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DeepSeek
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DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded by Liang Wenfeng. Its low-cost AI model was developed with significantly fewer computing resources than those of bigger US tech firms like OpenAI and Meta.
A DeepSeek logo on a smartphone. Photo: dpa
Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek sheds light on data collection for AI training

DeepSeek says data in pre-training stage is mainly collected from publicly available online information and authorised third-party data.

China technology

Opinion | Why US export controls won’t stop China’s AI rise

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Artificial intelligence

Chinese delivery giant Meituan releases AI model to take on Alibaba, DeepSeek

Artificial intelligence

Open Questions | The ‘godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton on preventing takeover by the technology

The ‘godfather of AI’ discusses the risks of the technology and whether superpowers can find common ground to rein it in.

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Illustration: Victor Sanjinez
Huawei

Tech war: Huawei executive claims victory over US sanctions with tech ecosystem

Huawei has already ‘built an ecosystem entirely independent of the United States’, according to a senior executive.

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Tencent

Tencent counts on Chinese AI tools demand to lift overseas cloud business

Tencent says there is a lot of opportunities to bring Chinese open-source AI models to overseas clients.

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Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI model developers seek fast commercial adoption as training costs fall

AI penetration rate in China’s finance, government, telecoms and healthcare sectors are each in excess of 60 per cent, Frost & Sullivan says.

Open-source AI models from Chinese firms DeepSeek and Alibaba Cloud have seen increased adoption across various industries. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

SenseTime’s AI growth surges, as China advances nationwide initiative

The company attributes the results to ‘tremendous growth’ in demand for training, fine-tuning and inference of generative AI models.

Artificial intelligence

Baidu unveils AI computing platform powered by Chinese-designed chips

The Baige 5.0 infrastructure platform aims to raise the efficiency of DeepSeek’s open-source AI models.

Artificial intelligence

Tech sector hails Beijing’s AI blueprint as local chip, server firms set to gain

The State Council has set a goal of achieving an adoption rate of intelligent devices and AI agents of at least 70 per cent by 2027.

Beijing’s decision to implement AI in research, industry and consumption has further boosted confidence in the sector. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Semiconductors

China’s ‘little Nvidia’ sees 4,348% revenue surge amid AI stock frenzy

Cambricon’s revenue of US$403.8 million in the first six months of 2025 was a record high since it went public in 2020.

Cambricon claimed progress in both its hardware and software development for chips used in AI training and inference. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Semiconductors

DeepSeek’s V3.1 model emerges as ‘key pillar’ for China’s chip self-sufficiency

‘China’s AI development is entering a stage of software-hardware collaboration,’ Cinda Securities says.

Artificial intelligence

My Take | DeepSeek’s data format innovation fans fresh hopes of more disruption

DeepSeek’s incremental progress is significant as it has created a new trajectory for China to achieve AI supremacy.

China stock market

Cambricon tops Moutai as China’s costliest stock as chips beat liquor

Cambricon’s stock jumped 11.60 per cent on Monday to a record 1,384.93 yuan, giving it 519.38 billion yuan market value.

Cambricon Technologies at the 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 8, 2021. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk’s xAI joins open-source AI race against China

The US start-up open sources the Grok 2.5 model and says it will do the same with Grok 3 within the next six months.

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Elon Musk’s xAI is open-sourcing two versions of its Grok models. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS
China's economic recovery

China bets on AI to pump trillions into economy amid national computing push

With artificial intelligence a critical battleground in the China-US rivalry, a national computing network has already signed up more than 100 AI models.

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Artificial intelligence

Taiwanese laptop maker Asus’ subsidiary builds Nvidia-powered supercomputer

The project is expected to help raise Taiwan’s total computing capacity by at least 50 per cent.

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Artificial intelligence

Tesla upgrades EV voice assistant system with AI from DeepSeek and ByteDance

DeepSeek’s namesake chatbot and ByteDance’s Doubao AI model are expected to help Tesla better engage with EV buyers in China.

Visitors check out a Tesla electric vehicle on display at the third China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on July 16, 2025. Photo: EPA
Semiconductors

Tech war: which Chinese firm is supplying next-generation AI chips to DeepSeek?

Widely speculated suppliers include Huawei, Cambricon, Moore Threads, Hygon and MetaX.

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Artificial intelligence

Tech war: DeepSeek hints China close to unveiling ‘next generation’ AI chips

The artificial intelligence company mentions ‘home-grown chips to be released soon’ on social media, but provides no further details.

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Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek’s upgraded AI model absorbs reasoning feature in agentic shift

The V3.1 update lays the groundwork for the model to support AI agents, DeepSeek says.

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Chinese start-up DeepSeek says its upgraded AI model merges both reasoning and non-reasoning capabilities. Photo: dpa
Artificial intelligence

ByteDance unleashes open-source AI model to challenge DeepSeek, Alibaba Cloud

Three variants of ByteDance’s Seed-OSS-36B open-source model are now available on the AI developer platform Hugging Face.

ByteDance says its new AI model either matched or surpassed the capabilities of similar offerings from competitors. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek’s V3.1 update sparks speculation over fate of next AI model

The Chinese start-up has introduced only a few incremental updates in recent months, while competitors have released new models.

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Artificial intelligence

US underestimating China’s AI progress, OpenAI’s Sam Altman says

The OpenAI CEO says the AI arms race between the US and China is more complex than it appears.

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Decoding AI

The world’s powers weigh how to teach their citizens about AI

All governments are racing to equip their citizens with AI skills, but their approaches vary wildly.

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US President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order on July 23, related to his AI “Action Plan” intended to promote US dominance of the technology. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
Digital Transformation

China, No 2 in global computing power, accelerates build-out as AI race heats up

China has invested massive resources to build digital infrastructure and plans an even stronger push in the future.

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Engineers work at a supercomputer centre in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. China trails only the United States in computing power after a massive push to build digital infrastructure. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence

Speculation grows on DeepSeek’s next AI model after OpenAI’s GPT-5

DeepSeek has reportedly delayed the launch of its R2 model owing to challenges in training it with Huawei chips.

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Huawei

Huawei’s new algorithm could cut China’s reliance on foreign memory chips

Chinese tech firms are leveraging software improvements to compensate for limited access to advanced hardware.

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