Alibaba's Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple Intelligence, bringing AI-powered text and image understanding and content generation to users in China across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. T…
ByteDance's Doubao, China's second most-used AI app with 350 million monthly active users, switched off its user-built agent feature at midnight Beijing time today, affecting over 8 million custom age…
Apple is in exploratory talks to acquire PrismML, a Caltech spinout that uses ultra-low-bit compression to shrink large AI models by up to 14x, enabling them to run natively on iPhones. PrismML raised…
Apple Inc. is in early talks with PrismML, a Khosla Ventures-backed startup spun out of Caltech, to use its compression technology that shrinks AI models from 54 GB to under 4 GB, enabling all 27 bill…
Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus text-to-speech model has taken the top spot on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena Leaderboard with an Elo rating of 1,236 based on 1,305 blind user evaluations, nar…
Apple has held exploratory discussions with Caltech-born startup PrismML about integrating its AI model compression technology into iPhones, according to a report from The Information. PrismML claims …
ZTE Kangxun Telecom, a unit of Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp, and server maker Maginfra have received U.S. approval to purchase Nvidia's advanced H200 AI chips, while a Kingsoft subsidiary has been c…
U.S. Commerce official Jeffrey Kessler confirmed that very few of NVIDIA's H200 AI chips have reached China or Hong Kong, months after the Trump administration announced it would allow limited sales. …
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI startup valued at up to $59 billion, is planning to file for an initial public offering this year, according to sources. The company, founded in July 2023 by Liang Wenf…
A unit of ZTE Corp and two other Chinese firms have received U.S. approval to purchase Nvidia's H200 AI chips, according to documents and sources. ZTE Kangxun Telecom and server maker Maginfra were pe…
Video generation startup PixVerse raised $439 million from Alibaba and other investors to develop AI-powered video creation tools aimed at transforming the entertainment industry.…
Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, said Tuesday at the company's annual corporate conference in Tokyo that building artificial intelligence will cost $5 trillion per year by 2040, calling bubble talk 'ab…
China's AI-native applications reached 499 million monthly active users (MAU) by May 2026, an 85.4% surge year-over-year, according to a QuestMobile report published July 14. ByteDance's Doubao leads …
Nvidia has cut its list of approved Asian AI chip buyers by more than half, targeting Chinese companies using Southeast Asia as a side door to bypass US export controls, according to the Financial Tim…
LimX Dynamics, a Shenzhen-based humanoid robotics firm, plans to go public after raising nearly $200 million in a pre-IPO round completed on July 14, 2026, valuing the company at approximately $2.21 b…
Nvidia is halving its list of approved customers across Asia and tightening distributor vetting as US export controls squeeze its China market share, which is projected to collapse from 66% in 2024 to…
An indie hacker spent a month testing Chinese AI APIs from DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM, finding that DeepSeek V4 Flash offers 95% of GPT-4o quality at 2.5% of the price. The developer recommends Dee…
A 30-month study of over 26,000 Chinese students found that using generative AI tools like Alibaba's Qwen boosted homework scores by 18% and cut completion time from 64 to 45 minutes, but monthly exam…
Cheaper AI model pricing does not automatically reduce agent execution costs because tool schemas and repeated tool calls can consume up to 32 times more tokens than the task itself, making tool desig…
Alibaba's mapping lab released ABot-Earth, a generative 3D Earth model that creates 3D Gaussian splats from satellite photos in under ten minutes per square kilometer, pitched as a training ground for…