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Wency Chen
Senior Reporter, Tech
Wency tells stories that explore how technologies are reshaping society, with a focus on cross-border e-commerce, AI, the supply chain and others. Before joining SCMP, Wency contributed to KrASIA, Wired, Rest of World, World of Chinese, Tech in Asia, Vice China (BIE), Harper's Bazaar, etc. She attended Columbia Journalism School.
Wency tells stories that explore how technologies are reshaping society, with a focus on cross-border e-commerce, AI, the supply chain and others. Before joining SCMP, Wency contributed to KrASIA, Wired, Rest of World, World of Chinese, Tech in Asia, Vice China (BIE), Harper's Bazaar, etc. She attended Columbia Journalism School.
Areas of Expertise:
Cross-border e-commerce, Big Tech, AI Languages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
Strong demand for Doubao AI phone eclipses concerns its agent-like functions pose a security risk.
Vinces Yao Shunyu now serves as chief AI scientist under the CEO’s office, reporting directly to Tencent president Martin Lau.
The Shanghai-based graphics processing unit designer plans to raise US$596 million from the sale of 40.1 million shares.
Turing Award winner Andrew Yao says embodied AI needs reasoning, planning and control in one framework.
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Japan’s university system has long centred on engineering faculties led by manufacturing, resulting in a relative shortage of AI talent.
He will join the 17-member Alibaba Partnership, which steers the company’s course and includes co-founders Jack Ma and Joe Tsai.
Significant organisational change underlines company’s determination to turn the Qwen chatbot into a ‘super app’.
Payments firm says star player ‘embodies the spirit of perseverance’ driving young people and small businesses to ‘uplift their communities’.
Liang’s quantitative hedge fund, High-Flyer, subscribes to more than 80,000 Moore Threads shares, which saw a stellar trading debut in Shanghai.
Quadruped dubbed D5 from Pudu – founded by former HKUST engineering student Felix Zhang – draws crowds at Tokyo expo.
Hefty subsidies on milk tea and lunchboxes drive Meituan from profit to loss, underscoring the ferocity of the war to reshape food delivery.
Chinese investors continue to clamour for AI chip plays, as Moore Threads IPO draws 4,000 times subscription.
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The initiative features the industrial-grade Walker S2, billed as the world’s first humanoid robot capable of replacing its own battery.
‘We have entered into an investment phase to build long-term strategic value in AI technologies and infrastructure,’ CEO Eddie Wu Yongming says.
Powered by Alibaba Cloud’s open-source model family of the same name, Qwen is the firm’s most significant foray into the consumer AI market.
EV and AI initiatives have become an increasingly important part of Xiaomi’s business.
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Production cost is falling 20 per cent every year, says UBTech’s chief branding officer Michael Tam during an interview with the Post.
Huawei to debut AI infrastructure software that it says can lift GPU and NPU use to about 70 per cent, cutting China’s Nvidia reliance.
China’s biggest chipmaker is on track for revenue above US$9 billion, as tight foundry capacity keeps its fabs running at full pelt.
Start-up Rokid is teaming up with eyewear brand Bolon on lightweight AI glasses as competition heats up to deliver the next ‘iPhone moment’.
Tian Yuandong says internal conflicts emerged at Meta as LLM development became the industry-wide focus.
Buoyed by industrial orders and the sector’s momentum, UBTech’s share price has gained more than 150 per cent this year.
Small but highly specialised and innovation-driven companies are enabling the nation’s technology self reliance drive.
The elevation of the business marks one of Ant’s most significant pivots since its cancelled IPO five years ago.
Humanoid robots and cyber dogs are among the showstoppers that help companies gain sales opportunities at the CIIE.
A beta version of the updated app, available to select users, adopts Taobao’s signature orange colour instead of Ele.me’s blue theme.
One of China’s top employers for 17 consecutive years, SAS follows other Western tech firms in scaling back local operations.
