18 March 2025

China’s spending spree on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is rapidly accelerating, with China Unicom, one of the country’s “big three” state-owned telecommunications network operators, budgeting a 28 per cent increase in capital expenditures for computing power in 2025. The aggressive spending approach comes as China’s Big Tech companies have also unveiled ambitious AI investment plans. […]

A Chinese institute involved in developing lithography systems for semiconductor production has upped the ante in recruiting top researchers, as the country aims to push forward advanced chipmaking in spite of US tech sanctions. The latest recruitment drive of the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics – under the Chinese Academy of Sciences

AMD chips were compatible with DeepSeek’s AI models and Alibaba’s Qwen series, which had allowed the Chinese companies to develop their technologies faster, Su said at an AMD conference for AI personal computers in Beijing on Tuesday. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. She noted that AMD had observed consistent growth in DeepSeek’s model

Shenzhen-based Huawei promoted Noah’s Ark Lab senior researcher Wang Yunhe as leader of the AI research unit, replacing previous head Yao Jun, according to a report on Monday by Chinese tech media Leiphone, citing people familiar with the matter. The leadership change might lead to further personnel adjustments at the unit, the report said. Huawei

A Chinese text-to-video generation start-up said it has signed a deal with a US animation studio to produce an artificial intelligence (AI) generated anime series, in the latest example of Hollywood moving to embrace this fast-developing technology. Vidu, a Sora-like AI model developed by Chinese AI firm ShengShu Technology and Tsinghua University, has formed a

China’s state statistics agency has introduced a new data series on “service robots” in its monthly industrial output report, in addition to the existing “industrial robots” category, offering a clearer view of the country’s growing robotics industry. While China is already the world’s leading industrial robot market, accounting for over half of global installations, the