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Made in China 2025
China’s Unitree teases platform allowing users to control robots via smartphones
Hangzhou robotics unicorn’s platform is designed to bring embodied intelligence into everyday life.
14 Dec 2025 - 4:49PM
Artificial intelligence
Sea change: China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after ChatGPT shock
14 Dec 2025 - 12:57AM
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IPO
China’s generative AI tiger MiniMax pursues Hong Kong IPO to expand global reach
12 Dec 2025 - 1:17PM
Artificial intelligence
China’s Xreal to power Google’s Android AI glasses as smart eyewear demand grows
Project Aura, which features dual-chip design and optical see-through lenses, is a fresh example of China’s expanding R&D capabilities.
11 Dec 2025 - 9:00PM
Aura projects applications directly into the user’s sightline, enabling interaction via hand gestures and granting access to Google Play apps. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence
Less hype, more hardware: SenseTime banks on multimodal AI to regain its edge
SenseTime may have slipped from the spotlight as one of China’s “AI dragons”, but its tilt at multimodal, real-world AI hints at a comeback.
11 Dec 2025 - 8:12AM
Mergers & Acquisitions
Chinese supercomputer maker Sugon and chip developer Hygon call off merger plans
The aborted merger dashes industry expectations for a major domestic ecosystem covering advanced processors and high-performance servers.
10 Dec 2025 - 9:00PM
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Semiconductors
China’s Moore Threads to unveil AI chip road map to rival Nvidia’s CUDA system
Founder Zhang Jianzhong is expected to launch the firm’s next-generation AI chip architecture and MUSA platform road map in Beijing.
10 Dec 2025 - 5:01PM
Moore Threads Technology expects to release a new-generation graphics processing unit every year. Photo: Moore Threads
Semiconductors
China’s AI developers to welcome Nvidia’s H200 chip shipments, analysts say
Nvidia faces stronger domestic competition from the likes of Huawei, Cambricon, Moore Threads and MetaX.
9 Dec 2025 - 9:00PM
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China’s private sector
Tencent quits Paramount’s Warner Bros bid amid US regulatory concerns
Tencent has been dropped as a financing partner from Paramount Skydance’s US$108 billion hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery.
9 Dec 2025 - 7:06PM
Artificial intelligence
Chinese open-source models account for 30% of global AI use: report
Producing globally competitive models makes China a close peer of the US in AI development.
8 Dec 2025 - 5:30PM
China’s private sector
ByteDance’s agentic AI smartphone dials up a digital backlash by China’s top apps
ByteDance’s new AI smartphone has run into resistance, as major Chinese platforms move to block its features citing fairness and security.
7 Dec 2025 - 10:00AM
ByteDance’s agentic AI on the Nubia M153, launched by ZTE, is facing a backlash from other apps over security and fairness concerns. Photo: Handout
Made in China 2025
China’s Pudu Robotics rolls out overseas charm offensive with robot dog
Quadruped dubbed D5 from Pudu – founded by former HKUST engineering student Felix Zhang – draws crowds at Tokyo expo.
7 Dec 2025 - 9:00AM
Artificial intelligence
Moore Threads aspires to become ‘leading global player’ in AI chips after IPO
Unlike Huawei, Moore Threads’ GPUs, along with its own MUSA platform, are compatible with Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem.
5 Dec 2025 - 5:00PM
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Banking & finance
CSRC vows deeper reforms to open China’s capital market and boost tech listings
CSRC chairman Wu Qing outlines ‘deep transformation’ of capital market to attract long-term investors who ‘can stay and can develop well’.
5 Dec 2025 - 5:01PM
Artificial intelligence
Can China fund its AI push? Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt casts doubt
Capital from the government and Big Tech firms is set to make up for any lack of market-driven capital, analysts say.
4 Dec 2025 - 9:00PM
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Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, speaks at a forum on November 6, 2025, in Miami, Florida. Photo: Getty Images
Huawei
How Huawei could use a 2022 patent to make 2-nm-class chips without key tool
The proposed solution offers a technical pathway to support a 2-nm process using older DUV technology.
4 Dec 2025 - 12:00PM
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TikTok
TikTok to invest more than US$37 billion in Brazil data centre
China is Brazil’s top trading partner and is seeking to expand economic and political ties across the region amid tensions with the US.
4 Dec 2025 - 10:45AM
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Artificial intelligence
Alibaba’s Qwen app becomes the world’s fastest growing AI app as MAUs surge 149%
Just two weeks into its public beta, Qwen has shown explosive growth, underscoring Alibaba’s challenge to global rivals OpenAI and Google.
3 Dec 2025 - 5:00PM
Qwen recorded the highest growth in monthly active users among AI products globally at 149 per cent. Photo: Reuters
Robotics
Tsinghua University sets up research institute in push for robotics talent
The Institute for Embodied Intelligence and Robotics will be led by Zhang Tao, director of the university’s automation department.
3 Dec 2025 - 8:00AM
Artificial intelligence
Huawei-style ‘chip stacking’ seen as a path for China to rival Nvidia’s GPUs
With US curbs biting, experts say near-memory computing and chip stacking could narrow the AI hardware gap with Nvidia.
2 Dec 2025 - 9:02PM
Artificial intelligence
China’s DeepSeek challenges Google DeepMind with new AI model
DeepSeek’s V3.2-Speciale equals Google’s Gemini 3 Pro in reasoning capabilities, the Chinese start-up says.
2 Dec 2025 - 4:51PM
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Artificial intelligence
Beyond DeepSeek: Moonshot and MiniMax step up as China’s new frontier AI labs
DeepSeek might be grabbing the headlines, but Chinese start-ups Moonshot AI and MiniMax are emerging as serious rivals to US frontier labs.
30 Nov 2025 - 9:00AM
MiniMax is starting to steal a march on the headline-grabbing DeepSeek. Photo: Getty Images
Artificial intelligence
Chinese AI start-up takes on Google in tensor processing unit race
Zhonghao Xinying was founded in 2018 by Yanggong Yifan, a Stanford and University of Michigan-trained electrical engineer.
26 Nov 2025 - 6:32PM
Artificial intelligence
US, Chinese firms add AI shopping bells and whistles to dominate all-in-one apps
OpenAI’s new ‘shopping research’ tool resembles popular AI shopping services on Chinese e-commerce platforms like Tmall and Taobao.
26 Nov 2025 - 9:00AM
Huawei
Huawei’s latest Kirin 9030 processor powers premium Mate 80 smartphones
Huawei’s Richard Yu Chengdong claims strong double-digit performance improvement by the new Mate 80 models running the Kirin 9030 processor.
26 Nov 2025 - 6:52AM
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