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SCMP TechAsiaWhy Chinese AI stars like Z.ai, MiniMax struggle to match Anthropic’s profit margin US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic’s initial public offering prospectus has exposed a vast profitability gap between it and rivals Z.ai and MiniMax, highlighting the challenges facing China’s…
SCMP TechAsiaAlibaba’s Joe Tsai champions open-source AI at Wuzhen Summit amid US pushback Open source is the only viable path to creating a sustainable artificial intelligence industry, Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai said on Tuesday, as the Chinese technology giant doubles down…
SCMP TechAsiaSCMP Plus’ fireside chat about AI with Professor Alan Macfarlane Alan Macfarlane, a British anthropologist, historian and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge, known as “Grandpa Cute” in China, answered questions at an SCMP Plus exclusive in-person…
SCMP TechAsiaChina’s ‘Lipstick King’ hawks tokens as AI gets mass-market Singles’ Day push China’s “Lipstick King” has traded make-up swatches for artificial intelligence. Top live-streamer Li Jiaqi on Monday evening teamed up with an executive from Alibaba Group Holding to pitch AI…
SCMP TechAsiaTokenised gold bar to advance Hong Kong’s ambitions as digital, metal trading hub Hong Kong’s plan to start an interbank tokenised gold transaction project marks a crucial step in its quest to make itself a key global hub for the precious metal, according to analysts.
SCMP TechAsiaChina’s EDA champion buys start-up to address weak link, support Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law Empyrean Technology, China’s top provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools, plans to acquire a majority stake in a domestic start-up, reinforcing Beijing’s drive for tech self-sufficiency…
SCMP TechAsiaChina’s CXMT defends bet on risky new DRAM architecture to circumvent US chip curbs Chinese memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is pressing ahead with an alternative chip architecture that US rival Micron Technology has chosen to bypass, highlighting an industry…
SCMP TechAsiaHow Hong Kong’s fintech strategy is progressing – and where growth still lags Hong Kong has touted rapid progress in the first year of its five-year fintech strategy, pledging to double down on artificial intelligence and tokenisation even as many initiatives face the…
SCMP TechAsiaChina touts AI milestone: models generate more tokens than used in training For the first time, the amount of inference data generated by artificial intelligence systems in China has surpassed the amount of data used to train those systems, according to a new…
SCMP TechAsiaChina and US need to join hands against another powerful adversary: AI When Chinese leader Mao Zedong and then US president Richard Nixon ended more than two decades of hostility in the early 1970s and began restoring ties, one powerful force pulling them together was a…
SCMP TechAsiaSelf-improving AI the key step towards AGI but safety is key: Z.ai founder Using artificial intelligence to build even smarter systems will make artificial general intelligence (AGI) more achievable, though it would need to be done safely, leading Chinese computer scientist…
SCMP TechAsiaDeepSeek unveils AI ‘super agent’ in coding race with OpenAI, Anthropic Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has previewed a plan for a more autonomous AI agent that can handle multiple tasks with minimal human intervention, as it steps up competition with…
SCMP TechAsiaSI is the future of AI – just not in the way Trump thinks With US President Donald Trump recently pushing the use of “superintelligence” (SI) instead of artificial intelligence (AI) in national discourse, the acronym has gained unprecedented attention.
SCMP TechAsiaApple Intelligence to roll out on iPhones in China in December with Alibaba backing Apple’s long-awaited artificial intelligence features will be officially launched in China in December, ending two years of regulatory uncertainty as the US tech giant seeks to bring advanced…
SCMP TechAsiaAs AI cyber risks grow, Chinese chip expert urges shared ethics standards with US rivals The co-founder of Chinese chip giant Cambricon Technologies urged the introduction of universal ethical requirements for leading Chinese and American artificial intelligence models on Friday to…
SCMP TechAsiaAI, fuelled by advanced chips, set to power semiconductor manufacturing: industry veteran Artificial intelligence is no longer merely the driving force behind global semiconductor demand, but is also actively reinventing how chips are designed and built, industry leaders and scientists…
SCMP TechAsiaChina dismisses US report of suspected spy targeting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as ‘groundless’ China on Friday hit out at reported US intelligence allegations that a suspected Chinese spy had targeted Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, dismissing the claims as “groundless speculation” aimed…
SCMP TechAsiaAmid brutal sell-off, what comes next for Google, Amazon and other Big Tech titans? Soaring artificial intelligence revenues have failed to shield Intel, Amazon and Google’s parent company Alphabet from a brutal Wall Street sell-off, as their latest quarterly results deepened…
SCMP TechAsiaChina’s optical suppliers extend sell-off as fears of slower AI growth trump upbeat earnings Shares of major Chinese optical communications suppliers slumped on Friday before clawing back some of their losses, extending a two-day sell-off despite upbeat third-quarter earnings driven by the…
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