Apple has built its own proprietary AI model for China with support from Alibaba, becoming the first foreign company approved to offer such a model in the country, according to Reuters. The model, dev…
Apple has trained a large language model specifically for the China market in partnership with Alibaba Group, three sources said, a departure from its previous reliance on third-party models. The move…
XPENG released new details and the presale price for its upcoming G9L SUV, which underwent 6.74 million km of testing across 26 countries and features a 3100 mm wheelbase, 5120 mm length, 480-LED ligh…
Dell'Oro Group reports that agentic AI and inference workloads will drive more than half of the growth in front-end data center switch sales over the next five years, with AI-related front-end network…
Microsoft has quietly closed at least 15 offices and joint ventures in China over the past five years, according to a Reuters report, including its localized LinkedIn, retail stores, an IoT & AI Insid…
Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has begun its pre-IPO tutoring process, hiring Citic Securities to guide preparations for a mainland China listing, with a mandatory tutoring period of at least three mon…
Chinese AI company Zhipu is approaching 7 million registered API users on its MaaS open platform, adding roughly 2 million since early July, and has activated more than 50,000 domestically developed A…
Researchers from Huawei have developed proxy models that reduce accelerator requirements by 50%-87.5% and cut per-step NPU-hour cost by up to 33.3x for reproducing failures in large language model rei…
China's Meteorological Administration deployed AI weather models from Huawei and Alibaba alongside traditional physics-based systems during Typhoon Dolphin, marking a major real-world test for AI-driv…
Nvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure financing, u…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is drafting a restriction on imports of new Chinese-made optical transceivers used in AI data centers, according to four people familiar with the matter cite…
VanEck's JP Lee said China is pushing domestic chip purchases to counter US sanctions, implementing a 50% domestic sourcing requirement for semiconductor manufacturing equipment and restricting Nvidia…
Chinese-designed AI weather models, including Fengwu from the Shanghai AI Laboratory, Huawei's Pangu, and Fuxi from Fudan University, are emerging as leaders in the race to improve weather prediction,…
Alibaba Cloud can now build large-scale AI data centres in 100 days using its proprietary CUBE 5.0 modular architecture, cutting construction timelines by up to 85 percent and costs by 10 percent, acc…
China deployed three homegrown AI weather models—Shanghai AI Laboratory's Fengwu, Huawei's Pangu, and Fudan University's Fuxi—to track Typhoon Dolphin alongside traditional numerical systems, marking …
Li Auto, the Beijing-based electric-vehicle maker, confirmed its second-generation Livis AI glasses will launch in the second half of 2027, developed with German optics firm Zeiss to embed high-resolu…
AI News Digest for Aug 11 lists 30 stories, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's superyacht allegedly ignoring a distress call, Claude watermarking AI outputs to fight deepfakes, DeepSeek reverse-engi…
Avatr, the EV joint venture of Changan Automobile, CATL, and Huawei, launched the 07L small SUV in China at a limited-time price of 219,900 yuan ($32,590), with regular prices ranging from 229,900 yua…
ByteDance's Seed AI division is pre-training a model with approximately 10 trillion parameters, a scale that could rival Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5, currently the largest frontier model in production…
China's largest AI industrial park, Envision Group's Galaxy Campus in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, became operational around August 6, featuring a 120,000-square-meter main building designed to house up t…