26 March 2025

SiCarrier, a Chinese semiconductor equipment maker with ties to Huawei Technologies, stole the show at a three-day industry event in Shanghai on Wednesday with the debut of new chipmaking tools that could bolster the country’s push for self-reliance in the face of US export controls. Four years after its founding, with backing from the Shenzhen […]

Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai raised “philosophical” questions on Wednesday to young entrepreneurs about whether machines could ever surpass human intelligence and cast doubt on the necessity of humanoid robots. Speaking at the grand finale of Jumpstarter in Hong Kong, an event organised by the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund designed to promote fresh start-up ideas,

Chinese artificial intelligence organisation, the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), said the US government’s decision to add it to a trade blacklist was a “mistake”, and demanded Washington revoke the decision. BAAI, known as Zhiyuan Institute in Chinese, was added to an expanded Entity List by the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and

Provincial governor Liu Jie attended a signing ceremony in Hangzhou on Tuesday, along with Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai and Ant chairman Eric Jing Xiandong, according to a statement from the Zhejiang government. Lu Shan, deputy provincial governor, also signed separate agreements with Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu Yongming and Ant CEO Han Xinyi. Alibaba and Ant

Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, is able to train large language models (LLMs) using locally produced graphics processing units (GPUs), reducing reliance on Nvidia’s advanced chips and cutting training costs by 20 per cent, according to a research paper and media reports. Ant’s Ling team, responsible for LLM development, revealed that

OpenAI is making it easier to edit images in ChatGPT and create visuals for work that include lengthy, legible text, potentially broadening the chatbot’s appeal for businesses and everyday users. During a live-streamed event on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based company showed how ChatGPT users would be able to refine images by having a series of