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
With wheels and four legs, aid for visually impaired people represents push to expand AI and robotics into more applications.
The leading Chinese AI start-up has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing and aims to go public early next year, sources say.
As Chinese tech giants ramp up artificial intelligence spending, TikTok’s parent company is set to expand data centres in Ulanqab.
With the high-stakes meeting just weeks away and tech tensions escalating, Beijing uses a G20 ministerial forum to advocate collaboration on the emerging technology.
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Clampdown sweeps across 2,400 websites and apps as cyberspace watchdog escalates fight against generative tech abuse.
First-half revenue from cloud-based deployment services soared over 2,700 per cent year on year.
Revenue for the quarter rose 14.4 per cent year on year to 105 billion yuan, beating the consensus estimate of 101 billion yuan.
GalaxySpace describes mission as first turnkey satellite export to a Southeast Asian customer by a Chinese commercial space company.
Landmark round to lift Chinese start-up’s valuation to US$74 billion and set the stage for a Shanghai Star Market listing, sources say.
LandSpace’s rocket booster recovery has supercharged the country’s commercial space ambitions – and validated a former state engineer’s start-up gamble.
Fueled by cheap wind power and a cool climate, Inner Mongolia’s Ulanqab is turning energy produced in its pastureland into power for the AI boom.
From RedNote to Meituan, digital platforms are bypassing third-party providers to build in-house AI models.
Geespace secures a two-year satellite IoT trial from MIIT, the first approval for a private Chinese firm.
Company pairs landmark capital with rapid satellite deployment and overseas expansion as China’s private aerospace sector breaks new ground.
Helping cushion the fall, revenue from AI-related operations jumped 25 per cent year on year to 12.5 billion yuan.
The semiconductor maker is set to raise a share offering in the city and begin trading later this month.
The new Xiaowei agent promises hands-free control across WeChat’s vast digital ecosystem. I set out to see whether it delivers.
Chinese models will be ‘significant’ for European firms, as their ‘performance and efficiency are increasingly competitive’, analyst says.
Net revenue dips, but still beats analysts’ estimate, as e-commerce giant contends with weak demand and fierce competition.
The global supply of high-quality, publicly available human-generated text could be fully exhausted within the next six years.
Brussels’ €30b tender for up to 7 AI hubs already benefits US chipmakers and could result in EU-funded computing capacity being sold to US tech giants.
The move comes just a day after Beijing imposed sanctions on a string of US firms and tightened controls over the drone supply chain.
Unicorn dismantles offshore structure to pave way for potential listing as investor appetite surges after release of Kimi K3 model.
The start-up joins a growing list of domestic robot makers in China raising capital.
Artificial intelligence models and apps that help doctors in China diagnose disease and patients understand their health could be an export gold mine.
From safety features to hands-free voice tools, JD.com has become the latest platform to launch AI-integrated headwear.
China’s DeepSeek is also recruiting for jobs in Inner Mongolia, the location of the buildout, as it emerges as an AI hub due to low power costs.
Elsa Reichmanis spent decades collaborating with Chinese science teams and says research should remain distinct from tech rivalry.
Chinese tech giants and frontier AI labs are locked in a parallel race, escalating capital expenditure to match US and domestic rivals.
