Two new affordable smartwatches launch with aluminum alloy cases
ⓘ Rollme Rollme AI Watch 2 (right) and AI Watch 3 (left) both feature aluminum alloy cases. Rollme…
China’s ‘K-shaped’ economy is divided not just by sector, but geography
China’s so-called K-shaped economy has attracted attention in recent months, as official data shows a disparity between the…
Chinese company founder who Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs complained about to US government is now the world’s richest AI startup billionaire
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is now the world’s richest AI model startup founder. His net worth surged to…
China’s EV fleet is world’s most underestimated AI asset
History has a habit of concealing its most consequential turning points inside the mundane. The invention of the…
ChatGPT now controls less than 50% of the AI assistant market
ⓘ Chat GPT ChatGPT has fallen below 50% market share for the first time. ChatGPT’s share of the…
AI Routing Startups Like OpenRouter, Concentrate AI See Funding Boom
The backlash against rising AI costs is growing, and now investors are pouring cash into startups that help…
DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round
DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first round of venture capital, and in just a few weeks,…
DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4, a…
China Shock 2.0 jolts global economy as Trump does Xi’s work
TOKYO — On top of the tariffs, wars and inflation upending the global economy, US chieftains are grappling…
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…