Capital injection: China backs AI drug makers in self-reliance drive
Hangzhou-based METiS TechBio, founded in 2020, raised 400 million yuan (US$57.9 million) in series D financing in August…
Can this ‘super antibody’ overpower SFTS, a deadly tick-borne disease?
In the world of tick-borne illnesses, Lyme disease gets the headlines. For example, Greg Yang, one of the…
China’s semiconductor firms post hefty 2025 profits amid AI boom, tech self-reliance drive
Enterprises across China’s semiconductor industry recorded hefty profit growth last year, according to their unaudited financial results, driven…
DeepSeek stays mum on next AI model release as technical papers show frontier innovation
Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek continues to keep the world guessing on when its next major release –…
DeepSeek to customise namesake chatbot for Italian users following probe
Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has agreed to launch the first country-specific version of its namesake chatbot, while…
AI scientist Ling Haibin, father of world’s first plant ID app, leaves US for China
AI scientist Ling Haibin, the acclaimed computer scientist behind the world’s first mobile plant identification app, has left…
DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng makes the cut in top 10 ‘people who shaped science in 2025’
The Nature’s 10 profile of Liang recognised the disruption caused in January by the release of DeepSeek-R1, a…
800 million: how China plans to double its middle-income population
Xiao Mei, a kindergarten teaching assistant living in the suburbs of Hangzhou in eastern China, has barely seen…
Fair wages: China’s young jobseekers take their résumés to trade expos
As China’s youth continue to struggle to find jobs suited to their skills and background, some enterprising hopefuls…
China’s DeepSeek makes rare public comment, calls for AI ‘whistle-blower’ on job losses
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek made a rare appearance at a state-backed industry event on Friday as a…
‘Little Dragon’ Deep Robotics scrambles for top talent amid China’s quest for dominance
Deep Robotics, a Hangzhou-based start-up, is facing a severe talent shortage, hindering its efforts to commercialise the results…
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…