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Punching above their weight: how China’s AI giants stretch each dollar in compute race
The massive gap in artificial intelligence spending between US and Chinese tech titans may not buy the advantage expected for…
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China’s telecoms giants bet on ‘token factories’ as AI drives revenue growth
China’s three state-owned telecoms giants have made billable artificial intelligence tokens a key focus of their growth strategies, as AI…
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The AI talent war: tech giants court researchers years ahead of graduation
Doctoral researcher Hu Qi still has about two years left in his programme at the University of Hong Kong, but…
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China’s tech giants fuel the rise of AI tokens as a new corporate currency
Every month, a Beijing-based ByteDance employee says he burns through close to a billion units of a new corporate currency…
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China memory module giant’s first-half profit set to jump more than 600-fold
One of China’s biggest memory module makers is forecasting a more than 600-fold surge in first-half profit, highlighting the boost…
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As 618 shopping frenzy grows, Beijing warns e-commerce giants over price-war tactics
As China’s annual “618” shopping festival – one of the country’s biggest online retail events – gathers momentum, Beijing’s market…
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Forget cellular data: China’s telecoms giants are selling AI token plans
For years, mobile carriers have billed users by the gigabyte. Now, China’s telecoms giants are seeking to monetise the artificial…
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Chinese tech giants, AI ‘godmother’ Li Fei-Fei race to seize the edge in world models
A wave of companies, from the start-up launched by artificial intelligence “godmother” Li Fei-Fei to the largest Chinese tech firms,…
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Chinese AI giants pivot toward proprietary models to drive revenue, performance
Chinese companies including Alibaba Cloud and Zhipu AI have opted not to open-source some of their latest artificial intelligence models…
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