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Ben Jiang
Senior Reporter, Technology
Ben is a Beijing-based technology reporter for the Post focusing on emerging start-ups. He has previously covered Chinese tech for publications including KrAsia and TechNode.
Ben is a Beijing-based technology reporter for the Post focusing on emerging start-ups. He has previously covered Chinese tech for publications including KrAsia and TechNode.
Areas of Expertise:
Start-ups, tech trendsLanguages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
Officials summoned Alibaba, JD.com, Pinduoduo, Douyin and RedNote over marketing practices, underscoring official concern about subsidy wars.
The firm is laying off some employees at its cloud unit amid ongoing restrictions on cross-border data flows between the two countries.
The initiative is designed to anchor Beijing’s AI Plus strategy, which calls for AI to be woven into the industrial fabric of the economy.
Security ministry cautions developers on grey-market relay platforms, raising fears of privacy breaches and illicit data trading.
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The company behind the Kimi chatbot is aiming for a valuation that would place it among China’s most valuable AI start-ups.
New institute highlights Beijing’s bid to leapfrog energy bottlenecks and underscores how tech race with US is moving off-planet.
The framework breaks the constraints of conventional indoor scene generation, which has long been confined to single-room layouts.
China lifted the previous 50 per cent foreign ownership cap to allow wholly foreign-owned enterprises to operate within pilot zones.
DeepSeek’s founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng is reportedly committing around 20 billion yuan of his own capital.
Investment windfall provides cushion as core-business margins face intense pressure from battle with Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com.
CEO Wang Xing says Keeta food delivery business achieved ‘meaningful efficiency gains’ in both Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia in the quarter.
The national initiative will give every bipedal humanoid a unique code, like a national ID but for robots.
Beijing-based firm bets on frontier tech, from topping AI benchmarks to designing chips that rival Apple, to secure its long-term survival.
US artificial intelligence giant wants to hire developer experience engineers in Singapore and growth partner managers in San Francisco.
Beijing-based unicorn tells shareholders it will dismantle VIE model as regulators tighten oversight, as shift may signal new era for foreign tech investment.
Analysts expect the company’s AI marketing services base to steadily grow to reduce declines in advertising revenue and boost profits.
The integration of agentic AI with sites like Taobao and JD.com is reshaping shopping, but the bigger promise is an agent within WeChat.
The nation’s over 900 million e-commerce users are taking part in an experiment where rigid search terms are replaced by natural dialogue.
The subdued results came after the firm reported its first quarterly loss in the fourth quarter last year amid an ongoing price war.
Move underscores strategy by China’s technology firms to revamp their flagship e-commerce platforms via an accelerating AI push
E-commerce giant is integrating Qwen with Taobao and Tmall, enabling shoppers to use natural-language commands instead of keyword searches.
ByteDance is allocating a proportionally larger budget to domestic AI chips to mitigate geopolitical risks and heed Beijing’s call.
Backers include AI-focused affiliates under the third phase of the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, sources say.
The company is seeking to list on the Sci-Tech Innovation Board, also known as the Star Market, of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
AI start-up MiroMind has relocated some staff to Singapore to divide operations for compliance amid heightened scrutiny.
Chinese-made humanoids are being deployed at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport as Japan’s aviation industry struggles with a shrinking workforce.
Stores empty shelves as e-commerce sites including Alibaba’s Taobao and JD.com stop shipments to comply with ban effective on Friday.
Ultra-fast charging technology and a wave of smart features are helping Chinese EVs win over overseas buyers.
Licensing curbs follow a Wuhan system failure that stranded passengers, as authorities shift focus from rapid roll-out to safety oversight.
