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Vincent Chow
Senior AI reporter, Tech
Vincent Chow is a technology reporter covering frontier AI models, AI governance and US-China competition. He previously covered Chinese society and was awarded a SOPA award for his culture reporting.
Vincent Chow is a technology reporter covering frontier AI models, AI governance and US-China competition. He previously covered Chinese society and was awarded a SOPA award for his culture reporting.
Areas of Expertise:
AI models, AI governance, Chinese societyLanguages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
Model ranks among world’s best for intelligence per dollar thanks to now permanent price cut, according to Artificial Analysis.
In the AI era, the problem with being a technological follower is the constant risk of having the rug pulled from under you, Liu says.
Move underscores start-up’s efforts to build harnesses – software that turns an AI model into a functional and autonomous AI agent.
A wave of demand for agentic AI will prove to be a pivotal ‘inflection point’ and vindicate high capital expenditure, Eric Sheridan says.
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American firm’s warning about China’s tech capability seen by some as fearmongering as hopes of bilateral cooperation on AI safety rise.
The funding round was led by venture capital firms GV and Greycroft, with ‘major participation’ from Nvidia and AMD.
IDC projects that China’s AI cybersecurity industry will be valued at US$8.7 billion by 2030, a more than 37-fold increase from 2025.
China and US have different goals for artificial intelligence and ways of developing it. Washington’s curbs on tech exports have widened the gap between them.
On DeepSeek’s chat interface, a new ‘image recognition mode’ has been added alongside the ‘expert’ and ‘flash’ chat modes.
Case shows US-China competition has expanded beyond chips and models to areas of engineering and product design, analyst says.
Researcher Chen Deli is emerging as DeepSeek’s new public face as speculation over the whereabouts of the company’s founder and CEO lingers.
Economic planner asks both parties to withdraw from deal for AI firm, in move with wider implications for other start-ups operating overseas.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said on its influential social media account that Mythos showed ‘unprecedented cyberattack capabilities’.
DeepSeek says its V4 model will have throughput issues until the second half of the year, until Ascend 950PR supernodes ‘ship at scale’.
The company says its cost-efficient new V4 model is competitive with top closed-source models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind.
US lawmakers push export controls to limit China’s tech access in a bid to protect the US semiconductor industry.
The model is relatively small with only 295 billion parameters, bucking a recent trend of large models with trillions of parameters.
Given cybersecurity risks in critical software, Mythos has sparked debate about whether its capabilities should be shared with China.
Legacy Chinese SaaS firms are integrating AI into their offerings and seeing ‘significant robust growth’ as a result, Liu said.
Free models helped Chinese firms find rapid success – but thin margins are forcing a shift towards hybrid business strategies.
Chinese developers are bypassing new ID checks as demand for Claude remains strong despite official restrictions.
As AI development gathers speed, governments and industry leaders say guardrails are needed to protect the public from the fast-moving tech.
With Beijing prioritising financial stability, analysts say state lenders take a measured approach to generative models amid growing global cybersecurity risks.
The Hangzhou start-up’s latest chatbot update sparks speculation over whether the expert mode is linked to the long-delayed V4 model.
Chinese companies are competing to offer the cheapest alternatives to premium US services from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.
The veteran Chinese executive will lead a team that develops AI devices at the Facebook parent’s superintelligence unit.
Speech by CEO of Chinese AI start-up at Nvidia event in US highlights symbiotic nature of tech relationship despite geopolitical tensions.
Since 2022, big tech firms including Alibaba and Baidu have established internal science and technology ethics review committees.
This week, Alibaba released three proprietary models that were all accessible only via its official cloud platform or chatbot website.
