General Atlantic is in talks to lead a funding round for Kling AI, the video arm of Chinese tech group Kuaishou, at an $18 billion valuation. The deal faces political risks as Beijing has instructed C…
ByteDance is Microsoft's largest AI customer, spending over $1 billion annually on OpenAI models via Azure, even as U.S. regulators tighten rules on Chinese AI access. Microsoft's AI revenue in China …
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, instructing investors not to poach its employees as it issues equity to retain its 150-person team. The round v…
ByteDance's Doubao, China's most popular AI chatbot with 345 million monthly active users, is introducing subscription plans from 688 to 5,088 yuan annually, sparking user backlash and debate over mon…
ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is spending billions on AI and shifting to domestic chips, potentially benefiting second-tier Chinese chipmakers like Iluvatar CoreX, Biren Technology, and others. The …
Microsoft has sold OpenAI models to major Chinese technology companies including ByteDance, Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent Holdings, with ByteDance on track to spend over $1 billion annually on Micro…
Microsoft has built a significant business selling OpenAI models to Chinese tech giants including ByteDance, Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent, despite U.S.-China tensions over AI. ByteDance alone is on…
Seres Group unveiled a humanoid robot named Xiaosai for factory use, featuring visual recognition, autonomous greeting, and voice interaction. The company already operates factory variants Xiaosai 01 …
At the APOS 2026 conference, actor Andy Serkis expressed excitement about AI's creative potential while warning of risks like misinformation and accountability gaps, and Google's Jon Zepp called AI a …
Researchers formalized and verified four concurrency anomalies in multi-agent LLM systems, establishing a machine-checked consistency hierarchy from L0 to L4. They implemented verified detectors and r…
BytePlus, the enterprise technology arm of ByteDance, hosted a closed-door AI roundtable at APOS 2026 in Bali, drawing senior executives from broadcasters and streaming platforms across six Asian mark…
ByteDance and Tencent have slashed AI model prices, joining a deepening price war in China's AI sector as falling costs and narrowing capability gaps intensify competition. ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Mi…
Qualcomm is in talks to acquire AI chip-design company Tenstorrent for $8 billion to $10 billion, according to The Information. The deal would signal Qualcomm's push into the AI data center market as …
Tencent-backed AI chip startup Enflame won approval for a 6 billion yuan ($888m) IPO on Shanghai's STAR board, becoming the last of China's 'four AI chip dragons' to go public. The company, which reli…
AIVA, an AI-native mobility brand backed by Seres Group and launched by Saidou Technology, debuted in Beijing on June 9, 2026, with a partnership with ByteDance's Volcano Engine to co-develop in-vehic…
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…
JPMorgan's Alex Yao says China's AI competition has shifted from raw technical performance to delivering measurable business value, with major platforms like ByteDance introducing paid subscriptions f…
Vertical AI tools are outperforming generalist AI assistants in specific workflows, according to a developer's analysis of Chinese AI tool roundups on Juejin from late 2025 into 2026. Examples include…