AI apps soar in China as Lunar New Year giveaway battle boosts user growth
Chinese tech giants claimed a victory after a promotional giveaway campaign for their artificial intelligence services during the…
China’s tech giants pursue AI, semiconductor talent in US as competition intensifies
The overseas hiring spree underscores these “big tech” firms’ growing ambitions to build up their skilled workforce in…
China tech’s GPU dilemma: pay more for black-market H200s, or use slower local AI chips
Chinese AI companies wanting high-performance artificial intelligence chips from Nvidia are facing a dilemma: source them from the…
Chinese banks join the space race with satellite launches and rocket backing
Banks do not usually build space assets, but in China, lenders are increasingly leasing satellites, funding rocket firms…
Google study finds DeepSeek, Alibaba AI models mimic human collective intelligence
New Google research into DeepSeek and Alibaba Cloud’s artificial intelligence models has found that powerful reasoning models capable…
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…
China’s AI and EV boom drives record power demand, widening energy gap with US
China’s total electricity consumption hit a record high of 10.4 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2025, more than double…
Tech war: China takes confident strides to develop more AI innovation in 2026
That release was a fitting reminder to the world, especially during the peak of the Christmas holiday season,…
China’s Moonshot AI raises US$500 million in latest funding round: report
Moonshot AI, developer of the highly lauded Kimi AI models, saw IDG Capital lay out US$150 million to…
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…
China’s Qwen and DeepSeek edge out US AI models in Christian values benchmark
Chinese artificial intelligence models from Alibaba Cloud and DeepSeek have edged out US-developed models to feature in the…
China’s Moonshot claims to build models with fewer high-end AI chips than US rivals use
In a three-hour-long “ask me anything” session on Reddit on Monday evening, a Moonshot AI representative with the…