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Friday, 24 July 2026

Chinese Labs' Latest Product? Roleplay

ChinaTalk 2 months ago 9 ● 2 sources

China became the first country to regulate anthropomorphic AI services on July 15, with rules banning emotional manipulation and limiting minors' access, prompting ByteDance and Alibaba to remove some companion offerings. According to OpenRouter and Andreessen Horowitz's 2025 State of Open Models study, roleplay was the most token-intensive use case for open-source AI models last year, consuming hundreds of thousands of hours. Chinese AI labs like MiniMax and DeepSeek are now building roleplay-specific products and evaluation benchmarks, while Western companies treat the category as a small niche despite its actual scale.

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DeepSeek Founder Liang Wenfeng Resurfaces with Long-term Research Insights

Hello China Tech 2 months ago 29

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng discussed the company's strategy in a leaked 4-hour investor meeting transcript, framing the performance gap with US AI labs as primarily a compute resource constraint rather than a talent or fundamental capability difference. Liang stated DeepSeek spent roughly 20 billion yuan in 2026 and operates with about one-twentieth of the compute available to major US competitors, with a goal of narrowing the timeline gap from two years to six months or less. The company plans to rely more on domestic Chinese chips (particularly Huawei's 950), maintain aggressive low-cost API pricing that recovers equipment costs in 10 months, and prioritize team retention through equity grants as critical to reaching AGI.

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