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Jack Ma and Alibaba executives gather at the rice-planting team-building event. Photo: Handout

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Hard work and endurance: what Alibaba’s team-building says about its AI drive

Jack Ma and executives plant rice seedlings in a symbolic retreat signalling resilience as Alibaba doubles down on AI.

China to match Anthropic’s top AI model in 2026, Zhipu founder tells Musk

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Dishing the dirt: official media alleges smear tactics in delivery battle

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From ‘rice’ to riches: China’s MLCC makers head to Hong Kong to list

Small, found in almost every electronic device and critical to AI servers, now the ‘rice of electronics’ is driving two Hong Kong IPOs.

Chinese manufacturers linked to the booming multilayer ceramic capacitor industry are turning to Hong Kong’s capital markets to fund expansion. Photo: Sun Yeung
Chinese manufacturers linked to the booming multilayer ceramic capacitor industry are turning to Hong Kong’s capital markets to fund expansion. Photo: Sun Yeung

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Zhipu AI market cap tops HK$1 trillion after GLM-5.2 release

New model ranks second globally on Code Arena list for front-end web development tasks, trailing only Anthropic flagship Claude Fable 5.

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Apple supplier Lingyi seeks US$1.1 billion Hong Kong IPO to fund AI and robotics

The Shenzhen-listed components maker is using a Hong Kong float to fund its push into AI servers, smart glasses and robotics.

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Chinese start-up tackles fusion energy software bottleneck with help of AI

FusionAlpha is a simulator designed to help developers test reactor designs on computers before committing to expensive physical experiments.

The HH70 is the world’s first full superconducting tokamak device, developed and built by Energy Singularity. Photo: Handout
The HH70 is the world’s first full superconducting tokamak device, developed and built by Energy Singularity. Photo: Handout

China Business

Bigger, fewer, tougher: the new era of China-US biotech partnerships

China’s biotech boom continues to attract Western drug makers even as Washington expands investment and technology controls.

Tech

Forget memory chips: MLCCs are Shenzhen’s newest gold rush

Huaqiangbei traders are racing to secure MLCC supplies as soaring AI demand pushes prices sharply higher across the market.

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‘We’re all in’: Alibaba’s Joe Tsai makes biggest AI push yet at VivaTech

Tsai lays out Alibaba’s AI playbook: invest across the stack, figure out the winners later.

Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai speaks at the VivaTech conference in Paris on June 18. Tsai said the company is investing across the AI value chain rather than betting on a single segment of the market. Photo: Getty Images

Policy

China plans to embed AI in consumer goods and services

Ministry of Commerce says goal is to promote AI’s entry into ‘millions of households and millions of shops’.

A robot introduces visitors to an embodied intelligence innovation industrial estate in Zhongguancun, in Beijing’s Haidian district, on Saturday. Photo: Xinhua
A robot introduces visitors to an embodied intelligence innovation industrial estate in Zhongguancun, in Beijing’s Haidian district, on Saturday. Photo: Xinhua

Big Tech

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.

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Chinese AI improves forecasts as Hong Kong braces for super typhoons

A new model deployed at Hong Kong Observatory and National Meteorological Centre uses machine learning algorithms to boost forecast accuracy.

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US AI lead vulnerable to China amid ‘structural challenges’: scholar

China’s advantages in energy and industrial applications could erode America’s AI ‘moat’, according to University of Hong Kong academic.

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By driving down adoption costs, China has accelerated AI integration across its economy to a greater degree than the US, according to a prominent scholar. Photo: Shutterstock Images

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As ByteDance goes all in on AI, are Chinese chip start-ups poised to win big?

TikTok owner’s expanding spending could benefit a few second-tier domestic chipmakers, with Iluvatar CoreX in pole position, analysts say.

Iluvator CoreX and a few of its peers are vying for spots in top AI infrastructure builders’ supply chains. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Iluvator CoreX and a few of its peers are vying for spots in top AI infrastructure builders’ supply chains. Photo: Shutterstock Images

Big Tech

How DeepSeek’s landmark funding cements founder’s grip amid heated AI rivalry

Liang remains committed to pursuing artificial general intelligence (AGI) – a vision he reinforced to investors repeatedly last month.

Tech

Shanghai charts IPO path for cash-hungry AI labs racing against US

The move aims to support listings of ‘high-quality’ AI firms that have yet to form ‘a certain scale of revenue’.

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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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Illustration by Henry Wong
Illustration by Henry Wong

Tech War

A cloud above the clouds: US, China jockey for position in computing space race

China could be a leading player in the new technological battlefield, but the US has a substantial lead in essential tools such as reusable rockets.

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Prognosis positive: how AI could help China bridge the medical resources gap

Hospitals, medical professionals and patients stand to benefit as country pushes to integrate AI into healthcare sector.

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Big Tech

As DJI duels Insta360, China sharpens global hardware edge amid US scrutiny

Western competitors like GoPro face shrinking footprints as strategic shifts of Chinese firms disrupt the status quo while navigating FCC-led national security bans.

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Zhipu AI market cap tops HK$1 trillion after GLM-5.2 release

A view of Exchange Square in Central, which houses the headquarters of bourse operator Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing. Photo: Jelly Tse

China Business

Bigger, fewer, tougher: the new era of China-US biotech partnerships

In focus: Chinese biotech firms such as Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceutical are navigating growing geopolitical scrutiny as cross-border licensing deals continue to expand. Photo: Shutterstoc

China Economy

China’s private-jet market finally pulling out of post-pandemic nosedive: source

China remained the Asia-Pacific region’s largest individual business-jet market last year, with 243 planes, the Asian Sky Group found. Photo: Shutterstock

Policy

China plans to embed AI in consumer goods and services

A robot introduces visitors to an embodied intelligence innovation industrial estate in Zhongguancun, in Beijing’s Haidian district, on Saturday. Photo: Xinhua
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