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Ben Jiang
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
The Shanghai-listed chipmaker launched the Huashan chip for AI and the Lushan chip for gaming, promising superior performance for both.
Partnership designed to expand warehouse network and boost Taobao Shangou’s rapid service as rivals Meituan and JD.com scale up facilities.
‘AI is being adopted at an unprecedented speed,’ Tan Dai, president at cloud unit Volcano Engine, says.
MiMo-V2-Flash ‘particularly excels in reasoning, coding and agentic scenarios’, Xiaomi says.
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Cutting-edge tools from Shengshu, Kuaishou, Alibaba Cloud and SenseTime transform content creation for marketers and creators alike.
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.
Firm sees working with partners as the best way to expand service in the mainland and beyond.
AI systems with human-level intelligence, or higher, offer the promise of solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges but the risk of humans losing control.
Reported move to reinvigorate Meta’s faltering AI effort with new ‘Avocado’ model is another likely win for Chinese AI.
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.
Beijing-based Z.ai said its work in ‘teaching AI how to use a smartphone’ dates back to early 2023.
Capital from the government and Big Tech firms is set to make up for any lack of market-driven capital, analysts say.
The Jizhi G-X100 features a photon-to-photon latency of just 9 milliseconds, faster than 12 ms for Apple’s Vision Pro.
Kuaishou expects the new model’s abilities to drive its adoption by filmmakers, production studios, advertisers and influencers.
DeepSeek might be grabbing the headlines, but Chinese start-ups Moonshot AI and MiniMax are emerging as serious rivals to US frontier labs.
The staff cuts come after the company posted a loss-making third quarter, despite reporting a 50 per cent jump in AI-related revenue.
Chinese smart-glasses makers, such as Rokid and Alibaba, and global giant Meta are counting on artificial intelligence to kick-start demand for the devices.
Executives double down on long-term AI growth, as return-on-investment culture cushions tech companies amid worries over costs, analysts say.
Lining up with Beijing’s ‘AI Plus’ campaign, Li says artificial intelligence is set to underpin China’s next phase of growth.
Ma’s visit marks almost a year since he publicly endorsed Ant Group’s AI initiatives during the firm’s 20th anniversary.
In spite of sluggish advertising, AI operations provide ‘a solid foundation for sustainable long-term growth’, Baidu CFO He Haijian says.
Beijing-based company sells nearly 109,000 electric vehicles in three months, underscoring pivot from smartphones.
The new app is designed to be a free-of-charge, comprehensive AI assistant in both professional and personal settings.
Alibaba.com, which serves more than 200,000 merchants worldwide, will make its new AI Mode search tool available next month.
The M100 and M300 provide ‘powerful, low-cost and controllable AI computing power’ to support the nation’s self-reliance push, the firm says.
The ex-DeepSeek researcher is known for being a key contributor to the development of the AI start-up’s V2 model last year.
The system can support up to tens of thousands of interconnected chips to train and run AI models.
Kimi K2 Thinking outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5, sparking comparisons to DeepSeek’s breakthrough.
Kimi K2 Thinking sets ‘new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities’, Moonshot AI researchers say.
