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Thursday 17 April 2025
Rebellions plants flag in Tokyo, eyes leadership in AI data centers
With its new Tokyo unit, AI chip startup Rebellions is positioning itself to play a pivotal role in Japan's burgeoning AI data center ecosystem. The company's local push comes as...
Tuesday 15 April 2025
The Great Tech Reset 10: China's innovation edge—where business models outrun the tech
Electric vehicles are naturally ideal platforms for testing AI technologies. At the same time, the robotics industry is moving beyond 2D control systems into 3D, 4D, and more complex...
Friday 11 April 2025
India's Suchi Semicon to begin production this month, expands global ties and workforce
India-based OSAT startup Suchi Semicon is preparing to begin commercial production in April, less than a month after completing successful trial runs, its founder Shetal Mehta told...
Thursday 10 April 2025
APMIC, Twinkle AI launch new Traditional Chinese inference models
Taiwanese AI startup APMIC has teamed up with the language model research community Twinkle AI to launch a 3B Traditional Chinese inference model that can be used on mobile devices,...
Wednesday 9 April 2025
DeepSeek, Tsinghua unveil leaner path to smarter AI
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has teamed up with Tsinghua University researchers to develop a new reinforcement learning framework designed to cut training costs and boost the efficiency...
Tuesday 8 April 2025
Macronix introduces all new ArmorBoot MX76 to meet demand for security and high performance in AI, smart healthcare, and automotive IoT markets
Macronix, a leading global non-volatile memory (NVM) integrated device manufacturer, has launched its all-new ArmorBoot MX76 series flash memory. The ArmorBoot MX76 is designed for...
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Zhipu AI enters the ring with AutoGLM; open-source AI agent targets LLM supremacy
Zhipu AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup, introduced its open-source AI agent AutoGLM at the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum. Designed to bridge advanced reasoning with task...
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Manus rising: China's Butterfly Effect squares off against ChatGPT Pro with premium AI agent
Chinese AI startup Butterfly Effect has rolled out a subscription service for its Manus AI agent just weeks after launching its preview version, with its top-tier Manus Pro plan priced...
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Deepseek AI drives unprecedented demand for Nvidia's China-specific chips
Nvidia's relationship with Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has evolved dramatically, affecting Nvidia's stock price and driving strong demand for its China-specific H20 GPU in China....
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Post-DeepSeek fallout: China's six AI startups shift from scaling to survival
DeepSeek's meteoric rise as an open-source large language model (LLM) has shaken up China's generative AI industry, redrawing the competitive map in record time. As the Financial...
Monday 31 March 2025
Japan injects US$5.4 billion into Rapidus, eyes US$660 million in private funding for 2nm chip rollout
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) said on March 31, 2025, it will provide up to JPY802.5 billion (US$5.4 billion) in fresh funding to Rapidus, a domestic startup...
Monday 31 March 2025
Musk's xAI startup swallows up X social network in surprise deal
Elon Musk said his xAI artificial intelligence startup has acquired the X platform, which he also controls, at a valuation of US$33 billion, marking a surprise twist for the social...
Friday 28 March 2025
China's AgiBot plans new Shanghai facility to scale robot output; Lens deepens role in embodied AI

Zhiyuan Robotics (AgiBot), a Chinese AI startup specializing in embodied intelligence, has become a central player in the humanoid robotics supply...

Friday 28 March 2025
Cook visits major AI hub in China
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently attended the 2025 China Development Forum in Beijing and has arrived in Hangzhou, a prominent hub for artificial intelligence (AI) in China. He also pledged...
Wednesday 26 March 2025
India's Netrasemi to launch AI-optimized SoCs for edge computing, eyes global market
Indian semiconductor startup Netrasemi is set to launch its first AI-optimized system-on-chips (SoCs) for edge computing applications, with tape-outs scheduled at TSMC in April and...