Chinese AI Leadership

GLM-4.7 vs GPT-5.2 coding benchmark While the world spent the last five years staring at Palo Alto, the tectonic plates of Artificial Intelligence just shifted 6,000 miles to the West. It is 2026, and the "Intelligence Gap" has officially closed. In a single week, the narrative of Silicon Valley’s untouchable dominance was shattered—not by a better marketing campaign, but by a 94.2% math reasoning score and a $14 billion IPO. Meet Zhipu AI , the Tsinghua-born powerhouse that

Prologue: The Memory Bottleneck In the race for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Silicon Valley has traditionally been obsessed with compute —the sheer brute force of reasoning. But in Beijing, a rising star named Moonshot AI  identified a different, more human bottleneck: Memory. As founder Yang Zhilin famously posed: "If an AI cannot remember an entire book, how can it truly understand and reason about a complex world?" While competitors were busy building flashy avat

Prologue: The Heist That Wasn't Silicon Valley, December 2025. The air is thick with a new kind of tension. In venture capital meetings, developer forums, and the halls of Washington D.C., a single name is whispered: "Qwen." The story begins not with a typical product launch, but with a quiet, seismic release on a developer platform. It ends with a U.S. government scramble to understand an entirely new policy problem: how to regulate an open-source AI model anyone could downl

The Outsider Advantage: Why DeepSeek is Rewriting the AI Rulebook In the high-stakes, multi-billion-dollar race dominated by global AI giants, a name from China is quietly changing the game: DeepSeek . This isn't just a story about a technical marvel; it's the legend of a former quant trading  prodigy who crossed over to become an AI industry disruptor. While most companies are locked in a battle of parameter scale, DeepSeek has carved out a unique path, driven by an obsessiv