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Cambricon Q1 net profit 1.013 billion yuan (+185%), cash flow turned positive at 834 million yuan. Hygon revenue 4.034 billion yuan (+68%), DCU revenue 1.414 billion yuan (+120%). Moore Threads achieved quarterly profitability for the first time. Domestic GPU cloud market share hit 41% — an all-time high. The quarter that proved China's AI chip industry has reached escape velocity.
With 250 million Xiaohongshu views in one week, China's office workers are abandoning manual slide design. WPS AI and iSlide AI generate boardroom-ready presentations in under 3 minutes — at prices 90% below Western alternatives. Inside the productivity inflection point Silicon Valley is underestimating.
91.5% of Chinese AI users cannot reliably detect when a large language model is hallucinating. 70+ government servers deploy DeepSeek unprotected. China's AI trust crisis.
DeepSeek opened to external investors at $45-50B valuation. Kimi closed a $2B round at $20B valuation. AI-driven digital humans and creator tools have turned 48 million Chinese content creators into a monetization machine.
In a single week, China's AI startup valuations jumped by over $100 billion. DeepSeek went from $10B to $50B. Kimi locked in $2B fresh capital. And the entire 'Six Little Tigers' cohort is racing toward IPO.
On April 28, 2026, China's Politburo elevated compute networks to national strategic infrastructure—on par with water and power. The Six Networks blueprint commits 7+ trillion yuan annually, with the compute network receiving over 1 trillion yuan. Here's what happens when a superpower decides AI infrastructure is civilization-critical.
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