Baidu released Unlimited-OCR, a one-shot long-horizon parsing model that extends DeepSeek-OCR, on June 22, 2026. The open-source model supports single-image and multi-page PDF parsing with configurabl…
Baidu released PP-OCRv6, a family of OCR models scaling from 1.5M to 34.5M parameters, supporting 50 languages. The medium model achieves 86.2% detection Hmean and 83.2% recognition accuracy, improvin…
Baidu is pursuing full-stack AI capabilities by building its own chips, models, and cloud infrastructure while gaining access to restricted Nvidia H200 GPUs. The company's Kunlunxin chip unit could be…
AIWave has launched a platform that provides a single API endpoint to access over 50 Chinese AI models from eight providers, including DeepSeek, Zhipu, and Alibaba, without requiring code changes. The…
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's securities regulator is pushing artificial intelligence companies to list on domestic and Hong Kong exchanges, reshaping capital-raising for the tech sector. Over 85% of Chinese AI-related IPO…
ByteDance is in talks to buy at least 50,000 AI chips from Chinese GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX this year, aiming to reduce dependence on Nvidia amid US export controls. The chips would primarily serve in…
ByteDance is in talks to buy at least 50,000 AI chips from Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX for inference workloads powering its Doubao chatbot, Reuters reports. If completed, the deal would make Iluvata…
ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, is negotiating to buy at least 50,000 AI inference GPUs from Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX, as US export controls push Chinese tech firms to diversify away from Nvi…
A developer has curated eight open-source low-code platforms for 2026, grouped by use case, including JeecgBoot, RuoYi, Oinone, Amis, NocoBase, NocoDB, and Teable. The roundup highlights Oinone as a m…
Algorithm engineer Wei Ying built an AI version of himself before resigning from Chinese tech giant Baidu this spring, training an internal system on his code, documents, and chat histories to replica…
Chinese AI labs have progressed from early BERT-era models to trillion-parameter systems like Wu Dao 2.0 (1.75T parameters) and cost-efficient architectures such as DeepSeek V3 (trained for $5.6M), ac…
A developer tested 10 AI models on 10 agent coding tasks, finding free-tier performance ranged from 76.7% (Owl Alpha) to 10% (Laguna M.1), with the latter producing garbage on 9 of 10 tasks. The paid …
Based solely on the provided text, Baidu's CFO stated that GPU rentals are "structurally higher margin than CPU cloud." The article's headline summarizes this by asserting that Baidu has openly acknow…
Marc Andreessen told a16z's January 2026 LP meeting that the competitive advantage in artificial intelligence no longer comes from the underlying model, but from the infrastructure and applications bu…