China’s AI ‘Battle Royale’ Isn’t Chaos. It’s Meta’s Nightmare.
While Meta struggles to copy last year’s models, Chinese AI labs like Meituan are shipping breakthroughs like LongCat-2.0 at a furious pace. The secret isn’t geopolitics — it’s the brutal domestic competition that turns fragmented chaos into a high-velocity innovation engine. When a dozen labs are fighting for survival, they move faster than any centralised giant.