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Explore cutting-edge AI developments in China that are transforming various industries and reshaping the future.
A staff member demonstrates a pair of smart glasses developed by Hangzhou-based Rokid at a store in Yingtan, in east China’s Jiangxi province, on July 10, 2025. Photo: Xinhua
Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI glasses maker Rokid planning Hong Kong IPO: sources

Listing plan comes as giants Apple, Meta, Alibaba, Baidu, Xiaomi and Huawei, plus start-ups like Xreal, Rayneo, anticipate market growth.

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China’s rigid corporate culture slows AI adoption, ex-OpenAI executive says

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Artificial intelligence

Who is Xu Rui, the ex-ByteDance executive tapped by Meta to lead AI hardware?

Artificial intelligence

Tencent expands OpenClaw suite with enterprise tool amid China’s ‘lobster’ craze

ClawPro tool promises quick AI agent deployment, giving enterprises control over models, tokens and security.

Chinese tech firms are rushing to offer China users easy or inexpensive access to OpenClaw after it went viral. Photo: Getty Images
Artificial intelligence

China moves to cut AI computing costs for SMEs as cloud prices surge

Policy push comes as surging token consumption strains supply and pushes up cloud computing costs.

Artificial intelligence

What Zhipu and MiniMax’s first post-IPO earnings say about the 2 AI start-ups

The two Chinese start-ups show promising commercialisation of AI models, which are reflected in rising demand and revenue.

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Semiconductors

China’s No 3 foundry Nexchip files for Hong Kong listing to scale output

Wave of Chinese tech listings builds in Hong Kong as semiconductor groups scale up output.

A wafer sample on display during the Semicon China semiconductor exhibition in Shanghai. March 25, 2026. Photo: AFP
Apple

Apple’s accidental AI feature release in China risks regulatory backlash: expert

Mainland China users briefly access Apple Intelligence before the update vanishes, raising questions over compliance and regulatory approval.

DeepSeek

‘I no longer knew how to work without it’: DeepSeek outage cuts off millions

Chinese AI start-up restores chatbot service by Monday morning after overnight disruption affects millions of users.

Artificial intelligence

ByteDance adds watermarking, IP checks to Seedance 2.0 ahead of global launch

TikTok parent ByteDance says guardrails will protect Seedance 2.0 as it expands globally despite intense scrutiny from Hollywood.

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Video-generation model Seedance 2.0 is displayed at the Zhongguancun Exhibition Center in Beijing on March 25.Photo: Xinhua
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba to deploy AI ‘digital workforce’ for millions of merchants on Taobao, Tmal

OpenClaw frenzy accelerates shift to autonomous AI, as Alibaba equips merchants with always-on digital workers.

People walk past a billboard promoting Tmall’s Singles’ Day sale at a popular shopping district in Beijing on November 10, 2025. Photo: AP
Artificial intelligence

Video | Why your hard drives and SD cards just got more pricey

AI boom pushes makers to prioritise industrial-grade uses, leaving Hong Kong consumers paying more for basic storage.

Artificial intelligence

OpenClaw effect: explosion in AI token use adds fuel to Chinese AI development

Surging demand supports price increases that will sustain development of new and better models, Zhipu AI CEO says.

Artificial intelligence

Google’s TurboQuant dents memory-chip stocks, but analysts say ‘buy the dip’

Rather than reducing demand for memory chips, the advance could increase it by fuelling more AI applications.

A decline in memory firms’ share prices started with Samsung and SK Hynix, then extended to include Chinese memory firms GigaDevice Semiconductor and Montage Technology. Photo: Shutterstock Images
China trade

‘Careful scrutiny’ needed in China’s applications of AI: Jiang Xiaojuan

Stronger oversight needed as unchecked AI risks undermining jobs and data security, government advisers urge at the Boao Forum for Asia.

Threats of job displacement and data security challenges are sparking concerns in China. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China relations

Chinese nationals, firms charged in US with smuggling AI chips, drug trafficking

Two different cases refer to smuggling of American-made advanced AI chips to China through Thailand and an alleged fentanyl supply chain.

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Semiconductors

Semicon China: AI, packaging set to drive country’s chip industry growth

China on track to account for nearly half of world wafer capacity in two years, organiser of world’s largest chip industry trade show says.

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Science

China names AI tokens after the yuan. Should US worry for the dollar?

China has officially designated ciyuan as the translation for ‘token’, giving strong economic overtones to what has been a tech term.

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China has designated ciyuan as the translation for “token”, during an official’s speech on AI development that linked tech supply with commercial demand. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

Video | OpenClaw explained

Early adopters say the AI agent has its faults while others express concerns about access to personal data.

US-China trade war

US panel credits China’s AI edge to open-source models, manufacturing dominance

American Congressional commission concludes China’s open ecosystem has seen performance gaps narrowed with top Western large language models.

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Artificial intelligence

Tencent adds ClawBot plug-in to WeChat amid OpenClaw boom and privacy warnings

With over 1 billion users, WeChat becomes Tencent’s biggest OpenClaw campaign, bringing into focus opportunity and regulatory caution.

Tencent is seeking to capitalise on the OpenClaw craze. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

What is ‘tokenomics’ and how would China gain the edge in an AI era?

As tokens are positioned as the AI era’s commodity, China’s energy scale and low-cost models could give it a structural edge.

Jensen Huang at Nvidia’s annual GTC conference in San Jose, California, on March 17. Photo: AFP
China trade

China’s AI edge built on power grid, open-source models: Alibaba’s Joe Tsai

Investment in power and open-source models, plus industrial depth, highlights China’s vast potential for AI applications, Joe Tsai says.

China manufacturing

AI, flying cars drive economic transition in China’s Kunshan

City at heart of Yangtze River Delta region sees new tech dreams emerge as old ones based on mass production of electronics fade.

US-China trade war

Trump administration moves to unify AI rules, bolster edge over China

Policy aims to increase federal government’s ability to ⁠fight national security concerns and counter Beijing’s growing dominance in sector.

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The ​Trump administration has been pushing for a single AI policy legislative framework that can be applied uniformly across the country. Photo: AFP via Getty Images
Semiconductors

Huawei challenges Nvidia with powerful new AI accelerator card

The Atlas 350 can deliver 1.56 petaflops of FP4 computing power, a 2.8-times improvement over Nvidia’s H20 chip, an executive says.

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Huawei is accelerating its computing hardware strategy amid the rapid rise of agentic AI. Photo: dpa
Robotics

Video | Robot tennis player takes on humans

The robot developed by Tsinghua University and Galbot is able to return 88.69 per cent of shots it faces.

Artificial intelligence

Preview of Alibaba’s top AI model leads Chinese peers, lags US rivals

Qwen3.5-Max-Preview enters a global ranking at 15th, behind models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.

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