OpenAI said its analysts found that Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Zhipu AI had made “notable progress” in providing infrastructure solutions to governments and state-owned firms in non-Western markets, as Beijing seeks to strengthen its global leadership in the rapidly evolving technology. In a post on Wednesday, the ChatGPT maker, which has previously urged Washington…
That would represent as much as a 48 per cent overall growth this year for China’s AI capex from 2024, BofA Securities’ co-head of China equity research Matty Zhao, who also heads Asia-Pacific basic materials, oil and gas research at BofA Global Research, said in an interview on Monday. Government investment is expected to account…
Mainland Chinese companies will use Hong Kong’s capital market as the launch pad for their global growth, according to an action plan signed on Wednesday with Shanghai to connect the premier onshore commercial city with the nation’s offshore financial hub. The two cities will expand the decade-old connect programme linking the stock markets of Shanghai…
Mainland Chinese companies will use Hong Kong’s capital market as the launch pad for their global growth, according to an action plan signed on Wednesday with Shanghai to connect the premier onshore commercial city with the nation’s offshore financial hub. The two cities will expand the decade-old connect programme linking the stock markets of Shanghai…
Hong Kong and Shanghai will sign a deal to increase collaboration in the financial sphere at the Lujiazui Forum on Wednesday, as the cities strengthen links to better withstand the implications of geopolitical tensions. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po will be present for the signing of an action plan for collaborative development between the two…
Chinese short video platform Douyin now counts about 40 per cent of Hong Kong’s 7.5 million residents as users, about five years after social media giant ByteDance suspended the operation of hit global app TikTok in the city. The number of monthly active users (MAUs) of Douyin in Hong Kong has already surpassed 3 million,…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has stepped into the financial market again to rein back the local currency, which had been pushed above its trading band against the US dollar amid the recent influx of capital in the city’s bourse. In its first market intervention in two years, the city’s de facto central bank…
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…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s surprise visit to Beijing to meet top Chinese officials this week was meant to convey the US chip giant’s commitment to China amid Washington’s tighter restrictions on semiconductor exports, analysts said. According to the official Xinhua news agency, Huang met He Lifeng, the Chinese vice-premier in charge of US-China trade talks,…