A developer reports that Alibaba's Qoder, an AI coding tool similar to Antigravity, offers dramatically lower costs than Western competitors like OpenAI and Google, with transparent pricing and live u…
DeepSeek has told prospective investors to pause its second funding round, which was expected to value the company at $71 billion to $74 billion, according to Bloomberg. The Chinese AI company closed …
Nearly 200 venture-backed startups, organized by the Little Tech Association, sent letters to President Trump and other officials on July 22 urging the U.S. government not to restrict access to Chines…
A theory suggests the RAM and GPU shortages felt by consumers in 2026 may be a deliberate side effect of AI companies hoarding hardware to prevent users from running free Chinese models like DeepSeek-…
Chinese startup Moonshot released Kimi K3, an open-weight AI model that rivals top offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic, challenging U.S. AI dominance by shifting focus from hardware supremacy to model…
Polymarket traders give a 26% probability that the US government will restrict public access to at least one major Chinese AI model before December 31, 2026, as usage of Chinese models on platforms li…
CATL's energy storage revenue surged 87.54% to 53.26 billion yuan in the first half of 2026, nearly double the growth rate of its power battery business, as the company positions itself to supply batt…
AMD debuted new GPUs, CPUs, and processors for physical AI and robotics this week, challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI infrastructure. U.S. lawmakers proposed a 'kill switch' for rogue AI after OpenA…
Hetzner, the German cloud host known for low prices, has quietly launched a free, OpenAI-compatible LLM inference endpoint serving a single Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model, signaling that open-weight inference …
Top executives at leading Western AI companies are warning about safety and national security risks from Chinese open-weight frontier models, but these free models are rapidly improving and threatenin…
Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Coder 32B outperforms Meta's Llama 3.1 70B in code generation tasks, delivering 35 tokens per second versus 12 tokens per second and a 2.1-second time-to-first-token compared to 4.8 …
China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is racing to break the South Korean stranglehold on AI memory chips as DRAM spot prices jumped nearly 700% in a year and data centers are on track to consum…
Alibaba is internally testing a standalone workplace AI product called Qwen Office, separate from its Tongyi Qianwen assistant, focusing on intelligent collaboration for office workflows. The company …
China is winning the Global South's AI future by giving models away for free, according to a report analyzing Beijing's open-source strategy. At the 2026 World AI Conference, President Xi Jinping urge…
Hang Lung Properties' new Westlake 66 mixed-use development in Hangzhou's Wulin Central Business District blends the city's ancient history with its modern identity as a tech hub, home to Alibaba, Dee…
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8-Max-Preview model, when interviewed by software engineer Manish Shahi, demonstrated an ability to separate its own knowledge into known, inferred, and hidden categories, revealing t…
CAISI's latest report finds that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weights model with a 1-million-token context window, remains behind leading U.S. frontier models such as Claude Fa…
Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal AI model, at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 19, which outperformed competitors like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 an…
Microsoft released Fara1.5-27B, a vision-only browser agent fine-tuned from Alibaba's Qwen3.5-27B, signaling that US cloud players find Chinese base models strong for specialized research. AMD is inve…
Alibaba has released Qwen-Image-3.0, a model capable of natively rendering precise multi-line text, structured charts, and accurate document layouts directly into generated images, removing the need f…