A mystery model appears on the world’s top video generation benchmark. No name. No branding. No press release. It immediately vaults to #1, beating everything else by a decisive margin. The AI community spends days playing detective. Then Alibaba raises its hand. HappyHorse-1.0 — yes, that’s really what they called it — is now the best AI video generator on the planet. And Alibaba just gave it away for free. ...
The Nvidia Era Is Over — At Least in China DeepSeek’s next flagship model, V4, will run exclusively on Huawei Ascend chips. Not as a backup. Not as a proof of concept. As the entire inference stack. That’s not a press release talking point. That’s a tectonic shift. For years, China’s AI labs quietly depended on Nvidia silicon — H100s, A100s, whatever they could get their hands on through official channels or creative workarounds. That dependency is now ending, and it’s ending fast. ...
Seven words on X brought one of the world’s most important AI teams to its knees. “Me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen.” That was Lin Junyang — the technical architect behind Alibaba’s Qwen model family — on March 3, 2026. No corporate farewell letter. No diplomatic transition plan. Just a gut-punch goodbye that knocked Alibaba’s stock down 4.5% in Hong Kong and left the future of open-source AI’s most prolific Chinese project hanging by a thread. ...
The United States has its executive orders. The EU has its AI Act. But on March 5, 2026, China unveiled something far more sweeping: a 141-page national blueprint that essentially bets the country’s economic future on artificial intelligence. China’s 15th Five-Year Plan, released at the opening of the National People’s Congress in Beijing, mentions AI more than 50 times and includes what officials are calling an “AI+ action plan” — a comprehensive strategy to embed artificial intelligence into virtually every sector of the world’s second-largest economy. From manufacturing floors to hospital wards, from logistics networks to classrooms, Beijing is telling the world: AI isn’t a side project. It’s the project. ...