Tencent on Monday announced the return of its classic virtual pet service, QQ Pet, redesigned with 3D character models and powered by Tencent's in-house Hunyuan Hy3 large language model, which support…
Chinese AI models Kimi K3 and DeepSeek are forcing Silicon Valley to rethink assumptions about the AI race, with Moonshot pausing new Kimi K3 subscriptions less than 48 hours after launch due to overw…
Tencent's workplace communication platform Enterprise WeChat has opened beta testing of an AI assistant named Dayuan, which users can activate by swiping left from any interface to access documents, s…
CXMT, a Chinese chipmaker courted by Apple, saw its shares soar 466% on its market debut Monday, briefly becoming mainland China's most valuable company with a market cap of US$547 billion before clos…
DeepSeek told prospective investors on July 25 to halt a second funding round that would have valued the Chinese AI lab at $71 billion, triggered by a leaked transcript of founder Liang Wenfeng's priv…
DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after leaked comments from founder Liang Wenfeng about China's dependence on Nvidia chips and the country's AI gap with the United States went viral…
Generative AI patent families nearly tripled from roughly 14,000 in 2023 to over 37,800 by 2025, according to a World Intellectual Property Organization report, with China filing six times more invent…
Moonshot AI released the Kimi K3 open-weight coding model on July 17, topping Arena AI's Frontend Code Leaderboard with an Elo score of 1,679, ahead of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 …
DeepSeek has reportedly paused a planned funding round after a leaked transcript of founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng's off-the-cuff remarks went viral, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous so…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has paused discussions on a second funding round just weeks after closing a $7.4 billion raise at a $52 billion valuation, according to the company's direct communication w…
DeepSeek has told prospective investors to pause its second funding round, which was expected to value the company at $71 billion to $74 billion, according to Bloomberg. The Chinese AI company closed …
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, is seeking to raise at least 10 billion yuan in a follow-on funding round at a pre-money valuation of roughly $71 billion, just weeks after closing its first external…
Polymarket traders give a 26% probability that the US government will restrict public access to at least one major Chinese AI model before December 31, 2026, as usage of Chinese models on platforms li…
Shanghai humanoid robotics firm AgiBot kicked off its Hong Kong IPO process on July 24, 2026, targeting a valuation between HK$40 billion and HK$50 billion ($5.1 billion to $6.4 billion). The three-ye…
CATL's energy storage revenue surged 87.54% to 53.26 billion yuan in the first half of 2026, nearly double the growth rate of its power battery business, as the company positions itself to supply batt…
Chinese memory chip maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) ejected engineers from SiCarrier, a Huawei-linked chipmaking-equipment vendor, from its R&D cleanrooms in Hefei last month amid a pricing …
China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is racing to break the South Korean stranglehold on AI memory chips as DRAM spot prices jumped nearly 700% in a year and data centers are on track to consum…
Tencent's WorkBuddy Bench leaderboard shows no single model dominates agentic coding tasks, with Claude Opus 4.8 leading five of eight scored columns, GLM-5.2 leading two, and GPT-5.5 leading one. The…
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, is reportedly preparing a Hong Kong IPO within six months after closing a funding round valuing the startup at over $30 billion, while Dee…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer behind the open-source R1 reasoning model, is prioritizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) research over building a consumer platform or maximizing near-term r…