All Labs Watch ByteDance, Everyone Praises DeepSeek: A U.S. Researcher’s 36-Hour China AI Trip

所有实验室都怕字节，所有人都在夸DeepSeek！美国研究员36小时中国AI行

Ai2 researcher Nathan Lambert visited Zhipu, Moonshot AI, Tsinghua, Meituan, Xiaomi, and 01.AI within 36 hours, and said Chinese labs closely watch ByteDance and respect DeepSeek, while student participation in core work, open source habits, and in-house control of the technical stack mark key differences.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the piece has a named US researcher’s dense China-lab tour plus concrete claims on ByteDance, DeepSeek, open source, and in-house stacks. It is strong industry field reporting, not a model launch or major deal, so it sits at featured rather than p1.