The two tech giants have become key partners in empowering government agencies with AI capabilities.
WeChat users can now add Yuanbao as a ‘friend’ and interact with the chatbot without downloading a separate app.
Cook was among 80 company executives who attended the China Development Forum, an annual event to facilitate dialogue with global investors.
Robots have become a hot investment area in China as VC firms, supply chain partners and tech giants jostle to back leading start-ups.
The new version and DeepSeek V3 are both foundation models trained on vast data sets that can be applied in different use cases.
While the US remains caught in a computational race, China’s competitive advantage lies not in any LLM model but in AI-embedded ecosystems.
‘People are talking literally about US$500 billion, several US$100 billion [projects]. I don’t think that is entirely necessary,’ Tsai says.
The robotics start-up co-founded by former Huawei ‘Genius Youth’ recruits has an ambitious 5,000-unit production target, far exceeding 2024 output.
The start-up has emerged as the unlikely winner of a dizzying domestic competition. Can it reshape the global market as well?
At the China Development Forum in Beijing, Cook called DeepSeek’s models ‘excellent’, as consumers await the launch of Apple Intelligence.
