The listed requirements for a potential girlfriend laid out by an associate professor at a prestigious university in China have gone viral, with many people describing his actions as being like “selecting an imperial concubine”. Internet users have been abuzz about the criteria for a girlfriend set by a scholar surnamed Lou from the School…
The financial challenges confronting Hong Kong, such as deficits and budget cuts, have generated significant debate and anxiety in the city. However, amid these discussions, a crucial aspect appears to have been overlooked – the potential for Hong Kong to explore new avenues for growth. Though Hong Kong currently lacks a robust presence in advanced…
The financial challenges confronting Hong Kong, such as deficits and budget cuts, have generated significant debate and anxiety in the city. However, amid these discussions, a crucial aspect appears to have been overlooked – the potential for Hong Kong to explore new avenues for growth. Though Hong Kong currently lacks a robust presence in advanced…
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,…
Hangzhou, the capital of China’s southeastern Zhejiang province, is rapidly gaining recognition as a leading technology hub in the country with the rise of local start-ups known as the “Six Little Dragons”. Among the hottest of the start-ups right now is DeepSeek, which captured global attention this year for its cost-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) models….
The Hangzhou-based firm over the past several weeks released two powerful new AI models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, that were built at a fraction of the cost and computing power that major tech companies muster to build large language models (LLMs) – the technology underpinning generative AI services like ChatGPT. On social media, the AI community…
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…
Liang Wenfeng, 40, took part in the meeting where a select group of industry experts – in the fields of technology, education, science, culture, health and sports – offered Li their opinions and suggestions for a draft government work report, according to official news agency Xinhua. Hangzhou-based start-up DeepSeek last December made waves in the…
An annual gathering of the world’s top minds in artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining wider attention as it emerges as the new battleground in the competition between the US and China, according to event attendees. The six-day Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, or NeurIPS, wrapped last week in Vancouver, Canada, and attracted more than…
After more than a decade of working in the US, at the start of this year, star geometer Sun Song made the move back to China. He joined Zhejiang University’s Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics after leaving his most recent post as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Sun, who has been…