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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
Just two weeks into its public beta, Qwen has shown explosive growth, underscoring Alibaba’s challenge to global rivals OpenAI and Google.
DeepSeek’s V3.2-Speciale equals Google’s Gemini 3 Pro in reasoning capabilities, the Chinese start-up says.
Donations surpass amount collected in first week after 2008’s devastating Sichuan earthquake.
Government will do its utmost to handle aftermath and resettle residents affected by the fire, Financial Secretary Paul Chan says in a blog post.
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‘Imagine owning the brain of one of the best mathematicians in the world for free,’ Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue says in a post on X.
The research could help reduce training and inference costs for Alibaba’s next generation Qwen models without sacrificing accuracy.
China’s AI regulatory framework is taking shape as its open-source systems gain popularity worldwide, according to paper.
As death toll rises, residents offer condolences to victims and call for support and blood donations.
Pouring money into increasing computation resources and training data can still yield better AI models, Yao Shunyu says.
OpenAI’s new ‘shopping research’ tool resembles popular AI shopping services on Chinese e-commerce platforms like Tmall and Taobao.
By publishing training data and pipelines, the Allen Institute for AI hopes its Olmo models can win trust – and chip away at China’s lead.
LingGuang, an AI app that generates custom software applications, sees a surge in popularity.
It highlights the daunting challenge faced by Chinese AI start-ups to compete against firms like Google with massive resources.
Qwen has the potential to become super-app, the same way Tencent’s WeChat defined the mobile internet age, analysts say.
The new pricing strategy reflects heightened competition in China’s foundational model market.
Tencent is developing physics-aware ‘world models’ to advance spatial intelligence, joining global players such as DeepMind and xAI.
Amid chip shortages, China’s AI start-ups are re-engineering their algorithms, hoping more efficient architecture will do the heavy lifting.
In a Reddit forum, a Moonshot AI executive says start-up is ‘outnumbered’ by US rivals in terms of ‘high-end GPUs’ used for training models.
Remarks by CEO Liang Wenfeng’s delegate highlight potential dangers of race to build superintelligent systems.
The announcement comes a day after the Netherlands indicated that shipments of Chinese-made Nexperia chips would soon resume.
Record high 1,200 start-ups from 70 countries and regions enter the competition hosted by Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corp.
As AI systems grow more powerful, their potential to endanger public safety and social stability has raised alarms.
Only four Chinese developers are included in the world’s top 100 AI apps from private firms by annual recurring revenue.
ByteDance-backed coding app Trae reassures users after they complain of losing low-cost access to top AI coding model.
There is speculation that the underlying models for the coding tools from US firms Cognition and Cursor are Chinese.
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen3-Max posts a 22.32 per cent return on a US$10,000 investment in two weeks, topping a “real money” AI crypto trading test.
The Beijing start-up is leveraging its affordable ‘good enough’ open model to compete in the fast-growing AI coding market.
Research judges models from Alibaba and DeepSeek among the most sycophantic, an issue which could impact relationships and mental health.
A look at the achievements and research directions of the lead architects at Alibaba’s core AI engineering team.
