China’s proposed export bans and controls of artificial intelligence technologies aim to tighten Beijing’s grip in the strategically vital sector,…
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China leverages short-video ecosystem, lower costs to carve out lead in AI video
Chinese artificial intelligence companies are carving out a distinct lead over their US rivals in video generation, leveraging vast short-video…
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As US AI costs soar, global businesses pivot to China’s low-cost, open-weight models
Global businesses are increasingly switching from premium, closed-source US software – such as OpenAI’s GPT and Anthropic’s Claude – to…
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Chinese AI labs pursue custom chips to lower costs but heavy upfront investment a risk
Chinese AI labs are increasingly pursuing proprietary chips, mirroring a global trend towards software-hardware integration, but industry insiders and analysts…
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Chinese firms to incur higher costs for deploying advanced AI chips from US: analysts
Chinese companies are expected to shoulder higher costs for deploying advanced chips from the US, owing to a new 25…
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MindRank in Phase 3 trial with China’s first AI-assisted new drug, cutting R&D costs by 60%
Hangzhou-based biotech start-up MindRank has progressed to Phase 3 clinical trials for its weight-loss drug, making it China’s first artificial…
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New Alibaba method slashes costs of training AI for search by 88%
Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding has announced a breakthrough in reducing the cost of training artificial intelligence (AI) models…
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Amazon CEO says online sellers could pass US tariff costs to customers
Amazon.com chief executive officer Andy Jassy said the e-commerce company would try to keep prices low but said online sellers…
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Ant Group’s use of China-made GPUs, not Nvidia, cuts AI model training costs by 20%
Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, is able to train large language models (LLMs) using locally produced…
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AI start-up DeepSeek’s ‘real’ costs and computing power debated as chip stocks reel
The amount of computing power DeepSeek used to train its models has become a subject of intense interest for artificial…
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