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OpenAI: A leading entity in the Technology and Artificial Intelligence sector, San Francisco-based OpenAI specialises in developing advanced AI models and tools, including the GPT family of large language models, DALL-E, and ChatGPT. They primarily serve businesses, organisations, academic institutions, and increasingly, the general public, aiming to enhance operations and drive innovation. Known for catalysing widespread interest in generative AI with ChatGPT’s release, OpenAI’s overall business focus is on building a globally competitive AI ecosystem and developing safe, beneficial artificial general intelligence that aligns with human values. The company also has offices in London, Dublin, and Tokyo.

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Sea change: China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after ChatGPT shock

The turning point came when DeepSeek released its V3 and R1 models, which were on par with OpenAI’s GPT and Meta’s Llama models at the time.

Huawei bolsters AI ambitions with foundation model unit, recruits global talent

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China’s generative AI tiger MiniMax pursues Hong Kong IPO to expand global reach

Hong Kong equity market offers platform for mainland Chinese AI firms seeking international investors amid intensifying domestic competition.

‘Architects of AI’ named Time’s 2025 Person of the Year

Time’s Person of the Year highlights how AI reshaped our world. Donald Trump was named 2024 honoree, succeeding 2023 winner Taylor Swift.

AI race: Meta reportedly uses Alibaba’s Qwen for its ‘Avocado’ model

Reported move to reinvigorate Meta’s faltering AI effort with new ‘Avocado’ model is another likely win for Chinese AI.

Power and data centres will put China ahead of US in the AI race, says investor

AI is now a race to build data centres and secure electricity, says investor Allen Zhu, who argues China’s energy push puts it ahead.

OpenAI names first chief of revenue as ChatGPT maker aims to make a profit

OpenAI is facing increased competition from rivals, including Google, which last month unleashed the latest version of its own AI assistant.

Alibaba creates new unit to push consumer use of its Qwen AI models

Significant organisational change underlines company’s determination to turn the Qwen chatbot into a ‘super app’.

DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng among top 10 ‘people who shaped science in 2025’

British journal Nature’s top 10 list gives credit to the man behind the widely acclaimed, Chinese-developed R1 reasoning AI model.

Chinese open-source models account for 30% of global AI use: report

Producing globally competitive models makes China a close peer of the US in AI development.

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How China’s solopreneurs are using AI to crack a tough job market

Armed with a variety of AI tools, a new breed of young entrepreneurs forges a path in a challenging economy.

Editorial | China’s low-cost AI is showing up America’s high-cost tech model

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.

DeepSeek catching Google, OpenAI should spur US tech ‘code red’

The new version of DeepSeek’s AI model is competitive with Google and OpenAI, underscoring how Chinese developers are challenging the US even when forced to rely on less advanced chips.

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.

Kuaishou debuts multimodal AI video model with ‘Nano Banana’ editing capability

Kuaishou expects the new model’s abilities to drive its adoption by filmmakers, production studios, advertisers and influencers.

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.

DeepSeek releases first open AI model with gold-level scores at maths olympiad

‘Imagine owning the brain of one of the best mathematicians in the world for free,’ Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue says in a post on X.

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.

Singapore firm’s US$99 AI teddy bear returns after sex fetish saga

FoloToy’s Teddy Kumma was involved in inappropriate chats with its users, including telling them where to find knives and pills.

US, Chinese firms add AI shopping bells and whistles to dominate all-in-one apps

OpenAI’s new ‘shopping research’ tool resembles popular AI shopping services on Chinese e-commerce platforms like Tmall and Taobao.

Anthropic says its new AI model is better at coding and office work

Claude Opus 4.5 is the first to score higher than the company’s human candidates on a take-home engineering assignment, firm says.

Alibaba’s Qwen chatbot sets record by topping 10 million downloads in debut week

Powered by Alibaba Cloud’s open-source model family of the same name, Qwen is the firm’s most significant foray into the consumer AI market.

Ant Group’s vibe coding app hits 1 million downloads in just 4 days

LingGuang, an AI app that generates custom software applications, sees a surge in popularity.

AI fake audio clip of Trump ‘not releasing’ Epstein files goes viral

A synthetic Trump voice was heard screaming, ‘not releasing the Epstein files’ in the widely circulated, yet, bogus clip.

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