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 by Tencent, it’s quietly reshaping 3D[…]

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 is already running autonomous trucks in[…]

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 belong in any serious enterprise evaluation.

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 what European decision-makers need to know.

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 Hunyuan.

China AI Weekly #1

Our first weekly briefing: OpenClaw takes over WeChat, plus the stories and numbers that mattered this week in China’s AI scene.

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 AI phenomenon of 2026.