China AI, from the inside.
AIGC Newsletter is evidence-led intelligence on China’s frontier AI — the models, the labs, the compute economics, and the rules that shape them — written for builders, investors, and decision-makers outside China.
Every piece starts from primary Chinese-language sources: official lab announcements, regulatory filings, open-source repositories, and the developer discourse that rarely travels beyond the firewall. From each, we extract what matters: what happened, what the evidence shows, whether you can use it outside China, who it affects, and what comes next.
What you’ll find here
AIGC Weekly — a five-minute briefing on the week that mattered in Chinese AI: new weights, new releases, new prices. Every claim linked to its primary source.
China AI Focus — longer, structural analysis: the API price war and who is really paying for it, how labs engineer around compute constraints, the open-weights strategy, the embodied-AI buildout. Facts, interpretation, and uncertainty — kept strictly apart.
The Model Index — living data on open weights, licenses, context windows, and API pricing, maintained continuously at aigc.news.
Chinese sources are linked in the original. Translations are marked as translations. Unconfirmed claims stay labelled as unconfirmed. That discipline is the product.
Who I am
I’m Pxiaoer. I build AI products and have spent my career in NLP — model workflows, agent systems, cross-border deployments. I read the Chinese sources so you don’t have to, and I write for people who make decisions: which model, which license, which price, which risk.
The site and the letter
aigc.news is the data desk: the Chinese AI Model Registry, a verified event timeline, and the company directory. The newsletter is where the same evidence becomes judgment.
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