China & East-Asia AI: recent coverage

Models, labs, benchmarks, and analysis from China and East Asia — Qwen, DeepSeek, Zhipu, Moonshot, ModelScope, and the signal Western feeds miss.

• In China, parents turn to AI to help children select a university degreerss · Jul 11, 2026
• Kimi Launches AI-Native Credit Card: Moonshot AI Partners With Agricultural Bank of China and American Expressrss · Jul 11, 2026
• Second-Generation Doubao Phone Coming: Nubia and ByteDance AI Agent Smartphone Nears Launch at WAICrss · Jul 11, 2026
• I benched quad 5060Tis for code generation with Qwen3.6-27B so you don't have to (it's really good)reddit · Jul 11, 2026
• Beyond Claude Code: the Chinese AI tools poised to benefit after back-door alertrss · Jul 11, 2026
• MiniMax Takes the Beating for the Entire AI Industry: Lock-Up Crash, Then $2.2B Fundraise in 48 Hoursrss · Jul 11, 2026
• AI Data Center Power Consumption Surges: Solid-State Transformers Become Inevitable as Sungrow Enters 800V DC Architecturerss · Jul 11, 2026
• Performance comparison on full compute performance (Anima) and LLM prompt processing of 5090 (600,475 and 400W) vs 6000 PRO MaxQ shunt modded and water cooled (at 300, 400, 475 and 600W), and 6000 PRO WS/SE (600W).reddit · Jul 11, 2026
• Apple sues OpenAI for stealing trade secretsrss · Jul 10, 2026
• Tencent-HY3 is the real deal on 128GB!reddit · Jul 10, 2026
• Chinese users praise OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 for efficiency, even at higher cost than local rivalsrss · Jul 10, 2026
• The next frontier of AI: how ‘world models’ are simulating reality and virtual spacesrss · Jul 10, 2026
• Shein receives approval for Hong Kong IPO from Chinese regulatorsrss · Jul 10, 2026
• Nvidia gets China boost, Iran ceasefire breaks, GDP releaserss · Jul 10, 2026
• AI Scientists Are Already on the Job in Beijing: Mixing Conduction Fluid in 20 Secondsrss · Jul 10, 2026
• 100,000-Card Ultra-Intelligent Fusion: Sugon Dawn 8000 Marks a Milestone for China AI Computing Infrastructurerss · Jul 10, 2026
• Jiying Technology Releases World First Zero-Shot Generalizable Solid Mechanics Physics Foundation Modelrss · Jul 10, 2026
• MiniMax CEO forgoes salary until ‘AGI achieved’ as firm seeks US$2b amid 80% stock plungerss · Jul 10, 2026
• tencent/HiLS-Attention-7B · Hugging Facereddit · Jul 10, 2026
• Global AI Market Shift: Why Developers Are Choosing Cost-Efficient Modelsrss · Jul 10, 2026
• At most my Strix Halo uses $0.48 a dayreddit · Jul 10, 2026
• Dexmal Launches Embodied MaaS and DexOS, Solving Model Scaling Into Real-World Scenariosrss · Jul 10, 2026
• One Rises, One Falls on Lock-Up Expiry Day: The Divergent Paths of Zhipu AI and MiniMaxrss · Jul 10, 2026
• CTX: How far can you reasonably go with Qwen 3.6 27B?reddit · Jul 11, 2026
• Zhipu AI and DeepSeek: Breaking Into the US Market Through Cost-Effectivenessrss · Jul 10, 2026
• Market Cap Down 60%, Insta360 Announces Robot Ambition With CameraMan Conceptrss · Jul 10, 2026
• Insta360 unveils vision for AI-powered Cameraman robot on 11th anniversaryrss · Jul 10, 2026
• umans was an alright introduction but i guess the play is openai and kimi nowbluesky · Jul 10, 2026
• Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?hackernews · Jul 10, 2026
• Weekly tokens by model author for Chinese and American models | April 20, 2026 - June 14, 2026reddit · Jul 11, 2026
• Weekly tokens by model author for Chinese and American models | April 20, 2026 - June 14, 2026reddit · Jul 11, 2026
• Fastest speculative decoding for qwenreddit · Jul 11, 2026
• Some testing on RTX Pro 4500 (With Oculink) on PrismaQuant, INT4 Autoround and NVFP4 W4A4 quantized modelreddit · Jul 11, 2026
• Why China is finally letting AI firms buy the Nvidia H200rss · Jul 9, 2026
• DeepSeek v4 Flash on 4090 + DDR5, my experiencereddit · Jul 10, 2026
• ‘Token economy’ emerging as AI use soars in China, experts tell conferencerss · Jul 9, 2026
• 6x MI50's on PCIE vs 4x MI50's on PEX8749 and 2x on PCIEreddit · Jul 11, 2026
• Hy3 (295B MoE) and NVIDIA Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B (audio-capable 30B MoE) GGUF quantsreddit · Jul 11, 2026
• I track LLM prices every 3 hours. GLM-5.2 quietly went from ~$0.57/$1.80 to $0.90/$3.08 per 1M this week, with no announcement.reddit · Jul 9, 2026
• How can i limit reasoning effort on the qwen3.5 and gemma4 models?reddit · Jul 11, 2026