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China AI Weekly — October 25, 2026
Chinese vendors shipped 95% of global humanoid robots as EU readies a ‘kill switch’ for Chinese firms, deepening tech competition.
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Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe
In Lisbon, Galbot’s listed speakers are its robots. China’s most valuable unlisted humanoid company runs 170+ robot kiosks at home…
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Manus AI: The Agent Company Beijing Would Not Let Go
Meta agreed to pay $2 billion. Beijing said no. Six months later Manus raised $500 million on its own —…
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ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box
Fifty million downloads, a Samsung pre-install deal, a STAR Market IPO in preparation — and no European office, customer or…
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Six Companies Europe Hasn’t Met
Six Chinese companies speaking in Lisbon next month. A model inside Samsung phones, a humanoid factory in Serbia, a robot…
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China AI Weekly — October 18, 2026
Beijing defines a frontier model — two trillion parameters — and exempts open weights from its new export draft. Apple…
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Thirty-Eight Seats in Lisbon
We counted the speakers at Web Summit 2026: China sends 38, almost exactly as many as Germany. The composition says…
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Thirty-Eight Seats in Lisbon
We counted the Web Summit speaker directory: China sends as many speakers to Europe’s biggest tech conference as Germany does.
3 of 8Dealer networksXiaomi’s German Eight
Three of the eight dealer groups Xiaomi signed already carry a Chinese brand — from our census of German networks.
4ModelsOpen Weights, Two Meanings
Four Chinese model releases in one month, four different licences — and what each demands of a European buyer.
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What Chinese models can do, what they cost, and what private users and small businesses should watch out for. Nine pages, free with the Weekly.
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China’s Humanoid Seven
The seven companies that define China’s humanoid industry, profiled in depth and benchmarked against Europe’s Neura.
Web Summit 2026The Chinese delegation to Lisbon
Who is coming, what they build, what isn’t known — and our interviews from the floor, 9–12 November.
Europe × ChinaWhen Chinese AI arrives here
Dealer networks, open weights, chips, policy — the stories where a Chinese company meets a European market.
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Inside China AI is an independent publication edited and published in Germany. We explain China’s AI ecosystem for European readers — with analytical rigour, without geopolitical reflexes, and with every figure linked to its source. No company, Chinese or Western, reviews our articles before publication.