2026-02-10
ByteDance released Seedance 2.0, its latest video-generating model. According to feedback from the tech community, this model has outperformed OpenAI's Sora and Kuaishou's Kling in terms of camera movement and consistency. #CHINA #TECH #AI #BYTEDANCE $LLM #Kuaishou [video]
The Information
ByteDance debuts Seedance 2.0, a new version of its AI video generation model that can produce multi-shot scenes, available to select Jimeng and Jianying users
Alibaba Pushes Into Robotics AI With Open-Source ‘RynnBrain’ Alibaba has unveiled RynnBrain, an open-source AI foundation model designed to help robots perform real-world tasks by understanding space, time and task planning. Developed by DAMO Academy and trained on the Qwen3-VL [image]
Bloomberg
Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model that helps robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. debuted an AI model that can help robots and other devices perform real-world tasks …
2026-02-09
ByteDance released Seedance 2.0, its latest video-generating model. According to feedback from the tech community, this model has outperformed OpenAI's Sora and Kuaishou's Kling in terms of camera movement and consistency. #CHINA #TECH #AI #BYTEDANCE $LLM #Kuaishou [video]
The Information
ByteDance debuts Seedance 2.0, a new version of its AI video generation model that can produce multi-shot scenes, available to select Jimeng and Jianying users
ByteDance's new AI video generation model Seedance 2.0, unveiled over the weekend, is generating a lot of buzz on social media, with some calling it a game changer.
2026-01-02
MOONSHOT COMPLETES $500 MILLION SERIES C FUNDING, LED BY IDG WITH $150 MILLION; ALIBABA, TENCENT, WANG HUIWEN AND EXISTING INVESTORS OVERSUBSCRIBE, POST-MONEY VALUATION $4.3 BILLION. #CHINA #AI #IPO https://mktnews.com/... [image]
South China Morning Post
Report: China-based Moonshot AI, which makes Kimi AI models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital; Alibaba and Tencent also invested
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post :
2025-12-21
China's GPU maker Moore Threads has released a new generation of GPU architecture “Hua Gang”. The new architecture has a new generation of instruction set, with a 50% increase in computing density, a 10-fold improvement in energy efficiency, and integrates full-precision [image]
Bloomberg
Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new generation of chips slated for mass production from 2026, just weeks after its blockbuster IPO in China
Moore Threads Technology Co. introduced a new generation of chips aimed at reducing artificial-intelligence developers' dependence …
2025-11-27
Alibaba Releases Quark Smart Glasses With Its Qwen AI Built In Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. began selling its first smart glasses powered by its Qwen AI models, marking a rare move into consumer hardware. The Quark S1 glasses feature translucent displays that overlay contextual [image]
Bloomberg
Alibaba starts selling Quark S1, its first smart glasses powered by its Qwen AI models, for ~$537 in China, and plans to release international versions in 2026
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. began sales of its first smart glasses powered by its Qwen AI models, marking a rare foray into consumer hardware.
2025-06-17
TRUMP ORG. RELEASES ITS MOBILE BRAND TRUMP MOBILE WITH T1 SMARTPHONE AT $499, AVAILABLE IN SEPTEMBER. TRUMP MOBILE ALSO OFFERS UNLIMITED TALK, TEXT AND DATA SERVICES, CHARGING $47.45 PER MONTH. [image]
Variety
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile
The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone Jose...
2025-06-16
TRUMP ORG. RELEASES ITS MOBILE BRAND TRUMP MOBILE WITH T1 SMARTPHONE AT $499, AVAILABLE IN SEPTEMBER. TRUMP MOBILE ALSO OFFERS UNLIMITED TALK, TEXT AND DATA SERVICES, CHARGING $47.45 PER MONTH. [image]
Variety
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile
President Trump and his family are getting into the wireless business, in partnership with the three major U.S. carriers.
2025-04-30
🇨🇳#Xiaomi Open-Sources Its First Reasoning-Optimized LLM “MiMo,” Outperforming Rivals in Key Benchmarks Xiaomi has unveiled “MiMo”, its first open-source large language model (LLM) specifically designed for reasoning tasks, integrating pre-training and post-training optimizations [image]
Bloomberg
Xiaomi unveils open-source AI reasoning model MiMo, joining other Chinese tech leaders hoping to make a splash in the burgeoning AI field endorsed by Beijing
Xiaomi debuted MiMo a day after Alibaba unveiled the latest version of its own flagship model, amplifying a race between China's tech players …
DeepSeek Unveils Advanced Model for Mathematical Theorem Proving #DeepSeek has released a new open-source model, DeepSeek-Prover-V2-671B, focusing on mathematical theorem proving tasks. The model is built on a mixture of experts (MoE) architecture and utilizes the Lean 4 [image]
South China Morning Post
DeepSeek quietly open sources Prover-V2, a math-focused, 671B-parameter AI model using mixture-of-experts, on Hugging Face, one day after Alibaba released Qwen3
The Chinese start-up has released the Prover-V2 model a day after Alibaba released Qwen3, and ahead of an anticipated release of DeepSeek-R2
2025-04-17
🇨🇳NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Arrives in Beijing at CCPIT's Invitation, Reaffirms Commitment to China Collaboration NVIDIA Corporation CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Beijing today at the invitation of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT). This visit comes [image]
Financial Times
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and visited Beijing on April 17, a source says to meet officials to discuss Trump's new chip export rules
Meetings with Chinese vice-premier and DeepSeek founder come after US clamps down on chipmaker's sales to China
2025-03-31
MUSK, APPLE CLASH OVER SATELLITE EXPANSION PLANS. TENSIONS HAVE RENEWED MUSK'S INTEREST IN BUILDING IPHONE COMPETITOR, SOURCES SAY - WSJ #MUSK $AAPL https://mktnews.com/... [image]
Wall Street Journal
Sources detail tensions between Apple and Elon Musk's SpaceX over expanding satellite cellphone services; Apple discussed linking iPhones to SpaceX satellites
The iPhone maker and SpaceX are competing in the race to eliminate cellphone dead spots, a rift that is set to intensify
🇨🇳JUST IN HUAWEI 2024 REVENUE UP 22.4% ON YEAR AT $118 BLN HUAWEI 2024 NET PROFIT DOWN 28% ON YEAR AT $8.63 BLN HUAWEI 2024 R&D INVESTMENT UP 9.1% ON YEAR AT $24.7 BLN #CHINA #HUAWEI SOURCE: @MKTNews24 https://mktnews.com/... [image]
CNBC
Huawei reports FY 2024 revenue up 22.4% YoY to ~$118.2B, near its ~$123B record in 2020, net profit down 28% YoY to ~$8.63B, and R&D spend rising to ~$25B
Huawei on Monday reported a sharp jump in 2024 revenue as its core telecommunications and consumer businesses accelerated.
2025-03-18
XIAOMI CEO LEI JUN: RAISES 2025 FULL-YEAR AUTO DELIVERY TARGET TO 350,000 UNITS. #CHINA #EV #SU7 #SU7ULTRA #XIAOMI @LEIJUN @XIAOMI $XIACY
Reuters
Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 48.8% YoY to ~$15B, above ~$14.4B est., adjusted net profit up 69.4% YoY to ~$1.2B, above ~$884M est., boosted by smartphone sales
2025-03-12
🇨🇳Manus Partners with Alibaba's Tongyi Qwen to Develop AI Agents Manus announced on March 11 its strategic partnership with Alibaba's Tongyi Qwen team. They will implement all Manus features using Tongyi Qwen's open-source models and Chinese computing platforms. Both teams are collaborating to develop more creative AI agent products for Chinese users. [image]
Reuters
Manus partners with Alibaba's Qwen to integrate Manus' AI agent functions with AI models and computing platforms in China and to collaborate on Qwen's AI models
China's Manus AI announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with the team behind tech giant Alibaba's Qwen AI models …
2025-02-14
Apple Plans to Overhaul China iPhones With AI by Middle of Year Apple Inc. is working to introduce AI features to iPhones in China by mid-2025, involving software changes and reliance on local partners. Several teams in China and the US are adapting Apple's AI platform for the [image]
Bloomberg
Sources: Apple plans to launch its AI features in China as early as May 2025, using its own on-device models and Alibaba software to censor or filter the output
- Company to use own models, with help from Alibaba and Baidu — Work includes system to censor or block content for government
2024-10-23
JUST IN 🇨🇳#CHINA'S MINISTER OF INDUSTRY MET APPLE CEO TIM COOK ON WEDNESDAY. DISCUSSED APPLE'S DEVELOPMENT, CYBER DATA SECURITY MANAGEMENT, AND CLOUD SERVICES ISSUES IN CHINA. $AAPL [image]
Bloomberg
China says Tim Cook said Apple would “continue to grow its investments in China” in a meeting with its top tech official, during his second visit in 2024
How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay … Hello World … Quicktake
2024-08-23
#CN_Note After Alibaba completes its dual primary listing, there is potential for inclusion in the “Stock Connect” scheme in September. This development is expected to have a positive impact on Alibaba's stock price. $BABA
Bloomberg
Shareholders approve upgrading Alibaba's Hong Kong listing, which expects to attract billions of dollars in Chinese investment, to primary status on August 28
Bloomberg :
2024-05-28
The registered capital of the third phase of the Big Fund is 340 billion yuan, which is an increase of 66.6% compared to the second phase. #China #manufacturing
Reuters
China set up a new ~$47.5B state-backed investment fund on May 24 as the third and largest phase of its Big Fund to boost the country's semiconductor industry
2024-05-27
The registered capital of the third phase of the Big Fund is 340 billion yuan, which is an increase of 66.6% compared to the second phase. #China #manufacturing
Reuters
China set up a new ~$47.5B state-backed investment fund on May 24 as the third and largest phase of its Big Fund to boost the country's semiconductor industry
China has set up a new state-backed investment fund with registered capital of 344 billion yuan ($47.5 billion) to boost the country's semiconductor industry.