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Alibaba launches new AI model targeting rival DeepSeek, China’s hottest start-up

In a statement posted on WeChat, the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing and AI arm Alibaba Cloud said its new Qwen…

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Dancing kings: Unitree humanoid robots, backed by Alibaba tech, delight Spring Gala show

Chinese robotics company Unitree, backed by Alibaba Cloud technology, showed off the dancing skills of its general-purpose H1 humanoid robots…

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China’s DeepSeek shocked the tech world. Can its home province do it again?

As China’s DeepSeek – a relatively recent entrant in a crowded field of companies producing artificial intelligence (AI) models –…

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Explainer | How tech start-up DeepSeek emerged as the unlikely game changer in US-China AI war

The Hangzhou-based firm over the past several weeks released two powerful new AI models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, that were built…

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Explainer | What DeepSeek’s success means for Nvidia and costly GPU-driven AI growth

The first major casualty of the success of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has turned out to be Nvidia,…

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China’s most popular AI app gets facelift with ByteDance’s Doubao 1.5

TikTok parent ByteDance has launched an updated version of Doubao, China’s most popular consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) app, as the…

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Beijing meeting puts spotlight on China’s new face of AI, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng

Liang Wenfeng, 40, took part in the meeting where a select group of industry experts – in the fields of…

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Chinese AI start-up MiniMax releases low-cost open-source models that rival top chatbots

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up MiniMax has launched a new series of open-source models, intensifying the competition among mainland technology…

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AI set to reshape the world, Alibaba founder Jack Ma tells Chinese rural teachers

In a video speech posted on the social-media account of his eponymous foundation to mark the 10th anniversary of a…

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Meet DeepSeek: the Chinese start-up that is changing how AI models are trained

Chinese start-up DeepSeek has emerged as “the biggest dark horse” in the open-source large language model (LLM) arena in 2025,…

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