China’s ‘Silicon Valley’ is building robots and fortune-telling AI apps at the same time
- lastmansurfing
- Jan 4
- 1 min read

In what is sometimes dubbed China's Silicon Valley, tech giants and startups in Hangzhou are racing to build cutting-edge chips, robotics and brain-computer interfaces.
Across town, aspiring founders are creating AI pets and fortune-telling apps.
The city on China's southeastern coast is reinventing itself as an artificial intelligence hub. A year after the rise of DeepSeek drew global attention, Hangzhou's fast-moving AI scene reflects both global ambitions and intensifying competition at home.
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