Former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu, who joined Tencent to oversee the Hunyuan series, revamped Tencent's research team and brought in former colleague Tian Yonglong to lead multimodal AI development

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Nvidia verbally instructed data center partners to direct at least 51% of cloud services on new contracts to non-Chinese customers, according to reporting by the Financial Times on November 3, 2026

United States export controls introduced in 2022 restricted China's access to advanced Nvidia chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment

Nvidia Corp. removed half of its pre-approved Asian buyers and instructed customers not to rent more than half of their computing power to Chinese entities

Inkling 2 Small includes a vision encoder accounting for 292 million parameters, allowing it to process images and text while outputting text, but does not process audio inputs

U.S. officials assessed that China's Ministry of State Security directed Alice Huang to gather intelligence on American artificial intelligence chips and influence Nvidia to advocate making its advanced chips available to China

Chinese robotics firms accounted for about 90% of humanoid robot shipments in 2025, according to Omdia

Chinese regulators raised foreign investment security concerns over transferring ABB's robotics assets developed in China to Japanese firm SoftBank Group Corp. amid geopolitical tensions with Tokyo and Washington

China's National Development and Reform Commission scrutinised ABB Ltd.'s supply chains and considered requiring intellectual property and manufacturing capabilities to be retained in China or spun off to local owners

China's National Development and Reform Commission blocked SoftBank Group Corp.'s planned $5.4 billion acquisition of ABB Ltd.'s robotics division in China

ABB Ltd. confirmed on November 5, 2026, that SoftBank Group Corp. informed ABB that Chinese regulators prohibited SoftBank's $5.4 billion acquisition of the ABB Robotics business in China

SoftBank Group Corp.'s proposed acquisition of ABB's robotics division cleared China's competition review in February 2026 before becoming subject to a foreign investment security review by the National Development and Reform Commission

The National Development and Reform Commission expressed concern that robotics data from ABB Ltd.'s Chinese operations could be transferred overseas to train artificial intelligence models, including OpenAI

ByteDance Ltd. maintains market dominance in chatbots and video generation, while rival Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. prepares to launch its next-generation foundation model Qwen4

Former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu publicly criticized Tencent's AI development culture for relying excessively on gaming benchmark scores

Tencent stated that the Hy4 model introduces visual understanding, enabling it to execute tasks across command-line and graphical desktop interfaces

Chinese AI developers rent access to restricted Nvidia artificial intelligence accelerators in foreign data centers to bypass U.S. export controls

Oracle canceled a $7 billion chip leasing contract with Tencent after U.S. officials under the Trump administration directly expressed concerns about the $7 billion chip leasing contract

Chinese technology firms have become major customers for data centers operating across Southeast Asia to secure computing capacity

The canceled five-year Oracle-Tencent agreement would have provided Tencent access to approximately 100,000 advanced AI chips

Chinese-origin AI models accounted for 41 percent of downloads on the Hugging Face platform over the past year, according to Hugging Face's spring 2026 report.