A Free Model Just Crashed the Coding Leaderboards
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches the best Western models on coding benchmarks at roughly one-sixth the price, and ships under an MIT licence anyone can download. The capability is striking; the real story is the timing, as Washington moves to restrict access to its own top models while a Chinese lab gives its weights away.
Read full story →China Wants a National AI Grid. Its Chips Aren't Ready.
Beijing is drafting a $295 billion plan for a unified national computing network built almost entirely on domestic silicon. The ambition is enormous, but SMIC is stuck near 7nm and running flat out, memory is scarce, and even DeepSeek reportedly slipped back to Nvidia for its hardest training runs.
Read full story →The $5 Trillion Company That Stopped Making Gaming Cards
At CES 2026 Nvidia unveiled no new GeForce card at all. The first firm ever worth $5 trillion now draws over 90% of revenue from data centres, and is betting its next act on "physical AI": robots, factories and a robotaxi service it plans to test by 2027.
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