Chinese universities have started distributing free tokens. Hefei University of Science and Technology was the first to announce that it will provide a free daily limit of 100 million tokens to teachers and students in the middle of this year. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications followed suit in September, opening free computer accounts to nearly 10,000 new students, and Shanghai Tongji University last week began providing 100 million tokens a week to all faculty and students. Computing power may soon become as important to universities as libraries and sports facilities. Free tokens help students reduce the cost of coding and creating AI agents. Daily token allocations provide access to popular models including DeepSeek-V4, Zhipu AI's GLM5.2 and Alibaba's Kwon series. At market prices, it is a minimum of 3 US dollars per student per day. In addition to handing out free tokens, Chinese universities are investing in their own computing infrastructure. In September, Beijing Post and Communications University launched the "Everyone Has Computing Power" platform, providing 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students with free access to more than 10 graduate programs and AI agents. Each student gets a dedicated virtual server that they can configure themselves, with AI models already installed and ready to use for tasks like developing their own agents. Chinese threat.

Chinese universities have started distributing free tokens. Hefei University of Science and Technology was the first to announce that it will provide a free daily limit of 100 million tokens to teachers and students in the middle of this year. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications followed suit in September, opening free computer accounts to nearly 10,000 new students, and Shanghai Tongji University last week began providing 100 million tokens a week to all faculty and students. Computing power may soon become as important to universities as libraries and sports facilities. Free tokens help students reduce the cost of coding and creating AI agents. Daily token allocations provide access to popular models including DeepSeek-V4, Zhipu AI's GLM5.2 and Alibaba's Kwon series. At market prices, it is a minimum of 3 US dollars per student per day. In addition to handing out free tokens, Chinese universities are investing in their own computing infrastructure. In September, Beijing Post and Communications University launched the "Everyone Has Computing Power" platform, providing 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students with free access to more than 10 graduate programs and AI agents. Each student gets a dedicated virtual server that they can configure themselves, with AI models already installed and ready to use for tasks like developing their own agents. Chinese threat.