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[Big read] China’s AI catch-up is forcing Silicon Valley to cut prices
A customer looks at a board with the menu at AGI Bar in Beijing's Zhongguancun district on 9 August 2026. In Beijing's tech district, drinkers at an AI-themed bar can plug in to DeepSeek for free.(Pedro Pardo/AFP) (Edited and refined by Grace Chong, with the assistance of AI translation.) Los Angeles-based Chinese entrepreneur Li Jianian deployed Chinese company Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2 on a local server, using it for some of the tasks he had used AI coding tool Claude Code to do.
How China’s changing the brain-computer interface race
A visitor wears a Stonehill Technology Ltd.'s helmet-style brain-computer interface (BCI) at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, on 17 July 2026.(Qilai Shen/Bloomberg) (Edited and refined by James Loo, with the assistance of AI translation.) A patient paralysed from the neck down was able to pick a pen again after a coin-sized chip was implanted in his brain. This is not a scene from a science-fiction (sci-fi) movie, but a real case widely reported by Chinese and US media.
[Big read] The returnees: Inside China’s AI talent reversal
Floor signage for the offices of DeepSeek (centre) is seen in Beijing on 28 January 2025.(Peter Catterall/AFP) (Edited and refined by Grace Chong, with the assistance of AI translation.) In 2023, computer science PhD graduate Pan Zizheng faced a choice: stay at Nvidia, which had just crossed a US$1 trillion valuation, or join a fledgling Chinese startup. He chose the latter without hesitation — Hangzhou-based DeepSeek.
Beijing’s new red line: Offshore firms can’t ‘de-China’
Chinese regulators are aggressively expanding its oversight on Chinese companies, moving beyond capital controls to prevent technology, data and talent from fleeing overseas. By scrutinising offshore “red-chip” structures and blocking high-profile acquisitions like Meta’s bid for Manus, authorities are signalling that corporate re-domiciliation can no longer bypass China’s tightening national security and tax net. Lianhe Zaobao correspondent Liu Sha explains.
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