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Seedance Pro: ByteDance AI Video Generator for Business

AI video is no longer a marketing experiment. In 2026, it’s becoming an operational layer — used for product education, e-commerce conversion, internal enablement, multilingual campaigns, and executive communication. What started as flashy generative demos is now embedding itself into workflows. And China is accelerating this shift faster than most Western markets. The reason isn’t […]

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10 Social Commerce Innovations from China’s FMCG Industry

China’s FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) market is not just “big”; it is structurally optimized for social commerce experimentation at a national scale in a way few other markets can replicate quickly. In 2025, China’s online retail continued to expand. Official statistics report total online retail sales of approximately $2.2 trillion, with physical goods sales at

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5 Keys to Understand Chinese Millennials

Chinese Millennials now operate inside the largest digitally connected consumer environment ever recorded. China counted more than 958 million digital consumers by mid 2025, representing 85.3 percent of all internet users, indicating that purchasing, research, and brand discovery occur primarily on digital platforms. At the same time, the broader young population, including those born in

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13 Pro Tips to Start Selling on WeChat

If you think WeChat is “just messaging,” you’re already behind the curve. If you’re looking for tips to start selling on WeChat, you need to understand that the platform is no longer just messaging—it’s the core infrastructure of private-domain commerce in China. In 2025, WeChat had transformed far beyond a social app: it’s the central

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ERNIE 4.5 AI Guide: Use Cases and How to Choose

ERNIE 4.5 AI is Baidu’s flagship foundation model for enterprise deployment inside China. Baidu ERNIE 4.5 is embedded across search, cloud, and industry platforms, giving it distribution strength and regulatory alignment advantages in the domestic market. Leaders evaluating ERNIE 4.5 AI should assess it as an integrated enterprise system rather than a standalone large language

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DeepSeek and Compute: What the Nvidia Question Signals About China’s AI Stack

DeepSeek Nvidia is not a news cycle topic. It is a capacity question that determines which Chinese AI labs can train frontier models in 2025 and which cannot. Compute access inside China now sits at the intersection of export controls, cloud allocation rules, and software lock-in. That intersection shapes architecture choices, training timelines, and unit

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Kimi AI Explained: Capabilities, Architecture, and Enterprise Use Cases 

The AI assistant market in 2026 is crowded. You have your general-purpose chat tools, your research engines with citations, and your IDE native coding companions. Kimi AI from Moonshot AI takes a different path. It focuses on completing complex analytical tasks rather than simply generating conversational responses. This distinction matters more now than it did

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Hunyuan AI: Tencent’s Multimodal Models and How to Evaluate

Hunyuan AI marks Tencent’s shift from single-model releases to a full generative infrastructure layer. Instead of competing on isolated benchmarks, the company is building systems that generate video, images, 3D assets, and interactive content within the same stack. This shift is happening at scale. By 2025, Tencent reported over 150 enterprise integrations of its Hunyuan

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Zhipu AI Explained: GLM Capabilities, Use Cases, and Risks

The conversation around Chinese large language models shifted in early 2026. It moved from speculative potential to demonstrable production reality. Zhipu AI, the Beijing-based startup valued at over six billion dollars after its January Hong Kong IPO, now sits at the center of this shift.  Enterprise teams globally are looking at the GLM model family

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Doubao AI: What It Is, What It Can Do, and How to Evaluate

Doubao AI has become a central figure in China’s generative AI race. Developed by ByteDance, the company behind TikTok and Douyin, it was launched in August 2023 and quickly rose to prominence. By early 2026, it had over 155 million weekly active users, more than any other AI chatbot in China.  During the Lunar New

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