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China’s DeepSeek challenges Google DeepMind with new AI model

DeepSeek’s V3.2-Speciale equals Google’s Gemini 3 Pro in reasoning capabilities, the Chinese start-up says.

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Artificial intelligence

China’s AI labs race to debut latest models before Lunar New Year

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Profits rise for China’s semiconductor firms on AI boom, tech self-reliance push

Artificial intelligence

Ant Group’s open-source push aims to move robots from lab demos to real-world work

Flashy robots can dance and backflip on cue, but Ant Group is betting open-source AI can take them beyond scripted moves.

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has open-sourced its first ever artificial intelligence models designed to make robots intelligent enough to be highly productive in the real world. Photo: Handout
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has open-sourced its first ever artificial intelligence models designed to make robots intelligent enough to be highly productive in the real world. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence

China tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba to ramp up AI infrastructure efforts

The two firms’ actions are poised to further intensify the global AI arms race.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba AI chip push hits 100,000 mark, beating local rival Cambricon: sources

The milestone underscores Alibaba’s growing footprint in AI hardware, as Chinese firms accelerate efforts to build home-grown processors.

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China manufacturing

Can China’s AI strategy challenge India’s reign as ‘office of the world’?

Beijing’s ambition to move up the value chain could see it becoming a major exporter of digital services, AI to global high-end providers.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Semiconductors

Alibaba’s T-Head unit unveils details of AI chip designed to rival Nvidia’s GPUs

The launch of the Zhenwu 810E marks the latest initiative by China’s Big Tech firms to develop a domestic alternative to Nvidia’s AI chips.

Semiconductors

Hygon’s chips ‘safe’ from AMD security flaw amid China’s tech self-reliance push

That result shows Hygon’s efforts in redesigning the chip architecture licensed from AMD with self-developed innovations.

Artificial intelligence

Moonshot’s newest release narrows US-China AI model development gap: analysts

Kimi K2.5 raises questions about the potency of US controls on advanced chips to constrain China’s AI efforts, Brookings’ Kyle Chan says.

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Chinese start-up Moonshot AI on Tuesday released its latest artificial intelligence model, Kimi K2.5. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

‘Teach our children well’: Jack Ma urges changes to China’s education in AI era

China’s educators must teach students to ask thousands of good questions, rather than give the same correct answer, Ma says.

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Alibaba Group Holding founder Jack Ma speaks to Chinese rural teachers in a video conference call on Monday. Photo: Jack Ma Foundation
Alibaba Group Holding founder Jack Ma speaks to Chinese rural teachers in a video conference call on Monday. Photo: Jack Ma Foundation
Artificial intelligence

Price rises on horizon for Chinese cloud firms after Google, AWS set new rates

Surging AI workloads, memory prices push Chinese cloud providers to consider increases after global peers act.

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek taps Alibaba open-source AI technology to boost OCR performance

The Chinese AI start-up says its latest OCR model delivers stronger performance after adopting an Alibaba-developed open-source model.

Artificial intelligence

China’s Alibaba, Moonshot claim latest AI models challenge OpenAI, Google

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 new models mark the first major Chinese releases this year. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s Qwen-3 becomes one of world’s first AI models to operate in orbit

The entire Qwen-3 process – from uploading queries to on-orbit inference and sending results back to Earth – took less than two minutes.

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Adaspace Technology’s constellation of 12 satellites, equipped with AI-powered computing systems, was launched on May 14, 2025. Photo: Handout
Adaspace Technology’s constellation of 12 satellites, equipped with AI-powered computing systems, was launched on May 14, 2025. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence

How China’s AI video generator Kling challenges Google’s Veo, OpenAI’s Sora

With Kuaishou’s tool headed for US$240 million in annual revenue, the firm is one of the world’s most undervalued AI stocks, JPMorgan says.

Artificial intelligence

Tencent’s Pony Ma teases new AI social feature for Yuanbao app

The Shenzhen-based firm is sharpening its AI strategy and talent pipeline, after acknowledging rivals are reshaping the pace of development.

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‘Epoch-making’: Xi Jinping urges home-grown AI breakthroughs – but flags risks

The Chinese leader says emerging technologies bring huge opportunities, while warning officials against blind investment.

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President Xi Jinping addresses the study session at the Central Party School in Beijing on January 20. Photo: Xinhua
President Xi Jinping addresses the study session at the Central Party School in Beijing on January 20. Photo: Xinhua
Artificial intelligence

Open Questions | Jeffrey Ding on why diffusion, not innovation, is the secret to AI success

Professor says a ‘diffusion marathon’, where AI is gradually embedded in an economy over decades, will determine the winner of US-China tech war.

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Jensen Huang celebrates Lunar New Year with Nvidia employees in Shanghai

CEO of world’s most valuable company receives rock-star welcome as Beijing appears ready to allow imports of the H200 GPU to resume.

Artificial intelligence

Next level: why China’s game makers are quietly bankrolling generative AI

From scripts and storylines to customer service and user-generated worlds, developers are deploying LLM tools across the gaming pipeline.

Peacekeeper Elite, also known as Game for Peace, by Tencent Holdings. Photo: Handout
Semiconductors

Alibaba, Baidu’s IPO plans for AI chip units bolster China’s self-reliance drive

Alibaba’s T-Head and Baidu’s Kunlunxin intensify competition to unseat Nvidia as China’s top supplier of high-performance AI chips.

Alibaba Group Holding’s chip design unit, T-Head, is said to be preparing to go public. Photo: Shutterstock
Alibaba Group Holding’s chip design unit, T-Head, is said to be preparing to go public. Photo: Shutterstock
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From labs to listings: capital markets are the next battleground in the AI race

Stock exchanges have become another barometer in the US-China tech rivalry as markets assess a wave of start-ups in real time.

China manufacturing

Asian CEOs feeling burden of China, US tech restrictions, survey finds

More than 40% of global CEOs ‘most concerned’ about supply chain disruptions.

Artificial intelligence

Computing constraints force China’s Zhipu to restrict AI coding service sign-ups

The issue reflects the challenge faced by Chinese AI firms to expand their businesses amid computing infrastructure constraints.

Zhipu AI’s GLM Coding Plan service was launched in September. Photo: Shutterstock
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