Original Research

Independently researched analysis of China's AI ecosystem. Facts, analysis, interpretation and uncertainty are clearly separated; every article includes a China AI Hub View.

• Benchmark Methodology Divergence Across Chinese Vendors

  Research question: To what extent are headline benchmark scores from Chinese model vendors directly comparable, and which methodological differences explain the apparent gaps between them?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• Why the 'Best Coding Model' Claim Is Unprovable

  Research question: Given the deepened coding benchmark data now in the database, can any vendor's claim to be the 'strongest coding model' in China be independently verified — and if not, what does the divergence actually establish?

  2026-09-29 · updated 2026-09-29

• China AI Agent Ecosystem: Structure and Gaps

  Research question: How dependent is China's AI agent ecosystem on single-vendor model stacks, where do genuinely cross-model (neutral) agents exist, and what structural gaps does that dependency create?

  2026-09-29 · updated 2026-09-29

• Chinese AI Coding Models: The Agent-Led Race

  Research question: How do Chinese labs compete in the coding space — through agents, subscriptions or benchmark scores — and what do the vendor-reported numbers actually establish?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• Chinese AI APIs Compared: Six Platforms, One Shape

  Research question: How do the six official Chinese AI API platforms differ in practice on authentication, protocol compatibility, model routing, regions and rate limits?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• Context Windows in China: 1M Tokens as Table Stakes

  Research question: How do context windows and maximum output tokens distribute across Chinese frontier models in 2026, and what does the tiering reveal about the market's long-context economics?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• China's Six AI Labs Explained: Who Builds What

  Research question: Who are the organizations behind China's frontier AI models, and how do their founding histories, corporate structures and product strategies explain the shape of the model landscape in 2026?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• Chinese AI Model Licences: MIT, Apache, Custom

  Research question: How do the licenses on China's open-weight frontier models actually differ, and what revenue or usage thresholds change what a commercial adopter owes?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• How Chinese AI Model Pricing Changed: Flash Tiers

  Research question: What has actually changed in Chinese AI model API pricing during 2026, and what does the current price structure across six providers reveal about the economics of the market?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• How Chinese Models Use Mixture of Experts

  Research question: How do Chinese frontier labs design Mixture-of-Experts architectures in 2026, and what do activation ratios and linear-attention hybrids reveal about the economics of serving these models?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• Multimodal Chinese Models: Vision, Video, Computer Use

  Research question: Which Chinese frontier models actually support vision, video and computer-use in 2026, and how does multimodal capability distribute across price tiers and vendors?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• GLM and Agent-Oriented AI: Zhipu's Open-Weight Stack

  Research question: How does Zhipu AI's GLM ecosystem operationalize agent-oriented AI, and what does the combination of open weights, a phone agent and a coding subscription reveal about the agent market in China?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• Chinese API Pricing: From Price War to Tiered Plans

  Research question: What do the documented price-change events in China's AI API market actually show — is the market still racing to the bottom on per-token price, or has it migrated to a different pricing instrument?

  2026-09-29 · updated 2026-09-29

• How DeepSeek Changed China's AI Market

  Research question: How has DeepSeek's model, pricing and open-source strategy reshaped the competitive baseline for China's other frontier AI labs?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• Open Weights vs API Economics: The Qwen A95B Case

  Research question: What is the economic function of open-weight releases in China's frontier tier — specifically, why would Alibaba release a flagship-class model like Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, and what does that reveal about open weights as strategy rather than charity?

  2026-09-29 · updated 2026-09-29

• The Rise of Chinese AI Agents: The 2026 Landscape

  Research question: How is China's AI agent landscape structured in 2026 — which companies build which agent types, and what patterns emerge from the distribution?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• Open Weights and API Models: A Structural Analysis

  Research question: How do Chinese model vendors structure the relationship between open-weight releases and API-only flagships, and where do the two tracks diverge for adopters?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22

• China's AI Models in 2026: A 19-Model Panorama

  Research question: What does China's frontier model landscape look like in 2026, and what patterns emerge from the distribution of open vs closed, context length and pricing across 19 tracked models?

  2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-22