Zhipu GLM-5.1 in 2026: The Open Model Trained Without a Single Nvidia GPU
GLM-5.1 is the Claude alternative that costs $3 a month and was trained without any Nvidia hardware. Zhipu’s model is a geopolitical statement as much as a technical one.
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Moonshot Kimi K2.6 in 2026: The Open Model That Out-Codes GPT-5.5
Moonshot’s Kimi K2.6 did something no open model had done before: beat a frontier US model at real-world coding. Here’s how the Beijing startup became the agent-coding leader.
DeepSeek in 2026: How a Chinese Lab Became the Price-Performance King of AI
DeepSeek went from unknown quant-fund side project to the model that reset global AI pricing. Here’s what DeepSeek V4 actually is in 2026, and the honest case for and against using it.
ByteDance Doubao in 2026: China’s Most-Used AI App, Explained
ByteDance turned its TikTok-scale distribution into the world’s 4th-largest AI app. Doubao isn’t chasing benchmarks — it’s chasing hundreds of millions of users. Here’s how.
Alibaba Qwen in 2026: The Most Complete AI Model Family in the World
Alibaba’s Qwen is the quiet giant of Chinese AI — the broadest model family in existence, an open-weight ecosystem rivaling Meta’s, and a flagship that just cracked the global top 10.