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Multiple responses from DeepSeek's namesake chatbot confirm that the startup has expanded the context window of its flagship AI model from 128K tokens to 1M+ (www.scmp.com)
7 days ago Startup AI chatbot

Meituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce company, for $717M in cash; Dingdong had 7M+ monthly transacting users as of September 2025 (www.scmp.com)
13 days ago China

Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon (www.scmp.com)
18 days ago Alibaba AI

Filing: Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon reports a $316M net profit in 2025, its first profitable year; rivals Moore Threads and MetaX narrowed their losses (www.scmp.com)
18 days ago China AI

DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b (www.scmp.com)
22 days ago Alibaba

Chinese automotive chipmaker Black Sesame says its Huashan A2000 chip passed the US Commerce and Defense Departments' “relevant reviews” for global sales (www.scmp.com)
2026-1-5 China

DeepSeek researchers detail a new mHC architecture they used to train 3B, 9B, and 27B models, finding it scaled without adding significant computational burden (www.scmp.com)
2026-1-2

Report: China-based Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital, with Alibaba and Tencent participating (www.scmp.com)
2026-1-1 China Alibaba AI Tencent IDG

Sources: ByteDance plans to spend about $14B on Nvidia's AI chips in 2026, an increase of about 18% from 2025 (www.scmp.com)
2025-12-31 AI Nvidia

Zhipu AI launches a share sale to raise ~$560M in a Hong Kong IPO at a valuation of ~$6.6B, which would make it the first LLM developer listed in Hong Kong (www.scmp.com)
2025-12-31 Hong Kong IPO AI

Beijing-based DP Technology, which develops AI tools used by researchers for tasks like computer-aided drug design and battery design, raised a ~$114M Series C (www.scmp.com)
2025-12-25 AI Battery

DEEP Robotics, a Hangzhou-based startup that builds quadruped and humanoid robots, raised a $70M Series C to expand R&D and production capacity (www.scmp.com)
2025-12-10 Startup Robot

Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production (www.scmp.com)
2025-12-3 China AI

Alibaba halves Qwen3-Max prices, from $0.861 to $0.459 per 1M input tokens and $3.441 to $1.836 per 1M output tokens for API users, amid China's AI price wars (www.scmp.com)
2025-11-15 China Alibaba AI

Baidu unveils two AI chips: the M100 for efficient MoE inference, launching in 2026, and the M300 for training super-large multimodal models, coming in 2027 (www.scmp.com)
2025-11-13 AI

Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20 required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters (www.scmp.com)
2025-10-20 Alibaba Nvidia

Alibaba says its mapping app Amap's destination ranking feature hit 400M users since its launch in September; Amap had a record 360M daily users on October 1 (www.scmp.com)
2025-10-5 Alibaba

JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (www.scmp.com)
2025-9-14 China iPhone

Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M+ users globally (www.scmp.com)
2025-9-13 Alibaba Startup AI

Apple delays iPhone Air pre-orders in China, likely over eSIM regulatory issues, replacing the original schedule with “release information to be updated later” (www.scmp.com)
2025-9-12 China iPhone Apple

ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral “nano banana” model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics (www.scmp.com)
2025-9-11 Google AI

China's new AI content labeling law goes into effect, as part of a broad effort to address AI-related risks such as misinformation and copyright infringement (www.scmp.com)
2025-9-2 China AI

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)
2025-8-21 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)
2025-8-21 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)
2025-7-31 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)
2025-7-27 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)
2025-7-24 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

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