Cambricon, SenseTime form strategic cooperation to support China’s tech self-reliance push
The two companies intend to leverage their respective hardware and software expertise to promote “a new indigenous AI…
Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek
Reflection AI, a startup founded just last year by two former Google DeepMind researchers, has raised $2 billion…
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group releases powerful AI model to rival DeepSeek and OpenAI
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has released a new open-source, trillion-parameter large language model (LLM) that boasts stronger…
Mapping shifts in the geography of tech innovation: China becomes a big player in AI research
The belief that China is a country only good at adopting technologies at scale has been a “misperception”,…
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app…
DeepSeek releases ‘sparse attention’ model that cuts API costs in half
Researchers at DeepSeek on Monday released a new experimental model called V3.2-exp, designed to have dramatically lower inference…
Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing on January 27, 2025. Chinese…
Alibaba’s Qwen3-Omni tops Hugging Face AI ranking as Chinese open systems flourish
Alibaba Group Holding’s new Qwen3-Omni multimodal artificial intelligence system has quickly become the most popular model in the…
Home-grown heroes: how Huawei and DeepSeek are helping China break reliance on US chips
When Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek unveiled an updated foundational model late in August, investors in Nvidia were…
China’s banks face their ‘Japanification moment’, S&P report warns
China’s banks are edging towards their “Japanification moment”, as years of yielding margins to support the economy have…
Domesticization Hopes Sprouting in the Era of Large Models
According to a report by Xin Dongxi on September 17th, today, the 2025 Global AI Chip Summit was…
Open Questions | Dong Yu on why ‘every chapter’ of China’s 5-year plans boils down to income
Dong Yu has been executive vice-president of the China Institute for Development Planning at Tsinghua University since 2019.…