Alibaba’s Quark surpasses ByteDance’s Doubao, DeepSeek as China’s top AI app

Alibaba’s Quark surpasses ByteDance’s Doubao, DeepSeek as China’s top AI app

Alibaba Group Holding’s revamped artificial intelligence (AI) assistant app, Quark, which offers a user-friendly interface, has surpassed ByteDance’s Doubao to become China’s most popular AI app in March, showing its appeal among local users. Quark ranked at the top among Chinese AI apps with nearly 150 million monthly active users (MAUs) worldwide, followed by ByteDance’s…

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Chinese Firms Ordered $16 Billion in Nvidia Chips in Q1

Chinese Firms Ordered $16 Billion in Nvidia Chips in Q1

More than $16 billion in orders for Nvidia’s (NVDA, Financials) H20 server chips have been placed by Chinese firms during the first quarter of 2025, according to a report by The Information citing individuals familiar with the matter. The buyers include some of China’s most prominent technology companies: ByteDance, Alibaba Group (BABA, Financials), and Tencent…

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Tencent heats up AI video-generation competition in China with new open-source product

Tencent heats up AI video-generation competition in China with new open-source product

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…

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