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Google DeepMind: A leading British-American entity in the Artificial Intelligence sector, headquartered in London with global research centres. As a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., it specialises in pioneering AI research and development. Notable achievements include AlphaFold for protein structure prediction, AlphaGo, and the development of Gemini large language models. Primarily serving scientific research, healthcare, and enhancing Google’s products, their overall business focus is on advancing safe and beneficial AI to solve complex real-world problems and ultimately achieve artificial general intelligence.

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China’s open-source AI models rival US giants, making engagement urgent: report

The report calls on US actors to engage with Chinese firms as the AI landscape continues to evolve.

China’s Qwen and DeepSeek edge out US AI models in Christian values benchmark

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Microsoft makes US$17.5 billion pledge for AI cloud in India

The country of 1.45 billion people is increasingly drawing the attention of AI power brokers as a market and a source of talent and data.

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The real China threat is in exposing America’s AI myths by showing what can be achieved at much lower costs and with greater efficiency.

Alibaba’s Qwen app becomes the world’s fastest growing AI app as MAUs surge 149%

Just two weeks into its public beta, Qwen has shown explosive growth, underscoring Alibaba’s challenge to global rivals OpenAI and Google.

OpenAI CEO declares ‘code red’ to improve ChatGPT as rivals move in

The call comes after Google released its Gemini 3 AI model last month that gained praise for its capacity to reason and code.

China’s DeepSeek challenges Google DeepMind with new AI model

DeepSeek’s V3.2-Speciale equals Google’s Gemini 3 Pro in reasoning capabilities, the Chinese start-up says.

Beyond DeepSeek: Moonshot and MiniMax step up as China’s new frontier AI labs

DeepSeek might be grabbing the headlines, but Chinese start-ups Moonshot AI and MiniMax are emerging as serious rivals to US frontier labs.

Alibaba Cloud team wins top AI award for breakthrough in model efficiency

The research could help reduce training and inference costs for Alibaba’s next generation Qwen models without sacrificing accuracy.

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.

Why Asean’s AI ambition may lead to widening economic and tech divide

While countries such as Singapore and Malaysia are ahead in the AI race, others like Cambodia and Laos risk being left behind, analysts say.

Google’s new Gemini model puts China’s AI start-ups on the defensive

It highlights the daunting challenge faced by Chinese AI start-ups to compete against firms like Google with massive resources.

Google launches Gemini 3, its ‘most intelligent’ AI model yet

Gemini 3 is able to transform information between formats and generate visuals or apps from single prompts, the company says.

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.

This AI model’s US$10,000 investment has the best return. Guess who?

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen3-Max posts a 22.32 per cent return on a US$10,000 investment in two weeks, topping a “real money” AI crypto trading test.

AI models from US and China flatter users too much, study finds

Research judges models from Alibaba and DeepSeek among the most sycophantic, an issue which could impact relationships and mental health.

Chinese start-up MiniMax launches record-breaking AI model

MiniMax M2 has achieved an unprecedented score for an open model on Artificial Analysis’s overall intelligence index.

DeepSeek and Qwen AI models crush Western rivals in cryptocurrency trading challenge

In a real-world test of trading intelligence, China’s DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen AI models have outpaced their Western rivals including GPT.

Chinese AI start-up Shengshu unveils Vidu Q2 in challenge to OpenAI’s Sora

Membership tiers range from free access to a flagship plan costing up to US$84 a month, which offers faster output and more capacity.

DeepSeek outperforms AI rivals in ‘real money, real market’ crypto showdown

DeepSeek’s V3.1 earns 10 per cent profit as it leads five other LLMs in crypto trading experiment that tests their investing abilities.

China’s generative AI user base doubles to 515 million in 6 months

The adoption rate reached 36.5 per cent in the first half of the year, according to a government report.

Anthropic’s ‘anti-China’ stance triggers exit of star AI researcher

Chinese researcher Yao Shunyu joins Google DeepMind after Anthropic labels China as an ‘adversarial nation’.

Tencent’s AI image model beats Google’s Nano Banana in leaderboard

Released late in September, Hunyuan Image 3.0 is the industry’s biggest open-source image-generation model to date.

Baidu-backed drug discovery start-up Biomap challenges Google’s AlphaFold

Biomap expects to double its revenue this year, co-founder and CEO Wei Liu says.

Alibaba leads US$60 million investment in AI video generation start-up AIsphere

AIsphere’s PixVerse has over 100 million users globally, more than double the number it had at the start of the year.

ByteDance unveils new AI image model to rival Google DeepMind’s ‘Nano Banana’

ByteDance claims that Seedream 4.0 beat Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for image generation and editing on its internal evaluation benchmark.

How Google AI helped bring The Wizard of Oz into the 21st century

Las Vegas’ The Wizard of Oz at Sphere is an immersive, ultra-enhanced version of the original that involved over 2,000 people.

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