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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
Competition is expected to intensify as more companies, such as Alibaba and ByteDance, enter the space in the second half of 2025.
Chinese regulators last year also denied OpenAI’s efforts to register ChatGPT and GPT as trademarks on the mainland.
ASMPT is expected to incur a one-time restructuring charge of US$50 million, covering severance, shutdown costs and inventory write-offs.
GPT-5 is not significantly ahead of Chinese AI models, according to Zhang Linfeng, an AI professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Huawei’s Ascend processors used on AI servers and Kirin chips that run inside smartphones are now compatible with Z.ai’s GLM models.
Co-founder and CEO Sam Altman said in an X.com post that OpenAI’s two new open-source models were ‘a big deal’.
The deal is part of a broader trend among Chinese autonomous-driving companies to bring their services to international markets.
Zuckerberg’s latest AI musing is a backslide from just a year ago, when he published an essay titled ‘Open Source AI is the Path Forward’.
Nvidia finds itself trying to please both Beijing and Washington amid an intensifying US-China tech rivalry.
China’s catering industry is transforming, as internet platform operators become more involved in the food supply chain.
The glasses have sold around 50,000 units across online e-commerce channels and Xiaomi’s bricks-and-mortar stores since their June 26 debut.
Tencent showcases a dozen AI agents at China’s biggest AI event, intensifying the competition in a heated market.
DeepSeek has seen use of its models drop to 80 per cent from 99 per cent on Chinese cloud computing platform PPIO.
More than half of US and EU respondents, however, say they will only use models hosted on non-Chinese infrastructure.
The level of contribution from China to global open-source projects grew more than 10 times between 2015 and 2024, according to OpenRank.
Report says JD.com buys 70 per cent stake in Kai Bo Food Supermarket for US$509 million.
Tencent highlights the convenience of not having to download a stand-alone Uber app to hail rides overseas.
China’s free-for-all AI models, developed by firms like DeepSeek and Alibaba, present a viable alternative to US closed-source systems.
Comments come as the three rivals offer increasingly hefty discounts in a heated battle for market share.
US lifting of export ban on the tech giant’s H20 processors will boost DeepSeek and other Chinese tech firms’ development of AI tools.
DeepSeek’s models, Alibaba’s Qwen and Chinese start-up Moonshot’s Kimi are ‘the best open reasoning models in the world today’, says Huang.
In an editorial, the official Economic Daily emphasises the need for both chipmakers and food delivery platforms in China.
Daily delivery volumes at the mainland’s top on-demand delivery giant reached 150 million from 120 million last week.
The Xiaomi AI glasses are handy for hands-free photography and videography, which is ideal for situations like cycling.
CXMT completes formal filing of pre-listing guidance with the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
The new recruits include Pang Ruoming, manager of Apple’s foundations model team, and OpenAI researcher Li Yuanzhi.
As an initial effort, Baidu’s search bar was enlarged and turned into a ‘smart box’ that handles more tasks than simple text queries.
Beijing-based Baidu, one of the earliest tech firms in China to develop LLMs, has made a U-turn by making its models open source.
Heightened US chip export controls have prompted Chinese AI and chip companies to collaborate.
