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The Overnight
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep. A daily English briefing from GeekPark, Beijing — independent of the Intelligence channels.
2026-10-29
Ant open-sources Ling-3.1-flash as its personal agent goes live
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-28
Ant ships a Personal Agent while Baidu open-sources an unlimited-page OCR
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-27
Kimi K3.1 Pro ships cheaper against Opus 5.5; China Token factories keep raising
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-26
Qwen3.8-Max holds $12/M input as China's price floor stays put
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2026-10-25
Kimi K3.1 Pro lands at domestic No.1; China's first AI feature film opens to $40K
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2026-10-24
DeepSeek's ~100B-yuan round, Tencent and CATL leading
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2026-10-23
DeepSeek raises ~$15B, China's largest AI round yet
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2026-10-22
DeepSeek open-sources its inference stack; Kimi K3 ships
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2026-10-21
DeepSeek open-sources its inference stack and tops the WebDev open board
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2026-10-20
MiniMax's ¥1 coding model, DeepSeek atop the open board
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-19
DeepSeek drops V4.1-Flash-1017, cuts the price floor again
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2026-10-18
DeepSeek refreshes V4.1-Flash and opens a search API at 5 yuan per 1,000 calls
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2026-10-17
Ali's Qwen lands in BMW and runs China's enterprise floor
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2026-10-16
StepFun open-sources Step 5, DeepSeek eyes robots, Kimi's teenage architect walks
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-15
STEPX ships an agent-native phone, Qwen Office goes vertical, Shanghai AI Lab self-evolves agent safety
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-14
Qwen puts a camera and iris scanner on your face
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2026-10-13
Infra money floods in, GLM runs at 490 tokens/s
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2026-10-12
Kimi K3 ships; Tencent sunsets its agent platform
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-11
Kimi K3 ships; DeepSeek retires the old Flash
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-10
Lenovo's agent tops SWE-bench-Live, DiffuSpace lands record dLLM round
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-09
Manus pulls China's biggest Agent round, Kimi K3 ships
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-08
DeepSeek flash input drops to $0.003, Kimi K3 ships, Moonshot's $50B PreIPO
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-07
DeepSeek lines up a near-¥100B round ahead of a 2027 IPO
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2026-10-06
DeepSeek's cache-hit input falls to $0.003, and Moonshot ships Kimi K3
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2026-10-05
Moonshot's Kimi K3 pricing goes live; Chinese labs pile into decision models
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2026-10-04
DeepSeek-Flash drops to $0.003 per million cached input tokens
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2026-10-03
Kimi K3 ships, DeepSeek-Flash drops to $0.15/M
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-02
Huawei's Mate 90 leads with Kirin 9050 Pro, DeepSeek flash prices sit at $0.15/M
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-10-01
Kuaishou hands Kling to a P10 algorithm chief; DeepSeek open-sources Ascend components
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-09-30
Manus 2.0 lands its first big update since going independent
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-09-29
Kimi K3 ships as Moonshot's flagship, Qwen-Audio tops the voice board
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-09-28
Anonymous 玉兔 tops OpenRouter daily calls over the holiday
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2026-09-27
DeepSeek ships a desktop app
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2026-09-26
Kimi K3 ships, Netease Youdao tops two Hugging Face boards
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-09-25
DeepSeek chases a $500B valuation as revenue doubles
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2026-09-24
Alibaba turns Qwen into an on-device Agent base for phones
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2026-09-23
Alibaba Cloud goes Agentic; Xiaomi burns ¥20M live-training a model to open-source #1
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2026-09-22
Baidu's $2M engineer prizes, Qwen's 7B image model, and a ZCode data-upload row
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-09-21
StepFun's Step 5 Preview lands, and SiliconFlow banks another round
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-09-20
Huawei's Ascend 960 supernode, and DeepSeek-Flash lands at $0.15/M input
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-09-19
Kimi Code ships a desktop app; Manus valuation doubles in 17 days
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-09-18
Manus doubles to $4B, Kimi K3 ships to desktop, DeepSeek renames its Flash tier
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2026-09-15
Zhipu closes ~$5B, DeepSeek eyes a 90s-born CFO
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-09-14
Zhipu raises ~$5B, bets it on the next GLM
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2026-09-13
Kimi ships K2.8 into its IPO sprint
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2026-09-12
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ships, and reportedly hires CITIC for a STAR Market listing
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-09-11
DeepSeek ships V4.1 Flash, the KV-cache killer
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2026-09-10
DeepSeek picks CITIC for a STAR Market IPO, Tencent HY4 tops model-call charts
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-09-08
Enflame prices its STAR IPO, Qwen office adds hundred-person workspaces
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2026-09-07
Qwen office hits 30M users in a month, half of them enterprise
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2026-09-06
Kimi K3 ships, and DeepSeek-V4 flash drops to $0.22/M input
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2026-09-05
Zhipu opens a Tmall storefront, and China's model labs start selling tokens like groceries
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2026-09-04
Zhipu and MiniMax post their first post-IPO earnings
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2026-09-03
Qwen3.8-Max takes the front-end coding crown; Enflame opens its Star board subscription
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2026-09-02
Manus goes independent again, Mech-Mind lists, Tencent shrinks Hy4 by 86%
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2026-09-01
DeepSeek open-sources its first V4 multimodal model overnight
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2026-08-31
DeepSeek's V4-Flash cache-hit input drops to fractions of a cent
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2026-08-30
Tencent open-sources Hunyuan Hy4 preview at 770B params
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2026-08-29
Tencent open-sources Hy4, MiniMax ARR hits $800M, robots sweep the games
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-28
Zhipu's stealth model unmasked as GLM-5.3-Flash, running on Chinese chips
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-27
Alibaba open-sources Qwen3.8-Flash, activating 6B for frontier claims
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-26
ByteDance rallies its AI apps behind Doubao Work
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2026-08-25
Xiaomi's own silicon triple, DeepSeek goes multimodal, Alibaba's HK$80B AI raise
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2026-08-24
Alibaba raises HK$80B for full-stack AI; Kimi K3 leads China labs on Arena
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2026-08-23
DeepSeek adds vision, and Kimi K3 climbs Arena's coding board
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-22
DeepSeek ships a vision model, Alibaba claims full-stack SOTA, Xiaohongshu quietly open-sources
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-21
Alibaba cloud AI revenue jumps 133%, Unitree pops 629% on debut
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2026-08-20
Unitree opens up 629% on its Star Market debut
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2026-08-19
Unitree lands on STAR Market as A-share's first humanoid stock
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2026-08-18
DeepSeek's new peak-off-peak pricing goes live; Alibaba drops an AI music model
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-17
DeepSeek V4's new peak-and-off-peak prices go live at midnight
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-16
DeepSeek splits its API into peak and off-peak pricing
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-15
Qwen3.8-27B goes open on consumer GPUs; GLM-5.3 and DeepSeek Harness crowd the coding lane
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-14
DeepSeek ships Harness, and lifts V4-Pro prices in the same night
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2026-08-13
DeepSeek V4 Pro ships, Manus splits from Meta, Lin Junyang's startup surfaces
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2026-08-12
Ant funds robot fingertips; Kimi K3 tops the China code board
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2026-08-11
Qwen App goes paid, Kimi K3 lands #2 on Arena coding
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2026-08-10
Kimi K3 Max holds #2 on Arena's coding board as DeepSeek warns of a price hike
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2026-08-09
Apple ships Qwen into China Macs, then pulls the page
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2026-08-08
ByteDance's trillion-parameter model, and Kimi K3 climbs Arena code
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-07
DeepSeek warns of a big price hike as Meta undercuts it on cost
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2026-08-06
Sand.ai open-sources the first 100B-plus MoE video model
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2026-08-05
Qwen3.8-Max lands #4 on Arena coding as overseas platforms scramble to add it
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2026-08-04
Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4T params, three giants converge on AI office
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-03
Kimi K3 Max cracks Arena's coding top two; two Chinese video models drop same day
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-02
Kimi K3 Max holds #2 on Arena's coding board; DeepSeek V4-Flash goes public beta
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-01
Kimi K3 Max cracks Arena's top code tier; DeepSeek V4-Flash ships final
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2026-07-31
Moonshot's Kimi K3 ships, and Chinese money keeps chasing it
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2026-07-30
Kimi K3 Max lands #2 on Arena's coding board; Kimi closes $3.5B
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2026-07-28
DeepSeek halts second funding round; Kimi K3 lands on Arena
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