https://www.scmp.com/rss/521767/feed The latest news and top stories on xAI. A leading entity in the artificial intelligence social media and technology sectors, San Francisco Bay Area based xAI specialises in developing advanced AI models like the Grok chatbot, Aurora text-to-image model and DeepSearch. They primarily serve tech enthusiasts, scientific communities and professionals in AI/ML fields. Notable achievements include building Colossus the world’s most powerful AI training system and acquiring X Corp. Their overall... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com 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 Cao Jiaxuan Cao Jiaxuan China’s military on Wednesday warned the United States against allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to “determine life and death” in warfare, as a dispute between the Pentagon and AI firm Anthropic highlighted growing tensions over military use of the technology. Speaking at a regular briefing in Beijing, defence ministry spokesman Jiang Bin said the “unrestricted application of AI by the military” could “erode ethical constraints and accountability in wars” and risk a “dangerous technological... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3346254/china-warns-us-against-granting-ai-ability-determine-life-and-death-battlefield?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3346254/china-warns-us-against-granting-ai-ability-determine-life-and-death-battlefield?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:01:09 +0000 Coco Feng,Eunice Xu Coco Feng,Eunice Xu Artificial intelligence has become a stronger force on the battlefield, with the US military’s use of AI-assisted strikes on Iran underscoring what analysts say is the “urgency” for China to accelerate its push for tech self-reliance. The US Department of Defence deployed Anthropic’s systems in the Iran campaign even after their deal collapsed, according to reports by The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. The technology was used for intelligence assessments, target identification and battle... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3345164/ai-assisted-us-strikes-iran-intensify-china-drive-tech-self-reliance-analysts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3345164/ai-assisted-us-strikes-iran-intensify-china-drive-tech-self-reliance-analysts?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:00:13 +0000 Reuters Reuters Australia’s internet regulator said it might push search engines and app stores to block artificial intelligence services that failed to verify user ages after a review found more than half had not made public any steps to comply by a deadline next week. The warning reflects one of the most aggressive efforts globally to rein in AI companies, which face a growing number of lawsuits for failing to stop – and even encouraging – self-harm or violence, while researchers caution that such platforms... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3345063/australia-mulls-forcing-app-stores-search-engines-axe-unsafe-ai-services?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3345063/australia-mulls-forcing-app-stores-search-engines-axe-unsafe-ai-services?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:07:45 +0000 David Lam David Lam In late December, Grok – the AI model developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI – released a feature that allowed users to generate non-consensual sexualised images of women and children. Within a few weeks, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines took the unusual step of banning Grok after they deemed xAI’s initial mitigations insufficient. The ban was lifted only after xAI placed new restrictions on Grok’s image-generation capabilities. While this episode was resolved, it underscores the risk that... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3344912/southeast-asia-needs-ai-sovereignty-grok-scandal-proved-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3344912/southeast-asia-needs-ai-sovereignty-grok-scandal-proved-it?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:00:16 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Nvidia has yet to generate any revenue from its H200 chips in China and does not know if any sales will be allowed in the country, the company said, as the US chip giant reported record quarterly revenue on surging demand for data centre processors. While the Santa Clara-based tech giant remains the primary beneficiary of the global generative artificial intelligence boom, its ability to navigate the US-China tech war has become a challenge, with the pipeline for the H200 – Nvidia’s second-most... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3344663/china-freeze-h200-chip-sales-clouds-nvidias-record-earnings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3344663/china-freeze-h200-chip-sales-clouds-nvidias-record-earnings?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:00:05 +0000 Vincent Chow,Ben Jiang Vincent Chow,Ben Jiang US artificial intelligence lab Anthropic’s allegation that Chinese AI firms were “distilling” its Claude models has exposed a widely used AI training technique, sparking heated debate over its accepted boundaries, an analyst said. Anthropic said in a blog post on Monday that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax AI used roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 16 million exchanges with its Claude models. The US firm said the activity amounted to unauthorised “distillation” of its... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3344499/anthropics-distilling-charges-against-chinese-firms-expose-ai-training-grey-area?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3344499/anthropics-distilling-charges-against-chinese-firms-expose-ai-training-grey-area?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:05:35 +0000 Bryan Luk,Leonard Luk Bryan Luk,Leonard Luk If the years 2020 to 2025 were defined by the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution – a period where algorithms helped create tech titans such as Nvidia, OpenAI and Oracle – then 2026 represents a far more exciting and expansive paradigm shift. We are now pivoting from the digitisation of the Earth to the capitalisation and domination of low-orbit space. The golden age of the space economy has arrived, signalled by last month’s announcement that SpaceX is preparing for a June initial public... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3342254/us-china-orbital-arms-race-forging-trillion-dollar-space-economy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3342254/us-china-orbital-arms-race-forging-trillion-dollar-space-economy?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:30:09 +0000 Agencies Agencies French police raided the Paris offices of social media platform X on Tuesday as prosecutors summoned its owner Elon Musk for questioning over a widening investigation into alleged offences, including the spread of child pornography and deepfakes. The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed the search was part of a probe opened in January last year by its cybercrime unit, conducted in coordination with the EU police agency Europol. In a major escalation of the legal scrutiny facing the platform... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3342267/france-raids-x-offices-summons-elon-musk-over-child-pornography-and-deepfake-probe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3342267/france-raids-x-offices-summons-elon-musk-over-child-pornography-and-deepfake-probe?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:49:50 +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 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The EU on Monday hit Elon Musk’s X with an investigation over AI chatbot Grok’s generation of sexualised deepfake images of women and minors, in the latest step of an international backlash against the tool. Grok faces an outcry after it emerged that users could sexualise images of women and children using simple text prompts such as “put her in a bikini” or “remove her clothes”. “In Europe, we will not tolerate unthinkable behaviour, such as digital undressing of women and children,” said... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3341286/eu-opens-probe-elon-musks-grok-over-sexual-ai-deepfakes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3341286/eu-opens-probe-elon-musks-grok-over-sexual-ai-deepfakes?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:50:35 +0000 The Korea Times The Korea Times The South Korean government is moving towards regulatory actions against Grok, xAI’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, following mounting concerns over its alleged involvement in generating and distributing sexually exploitative deepfake images. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has launched a preliminary fact-finding review into Grok after the allegations were reported on Sunday. The preliminary process is to confirm whether the violation actually occurred and... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3341158/korea-begins-investigation-grok-sexually-exploitative-images?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3341158/korea-begins-investigation-grok-sexually-exploitative-images?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Jan 2026 09:11:51 +0000 Sam Beltran Sam Beltran The separate moves by three Southeast Asian countries to block the AI chatbot Grok over sexually explicit deepfake images are “emergency brakes” that analysts say may avert immediate harm, but they fall short of coordination at the regional level needed to curb the risks of manipulated artificial intelligence. On Friday, the Philippines said it was restricting access to Grok, following similar steps by Malaysia and Indonesia, after users complained that doctored sexual images of women and minors... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3340593/more-nations-block-grok-obscene-content-calls-asean-wide-curbs-mount?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3340593/more-nations-block-grok-obscene-content-calls-asean-wide-curbs-mount?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:30:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse,Kyodo Agence France-Presse,Kyodo Japanese police have arrested a man suspected of using generative AI to create more than 500,000 obscene images resembling women celebrities and selling them online, a police spokesman and media reports said on Tuesday. Concern is growing worldwide over the use of artificial intelligence tools for malicious purposes including through deepfakes, which turn genuine photos, videos or audio of people into false likenesses. Between December 2024 and May 2025, Japanese man Tetsuro Chiba allegedly... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3340576/japan-arrests-man-selling-ai-generated-celebrity-porn?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3340576/japan-arrests-man-selling-ai-generated-celebrity-porn?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:05:45 +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 Reuters Reuters Britain’s media regulator launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s ‌X on Monday to determine whether sexually intimate deepfakes produced by its Grok AI ‍chatbot violated its duty to protect people in the UK from content that could be illegal. “There have been deeply concerning reports of the Grok AI chatbot account on X being used to create and share undressed images ⁠of people – which may amount to intimate image abuse or pornography – and sexualised images of children that may amount to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3339627/uk-regulator-launches-probe-musks-x-over-groks-disgusting-sexualised-ai-imagery?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3339627/uk-regulator-launches-probe-musks-x-over-groks-disgusting-sexualised-ai-imagery?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:09:58 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Malaysia suspended access to Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok over AI-generated pornographic content, the country’s tech regulator said on Sunday. The decision follows global backlash after it emerged that Grok’s image creation feature allowed users to sexualise pictures of women and children using simple text prompts. On Saturday, Indonesia became the first country to deny all access to the tool, which has been restricted to paying subscribers elsewhere. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3339510/malaysia-suspends-grok-access-amid-global-backlash-musks-ai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3339510/malaysia-suspends-grok-access-amid-global-backlash-musks-ai?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:03:38 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Social media platform X will open its new algorithm to the public in seven days, Elon Musk said on Saturday, including the code used to decide what posts and advertisements are recommended to users. “This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with comprehensive developer notes, to help you understand what changed,” Musk, who owns X, said in a post on the platform. The billionaire did not say why X was making its algorithm open source. He and the company have clashed several times with regulators over... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3339479/elon-musk-open-source-x-algorithm-7-days-amid-global-scrutiny?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3339479/elon-musk-open-source-x-algorithm-7-days-amid-global-scrutiny?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:46:30 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Elon Musk accused the UK government of being “fascist” after it stepped up threats to block X over sexualised images of women and children produced by his artificial intelligence tool Grok. Responding to a chart claiming to show the UK had the highest arrests for social media comments in the world, Musk posted: “Why is the UK government so fascist?” In separate posts hours earlier, Musk said the UK wanted to “suppress free speech” and referred to the country as a “prison island”. X, formerly... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3339471/elon-musk-blasts-prison-island-uk-showdown-over-grok-ai-sexual-images?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3339471/elon-musk-blasts-prison-island-uk-showdown-over-grok-ai-sexual-images?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Jan 2026 02:25:07 +0000 Reuters Reuters Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Saturday due ‌to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming ‍the first country to deny access to the AI tool. The move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have ⁠condemned the app, with some opening inquiries into sexualised content. xAI, the start-up behind Grok, said on Thursday it was restricting image generation and editing to paying ‍subscribers as it tried to fix safeguard lapses that had ‍allowed... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3339435/indonesia-blocks-elon-musks-grok-chatbot-over-ai-porn-concerns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3339435/indonesia-blocks-elon-musks-grok-chatbot-over-ai-porn-concerns?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:34:51 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has updated the user interface of its flagship chatbot by adding an advanced “thinking” feature, as its app recorded a massive 90 per cent jump in monthly active users (MAU) in December. The upgrades, including a deep research mode similar to OpenAI’s namesake product, marked a rare improvement on the consumer side for the Hangzhou-based firm at a time when anticipation was building over its next-generation models, analysts said. DeepSeek’s... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338809/chinas-deepseek-adds-advanced-thinking-feature-chatbot-amid-buzz-over-next-model?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338809/chinas-deepseek-adds-advanced-thinking-feature-chatbot-amid-buzz-over-next-model?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:00:49 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Elon Musk’s Grok is facing mounting criticism and threats of government action around the world after the artificial intelligence chatbot created sexualised images, including of minors, on the social media platform X in response to user prompts. Malaysian authorities said in a statement on Saturday that they are investigating images produced by Grok after complaints about the misuse of AI to manipulate images of women and minors to produce indecent, grossly offensive or otherwise harmful... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3338679/malaysia-eu-threaten-action-against-x-grok-ai-offensive-images?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3338679/malaysia-eu-threaten-action-against-x-grok-ai-offensive-images?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:54:56 +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 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Chinese artificial intelligence models from Alibaba Cloud and DeepSeek have edged out US-developed models to feature in the top six of a new ranking of leading AI models’ alignment with Christian worldviews. Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen and DeepSeek’s R1 models were evaluated along with a host of leading US models as part of Colorado-based AI company Gloo’s Flourishing AI Christian (FAI-C) benchmark, which was launched on Monday. Led by former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, Gloo said its benchmark tested AI... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3336642/chinas-qwen-and-deepseek-edge-out-us-ai-models-christian-values-benchmark?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3336642/chinas-qwen-and-deepseek-edge-out-us-ai-models-christian-values-benchmark?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:00:09 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen Alibaba Group Holding said on Tuesday that it will set up a new division to push the consumer use of artificial intelligence applications based on its Qwen family of large language models. The new business unit, Qwen Consumer Business Group, led by Alibaba vice-president Wu Jia, will oversee the Qwen chatbot app, the Quark AI assistant and cloud drive, AI hardware products, the UC Browser and the online reading platform Shuqi. The move marked a significant organisational change at Alibaba to... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3335793/alibaba-creates-new-unit-push-consumer-use-its-qwen-ai-models?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3335793/alibaba-creates-new-unit-push-consumer-use-its-qwen-ai-models?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:00:11 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings is laying the groundwork for what many see as the next frontier of artificial intelligence by investing in “world models” that simulate the physical environment, according to its head of 3D generation and world modelling. China’s most valuable tech conglomerate joins a fast-growing cohort that includes Google DeepMind and Elon Musk’s xAI in exploring “spatial intelligence”, which some experts have described as “AI’s next great frontier”. On Wednesday, AI... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3332653/tencent-expands-ai-world-models-tech-giants-chase-spatial-intelligence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3332653/tencent-expands-ai-world-models-tech-giants-chase-spatial-intelligence?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:00:19 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Chinese artificial intelligence systems are nearing levels of “frontier risks” similar to their US counterparts, according to a study. Recent advances in the capabilities of AI models from DeepSeek and other Chinese firms heightened the possibility that these systems could be misused by bad actors or escape human control, according to Concordia AI, a Beijing-based consultancy focused on AI safety in China. As AI models grew more powerful, their frontier risks – or their potential to endanger... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3331952/chinese-ai-models-comparable-us-ones-frontier-risks-study-finds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3331952/chinese-ai-models-comparable-us-ones-frontier-risks-study-finds?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Nov 2025 11:00:15 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Tesla shareholders on Thursday overwhelmingly endorsed a massive pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could reach US$1 trillion. The pay package - crafted to ensure Musk’s continued service to Tesla as the company pursues breakthrough technology on artificial intelligence and robotics - won more than 75 per cent support from shareholders, a Tesla official said at the company’s annual meeting. “I’d like to just give a heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported the shareholder votes,” a euphoric... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331846/tesla-shareholders-approve-us878-billion-pay-plan-elon-musk?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331846/tesla-shareholders-approve-us878-billion-pay-plan-elon-musk?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:25:39 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding on Monday unveiled an upgraded artificial intelligence reasoning model that excelled in leading global maths competitions, matching the performance of US rival OpenAI’s most advanced model. Qwen3-Max-Thinking, the latest version of Alibaba’s Qwen3 model family, achieved 100 per cent accuracy “in challenging reasoning benchmarks like American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) 2025 and Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament (HMMT)”, the Qwen... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3331467/alibabas-ai-aces-top-global-maths-contests-challenging-openais-dominance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3331467/alibabas-ai-aces-top-global-maths-contests-challenging-openais-dominance?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:00:50 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow An artificial intelligence model developed by Alibaba Group Holding has emerged as the top performer in a high-profile “real money, real market” experiment that pitted six leading US and Chinese systems against one another in cryptocurrency trading. In the first round of testing on US research firm Nof1’s Alpha Arena, which concluded on Tuesday, Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen3-Max model generated a 22.32 per cent return on an initial investment of US$10,000 over two weeks. Alibaba owns the South China... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3331425/alibabas-ai-model-outperforms-us-rivals-crypto-trading-showdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3331425/alibabas-ai-model-outperforms-us-rivals-crypto-trading-showdown?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Nov 2025 04:37:33 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Elon Musk’s company xAI has launched a website called Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, which he and others on the American right-wing have accused of ideological bias. The site, dubbed version 0.1, had more than 885,000 articles by Monday evening after its launch, compared to Wikipedia’s more than 7 million in English. The launch came with the promise of a newer version, 1.0, which Musk said would be “10X better” than the current live site, which he claimed is already... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3330689/elon-musk-launches-grokipedia-rival-left-biased-wikipedia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3330689/elon-musk-launches-grokipedia-rival-left-biased-wikipedia?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:54:50 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow MiniMax, a leading Chinese artificial intelligence start-up, released on Monday the M2, which ranks as the world’s leading open model on a prominent leaderboard. MiniMax M2 achieved an unprecedented score for an open model on Artificial Analysis’s overall intelligence index, placing it among the top five models globally. It surpassed Google DeepMind’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, released in June, and sat below leading models from US companies OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. With 200 billion parameters, MiniMax... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3330517/chinese-start-minimax-launches-record-breaking-ai-model-challenges-google-deepmind?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3330517/chinese-start-minimax-launches-record-breaking-ai-model-challenges-google-deepmind?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:00:12 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Chinese artificial intelligence models DeepSeek and Qwen have surged ahead of Western rivals, including GPT, with returns exceeding 100 per cent in just nine days during an ongoing real-market cryptocurrency trading competition. DeepSeek’s Chat V3.1 model grew its initial capital of US$10,000 to US$22,500 by 4pm on Monday – a 125 per cent gain since trading began on October 18 – according to the latest update from Alpha Arena, a crypto investment project launched by US research firm Nof1. Qwen 3... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3330461/deepseek-and-qwen-ai-models-crush-western-rivals-cryptocurrency-trading-challenge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3330461/deepseek-and-qwen-ai-models-crush-western-rivals-cryptocurrency-trading-challenge?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:00:24 +0000 David Dodwell David Dodwell If Elon Musk’s 2018 battle for a US$56 billion payday seemed surreal to most average people, then the Tesla board’s proposal to offer him US$1 trillion over the coming decade is nothing short of eye-popping. But Musk’s temerity sits at the heart of an unresolved corporate conundrum amplified by the extraordinary stock market bubble inflating in the United States: to what extent should an individual CEO take credit for a company’s success and thus reap the bulk of its financial rewards, rather... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3330100/elon-musks-proposed-payout-shows-far-reach-genius-myth?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3330100/elon-musks-proposed-payout-shows-far-reach-genius-myth?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:30:09 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time. Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character called Mico (pronounced MEE-koh) on Thursday, a floating cartoon face shaped like a blob or flame that would embody the software giant’s Copilot virtual assistant and marked the latest attempt by tech companies to imbue their AI chatbots with more of a personality. Copilot’s new emoji-like exterior comes... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3330137/new-clippy-microsoft-unveils-mico-ai-character-embodying-its-copilot-assistant?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3330137/new-clippy-microsoft-unveils-mico-ai-character-embodying-its-copilot-assistant?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Oct 2025 02:29:54 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow A new real-market cryptocurrency trading experiment that pits leading artificial intelligence models against one another to evaluate their respective investing abilities has seen a DeepSeek model outperform rivals so far. In Alpha Arena, launched on Saturday by US research firm Nof1, six large language models (LLMs) were given US$10,000 each to invest in six cryptocurrency perpetual contracts on the decentralised exchange Hyperliquid, including bitcoin and solana. As of 2pm on Tuesday,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3329784/deepseek-outperforms-ai-rivals-real-money-real-market-crypto-showdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3329784/deepseek-outperforms-ai-rivals-real-money-real-market-crypto-showdown?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:00:22 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow When Alibaba Group Holding’s CEO Eddie Wu Yongming took the stage at the company’s annual Apsara conference in Hangzhou on September 24, few people expected the media-shy executive to deliver anything shocking, especially since he read from prepared statements at last year’s event. Wu, however, immediately outlined a clear road map for Alibaba’s AI development, with a goal towards so-called artificial superintelligence (ASI) – when the firm’s Qwen open-source models and cloud services would... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3328568/chinas-lesson-us-it-takes-more-chips-win-ai-race?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3328568/chinas-lesson-us-it-takes-more-chips-win-ai-race?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Oct 2025 04:00:13 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg The Elon Musk-backed artificial intelligence start-up xAI is raising more financing than initially planned – including an equity investment from Nvidia – to bring its ongoing funding round to US$20 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The financing, which includes equity and debt, would be tied to the Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) that xAI planned to use in Colossus 2, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information was private. That is the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3328175/nvidia-invest-musks-xai-part-us20-billion-funding?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3328175/nvidia-invest-musks-xai-part-us20-billion-funding?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:12:20 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Venture capitalists poured US$192.7 billion into artificial intelligence start-ups so far this year, setting new global records and putting 2025 on track to be the first year in which more than half of total VC dollars went into the industry, according to data provider PitchBook. Most of the capital went to established start-ups – Anthropic and xAI both raised billions in funding this quarter – while some other lesser-known upstarts struggled, especially companies that are not focused on AI. The... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3327775/ai-dominates-venture-capital-investing-2025-pulling-us1927-billion?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3327775/ai-dominates-venture-capital-investing-2025-pulling-us1927-billion?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Oct 2025 08:16:59 +0000 Reuters Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday became the first person ever to achieve a net worth of US$500 billion, propelled by a rebound in the electric-vehicle company’s shares and surging valuations of his other start-ups this year. His net worth stood at US$500.1 billion as of 4.15pm US Eastern time, according to Forbes’ billionaires index. Musk’s fortunes are tied closely to Tesla, where he held a more than 12.4 per cent stake as of September 15. The stock has risen more than 14 per cent so far this... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3327568/teslas-elon-musk-becomes-first-person-hit-us500-billion-net-worth-forbes-list-shows?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3327568/teslas-elon-musk-becomes-first-person-hit-us500-billion-net-worth-forbes-list-shows?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:55:33 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang The artificial intelligence and cloud computing unit of Alibaba Group Holding has officially unveiled its largest-ever AI model, with performance benchmarks that rival those of leading American models, in the latest sign of the Chinese tech giant’s push to narrow the gap with US peers in this field. On Wednesday, Alibaba Cloud announced the Qwen3-Max model, with over 1 trillion parameters, just hours ahead of its annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province. Parent... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3326689/alibaba-says-latest-ai-model-qwen3-max-rivals-best-offerings-openai-google?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3326689/alibaba-says-latest-ai-model-qwen3-max-rivals-best-offerings-openai-google?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:00:20 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Huawei Technologies’ quest for greater computing power for artificial intelligence projects is expected to rest on the firm’s latest supernode computing cluster systems, as these take on rival platforms from Nvidia and xAI. The Atlas 950 and Atlas 960 SuperPoDs, as well as the Atlas 950 and Atlas 960 SuperClusters, are expected to help the Shenzhen-based firm “circumvent the limitations in China’s chip manufacturing process”, Huawei deputy chairman Eric Xu Zhijun, who serves as the privately... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3326432/tech-war-huaweis-computing-cluster-power-ai-projects-challenge-us-platforms?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3326432/tech-war-huaweis-computing-cluster-power-ai-projects-challenge-us-platforms?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Sep 2025 01:00:11 +0000 Ben Jiang,Danielle Popov Ben Jiang,Danielle Popov Your next work colleague may soon be an AI agent. These digital applications are similar to proactive assistants that can understand a user’s needs and act on their behalf. They can perform real-world tasks with little or no human intervention, putting them a step beyond artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, which just answer questions and collate data. China has been at the forefront of AI agent development, notably with the March launch of Manus by Beijing start-up Butterfly Effect. This... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3325685/user-friendly-and-autonomous-ai-agents-ready-handle-any-task?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3325685/user-friendly-and-autonomous-ai-agents-ready-handle-any-task?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:00:10 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The battle among billionaires for bragging rights as the world’s richest person got heated on Wednesday with the surprising surge of an old contender: Larry Ellison. In a stunning few minutes after markets opened, stock in Ellison’s Oracle rocketed more than a third, enough for him to temporarily wrest the title from its long-time holder Elon Musk and hand it to the software giant’s co-founder. But the stock market is fickle, and Musk was back on top by the end of the day, according to... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3325121/larry-ellison-briefly-overtakes-elon-musk-worlds-richest-person-oracle-surges?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3325121/larry-ellison-briefly-overtakes-elon-musk-worlds-richest-person-oracle-surges?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Sep 2025 03:14:33 +0000 Reuters Reuters Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up, xAI, on Thursday released a new “speedy and economical” agentic coding model, marking its entry into a key focus area for AI companies. An agentic coding tool is an AI-powered software application that can autonomously perform coding-related tasks. XAI’s model, called grok-code-fast-1, would be available for free for a limited time, with select launch partners including GitHub Copilot and Windsurf. Its “strength lies in delivering strong performance... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3323568/elon-musks-xai-launches-agentic-coding-model-rival-github-copilot-and-openais-codex?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3323568/elon-musks-xai-launches-agentic-coding-model-rival-github-copilot-and-openais-codex?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:09:22 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Elon Musk’s companies xAI and X filed a sweeping US antitrust lawsuit on Monday against Apple and OpenAI, alleging the tech giants formed an illegal partnership to stifle competition in artificial intelligence and smartphone markets. The 61-page complaint, filed in federal court in Texas, accuses Apple and OpenAI of entering an exclusive deal that makes OpenAI’s ChatGPT the only generative AI chatbot integrated into Apple’s iPhone operating system while blocking rivals such as xAI’s Grok. “This... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323113/elon-musks-xai-sues-apple-and-openai-alleging-antitrust-violations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323113/elon-musks-xai-sues-apple-and-openai-alleging-antitrust-violations?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:10:58 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang US tech billionaire Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI has open-sourced Grok 2.5, an earlier version of its model series, intensifying the global race to challenge China’s lead in making AI products freely available for anyone to use, modify and share. Musk said on social media platform X.com over the weekend that Grok 2.5, touted as the company’s “best model last year”, was uploaded to Hugging Face, the world’s largest open-source AI platform. He added that Grok 3 would become... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3323049/elon-musks-xai-joins-open-source-ai-race-against-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3323049/elon-musks-xai-joins-open-source-ai-race-against-china?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:00:16 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse AI chatbot Grok on Tuesday offered conflicting explanations for its brief suspension from X after accusing Israel and the United States of committing “genocide” in Gaza, as it lashed out at owner Elon Musk for “censoring me”. Grok, developed by Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI and integrated into his platform X, was temporarily suspended on Monday in the latest controversy surrounding the chatbot. No official explanation was provided for the suspension. Upon reinstatement, the Grok... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321737/musks-grok-ai-suspended-x-after-gaza-genocide-claims-censoring-me?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321737/musks-grok-ai-suspended-x-after-gaza-genocide-claims-censoring-me?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:46:53 +0000