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Vincent Chow
Reporter, Tech
Vincent Chow is a technology reporter covering AI, with a focus on how society navigates the emergence of increasingly powerful AI systems. He previously covered Chinese society and was awarded a SOPA award for his culture reporting. He is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.
Vincent Chow is a technology reporter covering AI, with a focus on how society navigates the emergence of increasingly powerful AI systems. He previously covered Chinese society and was awarded a SOPA award for his culture reporting. He is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.
Areas of Expertise:
AI, AI safety, Chinese societyLanguages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
Despite rapid advances, today’s top AI models are still “brittle” in messy, real-world environments, according to new Tencent research.
Chinese developers stress cultural context in AI safety, as domestic models narrow the gap with their US rivals to the closest level yet.
Taiwan trip highlights supply chain strains, with Huang saying Nvidia alone could potentially require TSMC to more than double its capacity.
Flashy robots can dance and backflip on cue, but Ant Group is betting open-source AI can take them beyond scripted moves.
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Hyperscalers embrace the AI agent, which can execute tasks without step-by-step instructions, but privacy concerns loom large.
Kimi K2.5 raises questions about the potency of US controls on advanced chips to constrain China’s AI efforts, Brookings’ Kyle Chan says.
China’s educators must teach students to ask thousands of good questions, rather than give the same correct answer, Ma says.
Alibaba says Qwen3-Max-Thinking is its ‘best model so far’, while Moonshot calls Kimi K2.5 the world’s most powerful open-source model.
The team’s SynthSmith data pipeline develops a coding model that overcomes scarcity of real-world data to improve AI models.
Professor says a ‘diffusion marathon’, where AI is gradually embedded in an economy over decades, will determine the winner of US-China tech war.
The issue reflects the challenge faced by Chinese AI firms to expand their businesses amid computing infrastructure constraints.
A rapid energy buildout and strategic data centre expansion give China unique advantages in developing its AI industry.
Academic Jeffrey Ding explains why human capital will determine whether US or China wins the AI race, not which attains superintelligence first.
The Google researchers found that the reasoning models generate internal multi-agent debates, which they termed ‘societies of thought’.
The state-owned telecoms network operator trains its TeleChat3 models on Huawei’s Ascend 910B chips.
Last January, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng met the Chinese premier in the same setting following the start-up’s rapid rise to prominence.
Tencent Research Institute looks to build expert data sets for AI models that could broadly benefit the world’s second most populous nation.
The main drivers of the growth are the tertiary sector – covering services including AI cloud services – and residential use.
These restrictions signify a new phase in the US-China tech war where ‘offensive and defensive roles have shifted’, says an analyst.
Hong Kong’s turn to host a summit under WAIC reflects Beijing’s confidence in the city’s strategic development goals.
There is heightened anticipation about a potential major DeepSeek release around the Lunar New Year.
Zhipu claims GLM-Image achieved industry-leading scores among open-source models for text rendering and Chinese character generation.
‘Building with the community’ is crucial to the success of the Qwen family of large language models, company says.
The development underscores the start-up’s focus on maximising cost efficiency amid a deficit in computational power relative to the US.
China’s top AI scientists warn of chip deficits and resource limits, though some predict breakthroughs within five years.
The 18 core scientists behind R1 continue to power the start-up’s AI ambitions and capabilities amid growing anticipation of a new release.
Probe comes amid concerns the US$2.5 billion acquisition could breach tech export controls and encourage more start-ups to relocate offshore.
The firm agrees to a package of commitments, including tackling AI model ‘hallucination’ issues, with the Italian Competition Authority.
The Chinese short video giant’s new base in Nanshan district was announced by the city’s publicity department on Tuesday.
