China’s top universities are aggressively recruiting Chinese undergraduates abroad to skip traditional academic pathways and enrol directly into PhD programmes – as the US tightens funding for graduate studies and geopolitical tensions grow. It is a move that analysts have said reflects Beijing’s push to lure young academics from the United States. Fudan University, a…
DeepSeek’s AI leap is a milestone innovation breakthrough for China but it does not change the overall leading position of the United States in the field of artificial intelligence, a prominent adviser to Beijing said. While the rise of DeepSeek has “naturally spawned a wave of strong nationalist sentiment”, Beijing should be sober that it…
Chinese scientists have been working on new technologies to make stronger and more durable bamboo-based materials for large-scale infrastructure, reinforcing the country’s position as a leader in the emerging eco-friendly industry. Bamboo, which is known for its rapid growth and high strength, was engineered into composite panels used on the scenic platforms that stretch for…
Chinese start-up Manycore Tech, operator of the world’s largest spatial design platform, has applied for an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong, three years after its attempt to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange lapsed. Manycore’s IPO filing, jointly sponsored by JPMorgan and CCB International, did not provide the amount it intends to raise…
While artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek surprised the world with its latest low-cost reasoning model – dubbed R1 – the revelation reignited overseas interest in Chinese tech and capital market investments while raising expectations that a subsequent surge in AI-fuelled productivity will serve to elevate the national economy. From analysts to economists, many point to…
OpenAI is keen to collaborate with China, according to chief executive Sam Altman, in a 180-degree turn for the company nearly eight months after tightening measures that barred the mainland and other “unsupported countries and territories” from accessing ChatGPT and its other artificial intelligence (AI) services. “We’d like to work with China,” Altman told Sky…
China’s venture capital (VC) firms have been sidelined in the frenzy surrounding DeepSeek, with none of them known to have invested in the open-source large AI model developer. Baidu Venture, an independent AI-focused investment arm initiated by its namesake Chinese internet giant, did not invest in DeepSeek even though the venture company sits just one…
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has continued to send ripples through the industry globally, while many questions remain surrounding the firm’s high-performance models developed at a fraction of the cost of their peers in the US. In a China Future Tech webinar on Monday hosted by SCMP Plus, South China Morning Post technology editor…
Hangzhou, the capital of China’s southeastern Zhejiang province, is rapidly gaining recognition as a leading technology hub in the country with the rise of local start-ups known as the “Six Little Dragons”. Among the hottest of the start-ups right now is DeepSeek, which captured global attention this year for its cost-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) models….
China’s three major telecoms operators have rushed to integrate DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) models into their services, as firms across the country jump on the bandwagon of the country’s hottest tech start-up. In a bid to “promote the universal application of latest AI technologies”, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom have integrated DeepSeek’s models…