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AI: Industry Trends
Explore cutting-edge AI developments in China that are transforming various industries and reshaping the future.
US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast has warned against letting American AI companies chase business in China. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China trade war

House foreign affairs chair warns AI sales to China could make America a ‘loser’

Brian Mast stressed that American firms must not let the best US technology reach the ‘wrong places’ when it comes to AI industry.

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Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek adds former Jane Street engineer to harness team amid agentic AI push

Alibaba

Alibaba teases new Qwen previews, highest-ranking Chinese AI models on Arena

Artificial intelligence

Chinese premier urges faster, broader adoption of AI in advanced manufacturing

Premier Li Qiang says boosting AI-powered manufacturing can help drive new growth for the economy.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang during a tour in Beijing on Monday. Photo: Xinhua
Artificial intelligence

China’s Moonshot AI moves to unwind offshore structure in IPO pursuit: sources

Beijing-based unicorn tells shareholders it will dismantle VIE model as regulators tighten oversight, as shift may signal new era for foreign tech investment.

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Science

Will Chinese beat English as the top language for commanding AI?

Study suggests sophisticated AI models can respond better to Chinese than English before learning how to fine-tune geometric modifications.

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Artificial intelligence

Exclusive | US AI outlay to yield returns despite open-source Chinese rivals: Goldman Sachs

A wave of demand for agentic AI will prove to be a pivotal ‘inflection point’ and vindicate high capital expenditure, Eric Sheridan says.

Eric Sheridan, Goldman Sachs co-head of tech, media and telecoms research. Photo: Jonathan Wong
China’s private sector

Baidu says AI now primary business driver despite 2% drop in first-quarter revenue

Analysts expect the company’s AI marketing services base to steadily grow to reduce declines in advertising revenue and boost profits.

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Artificial intelligence

Forget cellular data: China’s telecoms giants are selling AI token plans

China Telecom and China Unicom’s Shanghai branch are among the latest telecommunications carriers to offer token-based packages to consumers.

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Artificial intelligence

China ramps up building national computing power network as AI token use surges

Beijing casts computing power as a national infrastructure, likening tokens to mobile data as telecoms firms roll out mass-market packages.

Rather than treating computing power as a resource controlled by cloud providers or individual data centres, policymakers are increasingly positioning it as a national infrastructure system. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China tech war

Trump, Xi weigh AI ‘guardrails’ as Nvidia chip exports hang in the balance

Meeting in Beijing, the presidents weighed safety protocols for the rapidly emerging technology, and H200 chip shipments were a ‘sovereign decision’ for ‌China.

Billionaire Elon Musk gestures after attending a welcome ceremony for US President Donald Trump with President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday. Photo: Reuters
Alibaba

Alibaba CEO signals capex boost as China tech giant forges full-stack AI path

Alibaba’s quarterly revenue arrived largely in line with estimates as the tech giant disclosed its first AI sales data, and in early US trading, the shares jumped 6%.

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Artificial intelligence

How ByteDance plans to turn OpenClaw craze into a profitable AI business

ArkClaw’s subscription model and surging token demand mark ByteDance’s new approach to agent economics.

Artificial intelligence

China ranks third in global index for AI competitiveness in life sciences

China listed behind only the US and UK, reflecting the country’s ‘major scale’ in AI, biotechnology and talent, says data consortium.

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Visitors experience AI-powered traditional Chinese medicine healthcare during the 6th China (Gansu) TCM Industry Expo in northwest China. China and Hong Kong have ranked third on a global AI life sciences index. Photo: Xinhua
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba brings chat-style shopping to Taobao, Qwen amid AI gateway push: source

E-commerce giant is integrating Qwen with Taobao and Tmall, enabling shoppers to use natural-language commands instead of keyword searches.

A Taobao and Tmall installation at the Alibaba offices in Beijing. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence

China’s AI drive seen widening wealth gap, testing ‘common prosperity’ push

With Beijing’s ‘AI-plus’ plan looking to grow the nation’s digital economy, experts warn that hubs could further outpace rural regions, fuelling inequality.

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Artificial intelligence

Why foreign buyers are returning after China’s Huaqiangbei makeover

Shenzhen’s electronics hub is riding the AI boom, with curated devices like drones and robots pulling in overseas customers once more.

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US-China trade war

China and US in AI revolution race as tech rivals battle for global supremacy

Two countries will lock horns for foreseeable future, with key industry certain to be a point of negotiation at next week’s Trump-Xi summit.

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China and the US are set to fight out an intense battle for global AI supremacy in a high-stakes race to the top. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

How Nvidia’s Corning pact sheds light on China’s key role in global fibre supply

Rising fibre prices and surging output cement China’s role as the backbone of global optical connectivity for AI.

China trade

How China’s sharper tech edge forces South Korea to rethink old industrial ties

Scholars urge a pivot to shared AI and EV standards and cooperation, while an upgraded China-South Korea free-trade pact is deemed vital.

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China stock market

AI power gap fuels Weichai, GE Vernova shares as generator demand surges

AI’s explosive growth is triggering a global power crisis, as data centres deploy backup generators amid soaring electricity demand.

A worker lifts an engine at the production line of Weichai New Energy Commercial Vehicle in Weihai city, eastern China. Photo: EPA-EFE/Xinhua
Artificial intelligence

AI | Tech pioneer Chen Tianqiao’s MiroMind halts China services after the Manus saga

AI start-up MiroMind has relocated some staff to Singapore to divide operations for compliance amid heightened scrutiny.

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Tech billionaire Chen Tianqiao. Photo: Handout
Samsung Electronics

Samsung halts all home appliance sales in China as pivot to AI accelerates

The South Korean firm had seen its market share in mainland China dwindle amid intense competition from a slew of domestic rivals.

Artificial intelligence

ByteDance needs to monetise its AI chatbot. But will Chinese users pay?

Doubao’s pay plans mark a turning point for China’s chatbot sector, but user reluctance raises doubts about their viability.

Artificial intelligence

From frenzy to fallout: why the chips are down for Shenzhen’s tech traders

As global memory giants cash in on AI demand, Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei traders are grappling with plunging chip prices and losses.

Prices for some of the most in-demand products, including fourth-generation dynamic random-access memory chips, or DDR4, have plunged about 40 per cent since peaking late last year. Photo: Iris Deng
Semiconductors

China’s chipmakers rush to embrace DeepSeek’s V4. Which names stand out?

A growing list of Chinese firms – from Huawei to Cambricon – moves fast to integrate DeepSeek’s latest AI model across diverse architectures.

DeepSeek’s release of V4 has been followed by a wave of adoption among domestic semiconductor manufacturers and AI chipmakers. Photo: AFP
Semiconductors

China’s chipmakers pour revenue into R&D, outpacing US ratios

Earnings show Chinese chip designers devote up to half of revenue to research, far above US peers, as Beijing pushes tech self-reliance.

Artificial intelligence

Supersized and scaling: China pushes 10,000-card computing clusters in AI race

Cities and tech giants are racing to build massive AI clusters, betting scale will drive faster model training, lower costs and wider adoption.

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