Chinese AI firms defend safety practices, push back on Western criticism
Chinese companies are mitigating the risks of artificial intelligence in their own way and should not be judged…
AI’s next race is energy-efficient architectures, top scientist says
The next phase of global AI competition will hinge less on who can scale today’s transformer models the…
Open Questions | Lawrence Lau on why China must ‘work smarter’ and how it can invent from scratch
Lawrence J. Lau is a Hong Kong economist specialising in economic development and East Asian economies. He was…
China’s tech self-sufficiency powers stock boom and helps it shake off economic malaise
Nearly a year after DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough rattled global markets, mainland China is entering 2026 with a fresh…
Alibaba: the AI kingmaker – Asia Times
A doctor anywhere likely loves using AI as a second opinion on her lawyers’ legal advice, to prepare…
DeepSeek-V3.2 Outperforms GPT-5 on Reasoning Tasks
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3.2, a family of open-source reasoning and agentic AI models. The high compute version, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, performs…
China’s DeepSeek that wiped billions from US stock market in January 2025, sends New Year’s message to American companies
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek unveiled a groundbreaking training method, “Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections,” potentially slashing AI development costs. This innovation…
China’s open-source AI models rival US giants, making engagement urgent: Stanford
China’s open-source artificial intelligence models may have caught up or “even pulled ahead” of their US counterparts in…
Nvidia responds to report claiming China’s DeepSeek that wiped billions from US stock market in January 2025, is using ‘banned’ Nvidia chips
Nvidia has now pushed back against a report claiming that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, whose breakthrough earlier this…
China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after initial ChatGPT shock
Chinese government authorities sent urgent requests to various experts, including professors from Tsinghua University, to provide briefings on…
China aims for twin-track use of Nvidia H200 amid back door fears
Beijing appears to be softening its stance on Nvidia’s H200 graphics processing units (GPUs), with Chinese policymakers and…
Role reversal: Meta adopts Qwen as Chinese AI becomes industry foundation
When US tech giant Meta Platforms released its flagship Llama family of artificial intelligence models in February 2023,…