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Thursday 2 January 2025
Alibaba to sell Sun Art to buyout firm DCP for US$1.6 billion
Alibaba Group agreed to sell its shares in Sun Art Retail Group to private equity firm DCP Capital, unloading another high-profile physical commerce asset to focus on its core online...
Friday 27 December 2024
Alibaba, E-Mart to create US$4 billion e-commerce JV in Korea
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. agreed to form a joint venture for its South Korean operations with E-Mart Inc.'s e-commerce platform to better compete in the country's fast-paced online...
Thursday 26 December 2024
Chinese Data Center Operator Yovole Is Said to Consider US IPO
Yovole is considering an initial public offering in the US, people familiar with the matter said, years after the Chinese data center operator's failed attempt to list in mainland...
Wednesday 18 December 2024
Zhipu AI secures US$412 million with backing from Alibaba, Tencent
Zhipu AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence unicorn specializing in large language models (LLMs), has secured CNY3 billion (US$412 million) in its latest funding round—its second...
Thursday 7 November 2024
Huawei's HarmonyOS faces commercialization challenges, receives boost from digital yuan applications
Huawei's HarmonyOS is encountering significant hurdles in its path to successful commercialization. However, since its launch, Huawei has integrated the digital yuan into HarmonyOS,...
Wednesday 23 October 2024
Horizon Robotics launches Hong Kong IPO with Alibaba, Baidu support and TSMC manufacturing
Horizon Robotics, a Chinese autonomous driving technology provider, aims to raise US$696 million through its Hong Kong IPO, potentially providing a boost to the city's listing market...
Tuesday 15 October 2024
Status of domestic AI chip development in China

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Monday 23 September 2024
Alibaba reveals open-source Qwen2.5 model; surpasses Meta's Llama 3.1 in performance
China's Alibaba has announced the launch of a new generation of open-source large language models (LLMs), titled the Qwen2.5 series. Notably, Qwen2.5 has outperformed Meta's Llama...
Thursday 11 July 2024
Chinese AI models show strength and resilience amid US sanctions
Chinese AI companies showcased resilience and innovation at the 2024 World AI Conference (WAIC 2024) amid the US's tightening AI chip export sanctions.
Monday 1 July 2024
Alibaba to suspend data center operation in India and Australia
Alibaba Group Holding's cloud computing division, Alibaba Cloud, has announced plans to discontinue its data center operations in Australia and India as part of a strategic shift...
Wednesday 26 June 2024
OpenAI API block prompting Chinese AI firms to offer alternatives
OpenAI will block API access in China from July, spurring local firms like Alibaba and Zhipu AI to offer migration plans.
Monday 3 June 2024
Mass exodus of AI leaders from Chinese tech giants spurs new AI unicorns striving to be China's OpenAI
Chinese tech giants are experiencing a wave of departures among their AI experts.
Friday 24 May 2024
The high-stakes battle of China's LLM market
China's fierce battle of the Large Language Models (LLMs) has begun.
Friday 24 May 2024
China's AI market booms, but Chinese CSPs fail to cash in
While the AI market in China is experiencing explosive growth, there are expectations that related services like computing, big data, storage, and data centers will grow accordingl...