What Is DeepSeek? The Chinese AI Lab That Rattled Silicon Valley
DeepSeek is the Chinese AI lab whose cheaply trained, open-weight models triggered Nvidia's biggest one-day stock drop and reshaped how the industry talks about AI costs.
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Every AI News story tagged with both AI in China and AI Tools — the two topics side by side, updated as new articles publish.
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Chinese AI Models Capture Up to 46% of US Firms' Tokens
OpenRouter data shows Chinese AI models now handle over 30% of tokens run by US firms every week since February, peaking at 46%, as companies chase costs up to 90% lower than Anthropic or OpenAI.
Read more →What Is GLM? Zhipu AI's Open-Weight Model Family, Explained
GLM is the open-weight AI model family from Chinese lab Zhipu AI (Z.ai) — free to download and self-host, and competitive with top US models at a fraction of the API cost.
Read more →What Is an AI Companion — and Why Are Governments Regulating Them?
AI companions are chatbots built for emotional connection, not task completion. As apps like Replika and Character.AI reach tens of millions of users, governments in China, the US, and Europe are introducing rules to protect vulnerable users.
Read more →Meituan Reveals LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI That Secretly Led Global Charts
Chinese tech company Meituan has disclosed that "Owl Alpha," an anonymous model that topped OpenRouter rankings for two months, was its 1.6-trillion-parameter LongCat-2.0 — trained entirely on domestic chips and now free under an MIT license.
Read more →Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, a Frontier-Class Coding Model Built on Chinese Chips
Chinese technology company Meituan has released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter coding model trained entirely on domestic Chinese chips, under the MIT License — the first frontier-class open-source model built without Western semiconductors.
Read more →Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 Beats GPT-5.5 on Coding at a Sixth of the Price
Chinese lab Zhipu AI has open-sourced GLM-5.2, a 753-billion-parameter model that outperforms GPT-5.5 on software engineering benchmarks while costing roughly one-sixth as much.
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