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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.
2026-08-12
Ant funds robot fingertips; Kimi K3 tops the China code board
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-11
Qwen App goes paid, Kimi K3 lands #2 on Arena coding
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-10
Kimi K3 Max holds #2 on Arena's coding board as DeepSeek warns of a price hike
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-09
Apple ships Qwen into China Macs, then pulls the page
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
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
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-06
Sand.ai open-sources the first 100B-plus MoE video model
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-08-05
Qwen3.8-Max lands #4 on Arena coding as overseas platforms scramble to add it
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
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
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-07-31
Moonshot's Kimi K3 ships, and Chinese money keeps chasing it
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-07-30
Kimi K3 Max lands #2 on Arena's coding board; Kimi closes $3.5B
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.
2026-07-28
DeepSeek halts second funding round; Kimi K3 lands on Arena
What China's AI world did while the West was asleep.