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The Weekly Review: 20-26 April 2026
DeepSeek and the Domestic Silicon Pivot The release of DeepSeek V4, a 1.6-trillion parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) model, marks a significant milestone in China's effort to reduce reliance on fore...
Apr 26, 2026
The Daily Review: 25 April 2026
DeepSeek V4 Launch Signals Hardware-Software Convergence DeepSeek officially released preview versions of its V4 Flash and V4 Pro models on April 24. Crucially, these models are natively optimized fo...
Apr 25, 2026
The Daily Review: 24 April 2026
DeepSeek Disrupts with V4 Model and Strategic Huawei Pivot Hangzhou-based DeepSeek has released its V4 model, touting industry-leading performance-to-cost ratios. Crucially, the lab is shifting its P...
Apr 24, 2026
The Daily Review: 23 April 2026
China Unveils $14 Trillion "AI-Driven" Service Sector Roadmap On April 22, the State Council issued sweeping new guidelines aiming to expand China’s service sector into a 100 trillion yuan ($14 tri...
Apr 23, 2026
The Daily Review: 22 April 2026
Alipay Debuts "AI Pay" for Autonomous "Lobster" Agents Ant Group's Alipay has launched a specialized payment service designed specifically for autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents, colloqui...
Apr 22, 2026
The Daily Review: 21 April 2026
iQIYI Sparks National Backlash Over "AI Actor Database" Streaming giant iQIYI has debuted Nadou Pro, an AI toolkit designed to allow filmmakers to utilize AI-generated likenesses of actors. Despite t...
Apr 21, 2026
The Daily Review: 20 April 2026
Today's CTR: The Chinese technology landscape is currently defined by a strategic pivot toward utility and structural resilience. While state media signals a cultural embrace of Large Language Models ...
Apr 20, 2026
The Weekly Review: 13-19 April 2026
The Week in Tech: The Chinese technology landscape is moving beyond the race for raw computational power toward a more sophisticated, self-sufficient ecosystem. Hardware sovereignty—driven by domest...
Apr 19, 2026
The Daily Review: 18 April 2026
DeepSeek V4 Rumored to Run Natively on Huawei Ascend Platform Industry reports and commentary from Nvidia’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) suggest that the upcoming DeepSeek V4 model is being optimi...
Apr 18, 2026
The Daily Review: 17 April 2026
DeepSeek Talent War Intensifies Rumors regarding astronomical compensation packages have surfaced following reports of a potential $100M annual salary for DeepSeek researcher Guo Daya. Whil...
Apr 17, 2026