China Just Released an AI Model That Shouldn’t Exist

China Just Released an AI Model That Shouldn’t Exist

The US government blacklisted Chinese AI startup Zhipu and cut off their access to Nvidia chips overnight. A year later, they released GLM-Image—the first state-of-the-art multimodal AI model trained entirely on Chinese-made Huawei Ascend chips. No Nvidia. No American hardware.

The same week, Zhipu IPO’d in Hong Kong, making it the first LLM company to go public

The timing of this news couldn’t be more interesting. The US just approved Nvidia H200 chip sales to China. Beijing’s response? They told customs to block the imports.

China is betting everything on building AI without American chips. And they’re moving faster than anyone expected.

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