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…
Ant Group is testing an AI agent interface for Alipay, launching AI Wallet and Token Pay to compete with Tencent's WeChat. Alipay AI Pay surpassed 100 million active users by February 2026, processing…
Meta has begun dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Chinese AI startup Manus, cutting off data sharing and access to internal systems, after Beijing ordered a divestiture on national security gro…
NVIDIA Research and Tencent YoutuResearch have released open-source systems that replace the VAE decoder bottleneck in latent diffusion models, enabling faster 4K image generation. NVIDIA's PiD reform…
Ideogram released Ideogram 4.0, its most powerful image generation model, which ranks 5th among all image models and is the highest-performing open-weights model, surpassing competitors like Tencent's…
Tencent appointed former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu, 27, as Chief AI Scientist in December 2025 to lead the company's push toward artificial general intelligence. The Chinese tech giant will double …
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab that has operated without outside investment for 18 months, is raising approximately $7 billion in its first external funding round at a valuation between $52 billion and …
China's three largest telecom operators — China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom — launched commercial AI token packages this past week, allowing users to track and bill AI usage through mobile…
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…
Titan Network has captured approximately 5% of Asia's AI data market by aggregating unused computing power from 4 million consumer devices into a decentralized cloud, the company announced. The networ…
Tencent shares surged after the company announced progress in developing AI agents, signaling a strategic push into advanced artificial intelligence tools. The stock jump reflects investor optimism th…
Open-weight models now account for 69.1% of named token volume on the OpenRouter API platform, compared to 30.9% for closed models, according to the latest platform data. The shift, driven by rapid co…
Economic gains from artificial intelligence are concentrating in a small number of global hubs, including Silicon Valley, the Washington-to-Boston corridor, and Shenzhen, China, according to an op-ed …
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…
The China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, a state-backed entity known as the "Big Fund," is in talks to lead Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's first external funding round at an approximate $…
A previously unknown AI model called Hy3 preview, developed by Chinese tech giant Tencent, has surged to the top of OpenRouter's AI Model Rankings, surpassing established models like Claude by more th…
Tencent is expanding its AI agent WorkBuddy into overseas markets, marking a shift from a recent pattern where Silicon Valley-built agent tools dominated global discourse. WorkBuddy has spent the past…
Shanghai-based AI firm MiniMax has teased its next-generation M3 model, claiming a 15.6x faster decoding speed and 9.7x faster prefill speed over its M2 model when processing 1M-token contexts, driven…
In April 2026, Tencent's WeChat team released WeKnora, an open-source RAG framework under the MIT license, which is production-tested at scale on WeChat's Dialog Open Platform. It features an autonomo…
Five Chinese open-source AI tools—WeKnora, FastGPT, MaxKB, DB-GPT, and RAGFlow—each with over 100,000 GitHub stars, that have minimal English-language community support despite being production-ready …