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How China’s Token Resellers Create an Anthropic Gray Market

By Jing Yang, Juro Osawa and Qianer Liu · Oct 2, 2026 6:00am PDT
In Beijing’s Haidian District, a bustling hub for local universities and tech companies, six out of the roughly 30 tenants in one run-of-the-mill office building are all in the same business, according to one occupant of the building: selling Chinese customers access to Anthropic’s Claude and other models from U.S. AI companies. They’re not... In Beijing’s Haidian District, a bustling hub for local universities and tech companies, six out...
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China Weighs Allowing Purchases of New Nvidia Chips by ByteDance, Alibaba

By Qianer Liu · Sep 27, 2026 8:00am PDT
China’s government has signaled it could allow some domestic companies to buy a new Nvidia chip built for high-end professional computers, according to two people familiar with the matter, as the country’s AI firms strain for enough computing power to run their chatbots and agents. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which... China’s government has signaled it could allow some domestic companies to buy a new Nvidia chip...
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Exclusive: GM Is Pumping Out Cathodes And Moving to Bypass China's Battery Chokehold

By Steve LeVine · Sep 23, 2026 12:00pm PDT
In 2024, researchers working in a sprawling General Motors lab in Warren, Mich., prepared 18 variations of a new battery chemistry designed to reduce a battery’s cost, one of the biggest obstacles to greater U.S. consumer interest in electric vehicles. GM bosses believed that if they landed on the right formulation for this unusual battery,... In 2024, researchers working in a sprawling General Motors lab in Warren, Mich., prepared 18...
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...