Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.2, trained on Huawei silicon by a US-blacklisted Chinese startup, has outscored OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 on two leading coding benchmarks and costs roughly one-sixth as much to run.
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Meituan’s LongCat-2.0 is the first frontier AI model trained entirely on Chinese chips
The Chinese food-delivery giant open-sourced a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained on 50,000 domestic Huawei-class accelerators, challenging the core premise of US chip export controls.
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Baidu’s AI chip unit Kunlunxin targets $50 billion Hong Kong IPO
Baidu’s semiconductor spin-off Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion valuation in Hong Kong, asking prospective investors to also commit to buying its chips.