China

8 entries between July 2017 and August 2026, 3 turning points.

Turning points

  1. Nvidia loses $589 billion in a day after DeepSeek’s R1

    Investors sold AI-linked technology stocks on 27 January 2025 after DeepSeek’s R1 raised doubts about future demand for high-end AI chips. Nvidia fell about 17 percent and shed roughly $589 billion in market value in one session. The Nasdaq Composite fell more than 3 percent.

  2. The US restricts advanced chip exports to China

    The US Bureau of Industry and Security issued an interim final rule on 7 October 2022 restricting exports to China of advanced computing chips, chip-making equipment, and related technology. Its provisions took effect in stages on 7, 12, and 21 October.

  3. China’s State Council issues a national AI plan to 2030

    China’s State Council issued the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, a three-stage roadmap to 2030 covering theory, technology, industry and military-civil integration, with the stated aim of making China the world’s leading center of AI innovation.

Every entry

  1. Alibaba announces Qwen3.8-Max, its largest model to date

    Alibaba announced Qwen3.8-Max on 3 August 2026 with 2.4 trillion parameters, about 95 billion active at a time through a sparse mixture of experts, a context window up to 1 million tokens, and native text, image and video input. Weights were scheduled to follow a week later.

  2. DeepSeek releases V4-Flash for general availability

    DeepSeek made deepseek-v4-flash generally available on 31 July 2026, reporting that it substantially exceeded the V4-Pro-Preview across nine agent benchmarks on the same architecture, with the gains from further post-training. Pricing held at $0.14 and $0.28 per million tokens.

  3. Nvidia loses $589 billion in a day after DeepSeek’s R1

    Investors sold AI-linked technology stocks on 27 January 2025 after DeepSeek’s R1 raised doubts about future demand for high-end AI chips. Nvidia fell about 17 percent and shed roughly $589 billion in market value in one session. The Nasdaq Composite fell more than 3 percent.

  4. DeepSeek releases R1, an open-weight reasoning model

    The Chinese laboratory DeepSeek released R1 on 20 January 2025, an open-weight model trained with reinforcement learning to work through problems step by step. It matched OpenAI’s o1 on several benchmarks at a small fraction of the reported training and inference cost.

  5. The US restricts advanced chip exports to China

    The US Bureau of Industry and Security issued an interim final rule on 7 October 2022 restricting exports to China of advanced computing chips, chip-making equipment, and related technology. Its provisions took effect in stages on 7, 12, and 21 October.

  6. BAAI unveils Wu Dao 2.0, a 1.75-trillion-parameter model

    The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence unveiled Wu Dao 2.0 on 1 June 2021, a multimodal pretrained model it said used 1.75 trillion parameters, about ten times the count in GPT-3. BAAI said it trained on 1.2 terabytes of English and Chinese text.

  7. National Security Commission delivers its final AI report

    The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, chaired by Eric Schmidt with vice chair Robert Work, delivered a final report of more than 700 pages to Congress on 1 March 2021, arguing the United States was not prepared to compete with China on AI.

  8. China’s State Council issues a national AI plan to 2030

    China’s State Council issued the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, a three-stage roadmap to 2030 covering theory, technology, industry and military-civil integration, with the stated aim of making China the world’s leading center of AI innovation.