China launched WAICO on July 16, a new 29-nation AI cooperation body, at the Shanghai World AI Conference as Beijing challenges US-led governance frameworks.
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Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K3, the World’s Largest Open-Weight AI Model
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 on July 16 with 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million-token context window, placing third on GDPval benchmarks and releasing full weights on July 27 — the largest open-weight AI model yet from any lab.
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China’s GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks at a fraction of the cost
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.