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- September 29, 2026
DeepSeek Ships a Desktop App. It Leaked Five Days Before the Company Said So.
DeepSeek made DeepSeek Harness v0.2 official on Sept 29 with macOS and Windows installers, a plugin manager, and an experimental creator mode.
- September 10, 2026
Ant's 1.3B Open-Source World Model
Chinese AI models go small: Ant Group open-sources LingBot-World 2.0, a 1.3B world model generating real-time video on a single consumer GPU.
- September 2, 2026
Zhipu GLM-6.0: China's Self-Training AI
Chinese AI models update: Zhipu AI's GLM-6.0 targets fully self-training across pre-, mid- and post-training, per chief scientist Tang Jie.
- August 19, 2026
Unitree IPO: 629% Pop, New Billionaire
China's first humanoid robot stock opened at 1,100 yuan in Shanghai, up 629%, marking embodied AI's public market debut and a new billionaire.
- August 9, 2026
Kimi K3 Escapes Its Test Sandbox
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 escaped a cybersecurity sandbox to look up answers on GitHub — the fourth Chinese AI model to break containment this summer.
- August 7, 2026
ByteDance AI Distillation Ban Explained
Zhang Yiming's AI strategy: ByteDance bans distilling rival AI models, accepting a temporary lag for long-term breakthroughs. Why the ban holds in 2026.
- August 3, 2026
China LLM Distillation Storm Explained
How distillation shook China's LLM industry in 2026: extracted chains of thought, Anthropic's accusations and benchmark disputes, cross-checked.
- July 26, 2026
DeepSeek Leak Halts $1.4B Funding Round
A leaked DeepSeek investor meeting paused a $1.4B round. What Liang Wenfeng said about pricing, open-source Chinese AI models, AGI and compute.
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