China’s New AI Path: From Policy and Compute to the Consumer “Entrance War” and a List of Popular Tools
China’s New AI Path: From Policy and Compute to the Consumer “Entrance War” and a List of Popular Tools The 2025 Government Work Report includes “AI Plus” as a key priority, explicitly supporting the broad application of large models and the development of intelligent terminals and smart manufacturing equipment. With advanced chips constrained externally, China is placing more emphasis on an engineering-led approach that is deployable, operable, and scalable, while accelerating domestic compute systems (for example, Huawei Ascend and SuperPod-style clusters). On the consumer side, the market is entering an “entrance war”: AI assistants are no longer just for chat, but are becoming workflow entrances for search, reading, writing, and creation, with some products reaching tens of millions to over a hundred million monthly active users. 1. Why China’s AI now looks more like an industry strategy than a lab experiment China’s AI momentum is moving from a “model release wave” to large-scale...