Alibaba’s Qwen ramps up AI app race with Spring Festival giveaway blitz
Alibaba Group Holding has joined rivals including Tencent Holdings and Baidu in rolling out Spring Festival red-packet giveaways to drive mass-market adoption of its artificial intelligence apps, comm...
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China’s AI labs race to debut latest models before Lunar New Year
China’s frontier artificial intelligence labs are ending the lunar year on a high note, racing to release a series of new AI models in the last few weeks of the Year of the Snake as the country gears ...
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang urges TSMC to expand capacity amid AI chip crunch
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) needs to “work very hard” to meet growing demand from leading US chip designer Nvidia, which alone could require TSMC to more than double its capacity...
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‘Optimus chain’: Chinese suppliers form the backbone of Tesla’s humanoid robot initiative
Elon Musk wants to bring the production of its Optimus robot to the US amid electric carmaker Tesla’s plan to pivot towards manufacturing humanoids, smart machines that could one day serve as part of ...
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China slaps US$3.7 million fine on Kuaishou over live-streaming e-commerce violation
Chinese regulators have slapped a 26 million yuan (US$3.7 million) fine on a unit of Kuaishou Technology, operator of the country’s No 2 short video platform, over multiple violations and misconduct i...
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China’s Wingtech, owner of Nexperia, expects wider loss amid row over Dutch chipmaker
Wingtech Technology, the Chinese owner of chipmaker Nexperia, is expected to post a loss of between 9 billion yuan (US$1.3 billion) and 13.5 billion yuan in 2025, owing to the Dutch government’s takeo...
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Ant Group’s open-source push aims to move robots from lab demos to real-world work
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has open-sourced its first artificial intelligence models for robotics, as it steps up efforts to build machine intelligence capable of handling complex real-world task...
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China tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba to ramp up AI infrastructure efforts
ByteDance and Alibaba Group Holding are poised to ratchet up their artificial intelligence infrastructure initiatives, as the global AI arms race continues to intensify. The two companies’ latest move...
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Alibaba AI chip push hits 100,000 mark, beating local rival Cambricon: sources
Alibaba Group Holding has delivered more than 100,000 units of its most advanced artificial intelligence chip, the Zhenwu 810E, whose performance is said to be comparable to Nvidia’s H20, according to...
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China gives Apple ‘best iPhone quarter in history’ with 38% revenue growth
China has emerged as the brightest spot in Apple’s quarterly earnings, as the US tech giant achieved record iPhone revenue in the world’s largest smartphone market. Revenue in Apple’s Greater China re...
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Alibaba’s T-Head unit unveils details of AI chip designed to rival Nvidia’s GPUs
Alibaba Group Holding’s semiconductor design arm, T-Head, on Thursday unveiled details of its advanced artificial intelligence chip with capabilities said to be on par with Nvidia’s H20, days after th...
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Nvidia wins approval for Taiwan headquarters to secure AI chip supply
The Taiwan government has cleared Nvidia to establish a NT$3.3 billion (US$105 million) headquarters on the island that produces most of the world’s advanced semiconductors, which the Silicon Valley c...
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Hygon’s chips ‘safe’ from AMD security flaw amid China’s tech self-reliance drive
Chips from Chinese semiconductor designer Hygon Information Technology were found unaffected by a recently disclosed vulnerability in products developed by its US tech licenser and former joint ventur...
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Beijing weighs H200 imports amid uncertainty for China tech giants
Beijing has begun approving imports of Nvidia’s H200 graphics processing units (GPUs), according to two sources familiar with the matter, ending regulatory uncertainty over the US tech giant’s second ...
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‘Teach our children well’: Jack Ma urges changes to China’s rural education in AI era
Education in China’s countryside should shift away from rote-based learning to focus on nurturing curiosity and creativity in the artificial intelligence era, Alibaba Group Holding founder Jack Ma sai...
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Iluvatar CoreX targets Nvidia’s Rubin with GPU road map amid China chip push
Chinese chip designer Shanghai Iluvatar CoreX Semiconductor has unveiled a multi-year graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture road map, aiming to surpass Nvidia’s next-generation Rubin platform wi...
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China’s Alibaba, Moonshot claim latest flagship AI models challenge OpenAI, Google
Alibaba Group Holding and Moonshot AI have unveiled their latest flagship artificial intelligence models, narrowing the gap with US industry leaders OpenAI and Google DeepMind. The new models from two...
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China’s Baidu merges key app businesses to drive consumer AI push
Baidu has merged two of its consumer app businesses into a new artificial intelligence-focused unit, stepping up its push into China’s fast-evolving and fiercely contested market for consumer AI appli...
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Alibaba’s Qwen-3 becomes one of world’s first AI models to operate in orbit
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen-3 became one of the world’s first general-purpose artificial intelligence models to be uploaded and operated in orbit, marking a milestone in China’s bid to lead the nascent space...
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AI video generation: How China’s Kling challenges Google’s Veo, OpenAI’s Sora
As AI video generation has evolved from a curiosity to a productivity tool embraced by serious creators, the Kling platform developed by China’s Kuaishou has landed firmly in the top tier alongside Go...
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Geely-linked tech veteran Yin Qi joins Chinese AI start-up StepFun as chairman
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up StepFun has appointed Yin Qi, the co-founder and former CEO of Megvii, as its chairman, as the company wraps up a 5 billion yuan (US$690 million) Series B+ fun...
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Tencent’s Pony Ma flags new AI social feature for Yuanbao app
Pony Ma Huateng, founder and CEO of Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings, has teased a new artificial intelligence-powered social feature in the company’s latest push to keep pace in China’s intensifyi...
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China’s Eyou opens world’s first automated line for humanoid robot joints
China’s Eyou Robot Technology has launched the world’s first automated production line for robot joints, positioning itself to capture growth ahead of a projected surge in humanoid robot shipments. Th...
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Jensen Huang celebrates Lunar New Year with Nvidia employees in Shanghai
Jensen Huang marked the coming Lunar New Year with Nvidia employees in Shanghai on Saturday, as the CEO of the world’s most valuable company made his first trip to China in 2026 amid uncertainties aro...
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Alibaba, Baidu’s IPO plans for AI chip design units heighten China’s self-reliance drive
The plans of Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu to list their semiconductor design units could intensify competition with other domestic artificial intelligence chip developers to unseat Nvidia as the co...
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Computing constraints force China’s Zhipu to restrict sign-ups for AI coding service
Zhipu AI, known internationally as Z.ai, is restricting sign-ups for its new flagship artificial intelligence coding product, as existing users face performance issues amid a computing crunch that con...
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Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads sees tripling of revenue amid self-sufficiency push
Moore Threads, one of China’s artificial intelligence chip champions, expects to report a tripling of revenue for 2025, reflecting how local semiconductor firms are expanding rapidly amid Beijing’s pu...
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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 black market at much higher prices, or accept lower performance domes...
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Global memory chip crunch to persist even as Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron boost production
Significant worldwide shortages of memory chips are expected to persist well into 2027, according to analysts, even as the sector’s top manufacturers – Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technol...
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Harbour BioMed stake in US drug developer Spruce shows Chinese firms’ growing clout
Shanghai-based Harbour BioMed’s acquisition of a stake in US-based Spruce Biosciences is the latest example of China’s novel drug developers progressing from one-time licensing deals into long-lasting...
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