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MiniMax is considering a Shanghai listing after its 400% stock run in Hong Kong, highlighting a trend of Chinese AI startups turning to domestic exchanges for capital.

Analysis of 56 national AI strategies reveals four archetypes based on governance orientation and functional emphasis, not the familiar US-EU-China...

DeepSeek's V3 and R1 models gained global notice for delivering strong results on limited budgets, fueling its rapid ascent from a 2023 startup to a...

Chinese 3D AI startup Tripo raised nearly $200 million in its Series A round.

Tencent is taking a distinct path in China's AI race by prioritizing smaller models and diverse user needs over pure scale, while leveraging its vast...

ByteDance is developing custom AI chips optimized for inference to reduce reliance on US suppliers.

• New design: Inspired by Groq's language...

Alibaba is advancing Qwen on two fronts simultaneously.

• Released Qwen 3.7 Plus, a multimodal model that processes images, screenshots, code, and...

China is advancing a coordinated regulatory push combining domestic AI ethics rules with tighter controls on overseas technology and investment...

US export controls are accelerating China's shift from GPUs to custom ASICs for inference workloads.

• Huawei bets on neural processing units via its...

Gu Quanquan's departure from ByteDance, after steering Seed 2.0 development and earlier AI-for-science work, underscores the challenge of retaining...

Forrester’s 2026 report features NSFOCUS on the symbiotic dual-engine model driving AI-native cloud security in China.

• Cloud Security for AI:...

JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong pledged the company will not fire any front-line workers displaced by machines, committing instead to retrain its roughly...

China's DeepSeek launch reflects years of accumulated AI research capacity built through state planning, not a sudden fluke. Long-term investments in...

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