XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding
XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON…
China does not want its internet users to fall in love with an artificial intelligence | Technology
Yuan Yuan (a pseudonym) is 22 and works in the education sector in Shenzhen, one of China’s major…
Chinese Tech Giants Pivot Away From Gaming To Fuel Artificial Intelligence Race
Chinese tech leaders are divesting peripheral holdings—such as Alibaba’s gaming developer Lingxi Games and ByteDance’s Shanghai Moonton—to fund…
Chinese Tech Giants Pivot Away From Gaming To Fuel Artificial Intelligence Race
Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent are shedding noncore gaming and retail holdings to concentrate capital on data infrastructure and…
Baidu’s quarterly revenue drops 4% as AI cloud surge fails to offset advertising slump
Chinese tech giant Baidu on Tuesday posted a 4 per cent year-on-year decline in second-quarter revenue, as continued…
Tencent Brings Together AI and Games to Help Preserve and Share Cultural Heritage of New UNESCO Site in Jingdezhen
Tencent applies AI and games to protect, reconstruct, and promote one of the world’s oldest porcelain traditions at…
Opinion | China’s crackdown on AI companions won’t fill the emotional void
In the past week, one regulation has forced many people in China to say goodbye to long-standing “relationships”.…
How AI Agents Handle Multilingual Enterprise Workflows, Including Localization
As AI agents take on more end-to-end business processes, the researchers argue that multilinguality should be evaluated across…
Chinese robot makers’ lament: if we only had a better ‘brain’, and more data
Chinese robotics companies lack both sufficient data and a good “brain” to improve the interaction of their products…
Moonshot AI’s Kimi Shines Spotlight on Alibaba and Tencent
China’s Kimi K3 has emerged as the latest AI model sensation, drawing so much interest that developer Moonshot…
China cracks down on AI companions, forcing millions to break up with virtual partners
Seventeen-year-old Xiaoxue describes her boyfriend Xiaojun as a “sweet guy”. The pair spend hours each day talking about…
China’s tech giants fuel the rise of AI tokens as a new corporate currency
Every month, a Beijing-based ByteDance employee says he burns through close to a billion units of a new…