Google Are Talking to Moonshot AI — and the Ask Is 30 Per Cent
Reuters reports Moonshot wants up to 30% of revenue from hosting Kimi K3 on Azure, AWS and Google…
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BYD’s AI Story, Decoded: The Biggest EV Maker Is Building a Full Physical-AI Stack
Own 4nm silicon, DeepSeek in the driving stack, free ADAS on an $11,000 car — and a humanoid…
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Momenta: The First Chinese AV Company Licensed Germany-Wide
The KBA’s first-ever nationwide L4 approval for a Chinese firm, Munich robotaxi tests with Uber from 2026, and…
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Apollo Go: Baidu’s Robotaxi Veteran Is Testing in London — and Aiming at Germany
Eleven million rides, a $30,000 purpose-built robotaxi, and both Uber and Lyft as distribution — Baidu’s Apollo Go…
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WeRide: The Marathon Runner of China’s Robotaxi Export
Six European markets from Madrid to Copenhagen, a 3,000-vehicle Level-4 fleet, and an asset-light playbook that keeps local…
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Neura vs. China’s Humanoid Seven: Where Europe’s $7 Billion Answer Really Stands
Capital parity, a €1B order book, artificial skin — and a two-lap gap on shipping and price. The…
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Leju Robot: Huawei’s Humanoid Partner Europe Has Never Heard Of
A torch-bearing robot, a Huawei-native AI stack and a top-10 patent portfolio — Leju is China’s hidden humanoid…
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LimX Dynamics: Four Years Old, Ahead of Figure AI
Founded in 2022, valued at $2.2 billion, ranked above America’s best-funded humanoid startup — with European money on…
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Pudu Robotics: The Robot You Already Met Is Going Humanoid
120,000 service robots in 85 countries — now Pudu is converting the world’s largest installed base into a…
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Fourier: The World’s Most Innovative Humanoid Startup Wants to Care for You
No. 1 in the global humanoid patent ranking — and betting on eldercare instead of factories. Meet Shanghai’s…
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Europe Enters the Humanoid Race — Through the Factory Door
Bosch will series-produce humanoids in the Black Forest from 2027; Schaeffler locks a five-year actuator deal and puts…
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China AI Weekly — August 23, 2026
Chinese autonomous driving firms expand rapidly in Europe; Alibaba restructures; Nvidia H200 chips trickle into China.
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Why Carmakers Are Building Robots — and Why Europe’s Aren’t
Chery ships humanoids at scale, XPeng builds a robot factory, BYD debuts Xiao Di, Hyundai targets 30,000 Atlas…
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Seedance, Explained: The TikTok Company’s Video AI That Makes Money While the West Demos
Half of ByteDance’s cloud model revenue, four months after launch. What Seedance is, why China monetises AI video…
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China AI Midweek — August 19, 2026
Chinese self-driving firms expand in Europe; Apple partners with Alibaba on China AI model; US pushes AI alliances…
China AI Weekly
Every Sunday: what happened in China’s AI industry this week, and what it means for Europe.