Beyond DeepSeek: China’s Diverse Open-Weight AI Ecosystem and Its Policy Implications

Three months after the Chinese AI company DeepSeek shocked global markets with a highly capable reasoning model, another China-linked company made a splash with a capable agentic AI system. Did Manus, released in March 2025, portend Chinese leadership in AI systems that go beyond chatbots to take action on the user’s behalf? Victor Mustar, head […]

China’s top leader Xi Jinping last week presided over a Politburo study session on artificial intelligence. It was the second such AI-focused study session, the previous dating back to 2018, when Xi had just started his second five-year term and China’s government had recently published the New Generation AI Development plan, setting ambitious targets for […]

On March 22, 2024, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) unveiled the current version of China’s rules governing outbound data transfers. International observers and Chinese legal academics viewed the 2024 rules, which replaced a cumbersome 2022 regime, as a significant move to ease cross-border business. For some companies and organizations, they brought relief from burdensome […]

This article is a preview of DigiChina’s forthcoming in-depth report on the Cyberspace Administration of China. On July 2, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) abruptly launched its first ever cybersecurity review, targeting ride-hailing juggernaut DiDi Global just two days after it raised US$4.4 billion in a New York initial public offering, citing unspecified […]

This knowledge base entry, first compiled on the eve of the Personal Information Protection Law’s implementation, provides links to the wide range of translations and analysis DigiChina has produced on the subject throughout the legislative history of China’s primary data privacy law. DigiChina translations Personal Information Protection Law Final text: Personal Information Protection Law Passed […]