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Chinese chip equipment manufacturer SiCarrier debuted ~30 “domestically controllable” products at the Semicon China show, as China pushes for chip self-reliance (www.scmp.com)
1 day ago China

Tencent unveils Hunyuan T1, which leverages large-scale reinforcement learning to rival DeepSeek's R1 in both performance and pricing (www.scmp.com)
8 days ago Tencent

Sources: TSMC cuts ties with Singapore-based PowerAIR due to a potential breach of US export controls, after a TSMC chip was found in a Huawei AI processor (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-11 AI Singapore

Douyin, Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu vow to improve their algorithms, after China launched a campaign in November 2024 to address “typical issues with algorithms” (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-5 China Algorithm

Alibaba Cloud partners with 01.AI, the Beijing-based AI unicorn founded by former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee, to set up an “industrial large model laboratory” (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-4 China Google Alibaba AI

China's Wingtech, supplier to Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, and others, plans to sell its contract manufacturing business to Luxshare after being sanctioned by the US (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-2 China Samsung Apple Xiaomi Manufacturing

Report: users on Douyin, WeChat, and other short video apps in China dropped for the first time, reaching 1.05B in June 2024, ~300M fewer than in December 2023 (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-1 China WeChat

Ant Group's payment app Alipay adds an AI-powered image search feature as it tries to become a super app like rival Tencent's WeChat (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-1 AI WeChat Tencent Alipay

Four districts in southern China formed a pilot framework to mutually recognize qualifications and open roads for autonomous robotaxis to travel across cities (www.scmp.com)
2024-12-28 China

Ant splits Alipay into the Digital Payment Business Group focused on new payment products, and the Alipay Business Group focused on user growth and monetization (www.scmp.com)
2024-12-25 Alipay

Report: Alibaba splits the team developing apps for its AI chatbot Qianwen from the team that builds its LLM, following similar moves by ByteDance and Baidu (www.scmp.com)
2024-12-21 Alibaba AI chatbot

Sources: the US spared China's top DRAM producer CXMT from its latest round of chip curbs because of Japan's opposition; Tokyo Electron is a major CXMT supplier (www.scmp.com)
2024-12-6 China Japan Tokyo

Chinese government data: generative AI users in China reached 230M at the end of June 2024; Ernie Bot had an 11.5% share, ChatGPT had 7.8%, and Gemini had 3.8% (www.scmp.com)
2024-12-3 China AI

Aicpb.com: ByteDance's Doubao had 51M MAUs in China, the highest for AI chatbots in China, ahead of 12.5M for Baidu's Wenxiaoyan and 10M for Moonshot AI's Kimi (www.scmp.com)
2024-11-13 China AI chatbot

AppGrowing: in Q3, Moonshot, Zhipu, ByteDance, Alibaba, and other Chinese AI companies spent ~$70.2M to promote their AI chatbots, as the market gets crowded (www.scmp.com)
2024-11-5 China Alibaba AI chatbot

ByteDance debuts its first earbuds, open-ear wearables called Ola Friend that have audio access to its Doubao chatbot, shipping on October 17 in China for ~$170 (www.scmp.com)
2024-10-15 China chatbot

Apple opens an applied research laboratory in Shenzhen; Chinese state media says it will employ 1,000+ and become Apple's “most extensive” lab outside the US (www.scmp.com)
2024-10-15 China Apple Shenzhen

Chinese local media: Chinese video surveillance tech supplier Hikvision plans to lay off 1,000+ R&D staff; Hikvision denied any “large-scale lay-offs” (www.scmp.com)
2024-10-15 China

How Beixiazhu, a Chinese village that was a hotspot of activity during the livestream shopping boom on Douyin, Kuaishou and other apps, became a cautionary tale (www.scmp.com)
2024-10-5 China

Ant Group launches Zhixiaobao, a standalone AI app to let users facilitate daily tasks such as ordering meals and hailing taxis, and access third-party services (www.scmp.com)
2024-9-5 AI

A profile of Yang Zhilin, the founder and CEO of China's highest-valued AI unicorn Moonshot, who studied at Carnegie Mellon University and worked at Huawei (www.scmp.com)
2024-8-7 China AI

In an effort to compete with Shein and Temu, Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall offer qualified merchants, selling goods in the fashion category, free overseas shipping (www.scmp.com)
2024-7-24 Alibaba

Dealogic: foreign capital in China's VC industry fell 60% YoY to $3.7B in 2023, just 10% of the 2021 peak, leading to an expansion of state-backed funds (www.scmp.com)
2024-7-17 China

Sources: X-Epic, a Chinese EDA software maker for designing chips that had raised $121.7M as of March 2023, is laying off up to 50% staff amid market headwinds (www.scmp.com)
2024-7-13 China

Hong Kong proposes stiffer penalties for illegal ride-hailing services and use of licensing to regulate platforms such as Uber, potentially limiting their scope (www.scmp.com)
2024-7-9 Hong Kong Uber

Preqin: China accounted for 90% of global semiconductor VC funding in 2023, with $22.2B and up from $9.5B in 2022; the funding slowed to just $1.6B in H1 2024 (www.scmp.com)
2024-7-6 China

Sources: Huawei plans to partner with Chinese foundry Wuhan Xinxin to develop high-bandwidth memory chips, marking its latest effort to defy US sanctions (www.scmp.com)
2024-7-1 China

Sources: Shein CEO Xu Yangtian has deliberately kept a low profile for fear of attracting unwanted public attention; Shein has never published any photos of him (www.scmp.com)
2024-6-18

Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to ~$10.1B and profit up ~60% YoY to ~$745M, boosted by gains from its core local commerce operations led by food delivery (www.scmp.com)
2024-6-8

Tens of thousands of overworked employees have left their jobs at China's largest tech companies in recent years, as the industry lost its growth momentum (www.scmp.com)
2024-5-5 China

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