China AI Desk https://chinaaidesk.com/ An independent journal of China AI, grounded in primary sources. en Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Issue 08: Qwen-Audio 3.0 TTS — a cloned voice is not consent https://chinaaidesk.com/issue-08.html https://chinaaidesk.com/issue-08.html Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What Qwen-Audio 3.0 TTS establishes about real-time synthesis and voice cloning, and why a convincing voice still needs consent, provenance, and revocation controls. Issue 07: Qwen Code worktrees — isolation is not authority https://chinaaidesk.com/issue-07.html https://chinaaidesk.com/issue-07.html Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What Qwen Code's worktree sessions isolate, what they still share, and why a separate checkout does not authorize a separate agent. Issue 06: RxBrain — an imagined next state is not an executed action https://chinaaidesk.com/issue-06.html https://chinaaidesk.com/issue-06.html Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What Tencent's RxBrain release establishes about joint language-visual planning, and what remains unproven between an imagined goal state and robot action. Issue 05: GLM-5.2 — open weights do not make a 744B system local https://chinaaidesk.com/issue-05.html https://chinaaidesk.com/issue-05.html Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What GLM-5.2's open artifacts establish, and what a team still has to prove before calling a 744B-class model local. Issue 04: Qwen Code — learning a workflow is not verifying it https://chinaaidesk.com/issue-04.html https://chinaaidesk.com/issue-04.html Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What Qwen Code's learned Skills and review-loop update establishes, and the evidence a team still needs before relying on an automated workflow. Issue 03: DeepSeek V4 — the alias is not the migration https://chinaaidesk.com/issue-03.html https://chinaaidesk.com/issue-03.html Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What DeepSeek's legacy model-ID cutoff establishes, what it leaves open, and what an API cutover must verify. Issue 02: Kimi K3 — product access first, weights later https://chinaaidesk.com/model.html https://chinaaidesk.com/model.html Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A time-bounded reading of what the Kimi K3 source record supported and what remained for later. Issue 01: The ledger before the voucher https://chinaaidesk.com/policy.html https://chinaaidesk.com/policy.html Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A source-bounded reading of Shanghai's 2026 computing, model, and corpus voucher application notice.