2 March 2025

The government-owned Hong Kong Investment Corporation (HKIC), which manages HK$62 billion (US$8 billion) of funds, plans to debut a conference for young emerging artificial intelligence (AI) scientists, as the city strives to become a bridge between China and the world amid growing Sino-US technology rivalry. HKIC on Wednesday said it was organising an International Young

OpenAI is rolling out an early version of a long-awaited new artificial intelligence (AI) model called GPT-4.5 to select users after hitting stumbling blocks in developing the AI system last year. In a blog post on Thursday, the San Francisco-based AI start-up said GPT-4.5 was better at picking up on and responding to subtle cues

Chinese tech start-up DeepSeek concluded its daily technical project in “Open Source Week” with a bold claim: its online inference services generated an extraordinary 545 per cent profit margin during a 24-hour run, thanks to advanced technological optimisations. DeepSeek reported an average node occupancy of 226.75 across its V3 and R1 inference models from noon

China’s rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping the dynamics of global technology and one of the most consequential shifts is taking place beyond the traditional AI power centres of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. China’s AI influence is expanding across the Global South, from Africa to Latin America and Southeast Asia. With affordable AI-powered

On a recent Thursday afternoon, around five or six young people were busily preparing for an evening event at a street-side restaurant in Hangzhou, capital of China’s eastern Zhejiang province, celebrating the major renovation of the steamed bun eatery that had opened eight months earlier. The Ummy Mummy bun restaurant stands out from traditional establishments