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1. DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough could alter China’s ‘national fate’ in US tech war
DeepSeek, extolled by some as the “biggest dark horse” in the open-source large language model (LLM) arena, now has a bull’s eye on its back, as the start-up is being touted as China’s secret weapon in the artificial intelligence (AI) war with the US.
2. China is ‘nanoseconds behind’ US in chips, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says
Allowing US companies like Nvidia to compete in China fits the interests of both Beijing and Washington, according to Jensen Huang, the US chipmaker’s founder and CEO, as Chinese players gear up to be Nvidia-free.
3. China aims to leapfrog the US in robotics. Its latest tactic: robot boot camps

China is going all out to outpace the United States in the race to develop advanced humanoid robots. Its latest strategy: sending its bots to boot camp.
4. China can’t buy Nvidia’s RTX 4090. Now its optical chip is twice as fast
Chinese researchers have developed the first highly parallel optical computing integrated chip, named “Meteor-1”, setting a milestone for using light to perform an enormous number of operations at the same time, the scientists say.
5. Chinese sex doll maker sees jump in 2025 sales as AI improves user experience

WMDoll, one of China’s biggest sex doll makers, expects to record a 30 per cent jump in sales this year, as the company’s adoption of open-source generative artificial intelligence (AI) models helped improve the user experience of its products.
6. Chinese scientists build world’s first AI chip made of carbon
In a breakthrough that could redefine the future of computing, Chinese scientists have developed the world’s first carbon-based microchip capable of running artificial intelligence tasks using a novel ternary logic system, leapfrogging today’s binary-dependent technology.
7. How China’s US$150,000 robot start-up beat Elon Musk in 2 years

The odds seemed impossible: a shoestring Chinese start-up founded in 2023 with just 1 million yuan (US$142,000) taking on Elon Musk – tech legend, disrupter in space and CEO of Tesla – who is valued at half a trillion dollars.


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DeepSeek’s game-changing rise, China’s robot boot camps: 7 AI 2025 breakthroughs

DeepSeek is being touted as China’s secret weapon in the artificial intelligence war with the US. Photo: AFP

Technicians train humanoid robots at a data collection centre run by the robotics company Agibot in Shanghai. Photo: Getty Images

Sex dolls made by WMDoll are on display at its headquarters in Zhongshan, a city in southern Guangdong province. Photo: Coco Feng

EngineAI Robotics’ humanoid T800 is capable of delivering Bruce Lee-style roundhouse kicks with great force. Photo: Handout

China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after initial ChatGPT shock

Illustration by Lau Ka-kuen

ChatGPT was released by OpenAI on November 30, 2022. Photo: Shutterstock

A big screen shows how Megvii’s facial recognition system, Face++, was being used in China’s city streets. Photo: Simon Song 

Moonshot AI released last month Kimi K2 Thinking, a reasoning variant of its open-source K2 model. Photo: Shutterstock

The race for AI centres in space: why the US goes all in after China makes first move

The push to deploy AI into orbit is a strategic gambit with far-reaching consequences for national security and economic dominance. Photo: Shutterstock

China and the US are in a race to be the first to launch AI space centres into orbit, with far-reaching consequences. Photo: Shutterstock

China may tap Nvidia’s H200 for AI gains but domestic chip strategy here to stay: analysts

The chip industry remains a crucial battleground in the US-China tech rivalry, with the high-end market still dominated by  American, Japanese and European companies Photo: Shutterstock Images

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From DeepSeek sending shock waves through tech market to China’s robot boot camps, here are some of the major AI developments of the year


From DeepSeek sending shock waves through tech market to China’s robot boot camps, here are some of the major AI developments of the year.


DeepSeek’s game-changing rise, China’s robot boot camps: 7 AI 2025 breakthroughs

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}From DeepSeek sending shock waves through tech market to China’s robot boot camps, here are some of the major AI developments of the year

1. DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough could alter China’s ‘national fate’ in US tech war

From DeepSeek sending shock waves through tech market to China’s robot boot camps, here are some of the major AI developments of the year