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Wency Chen
Senior Reporter, Tech
Wency tells stories that explore how technologies are reshaping society, with a focus on cross-border e-commerce, AI, the supply chain and others. Before joining SCMP, Wency contributed to KrASIA, Wired, Rest of World, World of Chinese, Tech in Asia, Vice China (BIE), Harper's Bazaar, etc. She attended Columbia Journalism School.
Wency tells stories that explore how technologies are reshaping society, with a focus on cross-border e-commerce, AI, the supply chain and others. Before joining SCMP, Wency contributed to KrASIA, Wired, Rest of World, World of Chinese, Tech in Asia, Vice China (BIE), Harper's Bazaar, etc. She attended Columbia Journalism School.
Areas of Expertise:
Cross-border e-commerce, Big Tech, AI Languages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
DeepSeek’s founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng is reportedly committing around 20 billion yuan of his own capital.
Listing plan highlights Unitree’s push to invest more in robot ‘brains’ as it joins competitors in China’s humanoid rush.
For Mi Lei, founder of venture capital firm CAS Star, the sudden fascination with photonics is less a surprise than a delayed validation.
Chinese fintech giant looks to dominate the transaction layer of the emerging ‘agent economy’ as AI evolves to executing real-world tasks.
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Chairman Joe Tsai uses firm’s mobile AI tool to draft a sweeping tech pact in moments, as ‘frontier technologies’ increasingly enter the global limelight.
China could be a leading player in the new technological battlefield, but the US has a substantial lead in essential tools such as reusable rockets.
Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing giant forecasts 30 billion yuan AI revenue in 2026, with agents driving more than half of cloud sales.
Longer battery life, real-world use cases and a less-is-more strategy to reduce weight and increase comfort help intelligent eyewear shed novelty image, boost sales.
‘Relatively advanced’ chips to start entering China in second half, as US is ‘pulling back’ on tariff war and tech decoupling, analysts say.
Beijing casts computing power as a national infrastructure, likening tokens to mobile data as telecoms firms roll out mass-market packages.
The chairwoman of manufacturing giant Lens is one of the country’s richest self-made women, working her way up from Shenzhen’s factory floors.
ArkClaw’s subscription model and surging token demand mark ByteDance’s new approach to agent economics.
China listed behind only the US and UK, reflecting the country’s ‘major scale’ in AI, biotechnology and talent, says data consortium.
Rising fibre prices and surging output cement China’s role as the backbone of global optical connectivity for AI.
The South Korean firm had seen its market share in mainland China dwindle amid intense competition from a slew of domestic rivals.
China and US have different goals for artificial intelligence and ways of developing it. Washington’s curbs on tech exports have widened the gap between them.
Capital floods into China’s robotic sector but profitability remains elusive as challenges emerge with the industry’s business model.
Company says it is seeking to broaden its market reach in Asia, Latin America and Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Case shows US-China competition has expanded beyond chips and models to areas of engineering and product design, analyst says.
DeepSeek says its V4 model will have throughput issues until the second half of the year, until Ascend 950PR supernodes ‘ship at scale’.
What’s behind the ‘CPU renaissance’ and where China stands in designing and manufacturing central processing units in the AI age.
The company says its cost-efficient new V4 model is competitive with top closed-source models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind.
Company pledges more partnerships to expand the agentic capabilities of its flagship consumer chatbot app.
DeepSeek is raising a small funding round not for cash, but to set a valuation benchmark and retain talent as rivals ramp up poaching.
The fines follow a period of intense competition that drove down prices and stalled profit-making at China’s food delivery platforms.
The company’s listing highlights its pivot from design tools to advanced AI-driven spatial platforms as it eyes overseas growth.
Chinese companies could be required to sell, transfer or shut down their US-based data centres and network nodes, analysts say.
The spatial design software developer is selling 161 million shares priced between HK$6.72 and HK$7.62 each, with listing set for April 17.
Data-centre expansion and AI investment push global trade ahead of economic growth, consultancy says.
