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Alibaba plans to spin off and list its T-Head chip arm. Photo: Handout

Tech Trends

Alibaba prepares potential spin-off, listing of chip unit T-Head

The wholly owned chip unit will first be restructured into a separate business partly held by employees, Bloomberg reported, citing sources.

Baidu launches Ernie 5.0 as firm’s AI assistant users reach 200 million a month

China’s massive project to funnel clean energy from Tibet enters new phase

Big Tech

Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads set to report tripling of revenue

AI chipmakers have emerged as the most valuable companies in China’s AI field as the country pushes for chips that rival Nvidia’s.

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Shares in Moore Threads have surged nearly 450 per cent since its listing in December. Photo: Handout
Shares in Moore Threads have surged nearly 450 per cent since its listing in December. Photo: Handout

Tech Trends

China’s ‘infrastructure first’ effort a major edge in AI arms race: Davos panel

A rapid energy buildout and strategic data centre expansion give China unique advantages in developing its AI industry.

Tech Trends

Apple cuts prices for Lunar New Year as competition heats up in mainland China

Apple offers discounts on iPhones, MacBook and other products – its second promotion in a month ahead of the holiday.

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Big Tech

Chinese tech giants face dilemma as Nvidia’s H200 chips are held at the border

With firms waiting for import approval from Beijing, one reseller said finding H200 chips has gotten harder – even on the black market.

Nvidia has received the green light from Washington to export the H200 to China, but was waiting for approvals from the Chinese side. Photo: Reuters
Nvidia has received the green light from Washington to export the H200 to China, but was waiting for approvals from the Chinese side. Photo: Reuters

Tech Trends

Google study finds DeepSeek, Alibaba models mimic human collective intelligence

The Google researchers found that the reasoning models generate internal multi-agent debates, which they termed ‘societies of thought’.

Tech Trends

China-founded Shanda’s AI lab boosts Singapore operation, pulling China research

MiroMind asks some staff in Shanghai to relocate and continue their AI research work in Singapore, sources say.

Tech War

AI shaping world’s biggest infrastructure buildout: Nvidia CEO

Each country should build their own AI system, incorporating its own language and culture into the AI models, Huang says at the WEF in Davos.

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Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

Policy

Shanghai to open ‘free-to-fly’ zones covering 46% of city for consumer drones

From February 1, consumer drones will be allowed to fly in designated airspace under new rules to boost the city’s low-altitude economy.

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A drone flies over The Bund in central Shanghai in the evening. Photo: Shutterstock
A drone flies over The Bund in central Shanghai in the evening. Photo: Shutterstock

Policy

Beijing outlines tech push with focus on AI, 6G, humanoid robots

Tech ministry’s plan targets breakthroughs in AI models, agents and chips, as well as AI’s spread into diverse sectors.

Policy

China fines e-commerce firm PDD for tax violations amid probe

Operator of leading online retail platform was cited for failure to comply with Shanghai’s tax requirements.

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Tech Trends

Divergent AI growth paths emerge from China, US amid bubble concerns: CICC

Last year, US venture capital investment in AI reached US$175 billion, nearly 30 times China’s US$6 billion in the same period.

The world’s two largest economies are advancing along divergent paths in AI, according to CICC. Photo: Shutterstock

Tech Trends

Memory chip crunch to persist even as Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron boost production

Major vendors are scrambling to expand production, but the scarcity of general-purpose memory chips is forecast to continue well into 2027.

The global shortage of commodity memory chips is not expected to be addressed any time soon. Photo: Shutterstock
The global shortage of commodity memory chips is not expected to be addressed any time soon. Photo: Shutterstock

China Business

Harbour BioMed stake in US drug developer shows Chinese firms’ growing clout

Latest example of Chinese drug maker acquiring equity in overseas partner shows they are becoming true development partners, analysts say.

Big Tech

China Telecom develops MoE models trained entirely on Huawei’s AI chips

The state-owned telecoms network operator trains its TeleChat3 models on Huawei’s Ascend 910B chips.

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Tech War

How Nexperia saga exposes Europe’s waning influence in US-China chip war

The dispute around the Dutch chipmaker shows the erosion of Europe’s geopolitical neutrality in the face of escalating US-China rivalry.

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Nexperia is caught in a geopolitical tussle between the Netherlands and China. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Nexperia is caught in a geopolitical tussle between the Netherlands and China. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Tech War

China’s lesson for the US: it takes more than chips to win the AI race

The AI war is increasingly waged among ‘hyperscalers’ – companies with full-stack capabilities across software, hardware and applications.

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Tech War

How Huawei and DeepSeek are tending the garden of China’s AI aspirations

Amid growing AI rivalry with the US, the two companies are leading China’s drive to shake off the nation’s dependence on Nvidia processors.

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Big Tech

Immediate gratification: instant commerce transforms China’s retail market

Instant commerce has developed over a short period of time, as providers expanded their on-demand delivery coverage beyond food.

Illustration: Henry Wong
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DeepSeek a year on: how a Chinese start-up sparked a global AI arms race

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DeepSeek’s meteoric rise has propelled the growth of the open-source AI ecosystem by spurring its competitors to join the movement. Photo: Shutterstock

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Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads set to report tripling of revenue

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Shares in Moore Threads have surged nearly 450 per cent since its listing in December. Photo: Handout

Tech Trends

China’s ‘infrastructure first’ effort a major edge in AI arms race: Davos panel

China’s “AI Plus” panel discussion at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday included, from left, moderator Guan Xin, Tencent Holdings’ Dowson Tong, Moonshot AI’s Zhang Yutong and Nankai University’s Gong Ke. Photo: SCMP

Big Tech

Chinese tech giants face dilemma as Nvidia’s H200 chips are held at the border

Nvidia has received the green light from Washington to export the H200 to China, but was waiting for approvals from the Chinese side. Photo: Reuters

Banking & Finance

Chinese banks join the space race with satellite launches and rocket backing

A Chinese Long March-12 carrier rocket blasts off on January 19 with a payload of low-orbit satellites. Photo: Xinhua
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