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…
Cao Ting, a leading artificial intelligence researcher and former research manager at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), has left the US tech giant to join Tsinghua University, as AI becomes a new front in the US-China tech rivalry. According to the university’s website, Cao left MSRA in July to join Tsinghua’s Institute for AI Industry Research…
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek said that China will soon have home-grown “next generation” chips for AI stacking, fanning speculation over breakthroughs China may have achieved. In a one-line note on its official WeChat account explaining the “UE8M0 FP8 scale” of its newly released model V3.1, the Hangzhou-based firm said that the model was particularly…
China is requiring its data centres to use more home-grown computing chips in a move that underscores Beijing’s accelerated efforts to cut reliance on foreign technology as the US tightens export controls. Publicly owned computing hubs across the country have been asked to source more than 50 per cent of their chips from domestic producers…
Chinese officials have summoned domestic companies, including major tech firms Tencent and ByteDance, over their purchases of Nvidia’s H20 chips, demanding explanations and expressing concerns about information risks. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and other agencies have also held meetings in recent weeks with Baidu and smaller Chinese tech companies. According to sources speaking…
According to his post on Chinese microblogging site Weibo, Changan chairman Zhu Huarong said he visited Ren, 80, at Huawei’s headquarters in Shenzhen last Friday to discuss the state of development and competition in China’s electric vehicle (EV) industry. While Zhu did not provide details of their discussion, he praised the “wisdom” shared and “passion”…
Huawei Technologies is set to unveil a technological breakthrough that could reduce China’s reliance on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips for running artificial intelligence reasoning models, according to state-run Securities Times. The announcement will take place in collaboration with China UnionPay at the 2025 Financial AI Reasoning Application Landing and Development Forum in Shanghai on Tuesday,…
US president Donald Trump and China president Xi Jinping. Beijing warns that U.S. export controls hinder Chinese companies like Huawei from developing their own AI chips. China is seeking U.S. relief on export controls for chips vital to artificial intelligence as part of a trade deal ahead of a possible summit between Presidents Donald Trump…
Rare earths are needed for everything from consumer electronics to electric vehicles, wind turbines and fighter jets – and China controls the supply chain. In the third of a four-part series, we look at how Beijing’s dominance in the critical minerals is matching up to Washington’s lead in artificial intelligence, as well as how they…
If you’re a fan of the best folding phones like me, you’ll know it’s been a breakout year for the category. The new Galaxy Z Fold 7 caps a year of multiple releases that have all vied to solve the common complaints with previous folding phones and prove that they can be just as comfortable…