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chinese ai
3 dispatches
Xiaomi Launched a Frontier Model Anonymously. Developers Loved It.
Xiaomi deployed MiMo-V2-Pro to OpenRouter under a fake codename, let it top the charts for a week, then revealed who built it. The strategy worked perfectly.
Anthropic Told the Senate That Alibaba Queried Claude 28.8 Million Times
Anthropic accused Alibaba-linked operators of running 28.8 million Claude interactions through 25,000 fake accounts to harvest model capabilities for Qwen.
Four Chinese Labs Rewrote the Open-Weights Leaderboard in 18 Days
GLM-5.1, MiniMax M2.7, Kimi K2.6, and DeepSeek V4 landed in 18 days, all frontier-competitive on coding benchmarks, all priced at a fraction of Claude Opus 4.7.