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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
The surge in compute capacity underpins Beijing’s ambition to establish itself as a national ‘AI highland’.
Per a source, the company closes fundraising round at US$30 billion valuation, as it signals it may go public in next six months.
Kimi K3 is designed for long-horizon coding, knowledge work and reasoning tasks, according to a blog post by Moonshot AI.
After a two-year delay, the iPhone maker is cleared to deploy AI tools on its smartphones by tapping Alibaba and Baidu’s capabilities.
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Company’s fresh fundraising talks come straight off its landmark Series A, as investors scramble to back national AI champion.
Exports of automatic data processing machines and parts jumped more than 41 per cent to top US$138 billion.
Monday’s losses were seen across chip designers, semiconductor-equipment makers and materials suppliers.
The company says the production line launch marks a critical step towards China’s drive for tech self-sufficiency.
The company is pushing for more collaboration between the two cities and Beijing in the commercial space sector.
Beijing aims to ‘temporarily ease the training bottleneck’ in China’s AI industry, but it remains focused on tech self-sufficiency, analysts say.
Daily AI token consumption has surged more than 1,000-fold in just over two years and exceeded 140 trillion tokens a day in March.
Recently listed start-ups in robotics and AI explain what the city gives them besides funding for development and expansion.
The divestment will reduce Tencent’s shareholding in Kuaishou to 9.37 per cent from 15.68 per cent.
The Chinese tech giant has listed Claude Code as ‘high-risk’ software, after discovering Anthropic had tracked Chinese users using hidden code.
Short video giant’s filing confirms SCMP exclusive; investors include tech heavyweights, state investment vehicles and entertainment firms.
The zone is set to provide up to 100 million yuan to fund research and development of the technology.
The Kuaishou Technology spin-off aims to start Hong Kong listing process within a year, as annual recurring revenue soars following latest AI video model release.
Plan sets target of 50,000 industrial 5G private networks by 2030, with industrial internet sector’s value added to exceed 2.5 trillion yuan.
DeepSeek triggered a price war in May when it announced a permanent 75 per cent discount on V4 API access.
Insta360 posted the strongest growth among major vendors with a 66 per cent year-on-year surge to 900,000 units in the first quarter.
Start-up unveils speculative decoding framework that speeds up inference by up to 85 per cent amid China’s push to overcome US AI curbs.
Voluntary code aims to address privacy fears surrounding AI smart glasses as shipments surge and hidden recordings spark public outrage.
As wars and tariffs disrupt trade, experts at China International Supply Chain Expo focus on potential of frontier technologies.
TranStreams raises an undisclosed amount in a Series A+ financing round this week led by QF Capital.
Participants at the Apec China CEO Forum make the case for multilateral trade amid a global outlook clouded by protectionism and wars.
Liang remains committed to pursuing artificial general intelligence (AGI) – a vision he reinforced to investors repeatedly last month.
Narrowing capability gaps between models and falling costs of service set stage for price reductions to continue, analysts say.
Lab director says fundamental scientific challenges need to be overcome to achieve theoretical performance.
Officials summoned Alibaba, JD.com, Pinduoduo, Douyin and RedNote over marketing practices, underscoring official concern about subsidy wars.
