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DingTalk is increasingly leaning into artificial intelligence to align with Alibaba’s new priorities. Photo: Shutterstock
Alibaba

Alibaba woos back DingTalk founder to lead office app’s AI push

Chen Hang, who created the app in 2015, will return as DingTalk CEO as Alibaba plans to take a stake in the entrepreneur’s start-up.

Pakistan

Opinion | How tech innovation can bolster Pakistan’s relationship with China

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Robotics

Venture capital veteran Allen Zhu questions humanoid robots’ value

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Artificial intelligence

A DeepSeek moment is playing out in rural China as peasants seek AI advice

Rural residents, who account for a third of China’s 1.4 billion population, are eager to apply AI services.

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Farmers harvest cabbages in Tangshan, north China’s Hebei Province, November 6, 2024. Photo: Xinhua
Banking & finance

DeepSeek has boosted the faith of rich Chinese investors in tech stocks: StanChart

The AI boom in China has convinced Chinese investors that the markets will continue to rise, Standard Chartered’s Judy Hsu says.

X (formerly Twitter)

Elon Musk sells X social media platform to his own xAI for US$33 billion

The tech billionaire plans to combine the ‘data, models, compute, distribution and talent’ from the app and start-up.

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Robotics

US robotics firms push for national strategy to compete with China

Tesla, Boston Dynamics and others are pushing for US policies that would boost American companies in the global robotics race.

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Humanoid robots perform at the Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Robotics

Unitree Robotics profitable since 2020, eyes expansion amid high demand

The Hangzhou start-up known for its robot dogs told local media it had no immediate plans for additional fundraising.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai questions AI’s limits, casts doubt on humanoid robots

Speaking at Alibaba’s Jumpstarter event, the entrepreneur said much of what humans value is not captured in training data.

Artificial intelligence

ChatGPT can now create charts for work and edit photos better

The new capabilities are available to both free and paid users via OpenAI’s GPT-4o model.

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OpenAI has brought image generation to GPT-4o. Photo: AFP via Getty Images/TNS
Banking & finance

Hong Kong set to fund Chinese start-ups’ ‘jaw-dropping’ innovations

China is at the beginning of a long innovation story, according to speakers at the HSBC Global Investment Summit.

Bonnie Chan Yiting, CEO of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, speaks during a panel discussion at the HSBC Global Investment Summit on March 25, 2025, in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Banking & finance

Hong Kong deepens push into AI, tech to boost its edge over Singapore: Paul Chan

Artificial intelligence is the future, as it has the potential to boost Hong Kong’s competitiveness, financial secretary says.

China technology

My Take | DeepSeek has changed China’s AI model landscape – what’s next?

The start-up has emerged as the unlikely winner of a dizzying domestic competition. Can it reshape the global market as well?

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Robotics

Unitree’s robots won’t be helping with the cleaning up just yet

Despite growing competition, Unitree’s founder says the company will not release household robots until safety issues are sorted out.

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Two humanoid robots seen at the offices of Unitree in Hangzhou, China. Photo: Xinhua
Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong tech start-ups eyeing US should ‘talk less’ about AI: Science Park CEO

Albert Wong urges start-ups to focus on pitching practical applications of products, amid Sino-US tensions and rivalry over AI.

The Science Park brought five of its start-ups to Silicon Valley in June last year for a six-month tour. Photo: Yik Yeung-man
Artificial intelligence

Exclusive | Why Lee Kai-fu is betting his AI start-up’s future on DeepSeek

In an interview with the Post, Lee discusses China’s ‘ChatGPT moment’ and 01.AI’s transition from a model developer to a solutions provider.

Semiconductors

Hong Kong investment arm backs Chinese RISC-V start-up StarFive

The partnership will see Hong Kong support StarFive in rolling out RISC-V chip applications in the city.

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Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI firms turn to Hong Kong as gateway to global markets

Executives from several companies expressed confidence in Hong Kong’s growing role in supporting China’s AI development.

Hong Kong is an attractive regional hub for Chinese AI companies looking to expand internationally, according to business executives. Photo: Getty Images
Huawei

Huawei’s leadership shuffle at AI research arm signals heated local competition

Senior researcher Wang Yunhe has been named the new head of Huawei unit Noah’s Ark Lab, where he works on areas such as deep learning.

Alibaba

Alibaba’s Quark draws positive reviews in China as AI agent race heats up

Quark shows Alibaba’s ambition to be competitive in the market for AI agents, like Butterfly Effect’s Manus and OpenAI’s Deep Research.

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Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek’s success lies in singular focus on innovation, AI scientist says

Hong Kong PolyU’s Yang Hongxia says China’s DeepSeek is purely engaged in AI model development.

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Smartphone displaying the Deepseek logo with the Chinese flag in the background. China and artificial intelligence are thriving on the global stage. 01.03.2025. İstanbul, Türkiye. Shutterstock Images
Artificial intelligence

AI start-up challenges Nvidia’s dominance with Beijing support

A team with ties to Tsinghua University has unveiled a new framework for building advanced AI models using Chinese-made chips.

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A Chinese team says its new AI framework can run on domestic chips. Photo: AFP
China technology

Venture capital funds flock to China’s Zhejiang province amid hi-tech push

Provincial capital Hangzhou is home to Alibaba and start-ups DeepSeek, Unitree, Deep Robotics, Game Science, BrainCo and Manycore.

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI asks US for relief from AI rules to compete with Chinese firms

The ChatGPT maker says the AI race is ‘effectively over’ if China’s developers have unfettered access to data while US companies do not.

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Robotics

China manufacturing, AI pose an ‘existential threat’ to US in robotics sector

Domestic manufacturers’ share in China, the world’s largest robotics market, nears 50 per cent, up from 30 per cent in 2020.

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The United States and China are locked in competition for dominance in the robotics industry. Photo: Shutterstock
Robotics

UBTech debuts US$41,000 humanoid as robot frenzy grips China

Standing at 1.7 metres, the Tien Kung Xingzhe can walk 10km per hour and navigate various terrains, including sand and snow.

UBTech Robotics has launched a life-size research-purpose humanoid robot, Tien Kung Xingzhe. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence

AI agent Manus draws upbeat reviews of nascent service

Manus’ user experience is ‘what so many promised … but this time, it just works’, Hugging Face product head Victor Mustar says.

Alibaba

AI agent Manus partners with Alibaba’s Qwen to develop Chinese version

Manus will cooperate with Alibaba’s Qwen team ‘to meet the needs of Chinese users’, the company said.

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