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2026-09-14-Mon
Z.AI completes roughly $5 billion financing through about $2 billion of shares and $3 billion of convertible bonds
▪ Z.AI has turned Hong Kong's public market into a continuing source of research and compute capital; conversion efficiency is the next result to watch.
2026-09-05-Sat
DeepSeek said to plan a cluster of more than 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips in Inner Mongolia
▪ 160,000 Ascend chips under one lab's name moves domestic compute from "usable" to "bet on by a leading lab."
Z.ai's interim report: inference on 100,000 domestic chips, unit token cost down 80% since January
▪ 100,000 domestic chips plus an 80% cost cut — what Z.ai answered in its report is not a technical question but whether its API business can make money.
Moonshot said to weigh a $3B-$5B Hong Kong IPO, listing as soon as this year
▪ By the time Moonshot lists, the market already holds Z.ai's answer sheet — the second model company gets no room to price on narrative.
2026-09-04-Fri
Tmall opens an AI store selling model subscriptions; Z.ai searches jump 40x on day one
▪ Once model subscriptions land on an e-commerce shelf, they get sorted on a price-comparison page like every other commodity.
2026-09-01-Tue
Z.ai's first-half revenue jumps 400% to 954M yuan, still short of its own $200M projection
▪ Revenue up fourfold, stock down sixty percent — that gap is the market repricing the story told by China's model companies.
DeepSeek open-sources V4-Flash-Vision-Exp weights, 305B parameters under an MIT license
▪ 305B weights under MIT put the first squeeze not on OpenAI but on every domestic multimodal API billing by the call.