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Jul 26, 2024

As Micron president visits China, chip maker stays silent in US-China balancing act

Sanjay Mehrotra was among a group of American executives visiting China this week, but the memory chip maker avoided bringing attention to it.

Jul 26, 2024

Apple falls: iPhone maker out of China’s top 5 as Huawei ascends

Chinese smartphone vendors filled out the entire top-five list for the first time in the second quarter, knocking Apple to No 6.

Jul 26, 2024

Alibaba puts Olympics on the cloud, adding AI services while taking over for satellite

The Chinese tech giant has partnered with the Olympics to distribute the Paris Games online, replacing a 60-year-old satellite system as the main distribution channel.

Jul 25, 2024

China’s top live-streaming influencer Dong Yuhui departs East Buy to pursue own venture

Dong Yuhui said his namesake venture, Time with Yuhui, will soon start to operate as an independent business.

Jul 25, 2024

Chinese AI start-up Baichuan raises US$700 million from Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi

The Beijing-based company is now worth more than US$2.7 billion, behind only fellow ‘AI tiger’ Moonshot AI, as US capital remains sparse in the domestic industry.

Jul 25, 2024

China relaxes video gaming rules, as Guangdong allows testing of pre-licensed titles

The new rule appears to provide an advantage to Shenzhen-based video gaming giant Tencent and major smartphone vendors that run app stores like Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Honor.

Jul 25, 2024

ByteDance-owned Douyin said to miss first-half e-commerce sales goal amid weak consumption

Douyin’s gross merchandise value growth rate is expected to hit 24 per cent in 2024, a steep decline from the previous two years, according to a Goldman Sachs estimate.

Jul 25, 2024

China’s AI industry faces shakeout, leaving only a dozen top tier LLMs, expert says

China’s AI industry is entering a rapid period of consolidation after large language model development mushroomed last year, experts said at the Future Tech Summit 2024 in Shenzhen on Thursday.

Jul 25, 2024

AI race: Alibaba, Tencent quickly adopt Meta’s new Llama 3.1 model amid excitement

China’s biggest tech firms moved quickly to adopt the most advanced open-source large language model from the owner of Facebook on their cloud platforms.

Jul 25, 2024

Meta’s Zuckerberg puts faith in open-source AI to maintain US lead over China

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose company runs the world’s largest open-source LLM, said AI based on open-source technology will help the US maintain a lead over China.

Technology

As Micron president visits China, chip maker stays silent in US-China balancing act

Apple falls: iPhone maker out of China’s top 5 as Huawei ascends

Alibaba puts Olympics on the cloud, adding AI services while taking over for satellite

China’s top live-streaming influencer Dong Yuhui departs East Buy to pursue own venture

Chinese AI start-up Baichuan raises US$700 million from Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi

China relaxes video gaming rules, as Guangdong allows testing of pre-licensed titles

ByteDance-owned Douyin said to miss first-half e-commerce sales goal amid weak consumption

China’s AI industry faces shakeout, leaving only a dozen top tier LLMs, expert says

AI race: Alibaba, Tencent quickly adopt Meta’s new Llama 3.1 model amid excitement

Meta’s Zuckerberg puts faith in open-source AI to maintain US lead over China

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