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China Plans to Let Top AI Firms Buy Limited Amount of Nvidia H200 Chips

By Qianer Liu · Jul 8, 2026 7:54am PDT
China plans to allow some of the country’s biggest AI companies to buy a small number of Nvidia’s H200 chips, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The chip purchase approvals would offset a shortage caused by soaring demand for AI chips. U.S. President Donald Trump gave Nvidia permission in December to ship H200 chips to... China plans to allow some of the country’s biggest AI companies to buy a small number of Nvidia’s...
Zhang Peng, CEO of Knowledge Atlas Technology, better known as Zhipu, during the company's listing ceremony at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January. Lam Yik/Getty Images.
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China’s AI Lab Zhipu Weighs Custom Chip As Demand for its GLM Model Soars

By Qianer Liu and Juro Osawa · Jul 7, 2026 6:00am PDT
Zhipu AI, the Chinese AI lab behind the highly regarded GLM series of open-source AI models, is weighing designing its own AI chip as surging demand and U.S. export controls make computing resources a growing constraint, according to three people with direct knowledge of the plan. The Beijing-based company, one of China’s leading AI labs,... Zhipu AI, the Chinese AI lab behind the highly regarded GLM series of open-source AI models, is...
Volkswagen's new electric ID.Unyx.08, designed with China's XPeng for the Chinese market. Photo: Johannes Neudecker/picture alliance/Getty
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In China, Volkswagen Decides It Already Knows How to Make EVs As Fast as the Locals

By Steve LeVine · Jul 2, 2026 9:00am PDT · 1 comment
In Beijing recently, Lan Shanbin, a China-based senior manager of strategy and planning for Volkswagen, was showing off the company’s plush new electric vehicle, which went on sale in mid-April. Dubbed the ID.Unyx 08, it was the first product of a joint venture between VW and a local Chinese startup it had cozied up to—premium EV maker XPeng. In Beijing recently, Lan Shanbin, a China-based senior manager of strategy and planning for...
China Renaissance CEO Fan Bao. Photo by Bloomberg.
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China Tech Headed for Record Year for IPOs Despite Pandemic

By Juro Osawa and Yunan Zhang · Jul 24, 2020 4:34am PDT
The head of China Renaissance Group, one of China’s most influential investment banking and private equity firms, said he expects 2020 to be a record-breaking year for Chinese tech initial public offerings. “Right now the IPO market is sizzling hot,” said China Renaissance CEO Fan Bao, at The Information’s video summit on... The head of China Renaissance Group, one of China’s most influential investment banking and...
Jessica Lessin interviews Alibaba's Joe Tsai. Photo by Brent Pottinger.
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Watch Interviews From Beijing and Hong Kong Summits

By The Information Staff · Oct 6, 2017 2:47pm PDT · 1 comment
If you missed our summit meetings in Hong Kong and Beijing, you can catch up with the videos here. Among those on stage were Joe Tsai of Alibaba, Shou Zi Chew of Xiaomi and Bob Xu of Zhen Fund. If you missed our summit meetings in Hong Kong and Beijing, you can catch up with the videos...
Sinovation founder Kai-Fu Lee. Photo by Bloomberg.
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How China-U.S. Tech Ties Have Evolved

By Shai Oster · Sep 27, 2017 11:59am PDT
Tucked inside a condo around the corner from a Palo Alto supermarket is the North American office of Sinovation Ventures. One of the most active investors in Chinese startups, Sinovation is also building a portfolio of companies in the U.S. The U.S. team is led by Chris Evdemon, a Greek-born, U.K.-educated venture capitalist who cut his teeth in... Tucked inside a condo around the corner from a Palo Alto supermarket is the North American office...