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The number of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) users in China reached 230 million at the end of June, as a crop of start-ups and Big Tech firms rushed to offer their large language model (LLM) services, according to government data. That means around one in every six users in the world’s biggest internet market are […]

The platform developed by Tairex, a company set up in September under the university’s Institute for Al Industry Research (AIR), features 42 AI doctors covering 21 departments that include emergency, respiratory, paediatrics and cardiology, according to an AIR blog post published last month. Public tests of the platform, named Agent Hospital, will be conducted in

China has fostered 14,600 small, privately owned companies as drivers for top strategic industries, exceeding a 2025 goal and levelling up tech competition with the United States. The tally of enterprises the government calls “little giants” includes 5,000 enterprises working in new technology, including artificial intelligence (AI) and the low-altitude economy characterised by commercial drones,

Chinese technology companies are rushing to unveil reasoning models – advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models designed to take more time to “think and reflect” before generating responses – as they move to narrow China’s gap with the US in the field. Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding, was the latest to

Computer chip equipment maker ASML said it does not expect new US restrictions on semiconductor exports to China, announced on Monday, to affect its most recent financial guidance. Separately, the Dutch government said it shares US security concerns on the export of advanced semiconductor making tools, and it is studying the latest US rules. In

Emerging smart digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), fifth-generation mobile communications technology (5G) and cloud computing are rapidly changing our world and the ways in which we live, communicate and work. As firms embrace the fourth industrial revolution – the continuing enhancement of traditional manufacturing practices through the use of data, interconnectivity, analytics and

Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger has been forced out less than four years after taking the helm of the company, handing control to two lieutenants as the faltering American chipmaking icon searches for a permanent replacement. Gelsinger, who resigned on December 1, left after a board meeting last week during which directors felt his costly

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos joined Samsung in a US$700 million bet on Tenstorrent, valuing the AI chip start-up with ambitions of taking on Nvidia at about US$2.6 billion. Tenstorrent, which hopes to create a chip to try and break Nvidia’s stranglehold on the AI business, raised capital in a funding round led by South Korea’s

Chinese semiconductor companies newly added to a US trade blacklist said the business impact of Washington’s latest sanctions will be manageable, according to corporate filings. Beijing-based chip design tool developer Empyrean Technology, one of the 140 Chinese organisations added this week to the so-called Entity List compiled by the US Commerce Department, said the impact

China needs to boost investment in a new generation of clean energy technology including storage, hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel, according to executives speaking at the BloombergNEF Summit in Shanghai. Huge funding for renewables and electric vehicles has already put the country on the cusp of peaking emissions, years before its own 2030 target. But