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Inside China's Machine

Moonshot
The Largest Open Model Ever Built. Shipped Without a Keynote. It Knocked Chip Stocks Down on Thursday. By Sunday It Had Run Out of Chips. The Constraint…
Jul 21 • Inside China's Machine and Hugo
Zhipu AI
The World’s First Listed AI Lab. Up Twenty-Five-Fold at Its Peak. Its Best Model Is Free. It Loses Six Yuan for Every One It Earns. The Price Was Never…
Jul 14 • Hugo and Inside China's Machine
Humanoid Robotics Value Chain
The trillion-dollar stack. Six layers. Three profit pools. Where the next decade of capital actually accrues.
May 14 • Hugo and Inside China's Machine
Unitree
Filed for a $7 Billion IPO. The Price Destroyer. 5,500 Humanoids Shipped. Now Profitable. Waiting on a Brain.
May 11 • Hugo and Inside China's Machine
China’s AI Platform War
Four Tech Giants. Four Strategies: Super-App, Token Hub, Full Stack, Distribution Flood. No Clear Winner. One Map.
Apr 29 • Hugo and Inside China's Machine
DeepSeek V4
Two Open-Weight Models. Eight Chip Families. One Frontier Co-Engineered for Non-Nvidia Silicon. The Stack Was the Moat. Now It Has a Fork.
Apr 27 • Hugo and Inside China's Machine
AgiBot
The world’s top-shipping humanoid maker in under three years. Now comes the hard part.
Apr 15 • Hugo and Inside China's Machine
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