2 April 2025

Known as a leading scholar in AI and robotics, Luo will spearhead the establishment of the Zhiyuan Embodied Intelligence Research Centre as the newly appointed chief scientist of AgiBot, a start-up co-founded in 2023 by former Huawei Technologies “Genius Youth” recruit Peng Zhihui. Luo has closely collaborated with renowned computer scientist Sergey Levine, a co-founder […]

Amazon.com has put in a last-minute offer to buy all of short-form video app TikTok, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing three people familiar with the bid. US President Donald Trump will consider on Wednesday a final proposal related to TikTok ahead of an April 5 deadline for the app to find a

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing unit of the Hangzhou-based tech giant, plans to launch its Qwen3 LLM this month, according to people familiar with the matter. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. The upgraded model is expected to come in multiple variants, including a standard version and a Qwen3-MoE, which uses a mixture-of-experts architecture,

The accident that killed three people in east China’s Anhui province on Saturday has prompted the company to investigate the crash and review its driver-assistant technology, as CEO Lei Jun said Xiaomi would not dodge its responsibility. The country’s leading smartphone maker launched the hit SU7, its first car, last year. Analysts said the tragedy

Meta Platforms head of artificial intelligence research (AI) plans to leave the company, creating a high-level vacancy just as Meta seeks to invest and compete aggressively in AI. Joelle Pineau, the vice-president leading Meta’s Fundamental AI Research group, known as Fair, announced her departure on Tuesday. Pineau has been at the company for eight years,

ByteDance-owned Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, has moved to address the public’s concerns over the domestic short video platform’s powerful recommendation system. Algorithms essentially serve as “a mathematical modelling process” to establish “correlations between user behaviour and content features, rather than understanding the content itself”, according to the website. It said algorithms track users’