China AI Pulse

In Heilongjiang's 1,000-hectare demonstration zones, driverless harvesters, drone patrols, and real-time data platforms are embedding AI into grain...

MIIT's new three-year plan reframes AI development as part of a coordinated digital ecosystem, linking communication networks, layered computing...

HKUST's CTBE, its Shanghai alumni chapter, and Tencent Research Institute co-organized the NOVA competition, drawing 81 teams from Hong Kong and the...

China's AI push is shaping a burgeoning 'smart economy' by strengthening open-source ecosystems, expanding public cloud services, and improving national coordination of computing power.

• Reported consideration: China may allow ByteDance and Alibaba to import millions of Nvidia gaming chips for AI infrastructure, a category previously...

China's generative AI approach has evolved from broad tech breakthroughs to practical application paired with targeted regulation across education,...

China's massive solar overcapacity, driven by state policy and local incentives, is now powering AI data centers in western hubs under the East Data...

AI adoption boosts environmental management performance in Chinese livestock firms, yet gains vanish under financing constraints and strengthen with...

China's 2026-2030 science priorities explicitly link foundational research with enterprise-driven commercialization.

• Core strategy: Strengthen...

China's smart courts deploy digital tools to strengthen CCP oversight, monitor society, and ensure political stability.

China blocked Hugging Face in 2023 to limit foreign influence, yet quietly allows developers VPN access to global models.

• ModelScope (Alibaba) now...

Existing AI content regulations create disclosure floors rather than robust standards for video pipelines.

• Platform responsibility: Manifests like...

中国AI政策通过国家创新体系（NIS）框架协调政府、科研机构、产业与治理机制，在开放-安全张力下呈现“选择性国际化”。开源AI国际参与度最高，数据治理最内向，平台服务居中，且与意识形态敏感度呈负相关。内部循环更多是安全管控累积的意外结果，而非刻意战略。

Shanghai's WorldSkills interactive media category and 100-Hour AI Micro-Drama Contest show generative tools handling concept-to-delivery workflows...

China and the United States have agreed to establish a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis communications. No further details on the channel's structure or operations are provided.

Hong Kong can deliver trusted AI governance solutions for major economies by leveraging its common law system, internationally connected standards,...

中国AI生成视频正从模型竞赛转向产业落地，地方政府激励、平台投入与制作降本共同驱动生态形成。

• 多地政府提供补贴、算力支持和租金优惠，吸引AI影视工作室落户
• Kuaishou Kling获国家AI产业基金14亿元投资，MiniMax发布H3模型并计划开源权重
• AI短剧每分钟成本从5000元降至数百元，首部AI长片获国家电影局公映许可
• 内容过剩风险显现，22万新剧中仅千部破亿播放，版权规则仍待完善

Inner Mongolia is emerging as a key AI hub because its cheap wind power matters more than low latency for model training workloads. Envision is...

Market forces keep Chinese and US AI ecosystems linked through supply chains and specialized expertise.

• LLMs: US firm Harvey built Tenet on...

China's new five-year strategy links AI directly to semiconductors, robotics, 6G and advanced manufacturing.

• AI adoption in manufacturing has hit...