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Explore cutting-edge AI developments in China that are transforming various industries and reshaping the future.

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Artificial intelligence

China’s orchard of AI, chip grads now ripe for the pickin’ as tech trade sours

Many who entered university during Trump’s first trade war with China are ready to become key cogs in China’s hi-tech engine.

12 Jun 2025 - 12:17PM

ByteDance’s China head of content quality leaves amid stricter censorship

9 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM

Artificial intelligence

RedNote says its new open-source AI model bests DeepSeek in Chinese

9 Jun 2025 - 2:00PM

Artificial intelligence

The kids are alright: Hong Kong AI scientist offers a vision for ‘parenting’ AI

HKUST scientist De Kai says AI is more akin to climate change than a geopolitical challenge, requiring a new way of thinking.

8 Jun 2025 - 9:00AMvideocam

De Kai, a computer science professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, is offering a new vision for living and growing with AI in his latest book. Photo: Felix Wong

Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong must reform its degree offerings to attract West’s brightest

Universities must evolve and burnish their offerings in the latest disciplines, from AI to cybersecurity, as US crackdowns send more to the East.

5 Jun 2025 - 5:30AMvideocam

Huawei claims better AI training method than DeepSeek using own chips

Huawei’s progress in AI model architecture could prove significant, as the company seeks to reduce its reliance on US technologies.

4 Jun 2025 - 8:00PMvideocam

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Biotech firm touts new AI drug discovery amid third Hong Kong IPO attempt

Insilico Medicine said results of a clinical trial in China showed positive results in treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

4 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM

An Insilico Medicine facility in Suzhou pictured in 2022. Insilico is touting a new AI-enabled drug discovery for treating lung disease weeks after filing its third prospectus in as many years to the Hong Kong stock exchange. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong AI creator’s mental health system for athletes inspired by Biles

San Francisco-based entrepreneur Jonathan Wan hopes Ironmind.ai can provide early warning of mental and physical struggles.

3 Jun 2025 - 12:11PM

Artificial intelligence

XPrize founder Diamandis projects hope for AI, biotech amid US-China tech war

The entrepreneur says biotech should be less contentious than AI, as a breakthrough in Beijing is just as usable in Boston.

2 Jun 2025 - 9:00AMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek 2.0? Shanghai quant fund claims AI training breakthrough

Goku says in a paper submitted to the ‘AI Olympics’ that its training method is superior to those adopted by DeepSeek, OpenAI.

22 May 2025 - 6:00PMvideocam

Shanghai Goku Technologies, a quantitative fund, has established an AI subsidiary, following the path of Hangzhou-based DeepSeek. Photo: Screenshot

Artificial intelligence

Chinese scientist behind supercomputer in orbit: ‘Put AI in space’

Space has once again become the frontier of scientific exploration, and AI should be part of it, says Zhejiang Lab director Wang Jian.

22 May 2025 - 5:40PM

A Long March 2D rocket carrying a space computing satellite constellation blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China on May 14. Photo: Xinhua

DeepSeek offers new details on using 2,048 Nvidia chips to train its V3 model

In a paper co-authored by founder Liang Wenfeng, the start-up attributes its success to a hardware-software co-design approach.

16 May 2025 - 7:00PMvideocam

Opinion | Beware the hubris of an AI narrative centred on the US and China

It would be a mistake to neglect the agency of states, multinational organisations and powerful firms not fully aligned with either side.

12 May 2025 - 5:30AMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

From meows to Mandarin: Baidu submits patent for AI animal translation

Baidu is seeking a patent for a method of using machine and deep learning to translate animal sounds into human language.

8 May 2025 - 4:09PMvideocam

Baidu has not said how it plans to use its AI tech for translating animal sounds to words. Photo: Shutterstock

DeepSeek’s new maths-solving model is generating buzz, but mostly about R2

The Prover-V2 release has captured attention online, with many on social media wondering what it means for the start-up’s next reasoning model.

1 May 2025 - 6:00PMvideocam

A quiet update to a specialised maths AI model has fuelled speculation about when DeepSeek will release its next-generation reasoning model. Photo: TNS

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek quietly updates open-source model that handles maths proofs

The Chinese start-up has released the Prover-V2 model a day after Alibaba released Qwen3, and ahead of an anticipated release of DeepSeek-R2.

30 Apr 2025 - 7:12PM

Smartphone giant Xiaomi unveils AI model, joining fierce competition in China

Xiaomi says its open-source MiMo reasoning model, trained completely in-house, rivals the performance of OpenAI’s o1-mini and Alibaba’s QwQ-32B.

30 Apr 2025 - 5:05PMvideocam

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Senior AI scientist Alex Lamb once shrugged off China. Now he’s joining Tsinghua

Lamb has trained under a Turing Award winner and worked at top companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s DeepMind.

30 Apr 2025 - 9:38AMvideocam

Alex Lamb, a distinguished AI researcher, has confirmed he will join Tsinghua University in autumn. Photo: Handout

Tencent, Alibaba buy Nvidia GPUs from ByteDance stockpile, report says

ByteDance’s rivals are acquiring some of its US$13.7 billion worth of Nvidia’s H20 chips, which are now barred from export to China.

29 Apr 2025 - 10:36AM

China to harness nation’s resources to AI self-reliance ambitions

President Xi Jinping tells Politburo the country must redouble efforts to overcome bottlenecks in core technology.

26 Apr 2025 - 8:00PMvideocam

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Flurry of Chinese AI updates come amid tightening Nvidia restrictions

Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance and Tencent have introduced updates to AI agents and visual applications in recent days.

23 Apr 2025 - 6:30PM

In Hunyuan3D-2.5, Tencent has introduced improved 3D asset generation that is ideal for applications such as video games and 3D printing. Photo: Tencent

Huawei to roll out AI chips this year as potential alternative to Nvidia’s H20

US export restrictions are expected to accelerate China’s push for self-reliance, including efforts to shift the chip supply chain onshore.

22 Apr 2025 - 10:40PM

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s AI cancer detection tool clears FDA hurdle for faster approval process

The tech giant’s Damo Academy secured a “breakthrough device” designation from the US regulator for its pancreatic cancer-detecting AI model, Damo Panda.

20 Apr 2025 - 9:30AM

DeepSeek unveils new AI reasoning method amid anticipation for R2 model

In collaboration with Tsinghua University, DeepSeek developed a technique combining reasoning methods to guide AI models towards human preferences.

6 Apr 2025 - 7:00AMvideocam

Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI model coming this month, sources say

The latest upgrade to the Qwen family of models will include a mixture-of-experts version and one with just 600 million parameters for mobile devices.

2 Apr 2025 - 6:30PM

The next generation of Alibaba’s Qwen models is coming within weeks, sources told the Post. Photo: Shutterstock

Microsoft shutters AI lab in Shanghai, continuing China retreat

The IoT & AI Insider Lab in the Zhangjiang hi-tech zone likely closed in January or February, nearby workers say.

1 Apr 2025 - 4:02AM

How AI revolution at a Chinese coal mine is making profits soar

China’s Dahaize Mine is rewriting the playbook on how a coalfield operates as automation takes centre stage.

31 Mar 2025 - 8:13PMvideocam

Alibaba launches AI model that can process images and video on the go

The multimodal Qwen2.5-Omni-7B model is designed to run locally on mobile devices and tops rivals in some benchmarks.

27 Mar 2025 - 6:00PM

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