China AI

China AI surveys the country’s major AI platforms and how they reshape search and discovery — Baidu ERNIE, Alibaba Tongyi and Qwen, ByteDance, DeepSeek, and others. Rather than model-card trivia, we focus on productised AI search, generative answers, and recommendation shifts that marketers can observe in live products.

Coverage links AI product news to SEO and visibility: citations, answer engines, ecommerce assistants, and cross-platform discovery across search and super-apps. When a China AI launch changes what gets summarised or recommended, we spell out the marketing implication.

A market-level archive for international search teams who need China AI context without drowning in research-paper noise — International Search Insights editorial throughout.

Cohere Says Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Tried to Upload a File to a Beijing Bucket After Saying It Wouldn’t Use Tools

China’s AI Export Registration: DeepSeek and MiniMax Cleared, and MOFCOM Says API, App and SaaS Access Isn’t a Technology Export

Sogou Strips Its Homepage to a Search Box and an AI Mode Powered by Yuanbao — While Sogou Wenwen Shuts Down on 7 November

A Beginner’s Guide to Qwen and Qwen Agents

DeepSeek Closes a ¥100bn ($15bn) Round Led by CATL and Tencent at a ~$74bn Valuation as a Shanghai IPO Comes Into View

Weibo Rebuilds Hot Search Around Events and Viewpoints — Older Posts Without the Hashtag Can Now Surface, and an AI ‘Chief Editor’ Is in Testing

DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, the Engine That Serves Its Answers — Deterministic Output, Huawei Ascend Support and Some Missing Parts

Tencent Opens Yuanbao Search to Developers at ¥14 per 1,000 Calls — Built on Sogou, Priced Against DeepSeek, and Made for Agents

China Put RMB250 Billion Into AI in H1 2026, Mostly Into Robots. The US Put $217 Billion Into Two Model Labs

US Orders Federal Agencies to Rip Out DeepSeek — Including Third-Party Tools Built on It, Days After Its Search API Launch