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Vincent Chow
Reporter, Tech
Vincent Chow is a technology reporter covering AI, with a focus on how society navigates the emergence of increasingly powerful AI systems. He previously covered Chinese society and was awarded a SOPA award for his culture reporting. He is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.
Vincent Chow is a technology reporter covering AI, with a focus on how society navigates the emergence of increasingly powerful AI systems. He previously covered Chinese society and was awarded a SOPA award for his culture reporting. He is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.
Areas of Expertise:
AI, AI safety, Chinese societyLanguages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
First announced in 2024, the AI Plus initiative includes a target of integrating AI into 90 per cent of China’s economy by 2030.
Wu affirmed in his letter that Alibaba would ‘uphold our open-source model strategy’ and scale up investment in AI.
Zhou Hao to join as head of post-training research, sources say, as technical lead Lin Junyang departs in reshuffle.
Shanghai-based company predicts revenue will double this year, based on strong user growth for its M2.5 model.
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Artificial intelligence is among new technologies being used in China in patient-specific healthcare, known as personalised or precision medicine.
WeRide says its world model has slashed costs to support global expansion, but investors question if it can deliver a lasting advantage.
In a rare instance of collaboration, the Chinese tech titan will partner with US and European firms to improve standards in the field.
Pending sale by US private equity firm General Atlantic shows ByteDance’s valuation has surged from US$400 billion as recently as mid-2025.
Analysts dismiss Citrini’s AI doomsday scenario, citing US market irrationality and China’s low digital penetration.
The US AI lab says DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax AI used its systems to improve their models’ capabilities.
The Hong Kong-listed firm is the first Chinese AI developer to issue a public call urging support for its GLM model.
Pledge comes after Hollywood, governments speak out against Chinese company’s tool amid flood of videos featuring celebrities, copyrighted characters.
ByteDance’s viral video generation model Seedance 2.0 was closely integrated with the Spring Festival gala’s programming on Monday night.
The latest round was jointly led by existing investors including Alibaba, Tencent, Andon and 5Y Capital, according to a source.
Interest also spiked in Noetix’s Bumi, a companion robot that appeared in a family-themed comedy sketch at the gala.
With shipments set to jump and investors watching closely, Unitree is positioning itself at the forefront of China’s humanoid robotics push.
With multimodal capabilities and open weights, Qwen-3.5 signals Alibaba’s ambition to anchor the next phase of global AI deployment.
ByteDance, Unitree, RedNote, Bilibili and Kuaishou among the firms involved in the unparalleled nationwide marketing opportunity.
Pledge comes after Hollywood, governments speak out against tool amid deluge of video clips featuring celebrities, copyrighted characters.
Investor jitters grow in the US as AI reshapes expectations, but China’s markets have so far reacted with caution rather than panic.
Move weeks before Trump-Xi summit highlights mixed signals from Washington and injects fresh uncertainty into fragile US-China truce.
Food delivery giant expects losses to continue into at least the first quarter of 2026 ‘due to ongoing competition’.
Company says it is ‘first frontier model … delivering on the promise of intelligence too cheap to meter’.
The GLM-5 represents a shift in AI development from ‘vibe coding’ to ‘agentic engineering’ to generate an enhanced performance.
The Chinese healthcare group is also exploring opportunities to work with local distributors to sell its products in Indonesia.
Indonesian executives stress that localisation and sovereignty are key to AI adoption in the fast-growing Southeast Asian market.
A ‘stealth’ model has emerged, while advancements by Alibaba’s Qwen-3.5 and Zhipu’s GLM-5 aim to spur domestic competition following releases by US heavyweights.
Despite rapid advances, today’s top AI models are still “brittle” in messy, real-world environments, according to new Tencent research.
Chinese developers stress cultural context in AI safety, as domestic models narrow the gap with their US rivals to the closest level yet.
