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A Kimi logo is seen on a screen at the Moonshot AI stand, featuring the Kimi K3 model, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on Saturday. Photo: AFP

Big Tech

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 faces GPU crunch amid US-China tech rivalry

Chinese start-up pauses Kimi K3 subscriptions due to surging demand and compute shortages, highlighting the country’s AI chip challenges.

China to conclude Trip.com antitrust probes as soon as this week, sources say

Alibaba previews Qwen3.8, claiming its strength trails only Anthropic’s Fable 5

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Big Tech

AI work agents: China’s Ant, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu flex for enterprise clients

Top AI summit spotlights race to embed autonomous digital workers into everyday business operations.

People visit the Tencent booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 18. Photo: AFP
People visit the Tencent booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 18. Photo: AFP

Tech

Changzhou says it is building China’s first city-level green token factory

Project is expected to churn out 60 trillion tokens a year, driving the country’s AI clean-power ambitions forward.

Policy

China AI summit hears Global South needs equal access to avoid digital divide

Delegates at the World AI Conference in Shanghai warn fragmentation risks isolating emerging markets and concentrating advanced computing in rich economies.

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Tech War

Alibaba targets Nvidia’s dominant software ecosystem with open-source AI stack

The firm’s chip unit T-Head aims to lower migration barriers to Zhenwu AI computing architectures, following similar initiatives by Huawei and Moore Threads.

Alibaba chip unit T-Head has become the latest firm to join a broader push by AI chipmakers seeking to provide alternatives to Nvidia’s dominant CUDA toolkit. Photo: Handout
Alibaba chip unit T-Head has become the latest firm to join a broader push by AI chipmakers seeking to provide alternatives to Nvidia’s dominant CUDA toolkit. Photo: Handout

Tech War

Chinese chip start-up Biren bets on light-based ‘supernodes’ to match Nvidia

The firm uses near-packaged optics to bypass traditional architecture limits and scale more than 1,000 processor cards across a cluster.

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Tech Trends

Insert token: how China’s surging AI use is turning compute into currency

As the cost of running AI models continues to drop, the token economy is reshaping ecosystems far beyond corporate cubicles.

Tech War

Xi’s call on AI, Trump blasts China, US tariffs

This week: Chinese president urges open and secure AI, US leader accuses Beijing over 2020 election, GDP growth slows. Next week: US global tariff expiry, Apec ministers meet, Hong Kong lawmakers decamp to Beijing.

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he arrives at the opening ceremony of the World AI Conference in Shanghai. Photo: EPA//Pool

Policy

Xi Jinping’s keynote speech at the World AI Conference

The Chinese president addressed the opportunities and challenges of AI, urging the country to seize the “rare historic opportunity” of AI-driven growth by embracing technological openness.

Xi Jinping’s keynote speech at the World AI Conference

Companies

Shein clears Hong Kong IPO hurdle as valuation halves to below US$50b: sources

Regulatory headwinds, alongside prolonged IPO delays, have severely dented the unicorn’s valuation.

Policy

Xi Jinping warns against creating ‘new historical injustices’ in AI era

Chinese leader’s presence at World AI Conference signals Beijing’s push to elevate AI from tech priority to pillar of geopolitical strategy.

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Tech

Chinese memory giant CXMT oversubscribed 212 times in mega Shanghai IPO

Nearly 10 million investor accounts apply for a rare listed proxy on Beijing’s semiconductor self-reliance drive.

A view of the headquarters of ChangXin Memory Technologies in Hefei, in eastern China’s Anhui province, on July 16. Photo: AFP

Tech Trends

Chinese Nvidia alternatives project massive sales as AI chip demand surges

Moore Threads and Hygon are capitalising on surging demand for AI computing power as they race to fill the void left by Washington’s export controls.

Moore Threads, a GPU start-up founded in 2020, is now one of China’s most closely watched semiconductor players. Photo: Moore Threads
Moore Threads, a GPU start-up founded in 2020, is now one of China’s most closely watched semiconductor players. Photo: Moore Threads

Tech Trends

BrainCo claims mind-to-robot link at China’s World AI Conference

Hangzhou-based firm says users can control robots using only their thoughts via EEG headsets, marking a leap in embodied AI tech.

Tech Trends

Moonshot AI touts world’s largest open-source model as China closes gap with US

Kimi K3 is designed for long-horizon coding, knowledge work and reasoning tasks, according to a blog post by Moonshot AI.

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The AI industrial revolution: why US faces a historic tech reckoning from China

From EVs to robotics, China’s advancement in cutting-edge tech has seen it shake off the West’s long-standing belief in US exceptionalism.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Tech Trends

For China’s tech workers, AI ‘optimisation’ sounds like ‘unemployment’

China’s office workers are worrying whether their jobs can be done by artificial intelligence – and whether their companies will make the switch.

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Big Tech

Can Huawei’s ‘chip queen’ help China beat the US tech blockade?

He Tingbo says her epiphany came from an ancient irrigation system in Sichuan province, built without modern machinery or electricity.

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Tech War

A cloud above the clouds: US, China jockey for position in computing space race

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.

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Big Tech

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 faces GPU crunch amid US-China tech rivalry

A Kimi logo is seen on a screen at the Moonshot AI stand, featuring the Kimi K3 model, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on Saturday. Photo: AFP

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Alibaba previews Qwen3.8, claiming its strength trails only Anthropic’s Fable 5

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With 2.4 trillion parameters, Qwen3.8 is “one of the most powerful models available today”, according to Alibaba. Photo: Shutterstock

Big Tech

AI work agents: China’s Ant, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu flex for enterprise clients

People visit the Tencent booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 18. Photo: AFP
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