First H200s Reached China, But Beijing Kept Them in Hong Kong
About 10,000 chips each to ByteDance and Tencent, against a US licence permitting 100,000 apiece — and a domestic-industry instruction that keeps them off the mainland.
Aug 19, 2026

About 10,000 chips each to ByteDance and Tencent, against a US licence permitting 100,000 apiece — and a domestic-industry instruction that keeps them off the mainland.
Aug 19, 2026

Two days after DeepSeek released Harness as a developer preview, China's largest chat platform made it a plugin — npm install, launch, scan a QR code.
Aug 16, 2026

Executives put rental margins above 30% and said depreciation would be recovered "almost immediately". The capacity is going into Tencent's own models instead.
Aug 13, 2026

Hunyuan 3.0 is a 295-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that fires just 21B parameters per token, ships under Apache 2.0, and edges GPT-5.5 on science — free on OpenRouter through July 21.
Jul 8, 2026
