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Wency Chen
Senior Reporter, Tech
Wency tells stories that explore how technologies are reshaping society, with a focus on cross-border e-commerce, AI, the supply chain and others. Before joining SCMP, Wency contributed to KrASIA, Wired, Rest of World, World of Chinese, Tech in Asia, Vice China (BIE), Harper's Bazaar, etc. She attended Columbia Journalism School.
Wency tells stories that explore how technologies are reshaping society, with a focus on cross-border e-commerce, AI, the supply chain and others. Before joining SCMP, Wency contributed to KrASIA, Wired, Rest of World, World of Chinese, Tech in Asia, Vice China (BIE), Harper's Bazaar, etc. She attended Columbia Journalism School.
Areas of Expertise:
Cross-border e-commerce, Big Tech, AI Languages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
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The software sector in China has long been constrained by slower cloud adoption and a weaker appetite for recurring subscription fees.
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Tesla’s pivot to producing humanoid robots is expected to engage a network of key Chinese component makers.
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The wholly owned chip unit will first be restructured into a separate business partly held by employees, Bloomberg reported, citing sources.
The Beijing-based company’s most advanced AI model can process text, images, audio and video.
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Each country should build their own AI system, incorporating its own language and culture into the AI models, Huang says at the WEF in Davos.
Commercial launches accounted for 54 per cent of the total last year, data from China National Space Administration shows.
The Hangzhou-based firm’s output far outstripped the roughly 150 units each shipped by Tesla, Figure AI and Agility Robotics last year.
The system, powered largely by open-source AI models, seeks to deliver a finished product without the user writing a single line of code.
‘Beijing has made it politically unpalatable for private firms to rely too much on imported AI chips,’ EIU senior analyst Chim Lee says.
Chinese companies comprised about one in four exhibitors at the world’s largest electronics expo, and they showcased everything from stair-climbing robot vacuum cleaners to AI-powered pet companions.
‘The rise of smart glasses is riding directly on advances in AI,’ LLVision founder and CEO Wu Fei says.
The firm’s ambition is to become a ‘world-class technology company’, global president Chang Xinwei says.
One expert noted that there has been no confirmation that members of Manus’ core team have relinquished Chinese nationality.
Chinese unicorn’s computing needs have climbed across its portfolio of popular apps, cloud unit Volcano Engine and large language models.
Deal will bring Singapore-based Manus’ ‘leading agent to billions of people’, Meta says.
