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Even as model sizes balloon, Chinese AI firms continue to compete aggressively on price rather than relying solely on performance premiums. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Zhipu, DeepSeek push China’s trillion-parameter AI frontier amid US clampdown

China’s AI developers deepen push into massive foundation models, backed by lower costs and investor momentum despite US restrictions.

Artificial intelligence

Can Chinese silicon replace Nvidia? Here are 5 AI models trained on local chips

China’s private sector

Smart-driving chips: the weapon of choice in China’s EV tech war

United States

US judge dismisses Musk’s xAI trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI

A San Francisco judge said xAI failed to show that OpenAI induced former xAI engineer Xuechen Li to steal trade ⁠secrets.

Grok and xAI logos on a smartphone. Photo: Reuters
Grok and xAI logos on a smartphone. Photo: Reuters
Huawei

Can Huawei’s ‘chip queen’ help China beat the US tech blockade?

He Tingbo says her epiphany came from an ancient irrigation system in Sichuan province, built without modern machinery or electricity.

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Semiconductors

Facing US chip curbs, China launches photonics lab to power AI with light

Lab director says fundamental scientific challenges need to be overcome to achieve theoretical performance.

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Semiconductors

Can Huawei’s breakthrough help China’s chip design software firms catch US rivals?

Domestic chip design software vendors embrace Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law, but analysts caution that breaking US dominance is far from easy.

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Major domestic chip design software firms will benefit from opportunities brought by Huawei’s ambitious target of achieving 1.4 nanometre-equivalent chips by 2031, according to analysts. Photo: Shutterstock
Major domestic chip design software firms will benefit from opportunities brought by Huawei’s ambitious target of achieving 1.4 nanometre-equivalent chips by 2031, according to analysts. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 poses a challenge for China’s AI developers

Restrictions on access to the powerful model, ‘targeted at Chinese AI labs’, are sparking debate about safety, innovation and open research.

Artificial intelligence

Could the AI ‘self-evolution’ trend add fuel to the China-US tech war?

Anthropic says its Mythos model is edging closer to ‘recursive self-improvement’ as Chinese developers seek to close gap.

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Semiconductors

To beat chip crunch, Chinese firm inks memory deal bigger than its sales

The US$1.86 billion multi-year flash deal with unnamed supplier underscores how downstream companies scramble to secure capacity.

Biwin says the deal reduces the risk of supply disruption caused by market fluctuations. Photo: Handout
US-China tech war

Pentagon blacklist raises spectre of investment curbs for Chinese tech firms

Chinese tech giants including Alibaba and Baidu strongly reject the Pentagon’s characterisation of them as “Chinese military companies”.

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Chinese tech companies fear the Pentagon's blacklist will increase reputational risks and raise the possibility of further tougher sanctions. Photo: AP
Chinese tech companies fear the Pentagon's blacklist will increase reputational risks and raise the possibility of further tougher sanctions. Photo: AP
China’s private sector

Microsoft cuts hundreds of mainland cloud jobs, as China, US tighten data laws

The firm is laying off some employees at its cloud unit amid ongoing restrictions on cross-border data flows between the two countries.

US-China tech war

China tech bets its chips on a US$577 million fund to counter US restrictions

Chip giants launch a 3.91 billion yuan private equity fund to boost the country’s ‘hard tech’ sectors amid tightening US export curbs.

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Artificial intelligence

China warns of security risks in relay services for foreign AI models

Security ministry cautions developers on grey-market relay platforms, raising fears of privacy breaches and illicit data trading.

The Ministry of State Security advises local developers to choose authorised platforms and take precautions to protect user data. Photo: Reuters
US-China tech war

SpaceX IPO set to lift industry in push for space-based AI, solar power: report

The company’s expected listing may boost overall satellite industry profit as it expands into more space-based applications.

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A SpaceX booster carrying the Starship spacecraft lifts off at Starbase, Texas, on May 22. Photo: Reuters
A SpaceX booster carrying the Starship spacecraft lifts off at Starbase, Texas, on May 22. Photo: Reuters
Semiconductors

Chinese start-up says its nanoimprint tech can produce optical chips without DUV

There is debate over the real value of nanoimprint lithography when it comes to volumes, yields and non-photonic chips.

Artificial intelligence

China launches space computing hub as SpaceX gears up for historic IPO

New institute highlights Beijing’s bid to leapfrog energy bottlenecks and underscores how tech race with US is moving off-planet.

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Robotics

US public cheers dancing Unitree robots while Congress looks to ban them

Eight Unitree G1 humanoid robots performed an elaborate dance routine on America’s Got Talent, alongside a Chinese dancer from Sichuan.

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Unitree’s G1 humanoids received high praise from judges on America’s Got Talent on Tuesday. Photo: Handout
Unitree’s G1 humanoids received high praise from judges on America’s Got Talent on Tuesday. Photo: Handout
US-China tech war

China courts foreign firms with telecoms opening as US tightens curbs

China lifted the previous 50 per cent foreign ownership cap to allow wholly foreign-owned enterprises to operate within pilot zones.

Robotics

Unitree clears Shanghai IPO hurdle as China’s humanoid robot wave gathers pace

Listing plan highlights Unitree’s push to invest more in robot ‘brains’ as it joins competitors in China’s humanoid rush.

Robotics

World of humanoid robots set for new blueprint as Nvidia teams with Asian firms

The tech trio team up to create a state-of-the-art robot reference design allowing researchers to build, fine-tune and deploy skills faster.

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Unitree robots perform dance moves at Global Sources Hong Kong Shows at AsiaWorld-Expo in Chek Lap Kok. The exhibition showcases the newest technologies in mobile accessories and AI-powered consumer electronics. Photo: Eugene Lee
Semiconductors

How US export curbs are forcing China to redesign its AI chip industry

China’s tech giants are pursuing ASICs, a type of custom chip, over generic GPUs dominated by American giants like Nvidia.

China’s AI chipmakers are battling to forge a self-reliant silicon ecosystem. Photo: Shutterstock Images
China’s AI chipmakers are battling to forge a self-reliant silicon ecosystem. Photo: Shutterstock Images
US-China relations

US takes step to halt Nvidia AI chip shipments to Chinese overseas subsidiaries

Surprise move suggests US chips may have been making their way to the subsidiaries of Chinese firms based in places such as Malaysia.

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Semiconductors

Is Huawei’s new chip scaling law a true breakthrough, or mere hype?

Company says 3D design can deliver world-beating chips without the best chipmaking gear, rewriting the playbook for China’s tech future.

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Semiconductors

Wingtech says core of Nexperia’s China unit now based on mainland

The statement comes amid escalation in the Nexperia conflict, as Wingtech files a lawsuit in China against chip firm.

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A wafer sample on display during a semiconductor exhibition in Shanghai on March 25. Photo: AFP
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