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Filing: Shanghai-based self-driving company Banma aims to spin off from Alibaba via a Hong Kong IPO, reducing Alibaba's stake from the current 44.72% to 30% (www.scmp.com)
13 hours ago Hong Kong IPO Alibaba Shanghai

Alibaba-backed Z.ai, formerly Zhipu, launches a general-purpose AI agent app, which lets users use natural language to book hotels, order takeaway, and more (www.scmp.com)
13 hours ago NLP Alibaba AI

Report: Douyin is merging its online shopping and instant delivery platforms, as ByteDance takes on Alibaba, JD.com, and Meituan in China's quick delivery race (www.scmp.com)
21 days ago China Alibaba

Alibaba previews the Quark AI glasses, which are its first pair of AI-powered glasses and named after its AI assistant, with plans to launch them later in 2025 (www.scmp.com)
25 days ago Alibaba AI

China's Qianfan, the third largest satellite broadband constellation with 90 operational satellites, remains far short of its goal of 648 by the end of 2025 (www.scmp.com)
28 days ago China

How an open-source approach helped DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies; Hugging Face: Alibaba's Qwen is now the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem (www.scmp.com)
2025-7-20 China Alibaba AI

A look at Xiaomi AI Glasses, launched in China on June 26 with a starting price of ~$278, featuring a 12MP ultra-wide camera and powered by Qualcomm's AR1 chip (www.scmp.com)
2025-7-13 China AI Xiaomi AR

The team behind AI agent Manus has relocated its HQ to Singapore and started recruiting there, while parent company Butterfly Effect reportedly remains in China (www.scmp.com)
2025-7-10 China AI Singapore

Meituan says daily orders on its instant delivery service surpassed 120M on July 5, setting an all-time high, with food orders accounting for 100M of them (www.scmp.com)
2025-7-7

TikTok launches its e-commerce platform, TikTok Shop, in Japan, marking its 17th market, following launches in the US, the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, and others (www.scmp.com)
2025-7-2 Japan Thailand Malaysia

Supercell makes Brawl Stars available on WeChat and says Clash Royale is “currently being developed” for a September launch on the WeChat mini-game platform (www.scmp.com)
2025-6-26 WeChat

In a letter to staff, CEO Eddie Wu says Alibaba is merging its food delivery platform Ele.me and online travel agency Fliggy into its core e-commerce business (www.scmp.com)
2025-6-25 Alibaba

How Huawei has remained resilient in the face of US sanctions; Mizuho: about 700,000 units of Huawei's Ascend 910 series are expected to ship in 2025 (www.scmp.com)
2025-6-21

Huawei unveils a beta version of HarmonyOS 6, making it available to developers, and announces the HarmonyOS Agent Framework to help developers create AI agents (www.scmp.com)
2025-6-21 AI

Singapore-based investment app Syfe raised a $53M Series C extension, taking the round to $80M and total funding to $132M, and plans to expand into Hong Kong (www.scmp.com)
2025-6-8 Hong Kong Singapore

China's Hainan province tests letting some corporate users bypass the Great Firewall and access the global internet, as it seeks to become a free-trade port (www.scmp.com)
2025-6-6 China

Chinese food delivery giant Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 18.1% to ~$12.1B, vs. $12B est., net profit up 87.3% YoY to ~$1.4B, as it expands outside China (www.scmp.com)
2025-5-26 China

Amap, Alibaba's mapping and local services business, introduces a ride-hailing feature on the app's English version, targeting foreign visitors in China (www.scmp.com)
2025-5-25 China Alibaba

Zhejiang, home to Alibaba and DeepSeek, publishes an AI policy that expects companies in the AI supply chain to make $138B+ in total operating revenues by 2027 (www.scmp.com)
2025-5-21 Alibaba AI

Huawei unveiled its first laptop running HarmonyOS 5, after its Windows license for PCs expired in March 2025; the unnamed laptop uses Huawei's Celia assistant (www.scmp.com)
2025-5-9

DeepSeek quietly open-sources Prover-V2 AI, a math-focused, 671B-parameter model using mixture-of-experts, on Hugging Face, one day after Alibaba released Qwen3 (www.scmp.com)
2025-4-30 Alibaba AI Mathematics

Filing: China's leading flash memory chipmaker YMTC raised ~$219M from Hebei Yangyuan Zhihui Beverage Co. at a ~$22.1B valuation in December 2023 (www.scmp.com)
2025-4-27 China

Alibaba's AI assistant Quark surpassed ByteDance's Doubao to become China's most popular AI app in March, with ~150M and ~100M MAUs globally, respectively (www.scmp.com)
2025-4-13 China Alibaba AI

China discloses details about its ~$8.2B AI Industry Investment Fund, aimed at early-stage investments in AI projects, established with money from the Big Fund (www.scmp.com)
2025-4-11 China AI

DeepSeek and Tsinghua University researchers detail an approach combining reasoning methods to let LLMs deliver better and faster results to general queries (www.scmp.com)
2025-4-6

Microsoft has closed its IoT & AI Insider Lab in Shanghai, reflecting a broader pullback from China amid geopolitical tensions; the lab was opened in May 2019 (www.scmp.com)
2025-4-1 IoT China Microsoft AI Shanghai

Chinese chip equipment manufacturer SiCarrier debuted ~30 “domestically controllable” products at the Semicon China show, as China pushes for chip self-reliance (www.scmp.com)
2025-3-30 China

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

Sources: TSMC cuts ties with Singapore-based PowerAIR due to a potential breach of US export controls, after a TSMC chip was found in a Huawei AI processor (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-11 AI Singapore

Douyin, Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu vow to improve their algorithms, after China launched a campaign in November 2024 to address “typical issues with algorithms” (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-5 China Algorithm

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