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China’s DeepSeek that wiped billions from US stock market in January 2025, sends New Year’s message to American companies

1 week ago05 mins

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek unveiled a groundbreaking training method, “Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections,” potentially slashing AI development costs. This innovation challenges the notion that advanced AI necessitates massive computing power, following their previous success with the R1 model. The breakthrough intensifies industry debates on scaling AI, with expectations high for DeepSeek’s next model release. Chinese AI startup…

Hong Kong world’s No 1 fundraising venue with US$35.4 billion from 106 listings: HKEX

3 weeks ago02 mins

Funds raised in Hong Kong reached nearly HK$275 billion (US$35.4 billion) from 106 initial public offerings (IPO) as of December 12, helping the city become the world’s top listing venue, the stock exchange operator said in a year-end review. “2025 has been a year of momentum – global investors returned with conviction, and innovation from…

DeepSeek’s game-changing rise, China’s robot boot camps: 7 AI 2025 breakthroughs

3 weeks ago02 mins

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest stories about AI developments in China this year. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough could alter China’s ‘national fate’ in US tech war DeepSeek, extolled by some as the “biggest dark horse” in the open-source large language…

Exclusive | Hong Kong to see more debt restructuring amid weak economy, says ‘King of Liquidation’

4 weeks ago02 mins

Hong Kong and mainland China are set to see more corporate restructuring and liquidation in commercial real estate, restaurants and retail shops in 2026 due to the weak economy and changes in consumer behaviour, according to veteran liquidator Derek Lai Kar-yan. The challenging economic environment, however, provides opportunities for experts like Lai, 60, who is…

HPC News Bytes 20251215: On-Off-On GPU Exports to China, the US-China Power Gap, Pocket-Sized HPC, Regulating AI

4 weeks ago01 mins

https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HPCNB_20251215.mp3 Warmest December greetings! AI technology and its correlated impacts splashed around the world last week, here’s a fast (10:52) review of new developments, including: – Nvidia H200 exports to China – H20, H200 and Chinese AI chips: how do they stack up? – Few fast GPUs vs. many slow GPUs – China’s power…

China’s AI sector poised for growth despite US tech restrictions, venture capitalist says

4 weeks ago02 mins

China’s artificial intelligence still needs to improve in six aspects, from ecosystem to funding, but the emergence of DeepSeek has significantly boosted the sector’s confidence in overcoming US restrictions, according to a mainland venture capital firm. China and the US were the two top players in global AI development, with the former leading in humanoid…

Nvidia says China’s DeepSeek is not using its Blackwell chips: ‘We pursue any…’

1 month ago03 mins

Nvidia’s data focused on what are known as mixture-of-expert AI models. Nvidia has refuted a report which claimed that the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek is utilising smuggled Blackwell chips to develop its upcoming AI model. DeepSeek drew attention in January this year when it launched the R1 AI model which, the company claimed,…

China’s DeepSeek Uses Banned Nvidia Chips for AI Model, Report Says

1 month ago03 mins

(Bloomberg) — Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has relied on Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) chips that are banned in the country to develop an upcoming AI model, according to a new report in The Information. Nvidia’s Blackwell chips were smuggled into China through countries that permitted their sale, The Information reported, citing unnamed sources. More specifically,…

Opinion | Why Hong Kong universities are heading north for mainland Chinese collaborations

1 month ago03 mins

Last month, the first university jointly established by Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU), celebrated its 20th birthday. When the mainland opened up its education sector in 2003 with its new Regulations on Sino-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools, Baptist University was the only Hong Kong university that took the…

Moonshot and MiniMax step up as China’s new frontier AI labs

1 month ago07 mins

Chinese artificial intelligence start-ups Moonshot AI and MiniMax have emerged as China’s strongest contenders to rival US frontier labs in 2025 – even as DeepSeek has stolen the spotlight as the poster child for the country’s AI ambitions. Moonshot AI, founded by 33-year-old Yang Zhilin, has sharply raised its profile in China’s AI ecosystem with…