My honest opinion: everything hinges on whether Huawei can truly train DeepSeek v4 entirely on the Ascend chips and run the inference process. If they are efficient enough, and China manages to scale this and thus become truly independent of NVIDIA and CUDA, then China's AI
AI HARDWARE
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Chinese Humanoid Robots Outrun Human Marathon World Record
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Breaking news! Chinese humanoids are now officially faster than humans. 🤯
— Andreas Klinger 🦾 (@andreasklinger) 23 avril 2026
The Beijing E-Town Half Marathon just happened. Humans and humanoids running in parallel. Over 300 robots competed. And the winner, Honor Lightning, beat the human world record holder by seven minutes.… pic.twitter.com/i9PHDdH5ehBreaking news! Chinese humanoids are now officially faster than humans. The Beijing E-Town Half Marathon just happened. Humans and humanoids running in parallel. Over 300 robots competed. And the winner, Honor Lightning, beat the human world record holder by seven minutes.
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Tesla HW3 to HW4 replacement back on table
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Well OK then, HW3 -> HW4 replacement seems to be back on the table. We’ll see if it actually happens. https://t.co/J10ekdI1eD
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) 23 avril 2026Well OK then, HW3 -> HW4 replacement seems to be back on the table. We’ll see if it actually happens.
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DeepSeek Releases Tile Kernels GPU Optimization for LLMs
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DeepSeek just released Tile Kernels! Tile Kernels are optimized GPU kernels for LLM operations, built with TileLang. DeepSeek claims that “most kernels in this project approach the limits of hardware performance in terms of compute intensity and memory bandwidth. Some of them
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Tesla Engineering Team Quietly Improves AI Robot Capabilities
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Love that the fine engineering team at @Tesla snuck this in on the last line in the update notes.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 23 avril 2026
My eight year old robot dramatically improved this week too.
But newer vehicles got a lot better.
Another part of the AI world. https://t.co/CLN16HEMnLLove that the fine engineering team at @Tesla snuck this in on the last line in the update notes. My eight year old robot dramatically improved this week too. But newer vehicles got a lot better. Another part of the AI world.
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Supply Chain Shortage Likely Behind Product Unavailability
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not necessarly. 9to5 mac wrote about it. It is more likely that it is due to a shortage.
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Sony’s Ace Robot Achieves Expert-Level Ping-Pong Play
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Incredible work by Sony published in @Nature today! 🏓
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) 23 avril 2026
They’ve built “Ace”, an autonomous ping-pong robot that uses RL and Sony’s vision sensors to achieve expert-level play in ping pong. A huge leap forward for adaptive robotics.https://t.co/hJqnZzXV17pic.twitter.com/xQ5NThU6xJ https://t.co/hpep1aQsDBIncredible work by Sony published in @Nature today! They’ve built “Ace”, an autonomous ping-pong robot that uses RL and Sony’s vision sensors to achieve expert-level play in ping pong. A huge leap forward for adaptive robotics. https://
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ASML Gap Reveals Where China Lacks Advanced Tech
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True. My post made it sound too general. Not all high tech comes from China. ASML for example shows where China is lacking in tech
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Xiaomi unveils new MiMo-V2.5 open-source models
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Xiaomi released new MiMo-V2.5-Pro and MiMo-V2.5 open-source models. > MiMo-V2.5-Pro, the strongest model yet. > MiMo-V2.5, native omnimodal with strong agentic capabilities.
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Qwen 3.6 27B runs on single RTX 5090, crowned at-home flagship
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This prediction was right, and on a single 5090 not even RTX PRO 6000 Qwen 3.6 27B is the at-home flagship model right now