Alibaba Group Holding has revamped its web-search and cloud-storage tool Quark into a super artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, signalling the tech giant’s efforts to strengthen its foothold in the emerging field of AI agents. The new version of Quark is powered by Alibaba’s Qwen series reasoning model. It offers advanced capabilities such as a chatbot,…
President Xi Jinping’s high-profile meeting with technology business leaders last month significantly enhanced the confidence of Chinese companies, prompting Alibaba Group Holding to make substantial investments in artificial intelligence (AI), according to company chairman and co-founder Joe Tsai during a conference in Singapore. “I wouldn’t underestimate the importance of that event,” Tsai said on Wednesday…
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…
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…
Chinese PLA soldiers practice with FPV drones Clash Report Via Twitter China’s release of the DeepSeek chatbot has sent shockwaves through the U.S. stock market and beyond. The makers claim that the underlying DeepSeek-V3 model was trained for around $6m, a tiny fraction of the cost of rival U.S. systems, and with a tiny fraction…
The rise of little-known Chinese tech start-up DeepSeek has exposed weaknesses in America’s “small yard, high fence” strategy to contain China’s technological progress, according to experts. The company’s success has also signalled an intensifying competition between the US and China to win over the brightest AI minds, they said, while noting that China may still…
AI innovation and sustainability dominate 2025’s smartphone trends, with LLM-powered assistants and … [+] eco-friendly designs leading the way. Adobe Stock As in just about every other field of technology, AI will undoubtedly continue to be the key driver of innovation throughout 2025. Increasingly, it will also become the channel through which handset manufacturers will…