In the last week of April 2025, the AI scene remained as hot as ever. Numerous companies and new products emerged, but the spotlight continues to center on the two global powerhouses: China and the United States.
While U.S. giants like Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and Meta continue making bold moves, China remains one of the most crucial AI battlegrounds. Companies such as Alibaba and Xiaomi released new models, and Huawei launched a new AI chip directly challenging Nvidia.
1. Huawei launches Ascend 910C AI chip
Leading Chinese tech giant Huawei has unveiled the latest in its Ascend series: the 910C AI chip. Built on Huawei's self-developed Da Vinci architecture and manufactured using SMIC's N+2 7nm process, it supports high-bandwidth memory (HBM2e) with 3.2 TB/s memory bandwidth and 800 TFLOP/s FP16 compute performance. With Nvidia’s H20 restricted in the Chinese market, the 910C is expected to provide a vital alternative for companies like Baidu and ByteDance.
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2. Microsoft: 20–30% of internal code is AI-generated
At Meta’s LlamaCon event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed that 20–30% of Microsoft’s codebase is now generated by AI, with particularly strong adoption in Python. C++ lags behind. More strikingly, Microsoft’s CTO predicted that by 2030, 95% of code could be AI-generated.
3. Meta launches standalone Meta AI assistant
Meta has introduced a standalone Meta AI assistant app, aiming to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s AI assistant. Integrated across the Facebook platform and other services, this move is part of Meta’s push into the consumer AI space. The company’s latest earnings report noted 3.35 billion daily active users—an immense base for AI rollout.
4. Alibaba unveils Qwen 3 hybrid reasoning AI model
Alibaba has released Qwen 3, a new AI model featuring hybrid reasoning. The update blends traditional generative model capabilities with dynamic reasoning, improving performance on complex tasks that require logic and multi-step thought processes.
5. OpenAI enhances ChatGPT with shopping features
OpenAI continues to upgrade ChatGPT, this time adding shopping features. With this update, OpenAI steps further into the e-commerce sector, aiming to expand its AI’s utility in commercial applications.
6. Xiaomi releases open-source AI model MiMo
Chinese tech giant Xiaomi launched its own open-source large AI model named Xiaomi MiMo. Designed with human-like reasoning, MiMo is comparable to DeepSeek’s DeepSeek-R1. According to Xiaomi, MiMo outperforms OpenAI’s o1-mini and Alibaba’s Qwen2.5 in mathematical reasoning and code generation.
7. Google releases AI-driven language learning tools
Google announced three new AI experimental projects focused on personalized language learning. While still in early stages, these tools, powered by Google’s multimodal large language model, appear to challenge leading language learning platforms like Duolingo.
In conclusion, this week’s developments highlight that the AI race between China and the U.S. has reached a boiling point.
The global leadership in AI will no longer be determined solely by model performance or compute power—but rather by a nation's strategic vision, infrastructure readiness, ecosystem depth, and regulatory clarity. This AI competition is not just about technology—it's about who will lead the next era of global innovation and influence.
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