Why new model of China’s Moonshot AI stirs ‘DeepSeek moment’ debate

Why new model of China’s Moonshot AI stirs ‘DeepSeek moment’ debate

Beijing-based Moonshot AI, a start-up valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by Chinese tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, has presented another David-vs-Goliath story after creating an open-source model that “set new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities”. The new reasoning model, Kimi K2 Thinking, was the most…

Read More
China’s Honor teases ‘Robot Phone’, a new AI handset with gimbal-attached camera

China’s Honor teases ‘Robot Phone’, a new AI handset with gimbal-attached camera

The “Robot Phone” was unveiled by Honor online in a promotional video that showed the gimbal-stabilised camera unfurl from the back camera module and appear to pivot while tracking its subject’s movement. Honor described the unique smartphone as a “revolutionary AI device that fuses multi-modal intelligence, advanced robotics and next-generation imaging”. The Shenzhen-based company, which…

Read More
Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupts iPhone production, cross-border e-commerce in southern China

Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupts iPhone production, cross-border e-commerce in southern China

Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupted production of Apple’s iPhones in Shenzhen and crucial pre-holiday shipments by cross-border e-commerce merchants, as the year’s strongest storm barrelled towards southern China with heavy rain and hurricane-force winds. The world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer, Foxconn Technology Group, on Tuesday suspended assembly work at its Shenzhen unit – the innovative Product…

Read More