Chinese Economy
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Alibaba's 20GW Bet Shows China's AI Race Is Now About Power, Not Just Models
Five to ten trillion parameters, a 500,000-chip cluster and 20 gigawatts of data center capacity. Alibaba is betting that owning the full stack, from models to chips to power, matters more than any single number.
The Real ASML Number Isn't the 3% Pop, It's the 30% Capacity Hike
ASML's rally isn't just an AI trade. Customers are already locking in 2027 tool slots, and ASML is raising Low-NA EUV capacity by roughly 30% to keep up.
US Stocks This Week: Re-Pricing AI Between 5% Yields and $100 Oil
With the Fed having just hiked again, the 10-year near 5% and Brent near $100, markets are asking whether AI's growth can outrun the cost of capital, and a Thursday US-China summit adds another variable.
What Happens When You Link a Million Chips Slower Than Nvidia's
Huawei's answer to Nvidia is not a faster chip. It is tying together up to a million processors so they act as one machine, a bet that the real unit of competition in AI chips is shifting from the chip to the system.
AI's Next Bottleneck May Not Be GPUs. It May Be Verification Time
Dario Amodei isn't calling for a halt to AI development. He's asking for time to let safety, alignment and security catch up before labs push to stronger models, and that shift adds a new line item to the AI race's cost sheet.
China's AI Labs Used Claude as a Teacher. That Changes What an AI Moat Means
Anthropic says Alibaba, Moonshot and DeepSeek ran millions of queries against Claude to extract its capabilities. Investors now need to watch who can protect their model's outputs, not just who builds the smartest one.
The Companies Building AI Want to Slow Down. The White House Wants to Speed Up.
The AI safety debate is shifting from an ethics question to an industrial speed question. What investors need to watch is not whether regulation happens, but which safety standards could bend the slope of model launch cycles, GPU orders, and data center capex.
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