The Register on MSN

China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware

Hasn’t revealed how much kit did the job, so Nvidia can probably rest easy Chinese outfit Zhipu AI claims it trained a new ...

The row over South Korea’s push for a native AI model: Chinese code

Korea’s efforts show how hard it is to develop homegrown AI models and break a reliance on U.S. or Chinese tech giants.
Decrypt

China's Z.AI Releases First Major AI Image Generation Model Trained Without American Chips

Image, trained entirely on Huawei chips, as Beijing moves to block Nvidia H200 imports in a push for AI self-reliance.

China’s Zhipu trains AI image model on Huawei Ascend chips amid sanctions

Chinese AI firm Zhipu says GLM-Image was trained on Huawei Ascend chips as China ramps up domestic semiconductors.
Decrypt

Baidu's ERNIE 5 AI Model Rises Up the Rankings—A Math Wiz That Beats OpenAI's GPT 5.1

Baidu's ERNIE-5.0-0110 ranks #8 globally on LMArena, becoming the only Chinese model in the top 10 while outperforming ...