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…
Guangdong will further strengthen its manufacturing and industrial base and make it more “modern” to maintain its decades-long status as China’s economic powerhouse, according to the top official in the country’s richest province. The southern province will “adhere to the principle of making the real economy our foundation, and manufacturing our mainstay”, Guangdong party secretary…
Before Chinese AI startup DeepSeek sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street earlier this year, China’s artificial intelligence industry was already buzzing with homegrown AI models seemingly on par with those developed by the West. Major Chinese tech firms such as Tencent and Alibaba have been building their own AI models while backing AI…
For years, Shenzhen has been synonymous with Chinese innovation. The southern megacity – and the firms it has spawned over the decades – have become the indisputable champions of the country’s drive for technological self-reliance, as well as its struggle against containment efforts led by the US. But as the tech race expands from chips,…
CLN KraneShares Key News Asian equities were largely lower despite a weaker U.S. dollar overnight, as Japan outperformed and India underperformed. Hong Kong-listed growth stocks were hit with profit-taking, triggered by President Donald Trump’s last Friday night release stating “The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) will be used to restrict Chinese…
Shenzhen – often hailed as China’s Silicon Valley – has pledged to ramp up its investments in talent development with a particular focus on humanoid robotics, part of a growing global competition in tech that will see robots and artificial intelligence (AI) as major battlegrounds. The southern metropolis is gearing up to implement a “comprehensive…
CLN KraneShares Baidu Q4 Earnings Overview Baidu reported Q4 2024 financial results after the close in Hong Kong and before US markets opened this morning. Expectations going into the release were muted, especially following Founder and CEO Robin Li’s absence from President Xi’s historic private economy symposium attended by internet and technology entrepreneurs. In Li’s…
BEIJING, – Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed more than a dozen founders and chief executives from some of China’s largest companies on Monday, in a bid to boost private sector sentiment. Chinese firms and their founders at Xi’s symposium Here are details of some of the firms, and their heads, in attendance: ALIBABA – JACK…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Shares of Tencent were set to open up 6.6% on Monday after the company said its Weixin messaging app has launched beta testing with Deepseek as firms race to link up with China’s rising artificial intelligence start-up. Tencent shares were set to open at HK$506, their highest since July 2021. The…
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