16 March 2025

An artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has displaced DeepSeek as the most downloaded free app in China’s iOS App Store. Tencent’s Yuanbao took the No 1 spot in the free app list on Monday, with DeepSeek in second place and ByteDance’s Doubao in fourth, behind the country’s official taxation […]

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was negotiating with four different possible buyers for TikTok’s operations in America and that a deal for the social video app could come “soon”. “We’re dealing with four different groups, and a lot of people want it,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. He

In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Alibaba.com president Zhang Kuo discusses the next big shift in global trade: AI. Source link

A new artificial intelligence (AI) framework developed by teams associated with China’s Tsinghua University is said to be able to reduce reliance on Nvidia chips for AI model inference, marking the latest effort by the country to enhance technological self-sufficiency. Chitu, a high-performance inference framework for large language models (LLMs), can operate on chips made

Chinese technology giant Baidu released two new artificial intelligence (AI) models that it touted as stronger than those of DeepSeek and OpenAI based on certain benchmarks, as the large language model (LLM) competition continues to heat up. Baidu made its latest multimodal foundational model Ernie 4.5 and its first multimodal reasoning model Ernie X1 freely

Chinese drug maker Akeso, whose new cancer drug has outperformed a leading Western peer in clinical studies, is being hailed as the “DeepSeek moment” for China’s drug industry, as biotech emerges as a new front in the escalating US-China tech war. Akeso’s new immunotherapy drug targeting non-small cell lung cancer, called ivonescimab, allowed half of