Hangzhou-based Alibaba’s cloud computing unit on Tuesday unveiled its much-anticipated Qwen3 family, consisting of eight enhanced models that range from 600 million to 235 billion parameters. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. In machine learning, parameters are the variables present in an AI system during training, which helps establish how data prompts yield the…
Hangzhou-based Alibaba’s cloud computing unit on Tuesday unveiled its much-anticipated Qwen3 family, consisting of eight enhanced models that range from 600 million to 235 billion parameters. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. In machine learning, parameters are the variables present in an AI system during training, which helps establish how data prompts yield the…
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing unit of the Hangzhou-based tech giant, plans to launch its Qwen3 LLM this month, according to people familiar with the matter. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. The upgraded model is expected to come in multiple variants, including a standard version and a Qwen3-MoE, which uses a mixture-of-experts architecture,…
The Hong Kong government’s investment arm will unveil a partnership with a company specialising in open-source RISC-V chip technology on Friday and later host a joint summit. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Sunday the partnership to be announced by the government-owned Hong Kong Investment Corporation would help accelerate the development of related industries…
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…
Hong Kong is betting on the RISC-V open-source chip architecture to drive innovation and secure a position in China’s semiconductor landscape amid escalating US chip restrictions. The city, which is planning to host the International Young Scientist Forum on Artificial Intelligence, is promoting research in AI and open-source technology, particularly RISC-V, Finance Secretary Paul Chan…
There is immense power in being in control of your own data. As ownership and governance of apps and online services consolidate, it’s understandable if you want to consider your options when it comes to where you store your private data and records of your everyday activities. Fortunately, not every service out there is trying…
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…
With little-known Chinese start-up DeepSeek sending shock waves through the global AI industry, it is time for Beijing to overhaul regulations in the tech sector to boost innovation and retain more talent as its rivalry with the United States grows, according to experts. Policymakers should place more emphasis on the institutional conditions that incentivise tech…