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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The China fashion report 2025 begins with a simple reality. China remains one of the most influential fashion markets in the world, yet the logic behind that market is changing rapidly. According to the China Fashion Consumption Development Report presented at the China Annual Trends Summit, the country’s fashion consumption market is expected to reach […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Since the start of the generative‑AI boom, enterprises have been torn between building their own models and licensing proprietary systems from a handful of powerful vendors. The arrival of the open‑source DeepSeek family in early 2025 disrupted that landscape. Within seven days of its R1 release on 24 January 2025, DeepSeek attracted more than 100 […]

China’s AI market in 2026 is consolidating around teams capable of executing at scale, a shift closely tied to broader China tech trends and AI ecosystem shifts that favor infrastructure and deployment over experimentation. StepFun AI stands out among the “Six Tigers” because it focuses on multimodal foundation models and real deployment rather than traffic […]

In 2025, Xiaohongshu (RedNote) had become too large and commercially significant to be described as just another social platform. Reuters reported in January that Xiaohongshu was already serving more than 300 million users, placing it firmly among China’s most influential consumer platforms.  In the same month, the app gained more than 700,000 new users in […]

Ask a team of engineers what they need from AI, and the answer is usually practical. They need code that follows team conventions, agents that stay on task, and pricing that supports daily use. MiniMax artificial intelligence has filled that gap over the past 14 months. Between the release of MiniMax-text-01 in January 2025 and […]