China's Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou showcased robots, EVs, and a self-driving yacht, but questions remain over the US-China trade dispute and profits
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How Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, became China's AI hub as the local government built a Silicon Valley-inspired innovation corridor in the city's west
or Hangzhou at all. Waiting for the next Deepseek “surreal” trauma moment, only to repress it soon afterwards... Time to reckon with the new world and rethink our place in it. S.L. Kanthan / @kanthan2...
Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, has become a Chinese AI startup hub, and the suburb Liangzhu has emerged as a hot spot for coders in their 20s and 30s
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times :
Alibaba unveils text-to-image and image-to-image generation model Qwen VLo, with progressive generation tech, which shows the image creation process
The Hangzhou-based company introduced Qwen VLo, part of a series of AI services under the company's Qwen brand.
DeepSeek's rise has turned the spotlight on its hometown, Hangzhou, the capital of the Zhejiang province, which has earmarked ~$13.7B to fund tech companies
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In amended filings, Alibaba discloses previously unknown stakes by the Chinese government in more than 12 of its business entities, following a US SEC inquiry
The Hangzhou-based e-commerce pioneer said in filings in the US and Hong Kong over the weekend that more than a dozen of its entities …
Xianyu, Alibaba's online second-hand goods trading platform that claims to have 500M+ users, is opening its first bricks-and-mortar store in Hangzhou, China
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post :
Despite the US adding Hangzhou-based encryption chip maker Hualan to its Entity List in 2021, NASA, NATO, the DEA, and more still use chips from its subsidiary
The US government warns encryption chipmaker Hualan has suspicious ties to China's military. Yet US agencies still use … Mastodon: @agreenberg@infosec.exchange . Tweets: @wired Mastodon: Andy Greenbe...
Hangzhou-based Freetech Intelligent Systems, which makes a full autonomous vehicle software and hardware stack, raised a ~$100M Series B led by Chaos Investment
Shadine Taufik / Tech in Asia : Source: Nikkei Asia . Tweets: @vaactiveangels and @techinasia Source: Peng Suping / Nikkei Asia : Chinese self-driving startup Freetech raises nearly $100m Tweets: @va...
FCC designates five Chinese tech firms, Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hangzhou, and Dahua, as a threat to US security; Huawei challenged its prior FCC designation in Feb
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday designated five Chinese companies as posing a threat …