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CX Daily: China’s AI Titans Escalate Battle for Control of Digital Gateways

Published: Dec. 30, 2025  9:00 a.m.  GMT+8
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Cover Story: China’s AI Titans Escalate Battle for Control of Digital Gateways

At the close of 2025, China’s artificial intelligence (AI) market has become an arena of fierce competition. What began as a race to train ever-larger AI models has evolved into a multi-front struggle over users, hardware, talent and capital —pitting the country’s internet giants against one another while forcing once-celebrated startups into difficult strategic choices.

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