Chinese food delivery giant Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, an AI model with 1.6 trillion parameters. It claims to be the country’s largest AI model trained entirely on domestic hardware for both pre-training and inference, marking a significant step towards China's self-sufficiency in chip technology.
Chinese AI models are competitive with US counterparts, but hardware lags. While domestic chips are used for inference, pre-training still relies on foreign silicon. China is pushing for self-sufficiency in AI hardware across all development stages.
Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Centre (HKGAI) launched HKGAI-V3, a new large language model based on DeepSeek V4. It offers tenfold efficiency in token compression and a hundredfold increase in agent runtime, running on domestic chips for potential export of Chinese AI.
China's National Development and Reform Commission is pushing for AI development, emphasizing domestic chip adaptation for large models and ensuring controlled, beneficial growth for shared public outcomes.
China's tech giants Tencent and Alibaba are increasing investment in domestic chip production, anticipating a surge in availability of China-designed GPUs throughout the year, amid reports that Nvidia may regain approval to sell its H200 chips in China.
