China AI Digest (Apr 19, 2026)

Three podcasts, one unifying picture. AI Weekly Talk opens its Magnificent Seven series with Tesla — a company whose deteriorating fundamentals and soaring multiple illustrate what Duan Yongping calls a “price-to-dream” ratio, while MegaPack quietly rides the AI-data-centre power boom. Zhang Xiaoyun’s ninth Global Large Model Quarterly Report with Guang Mi argues Coding is AGI’s second act — with inside reads on Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Meta and xAI, and the claim that frontier models are becoming the new operating system. Dafang Says AI+ does the maths on mass unemployment: apprenticeship pipelines severed, employment polarising, and every job reduced to a moving ROI equation.