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…
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…
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…
Nothing is given: China’s open-source AI tsunami
Innovation never follows a script. It accelerates, stumbles and surprises. Two years ago, a leaked Google memo warned…
What Nvidia’s Jensen Huang won’t say about the AI race
The AI race is a topic that has mostly been kept politely out of the discourse by those…
Hong Kong roars ahead as top wealth hub, overtaking Singapore
Hong Kong has seen a sharp increase in wealthy clients opening accounts to manage their assets this year,…
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…
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…
Domesticization Hopes Sprouting in the Era of Large Models
According to a report by Xin Dongxi on September 17th, today, the 2025 Global AI Chip Summit was…
Open Questions | Dong Yu on why ‘every chapter’ of China’s 5-year plans boils down to income
Dong Yu has been executive vice-president of the China Institute for Development Planning at Tsinghua University since 2019.…
Tencent counts on demand for Chinese AI tools to lift overseas cloud computing business
Tencent Holdings is aiming for “aggressive” growth in the international cloud computing market, on the back of the…