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Sources: ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese companies placed $16B+ in orders for Nvidia's H20 chips in Q1 2025, ahead of a potential US sales ban (www.theinformation.com)
2025-4-3 China Alibaba Tencent Ban Nvidia

Xiaomi says it is cooperating with a Chinese police probe into a fatal crash by a car using its autonomous features; its stock is down 10%+ over the past week (www.nytimes.com)
2025-4-2 China Xiaomi

Xiaomi EV Involved in First Fatal Autopilot Crash (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-4-2 Xiaomi

This refurbished, touchscreen Lenovo Chromebook just dropped to $80 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-4-1 Lenovo

Xiaomi 15 review: A compelling compact phone for outstanding photography (indianexpress.com)
2025-4-1 Xiaomi

Ubisoft Spins Out Subsidiary With a Billion-Dollar Investment From Tencent (slashdot.org)
2025-3-28 Tencent

Ubisoft carves out a unit, which includes Assassin's Creed, into a ~€4B subsidiary; Tencent will invest €1.16B to acquire a 25% stake in the new entity (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-28 Tencent

Xiaomi's Poco unveils the £649+ F7 Ultra, with a 6.67" display, Snapdragon 8 Elite, a triple rear camera, 120W wired charging, and IP68, and the £499+ F7 Pro (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-27 Xiaomi

Alibaba releases open-source multimodal AI model Qwen2.5-Omni-7B on Hugging Face and GitHub, saying the model can be deployed on edge devices like smartphones (www.cnbc.com)
2025-3-27 Alibaba AI GitHub

BMW partners with Alibaba to use Qwen-powered AI cockpit tech from Alibaba-backed Banma in its upcoming car models for the Chinese market, rolling out next year (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-26 China Alibaba AI

Since DeepSeek-R1's debut, Chinese companies like Baidu, DeepSeek, Tencent, Ant, and Alibaba have been flooding the market with low cost AI services and models (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-26 China Alibaba AI Tencent

Alibaba's Tsai Warns of 'Bubble' in AI Data Center Buildout (slashdot.org)
2025-3-26 Alibaba AI

Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a bubble in data center construction, saying the buildout may outpace early AI demand and is starting to look indiscriminate (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-25 Alibaba AI

Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a 32B open model under Apache 2.0, claims better alignment with human preferences and math reasoning than earlier 2.5 VL models (simonwillison.net)
2025-3-25 Alibaba Mathematics

Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a data center bubble, saying the buildout may outpace early AI demand and is starting to look indiscriminate (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-25 Alibaba AI

Tencent unveils Hunyuan T1, which leverages large-scale reinforcement learning to rival DeepSeek's R1 in both performance and pricing (www.scmp.com)
2025-3-23 Tencent

Tencent says it has slowed the pace of its GPU rollout since implementing DeepSeek, and that most of its GPU capex goes toward its ad and gaming businesses (www.theregister.com)
2025-3-21 Tencent

Only a few of these refurbished $50 Lenovo Chromebook tablets left (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-3-20 Lenovo

This refurbished Lenovo Chromebook is only $75 while supplies last (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-3-19 Lenovo

Tencent reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$23.9B, vs. ~$23.4B est., profit up 90% YoY to ~$7B, vs. ~$6.3B est., and domestic game revenue up 23% YoY to ~$4.6B (www.cnbc.com)
2025-3-19 Tencent 4Q

Chinese firms like Alibaba, Baidu and DeepSeek are open sourcing AI models to bypass US curbs, decentralize development, and tap global talent for refinement (t.co)
2025-3-19 China Alibaba AI

Tencent releases five AI tools to turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics, based on Hunyuan3D-2.0, and plans to integrate DeepSeek's R1 into WeChat (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-18 AI WeChat Tencent

Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 48.8% YoY to ~$15B, above ~$14.4B est., adjusted net profit up 69.4% YoY to ~$1.2B, above ~$884M est., boosted by smartphone sales (www.reuters.com)
2025-3-18 Xiaomi 4Q

Sources detail Alibaba's AI pivot, quietly led by Jack Ma after ChatGPT's 2022 launch, but question if it can establish a lead in China's competitive AI race (t.co)
2025-3-17 China Jack Ma Alibaba AI

Sources: Ubisoft explores selling a stake in a new entity holding IP like Assassin's Creed to investors including Tencent, at a higher valuation than Ubisoft (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-15 Tencent

Xiaomi plans to preinstall PhonePe's Indus Appstore on all new smartphones sold in India and replace its GetApps app store with Indus Appstore on existing ones (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-13 India Xiaomi

Alibaba debuts New Quark, an updated app using its flagship Qwen reasoning model, rolling out gradually, as it seeks to keep up with DeepSeek and Chinese rivals (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-13 China Alibaba

Alibaba demos R1-Omni, an open-source model that its Tongyi Lab researchers say can read emotions, building on HumanOmni, in a bid to compete with OpenAI (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-12 Alibaba

Manus partners with Alibaba's Qwen to integrate Manus' AI agent functions with AI models and computing platforms in China and to collaborate on Qwen's AI models (www.reuters.com)
2025-3-12 China Alibaba AI

Global smartwatch shipments fell 7% YoY in 2024, the market's first ever decline; Apple fell 19% while Huawei grew 35%, Xiaomi grew 135%, and Samsung grew 3% (www.counterpointresearch.com)
2025-3-11 Samsung Apple Xiaomi

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