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By empowering innovations through its own technology and supporting former employees, the tech giant is reshaping China’s AI landscape.
The latest upgrade to the Qwen family of models will include a mixture-of-experts version and one with just 600 million parameters for mobile devices.
Kong Long left Apple after seven years, following the recent return of M4 CPU engineer Wang Huanyu to China.
Google is no longer developing Android in the open, which some developers believe could give an advantage to Huawei’s HarmonyOS.
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Alibaba research arm Damo Academy’s launch of the XuanTie C930 is expected to usher in more open-source chip innovation in China.
The surprise retreat highlights NetEase’s lack of a competitive edge against rivals like Alibaba and ByteDance, analysts say.
Alibaba says its QwQ-32B AI model outperforms DeepSeek’s R1 in coding and problem solving while using fewer resources.
Li Guojie, a computer scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also suggests that OpenAI may be hitting the scaling wall.
DeepSeek’s AI magic lies in its unique blend of literary expertise and advanced algorithms, former employees and industry experts say.
Wan 2.1, which boasts performance that rivals other leading offerings, is among a series of new models developed by Alibaba.
China’s new generation of tech tsars were born after the country began its ‘reform and opening up’ phase.
Some AI developers are already using DeepSeek’s open-sourced techniques to improve efficiency.
The city is shifting towards a technology-driven economy to align with Beijing’s strategic goals, with major investments planned for AI.
DeepSeek is in no rush to conduct further fundraising or engage in new commercial activities, according to a source, instead focusing on achieving AGI.
Hangzhou-based research firm releases two of the five open-source AI infrastructure projects promised this week.
The introduction of QwQ-Max-Preview comes as Alibaba pledges to invest US$53 billion on cloud and AI infrastructure in the next three years.
China appears to have upped the ante in this field of generative AI, which is poised to disrupt the entertainment and advertising industries.
CEO Eddie Wu said Alibaba will ‘aggressively invest’ in AI infrastructure and bolster research and development on advanced new AI models.
The fintech giant is hiring for a range of ‘embodied intelligence’ roles responsible for developing the brains and bodies of humanoid robots.
Baidu CEO Robin Li said 2024 was a transformational year as the company pivots to AI, where it faces fresh competition from start-up DeepSeek.
DeepSeek, whose large language models are free to use, plans to expand into ‘internet information services’.
Baidu on Friday said the next generation of its Ernie large language models will be open source from June 30.
Altman’s about-face from OpenAI’s tough stance on China reflects how Hangzhou-based start-up DeepSeek upended the global AI industry.
China’s academics tout the country’s contribution to global AI development, while its hottest start-up avoids the limelight.
Stanford’s S1 and Berkeley’s TinyZero are two examples of how researchers are increasingly using Alibaba tech to lower AI training costs.
DeepSeek has raised the price of accessing its V3 model via API for the first time since it exploded in popularity last month.
A unique innovation around AI models from a start-up spun out of a hedge fund roiled Western markets and is changing how China sees its role in the industry.
PC giant Lenovo, robotics firm UBTech and EV maker Geely are among the major Chinese hi-tech manufacturers adopting DeepSeek technology.
DeepSeek had 22.2 million daily active users in January, surpassing Doubao’s 17 million, but it still trails the TikTok owner in monthly users.
