Global investors are increasingly splitting Chinese tech stocks into AI winners and losers, with a pair trade strategy going long on Alibaba and short on Meituan returning around 130% year-to-date. Th…
China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security is preparing a policy document titled 'Responding to the Impact of AI on Employment' to assess and mitigate AI-driven job disruption, focusing o…
China announced support for IPOs by AI startups and large model companies as part of its 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to boost tech self-reliance. Firms like Zhipu AI, MiniMax, and Unitree Robotics are…
The global semiconductor market exceeded $300 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time in Q1 2026, driven by an 80% surge in memory demand from AI. Japan's Kioxia and South Korea's Samsung and …
Alibaba's Qwen team released a robotics suite with three foundation models for embodied AI: Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, and Qwen-RobotWorld. The models align language with physical actions for nav…
Chinese stocks in Hong Kong face record outflows as investors rotate into mainland AI hardware and semiconductor companies. In the week ending June 3, 2026, mainland-listed ETFs tracking Hong Kong equ…
Alibaba launched the Qwen-Robot Suite, a trio of AI models designed to serve as the cognitive backbone for robots, enabling them to see, think, and move through the physical world. The suite includes …
Alibaba launched the Qwen Robot Suite, a set of three foundation models for embodied AI developed by its Tongyi Lab, including Qwen-RobotManip which topped the RoboChallenge generalist track with a 45…
A Hacker News thread on June 16 revealed that local LLMs like Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B handle about 70% of daily coding tasks but fall short on complex multi-file reasoning, creating a gap akin to a junior ve…
Multiple news organizations and platforms are using generative AI to forecast 2026 FIFA World Cup outcomes. Microsoft Copilot generated score predictions for matches on June 14-15, Alibaba's Qwen intr…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code, a coding-focused agent model with 1 trillion total parameters and a 256K context window, aimed at multi-step software engineering tasks. The Beijing lab positions …
Alibaba unveiled its first suite of AI models for robots, including RynnBrain for spatial understanding and Qwen3.7-Max for agentic tasks, as the company pivots from chatbots to autonomous agents. The…
Brazilian public sector AI project Rio 3.5 Open accidentally released an incomplete checkpoint, which was later removed. The model, built on Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 and Nex-AGI's Nex-N2 Pro, was not a foun…
Rio de Janeiro's municipal IT company IplanRIO released Rio-3.5-Open-397B on Hugging Face under an MIT license, claiming it as a government-developed 397-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model. Ne…
Rio de Janeiro's municipal IT company, IplanRIO, released an AI model called Rio 3.5 Open 397B that outperformed DeepSeek V4 Pro on a key benchmark, built by fine-tuning Alibaba's open-source Qwen mod…
Toronto startup Databiomes launched Ctrlvox, an AI model that moderates toxic voice and chat content in video games on consumer CPUs without GPUs or cloud inference. The customizable plugin for Epic G…
Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 outperforms Alibaba's Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks, signaling a shift in AI leadership as Qwen3.7 fades due to its proprietary stance.…
Rio de Janeiro's municipal IT company, IplanRIO, has released Rio 3.5 Open 397B, a large open-weight AI model post-trained from Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B base model. The release was spotted by SemiAnaly…
China's Ministry of State Security warned users against accessing US AI models via third-party tools, citing security risks and potential cyber espionage. Meanwhile, US companies continue to adopt Chi…
Avataar AI launched Varya, an open-weight video generation model priced at $0.005 per second, 27 times cheaper than competitors. Built under India's $1.2 billion AI Mission, Varya is distilled from Al…