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SenseTime co-founder and chief scientist Lin Dahua. Photo: Vincent Chow

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Less hype, more hardware: SenseTime banks on multimodal AI to regain its edge

SenseTime may have slipped from the spotlight as one of China’s “AI dragons”, but its tilt at multimodal, real-world AI hints at a comeback.

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Chinese supercomputer maker Sugon and chip developer Hygon call off merger plans

10 Dec 2025 - 9:00PM

Alibaba names AI-lab leader Zhou Jingren as new group partner

10 Dec 2025 - 8:00PM

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Power and data centres will put China ahead of US in the AI race, says investor

AI is now a race to build data centres and secure electricity, says investor Allen Zhu, who argues China’s energy push puts it ahead.

10 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

Chinese venture capitalist Allen Zhu Xiaohu of GSR Ventures Management. Photo: Handout

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China’s Moore Threads to unveil AI chip road map to rival Nvidia’s CUDA system

Founder Zhang Jianzhong is expected to launch the firm’s next-generation AI chip architecture and MUSA platform road map in Beijing.

10 Dec 2025 - 5:01PM

China Business

China’s Fosun Pharma unit strikes US$2.1 billion obesity drug deal with Pfizer

Yao Pharma’s deal with the US pharmaceutical giant underscores China’s growing role in global biotech licensing.

10 Dec 2025 - 4:39PM

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Microsoft makes US$17.5 billion pledge for AI cloud in India

The country of 1.45 billion people is increasingly drawing the attention of AI power brokers as a market and a source of talent and data.

10 Dec 2025 - 12:03PM

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (left) shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: Microsoft via AP

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OpenAI names first chief of revenue as ChatGPT maker aims to make a profit

OpenAI is facing increased competition from rivals, including Google, which last month unleashed the latest version of its own AI assistant.

10 Dec 2025 - 10:45AM

Big Tech

Alibaba creates new unit to push consumer use of its Qwen AI models

Significant organisational change underlines company’s determination to turn the Qwen chatbot into a ‘super app’.

10 Dec 2025 - 10:00AM

China Business

Investors brace as Beijing’s policy huddle tests China’s stock rebound

With China’s stock rally fading, markets are pinning their hopes on the Central Economic Work Conference for signs of clearer policy support.

10 Dec 2025 - 3:10PM

Investors widely expect Beijing to maintain a proactive fiscal stance and accommodative monetary policy in 2026. Photo: EPA

Tech Trends

China’s Deep Robotics raises US$70 million as sector draws more investors

Company founder Zhu Qiuguo says the new funding would be used for research and the recruitment of top robotics talent.

10 Dec 2025 - 9:00AM

Deep Robotics’ LYNX M20 quadruped robot is designed to support logistics and delivery operations. Photo: Handout

Big Tech

China’s AI developers to welcome Nvidia’s H200 chip shipments, analysts say

Nvidia faces stronger domestic competition from the likes of Huawei, Cambricon, Moore Threads and MetaX.

9 Dec 2025 - 9:00PM

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Tencent quits Paramount’s Warner Bros bid amid US regulatory concerns

Tencent has been dropped as a financing partner from Paramount Skydance’s US$108 billion hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery.

9 Dec 2025 - 7:06PM

Tech Trends

DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng among top 10 ‘people who shaped science in 2025’

British journal Nature’s top 10 list gives credit to the man behind the widely acclaimed, Chinese-developed R1 reasoning AI model.

9 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

DeepSeek founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng. Photo: Shutterstock

Tech Trends

Z.ai open sources AI agent tool for phones after ByteDance privacy backlash

Beijing-based Z.ai said its work in ‘teaching AI how to use a smartphone’ dates back to early 2023.

9 Dec 2025 - 5:00PM

In a demonstration at the time of its release, Z.ai’s AutoGLM was able to complete tasks such as ordering coffee and making online purchases. Photo: Shutterstock Images

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HashKey aims for US$214 million in Hong Kong IPO amid Beijing’s crypto pressure

Retail investors oversubscribe crypto exchange operator’s offering despite China central bank’s tough stance on virtual assets.

9 Dec 2025 - 4:33PM

Tech Trends

Chinese home appliance giant Midea unveils 6-arm robot for factory work

China is witnessing a surge of interest and strategic investment in the deployment of humanoid robots.

9 Dec 2025 - 3:11PM

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Tech War

How Nexperia saga exposes Europe’s waning influence in US-China chip war

The dispute around the Dutch chipmaker shows the erosion of Europe’s geopolitical neutrality in the face of escalating US-China rivalry.

15 Nov 2025 - 11:00AM

Nexperia is caught in a geopolitical tussle between the Netherlands and China. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Tech War

China’s lesson for the US: it takes more than chips to win the AI race

The AI war is increasingly waged among ‘hyperscalers’ – companies with full-stack capabilities across software, hardware and applications.

11 Oct 2025 - 12:05PMvideocam

Tech War

How Huawei and DeepSeek are tending the garden of China’s AI aspirations

Amid growing AI rivalry with the US, the two companies are leading China’s drive to shake off the nation’s dependence on Nvidia processors.

27 Sep 2025 - 11:28AM

Big Tech

Immediate gratification: instant commerce transforms China’s retail market

Instant commerce has developed over a short period of time, as providers expanded their on-demand delivery coverage beyond food.

13 Sep 2025 - 10:36AM

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China’s DeepSeek challenges Google DeepMind with new AI model

2 Dec 2025 - 4:51PM

A shop advertising DeepSeek in Hong Kong. Photo: Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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Less hype, more hardware: SenseTime banks on multimodal AI to regain its edge

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SenseTime co-founder and chief scientist Lin Dahua. Photo: Vincent Chow

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Chinese supercomputer maker Sugon and chip developer Hygon call off merger plans

10 Dec 2025 - 9:00PM

Supercomputer maker Sugon remains the largest shareholder of chip designer Hygon. Photo: Handout

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Alibaba names AI-lab leader Zhou Jingren as new group partner

10 Dec 2025 - 8:00PM

Alibaba’s Zhou Jingren speaks during a summit in Hong Kong on November 13, 2023. Photo: May Tse

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China’s Moore Threads to unveil AI chip road map to rival Nvidia’s CUDA system

10 Dec 2025 - 5:01PM

Moore Threads Technology expects to release a new-generation graphics processing unit every year. Photo: Moore Threads

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