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China’s AI labs race to debut latest models before Lunar New Year
More firms expected to follow Alibaba and Moonshot with model releases, as the festival becomes a key period to establish visibility.
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang urges TSMC to expand capacity amid AI chip crunch
1 Feb 2026 - 7:00PM
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‘Optimus chain’: Chinese suppliers form backbone of Tesla’s humanoid robot plans
1 Feb 2026 - 2:00PM
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Profits rise for China’s semiconductor firms on AI boom, tech self-reliance push
Domestic A-share companies in the sector are forecast to achieve substantial growth in their 2025 results, according to Donghai Securities.
31 Jan 2026 - 2:00PM
The results reflect investors’ sharpened focus on stocks related to integrated circuits, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and storage solutions. Photo: Shutterstock
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Chinese firms set for market growth as the global memory super cycle heats up
Eye-watering DRAM prices are bad news for consumers and smartphone brands, but present an opportunity for Chinese firms led by CXMT and YMTC.
31 Jan 2026 - 11:47AM
Artificial intelligence
Ant Group’s open-source push aims to move robots from lab demos to real-world work
Flashy robots can dance and backflip on cue, but Ant Group is betting open-source AI can take them beyond scripted moves.
30 Jan 2026 - 9:00PM
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China tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba to ramp up AI infrastructure efforts
The two firms’ actions are poised to further intensify the global AI arms race.
30 Jan 2026 - 8:00PM
ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo wants to optimise efficiency across the firm’s AI infrastructure. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence
Alibaba AI chip push hits 100,000 mark, beating local rival Cambricon: sources
The milestone underscores Alibaba’s growing footprint in AI hardware, as Chinese firms accelerate efforts to build home-grown processors.
30 Jan 2026 - 7:24PM
Artificial intelligence
China’s cloud giants race to support Moltbot, the ‘AI that actually does things’
Hyperscalers embrace the AI agent, which can execute tasks without step-by-step instructions, but privacy concerns loom large.
29 Jan 2026 - 8:00PM
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Alibaba’s T-Head unit unveils details of AI chip designed to rival Nvidia’s GPUs
The launch of the Zhenwu 810E marks the latest initiative by China’s Big Tech firms to develop a domestic alternative to Nvidia’s AI chips.
29 Jan 2026 - 6:00PM
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Nvidia wins approval for Taiwan headquarters to secure AI chip supply
Jensen Huang’s expansion plan highlights Silicon Valley chip designer’s reliance on TSMC as AI demand accelerates.
29 Jan 2026 - 5:00PM
Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s engineering staff in Taiwan have outgrown their existing office. Photo: Reuters
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ASML reports heated global demand in 2025, but cools China outlook
US limits on ASML’s China trade continue to define the company’s growth pattern, with overall sales up despite China revenues falling.
29 Jan 2026 - 3:50PM
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Hygon’s chips ‘safe’ from AMD security flaw amid China’s tech self-reliance push
That result shows Hygon’s efforts in redesigning the chip architecture licensed from AMD with self-developed innovations.
28 Jan 2026 - 10:00PM
Artificial intelligence
Moonshot’s newest release narrows US-China AI model development gap: analysts
Kimi K2.5 raises questions about the potency of US controls on advanced chips to constrain China’s AI efforts, Brookings’ Kyle Chan says.
28 Jan 2026 - 9:00PM
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Beijing weighs H200 imports amid uncertainty for China tech giants
More than 400,000 H200 chips reportedly approved for ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent as China balances AI needs with tech self-reliance push.
29 Jan 2026 - 7:27PM
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The first batch of Nvidia chip shipments is expected to go to China’s Big Tech companies. Photo: Shutterstock
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‘Teach our children well’: Jack Ma urges changes to China’s education in AI era
China’s educators must teach students to ask thousands of good questions, rather than give the same correct answer, Ma says.
28 Jan 2026 - 7:00PM
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Price rises on horizon for Chinese cloud firms after Google, AWS set new rates
Surging AI workloads, memory prices push Chinese cloud providers to consider increases after global peers act.
28 Jan 2026 - 6:00PM
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China second to US in global AI finance index, with Hong Kong third as city hub
China rated the strongest country in converting AI capacity into production use, while Hong Kong trailed New York and London as finance hub.
28 Jan 2026 - 11:30AM
China outperformed all countries in financial sector AI maturity, according to the Global AI Competitiveness Index. Photo: Reuters
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Iluvatar CoreX targets Nvidia’s Rubin with GPU road map amid China chip push
Chinese chip designer outlines a multi-year GPU plan to outperform Nvidia’s next-generation Rubin platform within two years.
27 Jan 2026 - 9:00PM
Artificial intelligence
China’s Alibaba, Moonshot claim latest AI models challenge OpenAI, Google
Alibaba says Qwen3-Max-Thinking is its ‘best model so far’, while Moonshot calls Kimi K2.5 the world’s most powerful open-source model.
27 Jan 2026 - 5:30PM
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China’s Baidu merges key app businesses to drive consumer AI push
Merger of Wenku and Wangpan into a new AI unit comes as tech firms race to turn their services and apps into the next ‘super app’.
27 Jan 2026 - 5:00PM
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