Five items this morning, and four of them are really one item wearing different clothes: who gets to decide how fast AI moves, and on whose hardware. China’s AI Plan Now Runs on Huawei’s Delivery Calendar Liang Wenfeng rarely says anything in public, so the framing matters. Training DeepSeek’s models on Huawei silicon is, in his words, one of the company’s biggest bets. He called it a bet, which is a stronger word than a company hedging against tighter export controls would reach for.

Moonshot AI closed a $3.5 billion round at a $35 billion valuation, having initially targeted somewhere between $1 billion and $2 billion, and plans a Hong Kong listing as early as this year. CXMT’s IPO prospectus disclosed that Alibaba holds a stake of nearly 5%, now worth more than $20 billion, against a closing market capitalization of roughly $464 billion on July 28. One model developer and one DRAM manufacturer, heading for the same venue, at valuations set almost entirely by domestic capital.