China forced ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down humanlike chatbot personas on their AI platforms, responding to new regulations from Beijing aimed at preventing addiction and protecting minors. The ru…
Chinese web novel platforms that initially embraced AI writing tools are now cracking down on AI-generated content as readers complain about quality and creativity. Authors like Gordon Sheng use tools…
Tencent released Hy3, a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts open model with 21B active parameters and a 3.8B MTP layer, following the Hy3 Preview launch in late April. Hy3 scored 2.67/4 on benchmarks, o…
Nobel laureate John Jumper, co-creator of AlphaFold, left Google DeepMind for Anthropic to advance AI-for-science. Anthropic launched Claude Science, a research workbench, and opened grants for 50 pro…
China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security reported over 200,000 AI-related job vacancies posted by more than 5,000 internet firms during a nationwide recruitment campaign, with hiring ex…
Kling AI, a Chinese generative AI startup, raised $3 billion in funding at an $18 billion valuation, with Alibaba and Tencent among the backers, according to a report. The company is developing a riva…
Kuaishou's AI video division Kling raised $2 billion from investors including CPE, Tencent, and Citic Securities, valuing the unit at $18 billion. The funding round supports Kling's planned spinoff an…
Kuaishou's AI video generation business Kling AI raised nearly $3 billion in external funding on July 2, with a post-money valuation of $18 billion. The round was co-led by CPE, Guofang Venture Capita…
Tencent is joining a reported $3 billion funding round for Kuaishou's AI video generation platform Kling AI, which is expected to be valued at $18 billion. Kuaishou plans to spin off Kling AI and laun…
Chinese users are jailbreaking AI models like DeepSeek, Tencent's Yuanbao, and Alibaba's Qianwen to generate erotic fiction through a practice called "breaking the armor" (pòjiǎ), which defeats safety…
Tencent launched Just Dance: Party, a mobile rhythm game based on Ubisoft's franchise, on iOS, Android, and HarmonyOS. The game uses AI-powered skeletal tracking for full-body motion capture via smart…
China's Kling AI, a spin-off from Kuaishou Technology, is nearing a US$3 billion fundraising round at an US$18 billion valuation, with Tencent among the investors. The company plans to start its Hong …
Jeremy Fiance, founder of AI company Cognitiv, argues that Gen Z can survive AI-driven job displacement by developing adaptable, cross-disciplinary skills rather than hyper-specializing. He cites his …
A bootcamp graduate tested ten AI coding models on five tasks, scoring them on code quality, readability, and explanation clarity. The experiment found that DeepSeek V4 Flash and DeepSeek Coder offer …
A developer tracked OpenRouter's daily usage rankings for a month to see which AI models developers actually use in production. The top five models by token volume were all from Chinese labs or open-w…
Tencent is aggressively buying back its own shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after its market capitalization lost $309 billion, driven by investor concerns over AI spending. The company repurcha…
U.S. developers and startups are increasingly adopting low-cost Chinese AI models like DeepSeek, which offer comparable performance at a fraction of the price of American rivals. Despite political scr…
Baidu is preparing to take its AI chip subsidiary Kunlunxin public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, targeting a $50 billion valuation. The spin-off aims to highlight Kunlunxin's standalone value amid …
Chinese self-driving software firm Momenta opened its Hong Kong IPO on Monday, seeking up to $752 million to fund AI research and robotaxi development. The GM-backed company, valued at nearly $9 billi…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has agreed to supply Tencent with roughly $3 billion of memory chips, according to sources, in a deal that would bind one of China's largest cloud operators to its …