China’s generative AI user base doubles to 515 million in 6 months
China saw a massive uptick in generative artificial intelligence adoption in the first half of the year to…
Cambricon, SenseTime form strategic cooperation to support China’s tech self-reliance push
The two companies intend to leverage their respective hardware and software expertise to promote “a new indigenous AI…
Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek
Reflection AI, a startup founded just last year by two former Google DeepMind researchers, has raised $2 billion…
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group releases powerful AI model to rival DeepSeek and OpenAI
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has released a new open-source, trillion-parameter large language model (LLM) that boasts stronger…
Mapping shifts in the geography of tech innovation: China becomes a big player in AI research
The belief that China is a country only good at adopting technologies at scale has been a “misperception”,…
Hong Kong’s huge year of IPOs continues, with annual crown all but assured
Funds raised from new share sales in Hong Kong jumped 221 per cent in the first nine months…
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app…
DeepSeek releases ‘sparse attention’ model that cuts API costs in half
Researchers at DeepSeek on Monday released a new experimental model called V3.2-exp, designed to have dramatically lower inference…
Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing on January 27, 2025. Chinese…
Alibaba’s Qwen3-Omni tops Hugging Face AI ranking as Chinese open systems flourish
Alibaba Group Holding’s new Qwen3-Omni multimodal artificial intelligence system has quickly become the most popular model in the…
Home-grown heroes: how Huawei and DeepSeek are helping China break reliance on US chips
When Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek unveiled an updated foundational model late in August, investors in Nvidia were…
China’s banks face their ‘Japanification moment’, S&P report warns
China’s banks are edging towards their “Japanification moment”, as years of yielding margins to support the economy have…