Home > Investment > China’s GenAI debut realigning the tech investment universe The launch of China’s home-grown large language model (LLM) DeepSeek earlier this year carries “significant implications” for investors, shifting the centre of gravity for the technology’s future development beyond the US. Anton du Plooy, global technology sector analyst at Anglo-South African asset management…
Shenzhen-based Tencent, which runs the world’s largest video-gaming business by revenue and China’s biggest social-media network, made the new model widely available on Thursday through online developer platforms like GitHub and HuggingFace. Users can also add lip-synched voice to their videos as well as background sound effects, according to Tencent. In a demonstration video released…
According to a report on Thursday by state-owned investment bank China International Capital Corp (CICC), about 5 per cent of the country’s AI server demand will be generated from industries that produce sensitive information including government, finance, public services and healthcare. These sectors are expected to adopt the DeepSeek-powered AI machines, lifting total 2025 sales…
An innovation competition co-organised by China’s fintech giant Ant Group and renowned universities including the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is featuring robotics for the first time, a reflection of rising interest in the technology. The ATEC Championship 2025, hosted by the industry-university-research collaboration platform Advanced Technology Exploration Community (ATEC), has adopted the theme…
WMDoll, one of China’s biggest sex doll makers, expects to record a 30 per cent jump in sales this year, as the company’s adoption of open-source generative artificial intelligence (AI) models helped improve the user experience of its products. Feedback received by WMDoll has been generally good after integrating large language models (LLMs) – the…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Alibaba’s announcement this week that it will partner with Apple to support iPhones’ artificial intelligence services offering in China has again thrust the spotlight on the country’s AI industry on the heels of DeepSeek. Following are some of the prominent AI services and their developers to watch in China. DOUBAO Developed by…
China’s DeepSeek has reshaped the pathways to hi-tech breakthroughs and shown how talent and software integration can be more powerful than scale, money or a “copycat” approach, according to observers. The meteoric arrival of DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) model also highlighted the need for US-China cooperation on innovation, despite Washington’s “small yard, high fence” policy…
The Hangzhou-based company sent shock waves across Wall Street and Silicon Valley for developing AI models at a fraction of the cost compared with OpenAI and Meta Platforms, which prompted US President Donald Trump to call the breakthrough a “wake-up call” and “positive” for America’s tech sector. At home, Chinese tech executives and various commentators…
Perplexity releases an assistant for Android phones. OpenAI’s Operator AI agent can “go to the web to perform tasks for you”. Meta’s AI ambitions include a massive data center. Google Gemini now understands your smart home. These artificial intelligence (AI) developments in recent days, would have been significant in isolation and as a collective. Except…
Liang Wenfeng, 40, took part in the meeting where a select group of industry experts – in the fields of technology, education, science, culture, health and sports – offered Li their opinions and suggestions for a draft government work report, according to official news agency Xinhua. Hangzhou-based start-up DeepSeek last December made waves in the…