When President Xi Jinping brought together China’s most prominent entrepreneurs for a high-profile symposium, markets and industry observers the world over were watching. News of the symposium had garnered a great deal of attention, as such a meeting had not taken place since late 2018. In the years after that gathering, a series of seismic…
Tencent Holdings said it is testing the integration of DeepSeek’s service on Weixin, as the operator of China’s most popular super app looks to artificial intelligence (AI) to power its suite of services from social networking to e-payments and ride-hailing. In the current beta test, users can click an “AI Search” option on the search…
China’s northern port city of Tianjin has become the latest local government to adopt the Chinese artificial intelligence system DeepSeek. The Tianjin AI Computing Centre, which will host the system, is a collaboration between Hebei district and Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies launched in March 2023. It is the first facility in the wider region…
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…
But DeepSeek’s head office in Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, on Wednesday kept mum on the firm’s potential next moves, as it declined all requests from news media, including the South China Morning Post. More security personnel were deployed outside its office building on the same day, according to one of the guards on…
DeepSeek has given China’s artificial intelligence (AI) push a shot in the arm, as the country’s chip developers and cloud service providers rush to support the start-up’s increasingly popular models. Moore Threads Technology, a graphics processing unit (GPU) design company created by former Nvidia China general manager Zhang Jianzhong, said in a WeChat post on…
The sudden success of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek comes as a morale booster for the country’s researchers and tech companies, who have been tasked by Beijing to push for breakthroughs in the face of US-led curbs on the trade, industry participants and analysts said. DeepSeek’s emergence has also changed perceptions among economists and…
Li Zexiang, the Chinese professor credited with nurturing some of the country’s most valuable tech start-ups, including DJI, is embarking on a new mission to create multiple Silicon Valleys across China and drive the next wave of innovation. “For a large country like China, it can’t rely on just one company. It needs communities, and…
Deliveries of pure electric and plug-in hybrid cars across mainland China plummeted 50 per cent to 206,000 units in the first 12 days of the year compared with the same period in December, according to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). The sharp decline follows a 42 per cent surge in sales last year, making…
Chinese start-up Zhipu AI said it “strongly disagrees” with a US decision to add the company and its subsidiaries to an export blacklist, as the administration of President Joe Biden released a flurry of trade restrictions just days before he leaves office. The US Department of Commerce on Wednesday added 25 China-based companies and two…