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PartnershipInfrastructure

Nvidia Says AI Data-Center Power Can Take 2–3 Years; Bloom Claims a 55-Day Route

The race to deploy AI computing is increasingly tied to land, grid access and permitting. Onsite fuel cells offer a potentially faster route, but large projects still face regulatory and legal constraints. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has put a hard timeline on a growing constraint for AI infrastructure: securing the land, power and building shell for a data center can take two to three years.

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Open releaseModels

Tencent Releases Open-Source Hy4, a 770B Model That Activates 49B Parameters Per Request

Tencent is pairing a large mixture-of-experts model with plans for product integration, while warning that the preview can spend too long working through difficult questions. Tencent has released Hy4 preview, an open-source model aimed at software engineering, research, and financial analysis. One model, two parameter counts Hy4 uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 770 billion parameters in total.

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FundingStartups

DeepSeek Reportedly Seeks $7.4 Billion at $74 Billion Valuation for Compute Buildout

The proposed financing would move the AI lab further beyond its founder’s quant fund, while giving prospective investors a larger bet on research, infrastructure and a possible Shanghai listing. DeepSeek is reportedly seeking at least $7.4 billion in new funding at a potential $74 billion valuation, a proposed round aimed at research and development and an expansion of its computing infrastructure.

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Government actionBusiness

Nvidia Optimizes DeepSeek and Qwen as It Warns U.S. Limits Could Hit Business

The company is making its stack easier to use with prominent Chinese open models, but the potential limits it flagged have not been defined as a final rule. Nvidia is deepening support for Chinese open AI models while warning investors that prospective U.S. restrictions on such support could materially affect its business. The distinction matters because open models can be downloaded, modified and self-hosted.

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LaunchModels

Z.ai Says 100,000 Chinese Chips Serve GLM-5.3-Flash; Shares Rise More Than 8%

The low-cost model is a test of whether China-made hardware can support a public AI service at scale, but Z.ai has not named the chipmakers behind the system. Z.ai says its new GLM-5.3-Flash model is handling every online request on 100,000 China-made chips, putting a public model service on wholly domestic hardware at substantial claimed scale. Its Hong Kong-listed shares rose more than 8% after the launch.

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BenchmarkProducts

Tiangong Ultra Runs 100 Meters in 8.86 Seconds, While Safe Stopping Remains Unresolved

The Beijing competition made athletic progress visible, but its practical events point to the work still needed on deceleration, dexterity and autonomous operation before broader deployment. Humanoid robots are now posting sprint times beyond the human world record. Organizers said more than 600 teams brought over 2,000 robots, including participants from China and 15 other countries.

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LaunchProducts

EMXETF Lists TGRZ, a China LLM ETF With an 80% China-Exposure Mandate

The new actively managed fund packages China’s AI-model push into a U.S.-traded product, but its 80% investment requirement still leaves manager discretion, derivative exposure and China-specific market risks. EMXETF has launched the China AI Tigers LLM ETF, trading on Nasdaq as TGRZ, promising targeted exposure to China’s large-language-model and generative-AI industry. The fund is actively managed by Kevin T.

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LaunchModels

China Media Group Launches AI Media System Push With Telecom, Cloud and Chip Partners

The effort links a broadcaster’s production workflow to telecom networks, cloud computing, chips and security systems, but leaves the eventual model and deployment timetable undefined. China Media Group has launched two co-building initiatives intended to create a media-specific AI system: one organized around ecosystem infrastructure and another around a large model for audiovisual media.

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EarningsBusiness

Cramer: Nvidia Results May Move an AI Trade Facing Memory and China Risks

Jim Cramer remains bullish on Nvidia, but says investors will use its report to assess whether supply constraints, data-center buildouts and competitive pressure can curb the wider AI spending cycle. Nvidia is scheduled to report earnings after Wednesday’s market close, and Jim Cramer says investors will look beyond the headline numbers. The stakes are heightened by where the shares stood entering the report.

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Beijing Humanoid Games Put Practical Work to the Test; Only 3 of 12 Finish Fire Course

The games paired spectacle with multi-step chores and emergency work, where task switching, human control and offboard computing remain central constraints. The harder question at Beijing’s World Humanoid Robot Games was not how fast a robot could run, but whether it could complete a changing job. Human teleoperation was allowed in some events, with score penalties for remotely controlled robots.

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BenchmarkProducts

Tiangong Ultra Runs 100m in 8.86 Seconds, Then Hits a Stopping Mat

The Beijing race shows a sharp jump in humanoid sprint performance, but its finish also exposed a basic operational constraint: Tiangong Ultra needed a thick mat to stop and caught fire after impact. Tiangong Ultra, a humanoid robot from the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, ran 100 metres in 8.86 seconds in a large-size division semifinal at Beijing’s World Humanoid Robot Games. High jump: 2.88 metres.

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Culture

Shanghai Robot Carnival Pairs Humanoid Spectacle With Safety and Cost Limits

The holiday showcase made robots a family attraction, but its coffee-making humanoid and T-shirt-folding arms also exposed the gap between public enthusiasm and a settled everyday role. Humanoid robots performed drunken boxing and front flips for families at a public robot carnival on Shanghai’s outskirts. Its activities were mostly for show: after the humanoid performances, the audience chanted for more.

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Government actionPolicy

Taiwan Indicts Nvidia Manager Over Alleged Diversion of 74 B300 Servers to China

The case centers on an alleged mismatch between where 130 AI servers were documented as installed and where authorities say 74 ultimately went, testing export controls from paperwork to border inspection. Taiwan has indicted an Nvidia manager surnamed Chang and eight others over an alleged operation that sent 74 servers carrying high-end B300 chips to Chinese customers.

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Government actionInfrastructure

Trump Urges Cities to Welcome AI Data Centers as State Backlash Builds

Trump is urging local leaders to compete for computing campuses on the promise of jobs and tax revenue. The dispute centers on whether those benefits outweigh concerns over electricity, water, environmental effects and coordination with local governments. Trump’s case: jobs, taxes and power Trump also claimed that the United States was leading China in AI by a wide margin.

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