//RESEARCH

Reports & analysis.

Deep-dive research on AI, semiconductors, robotics, and energy infrastructure.

Research #15

April 27, 2026AI CompaniesSubscribers

DeepSeek V4: Architecture & Performance Deep Dive

How CSA/HCA + 384-expert MoE + FP4-native KV compression collapse the memory wall and put H100 back on the price-performance frontier.

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Research #14

March 11, 2026AI CompaniesSubscribers

The Qwen Exodus: Can China's Open-Source AI Dominance Survive a Leadership Vacuum?

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Research #13

March 3, 2026AI CompaniesSubscribers

The Distillation Debate: Separating Signal From Noise in the US-China AI Capability Transfer Controversy

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Research #12

January 16, 2026AI CompaniesSubscribers

DeepSeek's mHC vs. ByteDance's DLCM: Two Paths to Architectural Efficiency Under Silicon Constraints

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Research #11

December 17, 2025AI CompaniesSubscribers

DeepSeek V3.2: How Sparse Attention and Scalable RL Are Closing the Gap With GPT-5

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Research #10

November 17, 2025AI CompaniesSubscribers

Kimi K2's Native INT4 Revolution: How Moonshot Is Turning Hardware Constraints Into Architectural Advantage

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Research #09

October 3, 2025AI CompaniesSubscribers

Alibaba's Qwen Ecosystem: Evaluating the "Open-Source Android of AI" Strategy and Its Enterprise Readiness

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Research #08

September 24, 2025Hardware MigrationSubscribers

The Great GPU Migration: Realistic Timelines and Technical Roadblocks in China's Nvidia-to-Ascend Transition

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Research #07

August 7, 2025AI EconomicsSubscribers

The Economics of AI Inference: Why Most Open-Source Model Hosting Is a Money-Losing Proposition

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Research #06

July 25, 2025RoboticsFree

Humanoid Robotics Intelligence: Why the East-West VLA Paradigm Split May Define the Next Decade of Embodied AI

Research #05

May 19, 2025AI CompaniesFree

DeepSeek R2: The 1.2 Trillion Parameter Bet on Multimodal AI and Hardware Sovereignty

Research #04

May 2, 2025AI InfrastructureFree

MCP: The Universal Standard That May Accidentally Lock In the Next Decade of AI Agent Infrastructure

Research #03

April 7, 2025AI EconomicsFree

The Great AI Pricing War: Why Chinese Models at 5% of US Rates Are Reshaping the Global AI Stack

Research #02

February 7, 2025AI CompaniesFree

DeepSeek's $30M Disruption: How China's Most Efficient AI Lab Rewrote the Rules of Large Model Economics

Research #01

December 18, 2024AI CompaniesFree

Baidu's AI Pivot: Can ERNIE and Apollo Go Deliver on China's Largest AI Ecosystem Bet?