https://www.scmp.com/rss/513110/feed The latest news and information about the tech sector's CEOs and former CEOs. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Vincent Chow,Minxiao Chang Vincent Chow,Minxiao Chang The potential emergence of a new DeepSeek spokesman has sparked intrigue as speculation over the whereabouts of founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng continues, more than a year after his last public appearance. While the Hangzhou start-up’s latest V4 model did not make the same waves as its breakout moment a year earlier, the much-anticipated release still grabbed headlines through a collaboration with domestic tech giant Huawei Technologies and its remarkably low prices. For the traditionally... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3351700/deepseek-mystery-who-speaking-start-ceo-liang-wenfeng-remains-out-sight?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3351700/deepseek-mystery-who-speaking-start-ceo-liang-wenfeng-remains-out-sight?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:00:15 +0000 Reuters Reuters The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk ⁠and the leadingAIe firm, OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, may come down ⁠to a few pages in one executive’s personal diary. “This is the only chance we have to get out from Elon,” wrote Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and a co-founder, in the autumn of 2017. “Is he the ‘glorious leader’ that I would pick?” Brockman’s diary entry is part of the thousands of pages of internal documents revealed in court since Musk, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3351600/elon-musks-trial-against-sam-altman-reveals-power-struggle-openai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3351600/elon-musks-trial-against-sam-altman-reveals-power-struggle-openai?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:12:32 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has apologised to a Canadian town devastated by a February mass shooting, saying he was “deeply sorry” the company did not tell police about the killer’s troubling ChatGPT account. OpenAI had banned an account linked to Jesse Van Rootselaar in June 2025, eight months before the 18-year-old woman killed eight people at her home and a school in the tiny British Columbia mining town of Tumbler Ridge. The account was banned over concerns about usage linked to violent... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3351391/openais-sam-altman-apologises-canada-town-not-reporting-mass-shooter?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3351391/openais-sam-altman-apologises-canada-town-not-reporting-mass-shooter?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:20:25 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow A “ChatGPT moment” for China’s humanoid robots – the tipping point at which the technology becomes widely usable – remains years away as persistent challenges in adapting to new tasks and training efficiency continue to hold back the industry, leading experts said on Wednesday at the Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan. Despite rapid advances in recent years, humanoid robots were still far from large-scale deployment, with both hardware and software limitations yet to be fully resolved, panellists... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3347864/why-chinas-humanoid-robots-are-still-waiting-their-chatgpt-moment?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3347864/why-chinas-humanoid-robots-are-still-waiting-their-chatgpt-moment?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:15:07 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump appointed Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to a council that will weigh ‌in on AI policy and other issues, the White House said on Wednesday. Google co-founder Sergey Brin and AMD CEO Lisa Su are also part of the initial batch of 13 members from the industry named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Trump ⁠has made securing US leadership in artificial... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347903/trump-names-ceos-meta-nvidia-13-member-science-and-tech-council?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347903/trump-names-ceos-meta-nvidia-13-member-science-and-tech-council?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:22:02 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen China’s Unitree Robotics has filed for a long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) on Shanghai’s Star Market, seeking to raise about 4.2 billion yuan (US$607.8 million). Widely seen as a bellwether for China’s emerging humanoid robotics industry, Unitree’s listing, if approved, could become a landmark test of investor appetite for so-called embodied AI companies. Here is what you need to know about Unitree, including how it makes a profit while peers are still burning cash, its shareholder... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3347611/inside-unitrees-landmark-ipo-what-know-about-chinas-humanoid-giant?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3347611/inside-unitrees-landmark-ipo-what-know-about-chinas-humanoid-giant?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:45:08 +0000 Ji Siqi Ji Siqi China’s artificial intelligence breakthroughs in recent years stemmed from the country’s strategic strengthening of its power grid, commitment to open-source models and complete manufacturing supply chain, according to Joe Tsai, chairman of Alibaba Group Holding. “Currently, geopolitical complexities are deeply affecting supply chain security and the sharing of technological achievements,” Tsai said in a speech on Sunday at the China Development Forum 2026 in Beijing. “In this era and... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3347485/alibaba-chairman-joe-tsai-credits-chinas-ai-edge-power-grid-open-source-models?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3347485/alibaba-chairman-joe-tsai-credits-chinas-ai-edge-power-grid-open-source-models?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:46:56 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A federal jury in California found on Friday that tech titan Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders in an effort to drive down the company’s share price as he was poised to buy it in a US$44 billion deal. The verdict in a class action securities lawsuit means the world’s richest person could be ordered to pay out as much as US$2.6 billion, according to damages calculated by jurors. Giuseppe Pampena filed the suit against Musk on behalf of people who sold Twitter shares between mid-May of 2022 and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347400/elon-musk-misled-twitter-shareholders-us-jury-finds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347400/elon-musk-misled-twitter-shareholders-us-jury-finds?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:51:38 +0000 Eunice Xu Eunice Xu Global businesses are pouring billions into artificial intelligence amid a growing fear of missing out on enterprise AI strategies, according to Ken Wong, president of Lenovo’s Solutions & Services Group (SSG). However, despite projections of massive financial returns, the vast majority of these initiatives were not deemed a success, he added. Wong, whose division helps businesses build and maintain AI infrastructure, estimated more than 90 per cent of these pilots fail to reach satisfactory... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3346506/companies-ramp-ai-spending-even-most-pilots-fail-deploy-lenovo-executive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3346506/companies-ramp-ai-spending-even-most-pilots-fail-deploy-lenovo-executive?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:00:11 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Elon Musk’s estimated US$839 billion net worth has made him the wealthiest individual ever recorded, Forbes said on Tuesday, as billionaires worldwide saw their combined fortunes surge in the past year to an all-time high of US$20.1 trillion. Musk topped the Forbes World’s Billionaires list for the second consecutive year after his fortune swelled by roughly US$500 billion over the past 12 months, driven by rising valuations at Tesla and SpaceX, which is targeting a public offering in 2026. He... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346162/elon-musk-course-become-worlds-first-trillionaire-wealth-soars?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346162/elon-musk-course-become-worlds-first-trillionaire-wealth-soars?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:30:21 +0000 Wency Chen,Ann Cao Wency Chen,Ann Cao China’s tech leaders, including Xiaomi’s Lei Jun, 360 Security Technology’s Zhou Hongyi and Xpeng’s He Xiaopeng, have put forward policy proposals ahead of the “two sessions”, as Beijing seeks to accelerate development in strategic sectors such as artificial intelligence and robotics. The executives aim to promote the industrial use of humanoid robots, speed up the deployment of AI agents and expand computing infrastructure – areas increasingly viewed as key battlegrounds in the global... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3345372/chinas-tech-leaders-urge-faster-ai-humanoid-robot-adoption-two-sessions-proposals?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3345372/chinas-tech-leaders-urge-faster-ai-humanoid-robot-adoption-two-sessions-proposals?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:37:05 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited China’s eastern tech hub of Hangzhou on Thursday and met leading figures including those from Alibaba Group Holding and Unitree Robotics, signalling growing international recognition of the country’s robotics and artificial intelligence technologies. Merz had lunch and took group photos with local entrepreneurs, including Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu Yongming and Unitree founder and CEO Wang Xingxing, according to a social media account run by Chinese state... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3344835/germanys-merz-meets-chinas-tech-vanguard-including-alibaba-and-unitree-ceos?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3344835/germanys-merz-meets-chinas-tech-vanguard-including-alibaba-and-unitree-ceos?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:23:19 +0000 Eunice Xu Eunice Xu US software company OpenMind, according to founder and CEO Jan Liphardt, caused a commotion last year at a park in San Francisco where the firm shot a promotional video. “A crowd of people came, children came running, cars stopped and the police came,” he said, because “there was a robot in the park”. In an interview, Liphardt told the South China Morning Post that such a scenario would have been treated differently on the other side of the world. “If a [Unitree] G1 walked across the street in... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3344172/software-connection-us-firm-opens-doors-global-adoption-chinas-humanoid-robots?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3344172/software-connection-us-firm-opens-doors-global-adoption-chinas-humanoid-robots?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:00:15 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday he regretted Meta’s slow progress in identifying underage users on Instagram, as he faced stinging criticism at a landmark social media trial over accusations that his company deliberately hooked children. Asked to comment on complaints from inside the company that not enough was being done to verify whether children under 13 were using the platform, the 41-year-old head of Meta, which also owns Facebook and WhatsApp, said improvements had been made. But “I... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343945/metas-zuckerberg-grilled-lawyers-landmark-us-social-media-addiction-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343945/metas-zuckerberg-grilled-lawyers-landmark-us-social-media-addiction-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:39:31 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow China’s Unitree Robotics plans to ship as many as 20,000 humanoid robots this year, up from about 5,500 in 2025, according to chief executive Wang Xingxing, after the company drew global attention with its appearance at Monday night’s Spring Festival Gala. Speaking to domestic tech outlet 36Kr after the show, Wang said global humanoid robot shipments could reach “tens of thousands” this year, with Unitree accounting for roughly 10,000 to 20,000 units of that total. The projection follows another... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3343825/kung-fu-somersaults-and-scale-unitree-eyes-20000-robot-output-2026-after-gala?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3343825/kung-fu-somersaults-and-scale-unitree-eyes-20000-robot-output-2026-after-gala?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:32:46 +0000 Reuters Reuters Elon Musk said on Monday that SpaceX has acquired his artificial-intelligence ‍start-up xAI in a record-setting deal that unifies Musk’s AI and space ambitions by combining the rocket-and-satellite company with the maker of the Grok chatbot. The deal, first reported by Reuters last week, represents one of the most ambitious tie-ups in the technology sector yet, combining a space-and-defence contractor with a fast-growing AI developer ⁠whose costs are largely driven by chips, data centres and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342161/musk-merges-xai-spacex-bid-build-space-data-centres?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342161/musk-merges-xai-spacex-bid-build-space-data-centres?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:12:25 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng ByteDance and Alibaba Group Holding are poised to ratchet up their artificial intelligence infrastructure initiatives, as the global AI arms race continues to intensify. The two companies’ latest moves lend weight to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s recent remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the world was witnessing the biggest infrastructure buildout in history and that trillions of dollars of infrastructure still had to be built. Beijing-based ByteDance, operator of TikTok... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3341863/china-tech-giants-bytedance-and-alibaba-ramp-ai-infrastructure-efforts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3341863/china-tech-giants-bytedance-and-alibaba-ramp-ai-infrastructure-efforts?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:00:05 +0000 Zoey Zhang Zoey Zhang Not long ago, a humble fruit stall in Shanghai saw its sales skyrocket when Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, dropped by for some food. Meanwhile, a once-obscure village in southern China has become a tourist hotspot, drawing over 10,000 visitors daily, simply for being the hometown of Liang Wenfeng, the founder of the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek. During Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s 44-hour visit to China in 2023, the buzz surrounding his meals and itinerary on mainland social... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3341558/why-tech-billionaires-enjoy-rock-star-treatment-china-compared-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3341558/why-tech-billionaires-enjoy-rock-star-treatment-china-compared-us?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:00:08 +0000 Ni Tao Ni Tao Hangzhou’s space industry got off to a flying start in 2026. On January 7, China’s leading private rocket firm Space Epoch broke ground on a medium-to-large liquid rocket assembly, testing and reuse facility in Hangzhou’s Qiantang district. Basing this in the port city allows the rockets to be transported by sea to launch areas in the East China Sea and recovered the same way. Logistics alone do not explain the decision. Space Epoch is plugging into an industrial ecosystem Hangzhou has been... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3341303/how-hangzhous-tech-ecosystem-nurtures-dragons-and-rockets?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3341303/how-hangzhous-tech-ecosystem-nurtures-dragons-and-rockets?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:30:09 +0000 Xiaofei Xu,Wency Chen Xiaofei Xu,Wency Chen The world is witnessing the biggest infrastructure buildout in history, with the foundation for an artificial intelligence system evolving quickly, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. “We are now a few hundred billion dollars into it,” he said at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Wednesday, adding that trillions of dollars of infrastructure still had to be built. Huang described the AI industry as a “five-layered cake” – energy at the bottom, followed by chips, cloud infrastructure,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3340709/watch-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-speak-davos?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3340709/watch-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-speak-davos?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:33:09 +0000 Iris Deng,Coco Feng,Wency Chen Iris Deng,Coco Feng,Wency Chen China’s Unitree Robotics shipped more than 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, as the Hangzhou-based company ramped up production ahead of its planned listing on the mainland. That number – covering “pure” full-body, bipedal humanoid models – exceeded those of its American peers such as Tesla, Figure AI and Agility Robotics, which shipped 150 humanoid robots each last year, according to market research firm Omdia. Unitree saw its annual output... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3340446/chinas-unitree-ships-more-5500-humanoid-robots-2025-surpassing-us-peers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3340446/chinas-unitree-ships-more-5500-humanoid-robots-2025-surpassing-us-peers?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:15:09 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The mother of one of Elon Musk’s children is suing his AI company, saying its Grok chatbot allowed users to generate sexually exploitative deepfake images of her that have caused her humiliation and emotional distress. Ashley St Clair, 27, who describes herself as a writer and political strategist, alleged in a lawsuit filed on Thursday in New York City against xAI that the images have included a photo of her fully dressed at age 14 that was altered to show her in a bikini, and others showing... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340237/musks-x-sued-over-grok-deepfakes-time-mother-his-child?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340237/musks-x-sued-over-grok-deepfakes-time-mother-his-child?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:25:54 +0000 Joseph Sipalan Joseph Sipalan Malaysia is amenable to lifting its ban on Grok – but only if Elon Musk’s microblogging site X proves that its AI chatbot can no longer be used to generate sexualised images of women and minors, according to its communications minister. “X must prove that there will no longer be incidents of videos or images that can be misused by users. If that is settled, we can release the temporary ban,” Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said on Thursday. Over the weekend, Malaysia and Indonesia became... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3340001/malaysia-says-x-must-prove-grok-safe-ban-lifted-abuse-not-freedom?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3340001/malaysia-says-x-must-prove-grok-safe-ban-lifted-abuse-not-freedom?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:56:35 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Elon Musk’s platform X on Wednesday announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualised photos of women and children. The announcement came after California’s attorney general launched an investigation into Musk’s xAI - the developer of Grok - over the sexually explicit material and multiple countries either blocked access to the chatbot or launched their own probes. X said it would “geoblock the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3339942/musks-grok-barred-undressing-ai-images-after-global-backlash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3339942/musks-grok-barred-undressing-ai-images-after-global-backlash?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:13:39 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen Dozens of Chinese makers of smart glasses dazzled the exhibition floor at the recent CES trade show in Las Vegas, where they showed lightweight, artificial intelligence-powered eyewear aimed at a category that has been largely defined by Meta Platforms’ Ray-Ban Display. At the four-day annual trade show, which concluded on Friday, Chinese brands made up most of the roughly 60 smart eyewear exhibitors. Their products ranged from audio-first frames designed for all-day wear to augmented reality... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3339425/chinese-smart-eyewear-makers-shine-ces-focus-challenging-meta?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3339425/chinese-smart-eyewear-makers-shine-ces-focus-challenging-meta?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:06:44 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen Chinese household appliances maker Dreame Technology unveiled more than 20 new artificial intelligence-embedded products at this year’s CES trade show in Las Vegas, showing a glimpse of the future when smart devices would run almost all chores in a house. Those formed part of more than 150 products that Dreame, one of the world’s top five vendors of robot vacuum cleaners, exhibited at the four-day trade show that concludes this Friday. Dreame’s new “AI-powered whole-home smart ecosystem”... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3339228/chinese-robot-vacuum-maker-dreame-bets-ai-driven-appliances-run-household-chores?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3339228/chinese-robot-vacuum-maker-dreame-bets-ai-driven-appliances-run-household-chores?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:00:18 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen China’s humanoid robot and artificial intelligence hardware makers are expected to be out in force next week at CES, the annual consumer electronics trade show in Las Vegas, to show their latest innovations to a global audience amid an escalating US-China tech rivalry. Nearly a dozen well-known humanoid robot manufacturers – including Unitree Robotics, AgiBot, Galbot, Engine AI, Noetix Robotics and state-backed X-Humanoid, also known as the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre – are expected... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3338600/chinas-humanoid-robot-makers-hong-kong-start-ups-set-dazzle-ces-2026?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3338600/chinas-humanoid-robot-makers-hong-kong-start-ups-set-dazzle-ces-2026?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Jan 2026 03:00:10 +0000 Agence France-Presse,Reuters Agence France-Presse,Reuters Elon Musk’s AI platform, Grok, announced on Friday it is scrambling to fix safety flaws after users successfully used the tool to turn photographs of children and women into erotic images. “We’ve identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them,” Grok stated in a post on X, emphasising that “CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) is illegal and prohibited.” The controversy stems from an “edit image” button rolled out in late December. The feature allows users to modify any image on the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338619/elon-musks-grok-ai-faces-scrutiny-over-complaints-it-undressed-minors-photos?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338619/elon-musks-grok-ai-faces-scrutiny-over-complaints-it-undressed-minors-photos?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:01:48 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang On the last day of 2025, DeepSeek published a new technical paper, with founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng among the 19 co-authors, about “manifold-constrained hyper-connections” – a general framework for training artificial intelligence systems at scale, which suggested “promising directions for the evolution of foundational models”. That release was a fitting reminder to the world, especially during the peak of the Christmas holiday season, about Chinese AI companies’ sharpened focus on innovation... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3338528/tech-war-china-takes-confident-strides-develop-more-ai-innovation-2026?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3338528/tech-war-china-takes-confident-strides-develop-more-ai-innovation-2026?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:00:22 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng China-founded start-up Tripo AI on Tuesday launched a major update to its flagship platform, renamed Tripo Studio 1.0, that speeds up artificial intelligence-driven 3D content creation by up to 200 per cent compared with its previous version, as the company’s international user community continues to expand. A pioneer in large-scale, general-purpose 3D models, Tripo AI’s user base has more than doubled to 6.5 million from 3 million in August, company founder and CEO Simon Song Yachen told the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3338202/china-founded-tripo-ai-updates-3d-content-creation-platform-users-more-double?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3338202/china-founded-tripo-ai-updates-3d-content-creation-platform-users-more-double?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:00:09 +0000 Zhang Tong Zhang Tong 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. But in less than two years, EngineAI Robotics, led by CEO Zhao Tongyang, created the T800 – a robot that delivers Bruce Lee-style roundhouse kicks with the force of a small car – and, under the instruction of smiling engineers and scientists, tried it first on the boss... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3336182/how-chinas-us150000-robotic-start-beat-tesla-boss-elon-musk-2-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3336182/how-chinas-us150000-robotic-start-beat-tesla-boss-elon-musk-2-years?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:00:09 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Moore Threads Technology is set to launch its latest graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture next week, fresh from the Chinese artificial intelligence chip designer’s stellar trading debut last Friday in Shanghai. Founder, chairman and CEO Zhang Jianzhong will unveil the Beijing-based firm’s fifth-generation GPU architecture during its inaugural MUSA Developer Conference on December 19 and 20 in the nation’s capital, according to the company’s latest post on WeChat. MUSA refers to the firm’s... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3335900/chinas-moore-threads-unveil-ai-chip-road-map-rival-nvidias-cuda-system?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3335900/chinas-moore-threads-unveil-ai-chip-road-map-rival-nvidias-cuda-system?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:01:01 +0000 Danielle Popov Danielle Popov Deep Robotics – one of the “Six Little Dragons” from Hangzhou, the capital of eastern Zhejiang province – on Tuesday said it had raised 500 million yuan (US$70 million) in fresh funding from a group of Chinese investors. According to the company’s statement, its latest round of financing was led by CMB International, China Asset Management and funds under state-owned telecommunications network operators China Telecom and China Unicom. Deep Robotics founder and CEO Zhu Qiuguo, who also serves as... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3335806/chinas-deep-robotics-raises-us70-million-fresh-funds-sector-draws-more-investors?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3335806/chinas-deep-robotics-raises-us70-million-fresh-funds-sector-draws-more-investors?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:00:21 +0000 Danielle Popov Danielle Popov DeepSeek’s founder and CEO, Liang Wenfeng, has been listed among the top 10 “people who shaped science in 2025” by the British journal Nature, which hailed the 40-year-old entrepreneur as a “Chinese finance whizz” whose breakthrough artificial intelligence models had stunned the world. The Nature’s 10 profile of Liang recognised the disruption caused in January by the release of DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning model that showed how “the United States was not as far ahead in AI as many experts had... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3335748/deepseeks-liang-wenfeng-makes-cut-top-10-people-who-shaped-science-2025?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3335748/deepseeks-liang-wenfeng-makes-cut-top-10-people-who-shaped-science-2025?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:00:16 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The European Union hit Elon Musk’s X with a €120 million (US$140 million) fine on Friday for breaking its digital rules, in a move that risks a fresh clash with US President Donald Trump’s administration. The high-profile probe into the social media platform was seen as a test of the EU’s resolve to police Big Tech. US Vice-President J.D. Vance fired a warning against “attacking” US firms through “censorship” before the penalty was even made public. Imposing the first fine under its powerful... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3335423/eu-hits-musks-x-us140-million-fine-risking-trumps-ire?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3335423/eu-hits-musks-x-us140-million-fine-risking-trumps-ire?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:32:12 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Binance Holdings named co-founder He Yi as co-CEO in the biggest change to its top leadership since Zhao Changpeng stepped down from running the cryptocurrency exchange two years ago. She will share the title with Richard Teng, who succeeded Zhao as CEO of the world’s largest crypto trading venue in November 2023. Zhao, who resigned after pleading guilty to anti-money-laundering and sanctions violations, and He have children together. Zhao was pardoned by US President Donald Trump in October,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/blockchain/article/3335126/crypto-giant-binance-appoints-co-founder-he-yi-co-ceo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/blockchain/article/3335126/crypto-giant-binance-appoints-co-founder-he-yi-co-ceo?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:44:33 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said he was unsure whether China would accept the company’s H200 artificial intelligence chips should the United States relax restrictions on sales of the processors, following a meeting Wednesday with US President Donald Trump. Addressing reporters at the US Capitol, Huang said he and Trump talked about export controls but declined to offer specifics. The Nvidia chief’s meeting with the president comes after Trump administration officials discussed... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335119/nvidias-huang-not-sure-if-china-would-accept-its-h200-chips-he-says-after-trump-meeting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335119/nvidias-huang-not-sure-if-china-would-accept-its-h200-chips-he-says-after-trump-meeting?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:26:28 +0000 Eunice Xu Eunice Xu Elon Musk says he aspires to transform his social media platform X into “WeChat++”, akin to Tencent Holdings’ flagship super app, by integrating various social and finance features. On a recent People by WTF podcast hosted by entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath, Musk cited the extensive utility of WeChat as a model for X – previously known as Twitter, which he bought for US$44 billion in October 2022. “You can exchange information, you can publish information, you can exchange money,” Musk said,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3335048/elon-musk-reiterates-aim-transform-x-wechat-super-app?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3335048/elon-musk-reiterates-aim-transform-x-wechat-super-app?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:00:18 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang Chinese technology powerhouses are beginning to reap early returns from their heavy investments in artificial intelligence, with quarterly results showing the impact across businesses from short video platforms like Kuaishou Technology to social media giants like Tencent Holdings. Kuaishou, China’s second-largest short video app and rival to TikTok’s Chinese sibling Douyin, was the latest to highlight gains from AI adoption. The company, in an earnings statement on Wednesday, attributed its... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3333573/chinese-tech-giants-kuaishou-tencent-reap-early-gains-big-ai-bets?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3333573/chinese-tech-giants-kuaishou-tencent-reap-early-gains-big-ai-bets?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:00:15 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Lenovo Group, the world’s largest personal computer maker, is betting that its own artificial intelligence agent will help grow its AI-powered consumer electronics business, even as the industry faces a global memory chip supply crunch. Chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing on Thursday said the company would globally launch in January its “personal AI super agent”, which would leverage AI models to anticipate a user’s intentions via “portable devices and personal trusted computing hubs”. Beijing-based... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333559/lenovo-pushes-ai-agent-devices-downplays-impact-surging-memory-chip-prices?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333559/lenovo-pushes-ai-agent-devices-downplays-impact-surging-memory-chip-prices?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:00:14 +0000 Reuters Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday shrugged off concerns about an artificial intelligence bubble as the company surprised Wall Street with accelerating growth after several quarters of slowing sales. The chipmaker’s stellar third-quarter earnings and fourth-quarter forecast calmed, at least temporarily, investor nerves over concerns an AI boom has outrun fundamentals. Global markets have looked to the chip designer to determine whether investing billions of dollars in AI infrastructure... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333473/nvidias-strong-forecast-calms-ai-bubble-jitters-now?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333473/nvidias-strong-forecast-calms-ai-bubble-jitters-now?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:48:48 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang Alibaba Group Holding founder Jack Ma on Tuesday made a low-key visit to the Hangzhou campus of Ant Group that coincided with the Chinese fintech giant’s launch of LingGuang, a next-generation multimodal artificial intelligence assistant. Ma, who had relinquished his control of the fintech company and resigned from all corporate roles at Alibaba, was seen accompanied by Ant Group chairman Eric Jing Xiandong and CEO Cyril Han Xinyi during his tour of the campus. Ant Group is an affiliate of... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333403/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-visits-ant-group-campus-fintech-giant-ramps-ai-efforts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333403/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-visits-ant-group-campus-fintech-giant-ramps-ai-efforts?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:00:50 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Portuguese football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo and billionaire Elon Musk were among the guests at a lavish White House dinner hosted by US President Donald Trump for the visiting Saudi crown prince on Tuesday. Ronaldo plays for Saudi club Al Nassr, one of a number of ageing players who have been attracted to the desert kingdom’s heavy spending on stars despite its rights record. The 40-year-old, whose contract with the Saudi club ends this summer, took his place near the head of Trump’s table a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333359/ronaldo-musk-attend-trumps-white-house-dinner-saudi-crown-prince?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333359/ronaldo-musk-attend-trumps-white-house-dinner-saudi-crown-prince?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:30:59 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Cloudflare has fully restored its services after an outage on Tuesday at the web-infrastructure company prevented thousands from accessing major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT. The company said the outage that began around 6.30am was caused by an automatically generated configuration file, designed to manage potential security threats. The file grew too large and crashed the software system handling traffic for several Cloudflare services, the company, whose network handles around a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333299/chatgpt-x-among-sites-disrupted-worldwide-cloudflare-outage?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333299/chatgpt-x-among-sites-disrupted-worldwide-cloudflare-outage?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:52:41 +0000 Anthony Rowley Anthony Rowley A recent Financial Times front-page lead, headlined “Tech stocks suffer $1.2tn AI sell-off”, was followed a few days later by a comment elsewhere that tech stocks were the only cloud over an otherwise sunny Wall Street. Weather forecasters would be ashamed of such a simplistic assertion. Artificial intelligence and, more generally, tech stocks have become the great overarching gods that dominate the stock market firmament. To suggest they are immortal and the investment sky will remain blue even... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3332662/ai-looking-increasingly-liability-storm-coming?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3332662/ai-looking-increasingly-liability-storm-coming?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Nov 2025 08:30:11 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Chinese artificial intelligence firm Moonshot AI continues to develop AI models with fewer high-end graphics processing units (GPUs) than what its US rivals use, according to the Beijing-based start-up’s executives. In a three-hour-long “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit on Monday evening, a Moonshot AI representative with the handle “ppwwyyxx” – the same moniker used by co-founder Wu Yuxin on X – said the company was “outnumbered” by rival US firms in terms of “high-end GPUs” used for AI model... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3332364/chinas-moonshot-claims-build-models-fewer-high-end-ai-chips-us-rivals-use?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3332364/chinas-moonshot-claims-build-models-fewer-high-end-ai-chips-us-rivals-use?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:00:10 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Global technology leaders will pack Lisbon’s annual Web Summit from Tuesday to talk about artificial intelligence, robots and start-ups – all under the shadow of tensions over cutting-edge tech and the natural resources needed to build it. Over four days, the “Davos for geeks” is set to welcome more than 70,000 visitors including 2,500 start-ups and 1,000 investors, according to organisers. Tech leaders gathered at Monday’s opening night, starring Swedish start-up founder Anton Osika, whose... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3332322/western-tech-dominance-fading-web-summit-ceo-says-davos-geeks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3332322/western-tech-dominance-fading-web-summit-ceo-says-davos-geeks?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:53:45 +0000 Reuters Reuters Intel said on Monday its CEO Tan Lip-bu would oversee the chipmaker’s artificial intelligence efforts after the firm’s chief technology officer departed for ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Sachin Katti, who has led Intel’s AI efforts since a management reorganisation at the chipmaker in January, said on social media that he had joined OpenAI. “We thank Sachin for his contributions and wish him all the best. Lip-bu will lead the AI and Advanced Technologies Groups, working closely with the team,” Intel... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3332276/intel-ceo-oversee-its-ai-efforts-after-executive-departs-openai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3332276/intel-ceo-oversee-its-ai-efforts-after-executive-departs-openai?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Nov 2025 03:10:16 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek made a rare appearance at a state-backed industry event on Friday as a senior researcher reaffirmed the AI lab’s commitment to developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) despite its potentially “dangerous” impacts on society. Chen Deli spoke during a panel discussion alongside the heads of five other companies collectively known as China’s “six little dragons” of AI at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, eastern Zhejiang province. It... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3332086/chinas-deepseek-makes-rare-public-comment-calls-ai-whistle-blower-job-losses?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3332086/chinas-deepseek-makes-rare-public-comment-calls-ai-whistle-blower-job-losses?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Nov 2025 04:37:07 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed back at the idea that the company would seek federal guarantees to reduce the risk of its artificial intelligence infrastructure spending spree, one day after a top executive at the ChatGPT maker suggested there may be a role for the government to help finance the technology. “We do not have or want government guarantees for OpenAI data centres,” Altman wrote in a lengthy social media post on Thursday. “Taxpayers should not bail out companies that make bad business... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3331851/sam-altman-says-openai-does-not-want-government-bailout-ai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3331851/sam-altman-says-openai-does-not-want-government-bailout-ai?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Nov 2025 02:00:38 +0000