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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
Case shows US-China competition has expanded beyond chips and models to areas of engineering and product design, analyst says.
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The company says its cost-efficient new V4 model is competitive with top closed-source models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind.
US lawmakers push export controls to limit China’s tech access in a bid to protect the US semiconductor industry.
The model is relatively small with only 295 billion parameters, bucking a recent trend of large models with trillions of parameters.
Given cybersecurity risks in critical software, Mythos has sparked debate about whether its capabilities should be shared with China.
Legacy Chinese SaaS firms are integrating AI into their offerings and seeing ‘significant robust growth’ as a result, Liu said.
Free models helped Chinese firms find rapid success – but thin margins are forcing a shift towards hybrid business strategies.
Chinese developers are bypassing new ID checks as demand for Claude remains strong despite official restrictions.
As AI development gathers speed, governments and industry leaders say guardrails are needed to protect the public from the fast-moving tech.
With Beijing prioritising financial stability, analysts say state lenders take a measured approach to generative models amid growing global cybersecurity risks.
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Chinese companies are competing to offer the cheapest alternatives to premium US services from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.
The veteran Chinese executive will lead a team that develops AI devices at the Facebook parent’s superintelligence unit.
Speech by CEO of Chinese AI start-up at Nvidia event in US highlights symbiotic nature of tech relationship despite geopolitical tensions.
Since 2022, big tech firms including Alibaba and Baidu have established internal science and technology ethics review committees.
This week, Alibaba released three proprietary models that were all accessible only via its official cloud platform or chatbot website.
The two Chinese start-ups show promising commercialisation of AI models, which are reflected in rising demand and revenue.
Total losses soar 59.5 per cent to 4.72 billion yuan driven by mounting research and development spending.
The move makes iQiyi the latest US-listed Chinese company to look to float in Hong Kong amid US regulatory scrutiny.
AI-related positions account for more than 80 per cent of Alibaba’s open roles, up from around 60 per cent last year.
TikTok parent ByteDance says guardrails will protect Seedance 2.0 as it expands globally despite intense scrutiny from Hollywood.
Organisers said they had gone beyond legal requirements after linking to a broader US sanctions list.
Rather than reducing demand for memory chips, the advance could increase it by fuelling more AI applications.
Move to comply with US sanctions sparks backlash, with China’s top computing body threatening to blacklist the AI conference.
Limited training data and unresolved hardware challenges continue to hold back humanoid robots from mass adoption, say experts.
