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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
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.
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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.
Taiwan trip highlights supply chain strains, with Huang saying Nvidia alone could potentially require TSMC to more than double its capacity.
Flashy robots can dance and backflip on cue, but Ant Group is betting open-source AI can take them beyond scripted moves.
Hyperscalers embrace the AI agent, which can execute tasks without step-by-step instructions, but privacy concerns loom large.
Kimi K2.5 raises questions about the potency of US controls on advanced chips to constrain China’s AI efforts, Brookings’ Kyle Chan says.
China’s educators must teach students to ask thousands of good questions, rather than give the same correct answer, Ma says.
Alibaba says Qwen3-Max-Thinking is its ‘best model so far’, while Moonshot calls Kimi K2.5 the world’s most powerful open-source model.
The team’s SynthSmith data pipeline develops a coding model that overcomes scarcity of real-world data to improve AI models.
Professor says a ‘diffusion marathon’, where AI is gradually embedded in an economy over decades, will determine the winner of US-China tech war.
The issue reflects the challenge faced by Chinese AI firms to expand their businesses amid computing infrastructure constraints.
A rapid energy buildout and strategic data centre expansion give China unique advantages in developing its AI industry.
Academic Jeffrey Ding explains why human capital will determine whether US or China wins the AI race, not which attains superintelligence first.
