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Screens showing DeepSeek and OpenAI on January 29 in Toulouse, southwestern France. The American notion is that AI is capital-intensive, perhaps more so than any other US industry today. Photo: AFP
US-China tech war

Editorial | China’s low-cost AI is showing up America’s high-cost tech model

The real China threat is in exposing America’s AI myths by showing what can be achieved at much lower costs and with greater efficiency.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba Cloud team wins top AI award for breakthrough in model efficiency

China Future Tech briefing

AI | Smart-glasses makers see AI as long-awaited must-have app

Alibaba

Alibaba to lead AI capital spending among Chinese firms amid strong demand

The group’s intention to boost AI-related capital outlay reflects its aim to spearhead China’s efforts in the race for global AI leadership.

Alibaba Cloud continues to grow demand for its open-source Qwen AI model family. Photo: Shutterstock
Alibaba

AI Singapore picks Alibaba’s Qwen to drive new regional language model

In a boost for China’s AI ambitions, AI Singapore has chosen Alibaba’s Qwen to train its new language model.

Alibaba

Alibaba posts 5% rise in quarterly revenue on AI, cloud momentum

‘We have entered into an investment phase to build long-term strategic value in AI technologies and infrastructure,’ CEO Eddie Wu Yongming says.

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Artificial intelligence

US lab unveils ‘fully open’ AI models in challenge to China’s dominance

By publishing training data and pipelines, the Allen Institute for AI hopes its Olmo models can win trust – and chip away at China’s lead.

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The Allen Institute for AI, also known as Ai2, has released the latest Olmo series of models in a bid to challenge China’s open-source dominance. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s Qwen chatbot sets record by topping 10 million downloads in debut week

Powered by Alibaba Cloud’s open-source model family of the same name, Qwen is the firm’s most significant foray into the consumer AI market.

Artificial intelligence

Ant Group’s vibe coding app hits 1 million downloads in just 4 days

LingGuang, an AI app that generates custom software applications, sees a surge in popularity.

Asean

Why Asean’s AI ambition may lead to widening economic and tech divide

While countries such as Singapore and Malaysia are ahead in the AI race, others like Cambodia and Laos risk being left behind, analysts say.

An illustration of stock market trading using artificial intelligence. Asean is aiming to expand the use of AI across sectors. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Google’s new Gemini model puts China’s AI start-ups on the defensive

It highlights the daunting challenge faced by Chinese AI start-ups to compete against firms like Google with massive resources.

Google’s new Gemini model represents a “massive jump” in reasoning and coding ability, according to executives. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Ant Group

Alibaba founder Jack Ma visits Ant Group as fintech giant ramps up AI efforts

Ma’s visit marks almost a year since he publicly endorsed Ant Group’s AI initiatives during the firm’s 20th anniversary.

Tencent

Alibaba bets on ‘everything app’ Qwen to define AI era for global consumers

Qwen has the potential to become super-app, the same way Tencent’s WeChat defined the mobile internet age, analysts say.

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Ant Group

Ant Group unveils AI assistant that builds ‘flash apps’ in 30 seconds

China’s Big Tech firms are engaged in an intensifying competition to attract consumers with agentic AI apps.

The Ant Group logo seen at a trade fair in Beijing. Photo: Reuters
Alibaba

Alibaba’s Qwen app challenges AI subscription models with free access

The new app is designed to be a free-of-charge, comprehensive AI assistant in both professional and personal settings.

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Alibaba Cloud has officially launched its Qwen AI assistant app. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Alibaba

Alibaba revamps chatbot amid US ‘panic’ over firm’s AI progress

Alibaba dubs the updated app, renamed from Tongyi to Qwen, the ‘most powerful official AI assistant’ for its Qwen models.

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Artificial intelligence

Alibaba slashes Qwen3-Max model charges up to 50% amid latest AI price war

The new pricing strategy reflects heightened competition in China’s foundational model market.

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Artificial intelligence

How China’s AI start-ups are rewiring the way models remember

Amid chip shortages, China’s AI start-ups are re-engineering their algorithms, hoping more efficient architecture will do the heavy lifting.

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China’s AI developers are hoping that algorithmic changes will help its models close the gap on Western rivals. Photo: Shutterstock
Xiaomi

Chinese AI prodigy Luo Fuli joins Xiaomi as competition for talent heats up

The ex-DeepSeek researcher is known for being a key contributor to the development of the AI start-up’s V2 model last year.

US-China tech war

Why new model of China’s Moonshot AI stirs ‘DeepSeek moment’ debate

Kimi K2 Thinking outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5, sparking comparisons to DeepSeek’s breakthrough.

Alibaba

Alibaba doubles down on ‘super-scale’ computing infrastructure for AI sector

Alibaba’s ‘super AI cloud’ will have the required technology to meet the industry’s massive computing demand, CEO Eddie Wu Yongming says.

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Alibaba Group Holding CEO Eddie Wu Yongming speaks at the opening of the World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit on Friday. Photo: Reuters
Ant Group

Ant Group affiliate OceanBase uses Hong Kong as hub to challenge Oracle

Oracle remains the world’s top database provider, but OceanBase has an infrastructure better suited for AI workloads, CEO says.

OceanBase CEO Evan Yang announces the company’s global expansion plans at its office in Hong Kong on Thursday. Photo: Xinmei Shen
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s AI aces top global maths contests, challenging OpenAI’s dominance

Qwen3-Max-Thinking, the latest version of Alibaba’s Qwen3 model family, achieved perfect scores in two prestigious US maths competitions.

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Artificial intelligence

This AI model’s US$10,000 investment has the best return. Guess who?

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen3-Max posts a 22.32 per cent return on a US$10,000 investment in two weeks, topping a “real money” AI crypto trading test.

Artificial intelligence

AI models from US and China flatter users too much, study finds

Research judges models from Alibaba and DeepSeek among the most sycophantic, an issue which could impact relationships and mental health.

The issue of AI sycophancy gained widespread attention in April when OpenAI’s update to ChatGPT made the chatbot noticeably more obsequious. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s Quark app adds AI chatbot in challenge to ByteDance, Tencent

Quark is also launching AI glasses in a presale which kicks off Friday on Chinese e-commerce platforms including JD.com and Alibaba’s Tmall.

In this photo illustration taken March 13, 2025, the Quark page is displayed on a smartphone screen with the Alibaba logo in the background. Photo: VCG via Getty Images
DeepSeek

DeepSeek outperforms AI rivals in ‘real money, real market’ crypto showdown

DeepSeek’s V3.1 earns 10 per cent profit as it leads five other LLMs in crypto trading experiment that tests their investing abilities.

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Apple

Apple CEO Tim Cook pushes AI system launch in China after iPhone Air release

‘Cook has leveraged his personal brand to transform Apple’ into an ‘engaged participant attuned to local sentiments’, consultancy M360 says.

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