7 May 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has acknowledged the significant role that a technical solution from Tencent Holdings played in addressing a persistent issue in its system, highlighting the local open-source community’s contribution to China’s AI advances. DeepEP, a code library for inter-chip communications, attained a “huge speed boost” by using a technical solution from Tencent’s […]

Deliveries by Tesla’s Shanghai factory plunged in April, reversing a short-lived turnaround a month earlier, in the latest sign of the US carmaker’s grim situation in the world’s largest electric-vehicle (EV) market. The company’s Gigafactory 3 handed 58,459 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles to customers in mainland China and abroad last month, representing a

Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia’s closest rival in artificial intelligence (AI) processors, said that US restrictions on sales to China will cost US$1.5 billion in revenue this year, a warning that clouded an otherwise upbeat outlook. The guidance stems from an export restriction imposed in April that targeted AMD’s MI308 chips, the company said during an

Chinese robotaxi company Pony.ai is teaming up with US ride-sharing services provider Uber Technologies to launch driverless taxis in the Middle East later this year, as the auto industry’s push for autonomous driving gains momentum. The two companies will first deploy Pony.ai’s robotaxis on Uber’s platform in a key market in the region, according to