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Alibaba's T-Head unveiled the Zhenwu M890 AI chip with 3x performance, 144GB HBM, and 800GB/s interconnect. With 560,000 units already shipped to 400+ customers, this is how China is building an AI chip empire without NVIDIA.
May 2026 delivered the clearest signal yet that China's AI industry has shifted from a cash-burning sprint to a revenue-generating marathon. DeepSeek accepted its first external funding, Alibaba reported AI revenue exceeding 50% of total cloud income, and ByteDance committed $23 billion to infrastructure. Here's the full breakdown.
Chinese AI models now consume 61% of top-tier global API token volume. MiniMax M2.5 alone processes 5 trillion tokens weekly on OpenRouter — more than GPT-5.5 and Claude 4 combined. Here's how China's 'token export' economy became the invisible infrastructure powering developers worldwide.
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