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Wednesday 27 August 2025
China's cloud giants diverge on AI strategies with spending surge
China's top cloud providers are charting different courses in artificial intelligence (AI) as the nation's tech boom enters a new stage. Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and Huawei are...
Wednesday 20 August 2025
Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder captures over 20% market share, challenging Claude Sonnet 4 for top AI coding model
Alibaba Group's AI code-writing model, Qwen3-Coder, has become the world's second most used AI coding tool within a month of its July 23 launch. It holds a significant 20% share of...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
China orders Alibaba, ByteDance to stop buying Nvidia H20 chips as tech tensions escalate
China's growing mistrust of Nvidia's H20 GPU is spilling into open confrontation, with regulators ordering leading internet firms, including Alibaba and ByteDance, to suspend orders...
Thursday 3 July 2025
ByteDance expands AI hiring spree into humanoid robotics
ByteDance is recruiting heavily for humanoid robot development as the TikTok parent accelerates its push beyond social media into cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) applicat...
Friday 25 April 2025
China reportedly stockpiled US$12B worth of Nvidia H20 chips ahead of US ban
Ahead of the US government's early April export restrictions, Chinese tech giants ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent reportedly preemptively stockpiled up to one million units of Nvidia's...
Tuesday 22 April 2025
Huawei, Tencent, ByteDance scale up AI hiring to counter US tech blockade
As US-China tensions over artificial intelligence reach new heights in 2025, the tech conflict has entered a critical stage. The US Commerce Department has launched an export review...
Tuesday 15 April 2025
ByteDance reportedly taps suppliers for AI smart glasses in broader XR strategy
ByteDance is reportedly developing its AI-powered smart glasses and has entered talks with suppliers, marking its latest move into the competitive AI hardware market.
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Deepseek AI drives unprecedented demand for Nvidia's China-specific chips
Nvidia's relationship with Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has evolved dramatically, affecting Nvidia's stock price and driving strong demand for its China-specific H20 GPU in China....
Friday 14 March 2025
ByteDance open-sources COMET to boost MoE efficiency, accelerating LLM training by 1.7x
ByteDance's Doubao AI team has open-sourced COMET, a Mixture of Experts (MoE) optimization framework that improves large language model (LLM) training efficiency while reducing costs...
Wednesday 5 March 2025
Tencent's AI Bot passes DeepSeek as China's favorite on iPhones
Tencent Holdings' Yuanbao AI chatbot passed DeepSeek to become the most downloaded iPhone app in China this week, highlighting the intensifying domestic competition.
Monday 24 February 2025
China's AI talent war: tech giants offer million-yuan salaries in fierce domestic battle
As AI rapidly advances, the demand for skilled professionals has surged in China, especially in generative AI, large models, data centers, and humanoid robots. Competition for talent...
Thursday 20 February 2025
Baidu's AI pivot tested as DeepSeek gains ground
Baidu's fourth-quarter revenue fell 2% to CNY34.1 billion (approx. US$4.68 billion) as China's search giant grapples with intensifying competition in artificial intelligence and a...
Wednesday 19 February 2025
DeepSeek sees additional global scrutiny as South Korea blocks app
South Korea has moved to shut down the artificial intelligence (AI) app DeepSeek, citing data privacy concerns tied to its links with Chinese tech giant ByteDance. The Personal Information...
Tuesday 4 February 2025
TikTok to invest US$3.8 billion in Thai data center
ByteDance's TikTok plans to invest THB126.8 billion (US$3.76 billion) in a Thai data hosting service, marking a major expansion in Southeast Asia. Thailand is emerging as a digital...
Tuesday 4 February 2025
China GPU market struggles with oversupply and fragmented ecosystem
China's AI sector is transitioning from massive model development to inference applications. While tech giants like ByteDance and Alibaba have constructed large GPU clusters, much...