China AI Digest — independent coverage of China's AI industry: policy, research, and companies.https://chinaaidigest.com/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/ai-value-migration/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/ai-value-migration/As intelligence becomes engineered, value shifts from software to infrastructure and organizational networks.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTopinionindustryhttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/lobster-era-llm-profit/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/lobster-era-llm-profit/OpenClaw's viral agent framework drives explosive token consumption, handing LLM companies an unexpected revenue lifeline.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTagentscompanieshttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/optimize-win-rate-not-odds/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/optimize-win-rate-not-odds/A founder explains why the best entrepreneurs optimize for win rate, and how AI's biggest lever is coding democratization.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTopinioncompanieshttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/robot-investors-elderly-care/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/robot-investors-elderly-care/AI companion robots meet China's 310 million seniors as investors bet on the silver economy's next inflection point.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTroboticscompanieshttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/when-era-passes-shanghai/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/when-era-passes-shanghai/How Shanghai's industrial strategy evolved from Tesla's factory to AI compute vouchers and institutional innovation.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicyindustryhttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/china-devouring-openclaw/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/china-devouring-openclaw/From Tencent's street booths to government subsidies and Big Tech clones, China has mobilized around OpenClaw at breakneck speed.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTagentsopen-sourcehttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/hormuz-trade-disruption/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/hormuz-trade-disruption/War doesn't just stop ships — it shatters the trust infrastructure behind logistics, capital, and information that global trade depends on.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTgeopoliticstradehttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/nvidia-open-source-order/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/nvidia-open-source-order/Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Super publishes weights, data, and training recipes — eclipsing DeepSeek in openness to sell more GPUs.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTopen-sourcenvidiahttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/pixverse-funding-record/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/pixverse-funding-record/PixVerse closes a record $300M Series C, betting on consumer video creation, real-time world models, and a global market.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTfundingvideo-generationhttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/stardynamics-embodied-intelligence/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/stardynamics-embodied-intelligence/The founder of StarDynamics on why VLA alone won't cut it, why world models are essential for home robots, and his plan to build China's answer to Figure.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTroboticscompanieshttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/ai-may-not-change-work/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/ai-may-not-change-work/Nearly half the global workforce does physical labor that AI can't touch. The real AI anxiety is an elite panic, not a universal crisis.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTlaboropinionhttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/ai-stagnation-revolution-begins/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/ai-stagnation-revolution-begins/When AI technology hits a plateau, most people assume the revolution is over. In reality, that's precisely when it starts for everyone else.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTopinionindustryhttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/compression-is-intelligence/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/compression-is-intelligence/A new paper argues intelligence emerges from computational constraints. AI may not need more data to reach AGI - just more compute and clearer rules.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchagihttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/maximize-ai-effectiveness/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/maximize-ai-effectiveness/Most people can't feel AI's true power because they haven't configured it properly. Memory settings and expert personas transform output quality.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTguideopinionhttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/ai-diffusion-speed-patterns/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/ai-diffusion-speed-patterns/Unlike previous tech revolutions driven by top-down corporate purchases, AI diffuses through employees adopting it on their own - and that changes everything.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTopinionindustryhttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/galbot-embodied-ai-unicorn/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/galbot-embodied-ai-unicorn/How Galbot became China's top embodied AI unicorn at 20 billion yuan, and why its Spring Gala act was the only unscripted one.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTroboticscompanieshttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/robotera-billion-yuan-funding/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/robotera-billion-yuan-funding/Tsinghua-backed RobotEra completes a massive strategic round, positioning its full-stack robotics platform for large-scale commercial deployment.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTroboticsfundinghttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/spring-festival-ai-battle/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/spring-festival-ai-battle/ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu poured nearly 10 billion yuan into China's first full-scale AI war over the 2026 Lunar New Year.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcompaniesindustryhttps://chinaaidigest.com/blog/what-dify-got-right/https://chinaaidigest.com/blog/what-dify-got-right/How Dify grew from an underestimated startup to a phenomenon-level open-source AI platform used by 20% of Fortune 500 companies.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcompanies