Since the launch of the Made in China 2025 plan a decade ago to foster industrial upgrading, it has been widely depicted in the West as a state-led market distortion and doomed to fail. Yet the outcome is far from failure. State-led efforts under the 10-year plan have provided a solid foundation for advancements, especially…
Call them China’s Sputnik moments: DeepSeek. BYD and Xiaomi cars. A robot Olympics in Beijing. Huawei’s resurgence. And Labubu. Labubu did its job. The little gremlin doll made it clear that a brand being from China is no longer shorthand for cheap. Pop Mart has built trust to such an extent that company management is…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that export controls alone are not an effective strategy to curb China’s development of artificial intelligence (AI). He’s absolutely right. China’s rapid ascendancy in the global AI race is becoming increasingly evident, driven by its strategic focus on engineering, application-driven development and alignment with national policy. While the US…
China’s drive for economic self-reliance is raising the spirits and prospects of its semiconductor industry, as insiders expect more home-grown technologies after Washington revoked waivers for some foreign-owned chipmakers’ factories in China to use US technologies in their operations. The Chinese branches of South Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK Hynix, as well as Intel Semiconductor…
Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist often called the “godfather of AI” because of his revolutionary neural network models inspired by the structure of the human brain. His research brought about a paradigm shift that enabled today’s machine learning technology. He won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with John J. Hopfield of Princeton…
SenseTime has significantly narrowed its losses while achieving robust growth in its generative artificial intelligence business in the first half of 2025, as China pushes a nationwide initiative to advance the AI industry. The Hong Kong-listed company on Thursday posted revenue of 2.36 billion yuan (US$330 million) for the six months ended June 30, marking…
China’s tech industry has hailed Beijing’s latest strategy to widely apply artificial intelligence to economic and social enterprises amid hopes the move could boost market prospects for local suppliers of chips, servers and AI solutions. Beijing’s decision to implement AI in research, industry and consumption has further boosted confidence in the sector, particularly in computing…
In its latest road map for artificial intelligence, China has set targets for the adoption of AI-powered devices across various industries – aiming for over 70 per cent by 2027 and over 90 per cent by 2030. The targets, unveiled in guidelines by the State Council, China’s cabinet, on Tuesday, are part of Beijing’s “AI…
The hottest company in China right now is Cambricon Technologies, an artificial intelligence chipmaker whose stock has surged about 10-fold over the past two years, driven by expectations that it could be a serious challenger to Nvidia in the mainland market. The frenzy over Cambricon, whose stock is trading at an eye-watering trailing 12-month price-to-earnings…
The Hangzhou-based start-up’s updated model, which supports an innovative data format called UE8M0 FP8, was “ushering in a booming domestic computing power chain”, Huatai Securities analysts said in a research note on Tuesday. That architecture showed that the synergy between mainland-designed software and chips would realise significant results, according to the report. FP8, known as…