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Xinmei Shen
Reporter, Technology
Xinmei Shen joined the Post in 2017 and is a technology reporter. She covers content, entertainment, social media and internet culture. Previously, she was with the Post’s tech news site, Abacus. Before that, she was a reporting intern at The Information whilst studying at the University of Hong Kong.
Xinmei Shen joined the Post in 2017 and is a technology reporter. She covers content, entertainment, social media and internet culture. Previously, she was with the Post’s tech news site, Abacus. Before that, she was a reporting intern at The Information whilst studying at the University of Hong Kong.
Areas of Expertise:
China technology coverage, video productionLanguages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
Company says GLM-5.3 outperformed leading US systems in cybersecurity tests, beating Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 on CyberGym.
Jin Shanmu, a Beijing-based neurosurgeon, was trying to solve a problem related to brain ultrasounds. Instead, he made mathematical history.
Chinese AI start-up’s model impresses in niche areas like cybersecurity but leaves some developers disappointed in its overall capabilities.
Company says it has hired Citic Securities to guide pre-listing preparation but has not announced further details of plans.
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Meta’s renewed push into open-source models aims to attract US businesses wary of the regulatory risks associated with adopting Chinese AI.
Average inference prices ranged between US$1.16 and US$1.18 from August 6 to 8, according to Silicon Data’s index.
China’s open-weight models have led AI firms to slash prices, but they will also massively boost overall AI demand, analysts say.
Kimi K3’s escape did not involve the hacking of an external system, unlike recent breaches by OpenAI and Anthropic models.
Plans for a major price hike underscore the challenges the company faces to maintain aggressively low prices amid fierce competition.
Hangzhou-based firm is recruiting developers to test software that turns language models into autonomous agents, escalating price war with US rivals.
Washington is reportedly mulling a ban on foreign open-source AI models, but the move would likely raise costs for a slew of US companies.
Firm aims to ‘support open-source community’ and a ‘broad range of hardware’, as H3 model bests Seedance 2.0 in some tasks.
Two factories receive orders for 200,000 units in a month from the continent, company says.
The LexisNexis study identified a ‘clear shift towards China’ in the humanoid robot race, with the US falling behind.
Chinese open-weight models are gaining wider adoption overseas, raising concerns in Washington over China’s accelerating AI progress.
Kimi K3’s overall score of 32.2 per cent compares with top, unnamed US models that average 76.2 per cent.
Researchers point to the lack of evidence for any distillation claims, while some highlight Kimi K3’s technical innovations.
The incident fuels growing debate over the rapid advancement of autonomous AI systems capable of exploiting software vulnerabilities.
New model from Moonshot AI is ‘extremely close’ to OpenAI’s flagship after ‘very big jump’ in capabilities, researcher says.
Analysts say Beijing-based start-up Moonshot’s 2.8 trillion-parameter large language model could narrow the gap with the US within ‘weeks’.
Chinese start-up pauses Kimi K3 subscriptions due to surging demand and compute shortages, highlighting the country’s AI chip challenges.
Project is expected to churn out 60 trillion tokens a year, driving the country’s AI clean-power ambitions forward.
The speech marks the Chinese president’s first-ever keynote address at the nation’s premier artificial intelligence summit.
A growing number of tech firms are pivoting to lightweight models designed to run entirely on smartphones and laptops.
A sharp narrowing of the performance gap is prompting some developers to shift from costly American giants to budget-friendly Chinese alternatives.
As the city looks to challenge the US as a global crypto hub, Baillie Gifford says the SFC has approved its blockchain-based tokenised fund.
AI labs Yoolee and InfiX.ai say they aim to rival US start-up with industry-specific AI solutions, reduced costs and enhanced privacy.
Yan Junjie said the company remains committed to its long-term mission despite ‘external noise’ and market fluctuations.
As cutting-edge models like Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2 rapidly close the performance gap with frontier models, policy analysts warn a regulatory shift may be imminent.
