Ant Group Is Building an AI Super App for 1 Billion People — And Nobody Saw It Coming
China's biggest fintech company is quietly testing an AI-powered Alipay that could become the largest AI deployment in history
China's biggest fintech company is quietly testing an AI-powered Alipay that could become the largest AI deployment in history
China's biggest fintech company is quietly testing an AI-powered Alipay that could become the largest AI deployment in history
JPMorgan's Alex Yao argues Chinese AI is consolidating from a fragmented free-for-all to a battle over delivering measurable business value
Moonshot AI's latest coding model is dramatically cheaper than Western competitors while holding its own on agent benchmarks
Valuation jumps from €11.7B to €20B in 9 months. ASML is the largest shareholder. But Mistral is still miles behind OpenAI and Anthropic in users, models, and mindshare.
Altman admits costs are "a huge issue" as Claude Code goes viral. Both companies filed for IPO while losing billions. The token economy just became a race to the bottom.
OpenAI negotiates lease for 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio on former uranium enrichment site. $500 billion full buildout cost, 20-year lease, Nvidia as financial guarantor. First phase 800 megawatts by 2028.
Google overhauls NotebookLM with cloud computer integration, code execution via Antigravity, zero-source web research, and enterprise export options. Powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, it directly challenges Perplexity and OpenAI's research tools.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with massive benchmark gains. Fable 5 hits 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro, crushing GPT 5.5 by 22 points. Mythos 5 is doing autonomous genomics research and novel protein design.
Moonshot AI's Kimi reaches $30B valuation (6x in 6 months), proving Chinese AI can compete globally despite US sanctions and challenging the American AI dominance narrative.