https://www.scmp.com/rss/522336/feed University of California, Berkeley: A prominent public land-grant research university, located in Berkeley, California, within the San Francisco Bay Area. Established in 1868 as the founding campus of the University of California system, its mission is to advance knowledge and serve society through academic excellence, groundbreaking research, and public service. Renowned for its very high research activity, it offers diverse programmes, particularly strong in sciences, engineering, and... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Ling Xin Ling Xin As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly involved in scientific research, especially in the fierce competition between China and the US, a unique gathering of AI “scientists” has revealed that the technology still faces fundamental weaknesses. Each paper presented at last week’s Agents4Science 2025 conference listed large language models as primary authors and reviewers, while scholars from around the world shared how they used AI bots in scientific work and the challenges... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331218/why-ai-scientists-fail-impress-human-experts-one-kind-online-conference?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331218/why-ai-scientists-fail-impress-human-experts-one-kind-online-conference?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Nov 2025 12:00:10 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse AI-generated videos were clogging social media feeds on Monday as Hurricane Melissa surged towards Jamaica, diverting attention from critical safety information about the massive Category 5 storm. Agence France-Presse surfaced dozens of fakes – most bearing watermarks for OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora – as Melissa was set to pummel the Caribbean island with violent winds and heavy rains. The videos depicted a range of fabricated situations, from dramatic newscasts and shots of severe... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3330542/ai-generated-fake-videos-proliferate-hurricane-melissa-nears-jamaica?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3330542/ai-generated-fake-videos-proliferate-hurricane-melissa-nears-jamaica?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:45:16 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has open-sourced an inference framework for a relatively new type of artificial intelligence model that it said could make AI systems more efficient, surpassing a framework proposed by researchers at US chipmaking giant Nvidia. The Alibaba Group Holding affiliate said Monday that its framework, dInfer, was designed for diffusion language models – a newer class of models that generate outputs in parallel, unlike “autoregressive” systems used in large language... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3329138/ant-group-explores-ai-inference-framework-10-times-faster-nvidias-solution?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3329138/ant-group-explores-ai-inference-framework-10-times-faster-nvidias-solution?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:24:16 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow A star Chinese artificial intelligence researcher has left Anthropic to join a rival company, citing the American AI start-up’s “anti-China statements” as a key reason for his departure. Yao Shunyu, according to a post on his website on Monday, left Anthropic after less than a year to join Google DeepMind, partly because of his “strong” opposition to the start-up’s characterisation of China as an “adversarial nation” and its broader rhetoric. Anthropic labelled China as so last month when it... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3328222/anthropics-anti-china-stance-triggers-exit-star-ai-researcher?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3328222/anthropics-anti-china-stance-triggers-exit-star-ai-researcher?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:00:16 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Alibaba Group Holding has unveiled a “leading open-source deep research” artificial intelligence agent that it says matches the performance of OpenAI’s flagship Deep Research tool, while being more efficient. The agent has been integrated into Alibaba’s maps app, Amap, and its AI-powered legal research tool, Tongyi FaRui, according to a blog post on Tuesday by Alibaba’s AI search development team, Tongyi Lab. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Users of Amap can leverage the deep research... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326015/alibaba-releases-open-source-ai-agent-rival-openais-flagship-deep-research?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326015/alibaba-releases-open-source-ai-agent-rival-openais-flagship-deep-research?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:00:14 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang Alibaba Group Holding on Friday open-sourced its latest artificial intelligence model, built on the new Qwen3-Next architecture, which is 10 times more powerful but costs only a 10th to build compared to its predecessor. The company’s Qwen team said it adopted an array of architectural innovations aimed at maximising performance while minimising computational costs, according to a note published on the developer platform GitHub. The model is developed by Alibaba Cloud, the AI and cloud computing... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3325272/alibaba-releases-next-generation-qwen3-model-ai-rivalry-intensifies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3325272/alibaba-releases-next-generation-qwen3-model-ai-rivalry-intensifies?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Sep 2025 02:41:36 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Two new Chinese artificial intelligence models have broken into a top 10 leaderboard for both open- and closed-source models, highlighting China’s progress in closing the gap with leading US developers. Alibaba Group Holding’s 1 trillion-parameter Qwen3-max-preview model debuted in sixth place in the latest “text arena” ranking by LMArena – an AI model evaluation platform started by University of California, Berkeley researchers – making it the top Chinese model. Meanwhile, Alibaba-backed... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3324887/alibabas-qwen3-and-moonshots-kimi-k2-crack-top-10-ai-rankings-closing-us-models?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3324887/alibabas-qwen3-and-moonshots-kimi-k2-crack-top-10-ai-rankings-closing-us-models?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:09 +0000 Shi Jiangtao Shi Jiangtao Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, marking the end of the Sino-Japanese war and the global fight against fascism, we look at the profound changes of the post-war period and how they continue to affect China’s place in the world. In the second part of this series, Shi Jiangtao looks at the often contradictory sentiments in relations between the two countries. Eighty years after the end of World War II, a harrowing cinematic portrayal of Japanese wartime atrocities during the 1937... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3323532/love-hate-and-post-war-paradox-china-japan-relations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3323532/love-hate-and-post-war-paradox-china-japan-relations?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:00:28 +0000 Holly Chik Holly Chik Geopolitics is stifling academic freedom and scientific research, but a university head in eastern China believes there is a way to ease the situation on campuses – by letting more foreign students in. Xi Youmin, president of Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, said easing visa restrictions for foreign students and visitors could help improve understanding of China. “The world is in a state of division defined by wars, geopolitics and the US tariff war,” Xi... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3321213/university-bridges-china-and-west-geopolitics-biggest-challenge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3321213/university-bridges-china-and-west-geopolitics-biggest-challenge?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:00:14 +0000 Andrew Sun Andrew Sun I GREW UP IN HONG KONG. My father was an interior designer, my mother a housemaker. I went to St Mary’s Canossian College for most of my secondary schooling, until transferring to King’s College for the last two years. Although it’s an all-boys school, for a brief period they accepted girls and I had the privilege to study there during that time. I was a bit of a nerd, a straight A student, good in math and science. I didn’t do much except focus on my exams, but I was never too sure what my... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3319554/film-producer-jessica-kam-engle-talks-disney-john-woo-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3319554/film-producer-jessica-kam-engle-talks-disney-john-woo-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:00:08 +0000 Edith Lin Edith Lin A 35-year-old woman accused of falsely claiming to have studied at a top US university to secure a Hong Kong study permit plans to plead not guilty, with her trial set to take place in December. A plea hearing for Xie Qing was scheduled for November 26 after her counsel told Sha Tin Court on Wednesday that she intended to deny the charges of making a false statement to obtain an entry permit and services by deception. Xie, from mainland China, allegedly made the false statement in July 2023 to... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3320087/woman-35-plead-not-guilty-making-false-statement-secure-hong-kong-study-permit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3320087/woman-35-plead-not-guilty-making-false-statement-secure-hong-kong-study-permit?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Jul 2025 04:51:31 +0000 Sammy Heung Sammy Heung The plot of a Japanese manga has played a big role in fuelling online rumours about a “megaquake” striking Japan on Saturday, triggering fear among some Hongkongers and a decline in interest in trips to the country, a hugely popular destination for residents. But are the claims made by the comic book artist, based on her dreams, possible? The Post has gathered expert opinions to debunk the speculation. 1. Why have concerns about megaquakes arisen? The Japan Meteorological Agency last August... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3317043/japanese-manga-megaquake-possible-july-5-or-have-hongkongers-lost-plot?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3317043/japanese-manga-megaquake-possible-july-5-or-have-hongkongers-lost-plot?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:45:47 +0000