DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b
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A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat
China Warns Move Could ‘Backfire’ DigiTimes : China's battery and energy storage firms lead, fueled by AI-driven power demand surge Simon Sharwood / The Register : US punishes China's ‘dominance’ of l...
Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks
Tencent 5.61k — Translation Transformers Safetensors hunyuan_v1_dense text-generation Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post : Tencent's open-source translation model beats Google, OpenAI in top globa...
DeepSeek details V3.1 and says it surpasses R1 on key benchmarks and is customized to work with next-gen Chinese-made AI chips, after unveiling it on August 19
Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! 🚀 Tobias Mann / The Register : DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon Hugging Face : DeepSeek-V3.1 ...
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
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Apple is unlikely to move iPhone production to the US anytime soon due to a lack of facilities, skilled labor, and established supply chains like Asia's
President Trump's tariffs aim to bring manufacturing … Kara Sherrer / TechRepublic : iPhone Price Could Triple Due to Escalating US-China Tariff War Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post : Apple's supp...
Alibaba releases open-source reasoning model QwQ-32B on Hugging Face and ModelScope, claiming comparable performance to DeepSeek-R1 but with lower compute needs
Introduction QwQ is the reasoning model of the Qwen series. Paul Barker / InfoWorld : Alibaba says its new AI model rivals DeepSeeks's R-1, OpenAI's o1 Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt : Alibaba's Latest A...
Aicpb.com: ByteDance's Doubao had 51M MAUs in China, the highest for AI chatbots in China, ahead of 12.5M for Baidu's Wenxiaoyan and 10M for Moonshot AI's Kimi
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AppGrowing: in Q3, Moonshot, Zhipu, ByteDance, Alibaba, and other Chinese AI companies spent ~$70.2M to promote their AI chatbots, as the market gets crowded
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A profile of Yang Zhilin, the founder and CEO of China's highest-valued AI unicorn Moonshot, who studied at Carnegie Mellon University and worked at Huawei
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