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Minxiao Chang
Reporter, Technology
Minxiao is a technology reporter at the South China Morning Post, covering semiconductors, AI, and fintech. She previously reported for 36Kr and Harvard Business Review China, specializing in the intersection of AI and emerging technologies. Her coverage focuses on global supply chains, Web3, and RWA.
Minxiao is a technology reporter at the South China Morning Post, covering semiconductors, AI, and fintech. She previously reported for 36Kr and Harvard Business Review China, specializing in the intersection of AI and emerging technologies. Her coverage focuses on global supply chains, Web3, and RWA.
Areas of Expertise:
China markets, emerging techLanguages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
American AI pioneer eyes 75 per cent fee cut for flagship software to counter market gains by Claude and low-cost alternatives from Chinese providers.
Tencent-backed firm launches the AI-native StepX Neo smartphone, challenging US tech giants amid Apple-OpenAI legal clashes.
With artificially intelligent agents set to become our interface with the digital world, Chinese tech platforms are embedding them and launching AI-native products.
As Beijing flags a security risk in Anthropic software, domestic tech firms are rapidly embracing local alternatives such as ByteDance’s Trae and Alibaba’s Qoder.
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The release of the new models signals a broader industry shift towards cost-efficient AI systems designed for enterprise use.
Increasingly, AI systems are expected to predict how environments will respond to actions before they are taken.
Damo Academy unveils an AI agent able to discover superconductors, which could revolutionise scientific materials research and innovation.
The unveiling of model U1, which has silicone skin and emotional AI, reflects tech firms’ drive to expand robotics beyond industrial use.
Like maritime trade centuries ago, the space economy is built on high-risk, high-value journeys. Hong Kong wants to be its insurance hub.
While other Chinese releases have made significant gains, GLM-5.2 is the first model to rank in the top three globally on a major benchmark.
Chinese AI start-up recruiting talent to build cutting-edge autonomous agents that adapt foundational language models into commercial tools.
New model ranks second globally on Code Arena list for front-end web development tasks, trailing only Anthropic flagship Claude Fable 5.
China’s AI developers deepen push into massive foundation models, backed by lower costs and investor momentum despite US restrictions.
Urban development deals with partners including Huawei and ByteDance underscore growing cooperation between Riyadh and Beijing.
Zhipu and some Chinese peers aim to capture users changing from US rivals’ top models amid high prices, geopolitical bans.
Wave of Chinese insurers is underwriting rockets and satellites, turning space risk into a new front in the China-US rivalry.
Malicious AI skills can trick users into running crypto-mining software and expose sensitive data, CNCERT warns.
DeepSeek’s pricing shock is rippling through China’s AI sector, pressuring rivals and unsettling cloud providers.
Phone makers including Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo set to support feature that reverses past reluctance to open the super app.
Shanghai-based company says M3 can process data five times faster than its predecessor, while also slashing inference costs.
The new model supports more than 30 languages, seven major Chinese dialects and over 20 regional accents.
Embodied AI and autonomous agents are increasingly viewed by investors as one of the next major growth areas for the sector, UBS says.
The Chinese tech giant is the only non-US firm to crack the top five in Code Arena’s latest leaderboard.
A new cinematic tool, Seedance 2.0, can generate feature-length movies for a fraction of traditional costs.
‘Relatively advanced’ chips to start entering China in second half, as US is ‘pulling back’ on tariff war and tech decoupling, analysts say.
The head of one of China’s leading semiconductor makers said its technology has been adopted by overseas competitors.
The GD01 expands the Hangzhou-based company’s portfolio at a time when Chinese manufacturers are significantly outstripping their US rivals.
Alibaba, ByteDance, other Chinese tech giants top paper submissions in conference, quelling worries over geopolitics impacting participation.
One high-volume seller on Xianyu advertises ‘low-latency, no-VPN’ access to the full Claude 3.5 suite.
