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Shenzhen-based Tencent, which runs the world’s largest video-gaming business by revenue and China’s biggest social-media network, made the new model widely available on Thursday through online developer platforms like GitHub and HuggingFace. Users can also add lip-synched voice to their videos as well as background sound effects, according to Tencent. In a demonstration video released […]

US President Donald Trump’s creation of a cryptocurrency reserve shortly before headlining a White House summit on the popular digital asset will get global attention if the reserve grows big enough to affect trading or market prices, but China already has safeguards against any potential impact, analysts said. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order

Chinese internet and video-gaming giant NetEase is shutting down one of its public cloud computing services amid intense competition in a crowded market. The Hangzhou-based company on Friday informed its corporate clients that its public cloud service would be taken offline on April 7, citing a “business strategy adjustment”. Clients with unused credits in their

04:38 Top chef in Hong Kong joins hands with local food tech pioneers to make dining sustainable Top chef in Hong Kong joins hands with local food tech pioneers to make dining sustainable Today’s advanced food production methods allow people to access a larger variety of produce from around the world, but this has also

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm iFlyTek was planning to expand its European business as trade tensions rise between the United States and China, vice-president Vincent Zhan said. “The US and China trade war has some impact for us,” Zhan said in an interview on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week,

US President Donald Trump said he would “probably” extend the deadline for the sale for Chinese-owned social video app TikTok if a deal is not reached by April 5. Trump said Thursday there was “a lot of interest” in TikTok and that “right now we have at least another month, so we don’t need an

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com saw its December-quarter profit nearly triple from a year earlier on the back of increased consumer spending in the world’s second-largest economy. The Beijing-based company on Thursday reported a better-than-expected profit of 9.9 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion) in the fourth quarter, up from 3.4 billion yuan in the year-earlier period. Revenue

ASML Holding, the world’s top supplier of advanced chipmaking equipment caught in the US-China tech rivalry, will build a “reuse and repair” centre in Beijing this year, showing its commitment to the world’s second-largest economy despite pressure from Washington. The Dutch firm, which has been unable to sell its extreme ultraviolet lithography systems to its

Shenzhen has received a boost to its role in manufacturing humanoid robots after Unitree Robotics set up a new venture to leverage the supply chain and supportive policies of the southern tech hub. Unitree, the country’s hottest robot maker and one of the so-called six Little Dragons based in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou,

Following the launch of its QwQ-32B model, Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares surged 7.2 per cent to HK$139.30 in Thursday morning trading. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Despite its relatively modest 32 billion parameters, Alibaba’s new model matched or outperformed DeepSeek’s R1, which boasts 671 billion parameters, in areas such as mathematics, coding and