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Saturday 8 February 2025
DeepSeek fuels affordable AI, sparking cloud price wars in China and beyond
China's cloud service providers (CSPs) have been engaged in fierce price competition since 2024, deploying aggressive cost-cutting strategies to expand market share. This battle is...
Friday 7 February 2025
Alibaba's new Qwen model surpasses DeepSeek V3 in performance
Alibaba Group (Alibaba) has announced that its upgraded Qwen 2.5 Max model has achieved superior performance over the V3 model from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek...
Thursday 6 February 2025
Top Chinese cloud platforms rally behind DeepSeek as AI 'black swan' redefines cloud intelligence
Amid rising US restrictions on China's tech sector, leading Chinese cloud computing and AI companies are forging alliances with DeepSeek to challenge global industry leaders and expand...
Tuesday 4 February 2025
China GPU market struggles with oversupply and fragmented ecosystem
China's AI sector is transitioning from massive model development to inference applications. While tech giants like ByteDance and Alibaba have constructed large GPU clusters, much...
Friday 24 January 2025
SoftBank founder shifts investment focus from China to US
SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son has made a strategic pivot toward the US market, appearing alongside President Donald Trump twice since his November election victory to unveil major...
Tuesday 21 January 2025
ByteDance outpaces Alibaba, Baidu: a deep dive into China's evolving AI chatbot market
ByteDance's Doubao has emerged as a leading contender in China's competitive AI chatbot landscape. In December 2024, Doubao achieved an impressive 29% growth in downloads, reaching...
Wednesday 15 January 2025
US AI chip export control looms over China cloud computing giants
The latest US restrictions on AI chip exports have sent shockwaves through the global tech industry, casting a shadow over China's burgeoning tech sector. The restrictions create...
Monday 6 January 2025
Chinese AI firm SenseTime cuts back on Singapore office space
SenseTime Group is reducing its office footprint in Singapore, scaling back once-lofty ambitions at a time when it is struggling to compete in the post-ChatGPT era.
Friday 3 January 2025
China's AI firms gain ground with open-source strategy
The development of AI models in China has progressed at an impressive pace, with a proactive embrace of open-source strategies in recent years. These efforts have not only garnered...
Friday 3 January 2025
China accelerates LLM development as ByteDance's AI spending rivals BAT combined
DeepSeek, an emerging AI company, has launched DeepSeek-V3, the first version of its new open-source model series. According to official data, this model outperforms other leading...
Friday 3 January 2025
China's LLM market reached a boiling point, Alibaba cuts prices again to capture market share
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding, has recently slashed prices on its visual language model Qwen-VL by more than 80%, as price wars continue to rage...
Thursday 2 January 2025
Alibaba to sell Sun Art to buyout firm DCP for US$1.6 billion
Alibaba Group agreed to sell its shares in Sun Art Retail Group to private equity firm DCP Capital, unloading another high-profile physical commerce asset to focus on its core online...
Friday 27 December 2024
Alibaba, E-Mart to create US$4 billion e-commerce JV in Korea
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. agreed to form a joint venture for its South Korean operations with E-Mart Inc.'s e-commerce platform to better compete in the country's fast-paced online...
Thursday 26 December 2024
Chinese Data Center Operator Yovole Is Said to Consider US IPO
Yovole is considering an initial public offering in the US, people familiar with the matter said, years after the Chinese data center operator's failed attempt to list in mainland...
Wednesday 18 December 2024
Zhipu AI secures US$412 million with backing from Alibaba, Tencent
Zhipu AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence unicorn specializing in large language models (LLMs), has secured CNY3 billion (US$412 million) in its latest funding round—its second...