9 December 2024

Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group Holding, gave a rare public speech at the 20th anniversary of the company’s fintech affiliate Ant Group, saying he had faith in the “next 20 years of Ant” and expects “more miracles”, according to Chinese media reports and people who were there. Ma’s attendance at the evening event […]

The US will launch its third crackdown in three years on China’s semiconductor industry on Monday, restricting exports to 140 companies including chip equipment maker Naura Technology Group, among other moves, according to two people familiar with the matter. The effort to hobble Beijing’s chipmaking ambitions will also hit Chinese chip toolmakers Piotech and SiCarrier

The number of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) users in China reached 230 million at the end of June, as a crop of start-ups and Big Tech firms rushed to offer their large language model (LLM) services, according to government data. That means around one in every six users in the world’s biggest internet market are

The platform developed by Tairex, a company set up in September under the university’s Institute for Al Industry Research (AIR), features 42 AI doctors covering 21 departments that include emergency, respiratory, paediatrics and cardiology, according to an AIR blog post published last month. Public tests of the platform, named Agent Hospital, will be conducted in

China has fostered 14,600 small, privately owned companies as drivers for top strategic industries, exceeding a 2025 goal and levelling up tech competition with the United States. The tally of enterprises the government calls “little giants” includes 5,000 enterprises working in new technology, including artificial intelligence (AI) and the low-altitude economy characterised by commercial drones,

Chinese technology companies are rushing to unveil reasoning models – advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models designed to take more time to “think and reflect” before generating responses – as they move to narrow China’s gap with the US in the field. Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding, was the latest to