Enterprise adoption of open-weight AI models is accelerating sharply. Tokens processed via open-weight models on Vercel's AI Gateway jumped from 7% in December 2024 to 56% by August 2025 — an eightfold rise in eight months.
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Global shipments of energy storage for AI data centres reached 10 GWh in just the first five months of 2026, already exceeding all of 2025.
China's Z.ai (also known as Zhipu AI) delayed the public release of GLM-5.3 after discovering its vulnerability reproduction success rate reached 84.5% — fractionally above Anthropic's Claude at 83.8% on the same benchmark.
China now accounts for at least 28% of global manufacturing value-added and covers 100% of UN industrial classifications. Its 'new three' export categories — electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaics — reached nearly $193 billion in 2025, 3.5 times their 2020 level.