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Explore cutting-edge AI developments in China that are transforming various industries and reshaping the future.
DeepSeek’s meteoric rise has propelled the growth of the open-source AI ecosystem by spurring its competitors to join the movement. Photo: Shutterstock
DeepSeek

DeepSeek a year on: how a Chinese start-up sparked a global AI arms race

DeepSeek’s meteoric rise propelled the growth of the open-source AI ecosystem by spurring its competitors to join the movement.

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Hong Kong economy

Editorial | Hong Kong’s biotech hub aim advanced by pacts with national agencies

Artificial intelligence

Opinion | The global AI race: 3 scenarios the world must prepare for

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Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s Amap rolls out AI-powered 3D virtual tours for offline destinations

Flying Street View feature offers virtual tours of restaurants and venues as platform nears 1 billion monthly users.

A new feature on the Amap app allows users to take 3D virtual tours of restaurants and other offline venues. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Chinese quant fund joins DeepSeek in AI race with LLM rivalling GPT-5.1, Claude

Beijing-based Ubiquant launches code-focused systems claiming benchmark wins over US peers despite using far fewer parameters.

War and conflict

Outside In | 2025 was the year of denial. What now?

Despite the threat of wars, tariffs, climate change and AI, normality has persisted. But it can only be a matter of time before such contradictions explode.

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US-China relations

Opinion | US and China must get serious about AI risk

It would be irresponsible for Washington and Beijing to race ahead without engaging each other on the dangers – or the immense opportunities – AI presents.

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Technology

Opinion | Why AI chatbots are unlikely to bring about human extinction

Stories of chatbots behaving in surprising ways are fuelling the rise of ‘AI doomers’ who warn of the risk of human extinction. This extreme view is misguided.

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Artificial intelligence

Chinese expert calls for world models and safety standards for embodied AI

Turing Award winner Andrew Yao says embodied AI needs reasoning, planning and control in one framework.

China technology

Opinion | Why the Global South is embracing Chinese AI

The US champions AI as an autonomous agent, a content creator. China exports a vision of AI as a digital nervous system for the real economy.

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The Chinese approach, forged in the fires of domestic industrial competition, views AI as “relational infrastructure”: a connective tissue for physical systems. It is designed to get its hands dirty, such as in mining, ports and factories. Photo: Adobe Stock
China economy

Opinion | How China engineered the rapid rise of its drug innovation industry

A market once dominated by generics is now an AI-powered pharmaceutical hub drawing billion-dollar investments from the likes of Pfizer and GSK.

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A worker checks the position of a feeding tray in a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility at the Hengrui Biomedical Industrial Park in Lianyungang in Jiangsu province, on December 13, 2021. Photo: Getty Images
Artificial intelligence

AI scaling hasn’t reached a dead end yet, Chinese Google scientist says

Pouring money into increasing computation resources and training data can still yield better AI models, Yao Shunyu says.

Technology

Opinion | How AI, quantum and space technologies will define the Asian century

Together, they form an engine that will determine which nations shape the century ahead and which struggle to keep pace.

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Science

China overtakes US in medical research in science power shift: top publisher

Country is ‘now global leader in scientific publishing and output’, Fred Fenter, chief executive editor of Swiss-based Frontiers, says.

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In 2024, China accounted for half of the paper published in the medical field, according to an academic publisher. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Tencent expands into AI ‘world models’ as tech giants chase spatial intelligence

Tencent is developing physics-aware ‘world models’ to advance spatial intelligence, joining global players such as DeepMind and xAI.

A Hunyuan world model. Spatial intelligence has been described as AI’s ‘next frontier’. Photo: Handout
DeepSeek

China’s DeepSeek makes rare comment, calls for AI ‘whistle-blower’ on job losses

Remarks by CEO Liang Wenfeng’s delegate highlight potential dangers of race to build superintelligent systems.

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Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI models comparable to US ones in frontier risks, study finds

As AI systems grow more powerful, their potential to endanger public safety and social stability has raised alarms.

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Huawei

ByteDance deepens robotics push with China talent drive focused on embodied AI

Tech unicorn’s cloud computing unit Volcano Engine is recruiting senior specialists for its foray into humanoid robot development.

ByteDance unit Volcano Engine is specifically seeking humanoid specialists rather than general robotics experts. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

‘Historic’: Chinese team makes world’s first 2D industrial chip for military use

The chips continue to function even when exposed to high levels of gamma radiation and could have a range of strategic and military uses.

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China's economic recovery

China’s digital competitiveness hits high amid trade-splintering worries: survey

China’s R&D and tech innovation boost its digital competitiveness, but geopolitical headwinds pose growth risks, according to Swiss academic institute.

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Science

Can China’s new tech crack Einstein’s brain? Scientists hope to give it a try

Mapping technique allows analysis of old biological samples often poorly preserved.

A new technique developed by Chinese scientists has shown potential in analysing old biological samples, including cancer tissues stored for nearly 10 years. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba releases open-source AI agent to rival OpenAI’s Deep Research

The company says its deep research agent shows ‘incredible efficiency’ compared with US proprietary tools.

Alibaba has released a deep research agent. Photo: Reuters
Science

DeepSeek secrets unveiled: engineers reveal science behind Chinese AI model

The team uses rewards to teach the AI to solve problems, allowing them to bypass conventional training barriers.

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Artificial intelligence

How Alibaba builds its most efficient AI model to date

The new mechanism has sparked excitement among AI experts, who are increasingly concerned about the rising costs of scaling up models.

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China Future Tech briefing

Biomedicine | AI turns China biotechs into drug discovery leaders

Beijing’s push to use artificial intelligence to find new drugs is paying off, with China-based companies earning billions by licensing discoveries to Western firms.

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AI turns China biotechs into drug discovery leaders
China technology

Opinion | Techno-nationalism is now the critical battlefront in geopolitics

The assumption that technology is a neutral force driving shared progress is giving way to a reality of competition and contest.

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The United States has imposed restrictions on advanced chip exports and equipment, while China has tightened its control of critical minerals, including gallium and germanium that are crucial in chipmaking. Photo: Shutterstock
China technology

Opinion | Why US export controls won’t stop China’s AI rise

Washington’s restrictions on advanced chips may create short-term hurdles but Beijing’s holistic approach is propelling it towards AI leadership.

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Science

How China streamlines national labs into tech war machines: the Hong Kong case

China overhauls Hong Kong’s sprawling network of state-backed research laboratories, turning them into sleek tech hubs.

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