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…
China’s Nvidia challengers Moore Threads and MetaX are set for their hotly anticipated market debuts, driven by investor excitement over domestic demand for home-grown graphics processing units (GPUs) amid Beijing’s tech self-sufficiency drive. Moore Threads opened a subscription lottery last week at 114.28 yuan per share, the highest pricing among A-share listings this year, and…
The mouthpiece of China’s ruling Communist Party has urged the nation to break through technological “choke points” and avoid becoming “subordinate to other nations” in a series spotlighting the country’s achievements in hi-tech industries. The series of editorials comes as Beijing prepares to outline its next five-year plan and amid a renewed escalation in trade…
US-sanctioned Huawei’s disclosure “is educating the market about what’s ahead”, while signalling that the Shenzhen-based company “can match Nvidia’s multi-year road map”, said Kevin Xu, founder of US-based investment firm Interconnected Capital. Huawei deputy chairman Eric Xu Zhijun, who serves as the privately held company’s rotating chairman from April to September, unveiled the plans to…
The Hangzhou-based start-up’s cryptic one-line post on WeChat triggered online discussions about which AI chip supplier, or suppliers, would unveil this breakthrough, even as US tech restrictions remain in place. DeepSeek’s post on Thursday said the “UE8M0 FP8 scale” of its V3.1 AI model was particularly designed “for home-grown chips to be released soon”. Apart…