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Zhipu goes global
What happened: On April 23, an executive at Zhipu AI announced that the company has been expanding its overseas presence ahead of the firm’s IPO, including through a partnership with Alibaba Cloud. Zhipu reportedly now has offices in the Middle… Read More »

Exemptions or no exemptions?
What happened: On April 25, Caijing released an article confirming that China has quietly exempted certain US-origin chips from its proposed 125% tariff. The article was taken down shortly after publication. There has been no public, official confirmation of the… Read More »

iFlyTek announces reasoning model trained entirely on domestic chips
What happened: On an April 22 earnings call, Chinese smart technologies giant iFlyTek announced that its Xinghuo X1 reasoning model was trained entirely with Huawei chips produced domestically. According to CEO Liu Qingfeng: (SCMP) "At the end of last year,… Read More »