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DeepSeek seeks $7.35B in China's largest AI funding round ever. Founder Liang Wenfeng puts in $2.9B of his own money. Moonshot AI hits $20B valuation. InfiniGence AI raises $700M+ for AI infrastructure. And Redis creator antirez builds a dedicated inference engine for DeepSeek V4. May 2026 is the month China's AI industry went all-in.
Three Chinese ministries issued the first national AI agent policy with 19 application scenarios. GB/Z 177—2026 established L1–L4 terminal intelligence grading. Anthropic nears $1 trillion valuation. And China Mobile opened a trillion-token service package. May 2026 will be remembered as the month agents went mainstream.
Wuwenxinqiou raised $100M+ to build China's AI-native infrastructure. DeepSeek launched multimodal capabilities. Alibaba deployed voice-first PC AI. And China's models processed 8 trillion tokens in a week—surpassing the US for the third consecutive time. The foundation layer is finally catching up to the model layer.
ByteDance's Doubao, China's largest AI app with 345M MAU, just launched paid tiers from $9.50 to $72/month. Here's why 120 trillion daily tokens made free unsustainable, and what this signals for the global AI industry.
Kimi hits a $2 billion funding round at a $20 billion valuation while China's AI token consumption surges past the US for the third time. Here's what it means for the global AI landscape.
China's embodied intelligence industry is surging from 1,800 humanoid robots shipped in 2025 to an anticipated 100,000+ in 2026, backed by $195 billion in annual funding and a supply chain that cuts costs to 50% of Western equivalents.
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