China's tech billionaires

The exemptions only cover a small slice of China’s vast electronics supply chain, and Trump’s ‘sectoral tariffs’ add fresh uncertainty.

Quark’s rapid ascent comes as Alibaba has transformed the app from a cloud storage and search service into an ‘AI super assistant’.

Co-founder Yang Fan expects capacity to grow by up to triple digits annually over the next two years amid surging generative AI demand.

Will the next generation choose China’s speed and resources with higher guard rails, or the chaotic, open-ended US where failure is allowed?

Tesla has stopped taking orders to import the US-made models to China; to persuade buyers to consider the Shanghai-made Model Y and Model 3.

The China Semiconductor Industry Association clarified that the place of origin for chips is determined by the location of the wafer fabrication plant.

Its latest SenseNova V6 and V6 Reasoner models have outperformed competing products from OpenAI, CEO Xu Li says.

ByteDance’s total revenue is said to have risen to US$155 billion last year, placing the unicorn among the world’s top internet giants.

Ma emphasised that AI should be developed with the aim of understanding and serving humanity, not replacing it.

The AI Industry Investment Fund was established by the industry and finance ministries with money from the Big Fund.

The critical mineral, used to produce silicon, is a foundational material for strategic industries like semiconductors and photovoltaics – and now it can be mined in China.

Trump’s policies are repelling nations and academics, helping China deepen trading ties and attract talent even as the US heads towards recession.

The founder of AgiBot joins a new generation of tech entrepreneurs who have gained recognition from China’s top leadership.

Ma, who has stepped down from all his corporate roles, remains a key shareholder and spiritual leader of the business empire he created.

‘But we’re going to have to wait and see what’s going to happen with China,’ the US president says.

Shuo Yang co-founded Mondo Tech to build ‘smaller, more accessible robots’ inspired by a desire to create a companion for his son.

China has all the cards and the confidence; but for the US, the likely outcome is the bursting of the US financial bubble and the dollar’s demise.

A four-day AI fair hosted by Alibaba Cloud in Beijing offers visitors a glimpse of the future.

Samsung operates one of the few foundries capable of rivalling industry-leading TSMC in producing advanced chips.

Hefei team use China’s superconducting quantum computer Origin Wukong to fine-tune a large language model, researcher says.

Will the next generation choose China’s speed and resources with higher guard rails, or the chaotic, open-ended US where failure is allowed?

Penalising TSMC comes at a critical moment for US-Taiwan relations after Trump slapped a 32 per cent levy on imports from the island.

Micron’s overseas manufacturing sites are largely based in Asia, including mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore.

Beijing’s ability to develop cutting-edge systems at fraction of cost of American competitors could shift balance of tech and economic power.

Their view reflects Chinese tech firms’ increased confidence in providing highly competitive alternatives to US imports.

The livelihood of hundreds of thousands of workers are under threat in a Chinese export hub churning out T-shirts and jeans for US shoppers.

Ant Digital Technologies said it was choosing the city to reaffirm its commitment to AI and blockchain technologies, a recent focus for Hong Kong.

The performance difference of Chinese AI models versus their US counterparts shrank from double digits in 2023 to near parity last year.

Shao Xiaofeng and his wife Li Jian bought a four-bedroom, 3,314 sq ft detached house in Villa Rosa, Tai Tam.