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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
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Custom silicon allows for hardware optimisation tailored to specific architectures, such as the DeepSeek-R1 model.
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With Beijing’s rules on humanlike AI interaction services taking effect on July 15, Doubao and Qwen move to disable customised features.
The robot maker plans to raise 4.2 billion yuan by selling at least 40 million shares that implies a valuation of around 42 billion yuan.
Operator of big-name budget marketplaces Pinduoduo and Temu is buying an office and adding 5,000 jobs in the hyped-up Xiongan New Area.
The Kuaishou Technology spin-off aims to start Hong Kong listing process within a year, as annual recurring revenue soars following latest AI video model release.
Makers of power semiconductors, including Germany’s Infineon, US-based Texas Instruments and China’s Yangjie Technology, have raised prices.
To accelerate development and help secure foundry capacity, ByteDance is collaborating with US chipmaker Qualcomm.
