31 May 2025

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek said R1-0528, the first significant upgrade to its R1 reasoning model that debuted in January, matched the performance of top global competitors, including OpenAI and Google. In a statement released late on Thursday, DeepSeek highlighted improvements in the new model’s reasoning and creative writing capabilities, making it more adept […]

In Inner Mongolia, a convoy of haul trucks rumbles across the dusty, jagged terrain of the Yimin open-pit coal mine. It is a familiar scene in this part of northern China, home to some of the country’s biggest mineral deposits, but a closer look reveals a futuristic twist to this age-old trade: the vehicles operate

There was an elephant in the showroom at this year’s Computex Taipei tech expo. Loud speakers boomed the guttural sounds of action games loud enough to be heard across dozens of booths, where blazing white lights glinted off the thin black edges of new microprocessors on display. Some of the show’s 86,521 prospective buyers tried

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has recently become a shareholder in Tencent Holdings-backed robotics star AgiBot, as China’s robotics industry has become one of the most closely watched sectors this year among investors and tech giants. AgiBot, also known as Zhiyuan Robotics, was established in 2023 by a founding team that included Huawei Technologies veterans and