Hey Lobsters, welcome to this 6th edition of ShanghAI.

The goal of this weekly newsletter is to share my latest discoveries on Chinese AI models, that I dig directly from Chinese tech forums and WeChat accounts to provide you with exclusive insights.

I’m tracking a massive wave on WeChat right now. While the West is distracted, Kunlun Wanwei just announced the "Invite-Only" launch of Skycraft 3.5 (天工) for April 17th.

It’s being hailed as the first Chinese model to achieve true "Intelligence Emergence”.

Jointly developed by Kunlun Wanwei and Singularity Brain, Skycraft 3.5 (天工) is a flagship LLM that marks a turning point in the Chinese ecosystem.

It’s officially branded as the first domestic model to reach "Emergence", the threshold where an AI stops just predicting words and starts demonstrating complex, unpredictable problem-solving abilities.

The breakthrough here is its integration with the Ascend hardware ecosystem. Ascend is a high-performance AI processor series developed by Huawei designed to provide the massive computing power needed to train and run complex large-scale AI models independently of Western chipmakers.

Skycraft 3.5 is built to be the "Command Center" for the next generation of Chinese AI Agents. It’s specialized in two high-value domains: ultra-creative content generation and hyper-intelligent customer operations.

In the 2026 landscape, Skycraft is positioning itself as the "Thinking Brain" that will power everything from autonomous marketing suites to complex industrial robotics.

You can leverage Skycraft 3.5's "Emergence" capabilities to build a creative department that actually thinks for itself, replacing the need for constant human prompting and oversight.

This creates a massive opportunity for businesses to deploy Autonomous Creative Agents that don't just follow instructions but propose entire brand evolutions by analyzing market shifts in real-time.

The workflow is revolutionary because Skycraft 3.5 specializes in "Downstream Integration," meaning it can act as the conductor for other specialized AIs-it can trigger a video generation model, refine the script based on viewer sentiment, and adjust the marketing strategy without human intervention.

The ROI is massive: instead of paying a creative agency $15k per campaign, Skycraft acts as a Senior Creative Director that learns your brand's DNA and generates high-converting assets for roughly $0.05 per task.

You aren't just buying an AI tool; you're acquiring a "Strategic Mind" that works 24/7 to outperform your competitors' marketing for the cost of a daily coffee.

Skycraft 3.5 officially starts its Invite-Only Beta on April 17, 2026. This is the "Golden Window" where the first users get to define the downstream applications.

The only thing stopping most people from using Skycraft is the massive "China Wall" - the annoying Chinese phone number requirements, VPN lags, and broken setups that waste hours of your time.

I’ve spent the last weeks testing a specific workaround that lets you bypass the entire verification process and get the English interface running on your phone or laptop in under five minutes.

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