25 February 2025

Yang Hongxia, who joined PolyU’s Department of Computing last year after decades in the technology industry, is at the forefront of an effort to use the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in specialised applications. Her efforts come as Chinese companies, spurred by the success of start-up DeepSeek, move to open-source their AI models, giving

In one of the largest cryptocurrency-related thefts in history, exchange operator Bybit disclosed over the weekend that it lost US$1.5 billion worth of ether, which comes as industry enthusiasm over recent developments starts to wane. Bybit, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, said over the weekend that hackers gained control of its ether cold

While speaking last week at a government event in Rokid’s hometown Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, founder Misa Zhu Mingming had his speech notes projected directly onto a pair of AR glasses he was wearing, instead of reading from a printed script or the prompter. He was able to flip through the virtual pages using

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek disclosed technical details about its low-cost, high-performance models, refuting allegations that it had misrepresented their costs while drawing cheers from the open-source community. The Hangzhou-based research firm also made good on a promise that it would start releasing five open-source AI infrastructure projects this week. The company released two

The Qwen team said that QwQ-Max-Preview – built on the most advanced model of the series, the Qwn 2.5-Max introduced last month – displayed stronger and more versatile reasoning and problem-solving skills. The preview model has been made available for free on the Qwen chatbot website. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Qwen’s latest