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Apple and Alibaba's AI Rollout in China Said to Be Delayed by Trump's Trade War
Apple and Alibaba's rollout of artificial intelligence services in China is being delayed by a Beijing regulator. Industry analysts have pointed to the absence of advanced AI features - a key selling point in latest-generation smartphones - as a significant disadvantage for Apple in the Chinese market.
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AI Upstart Manus Starts Text-to-Video Service to Take On OpenAI
Manus unveiled a text-to-video generation feature. The upstart, whose AI service is known for its ability to carry out multistep tasks the way humans do, said users can now similarly generate videos with text instructions.
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How US-China Chip War Is Evolving Under Trump
A US government statement this month showed how the Trump administration is seeking to change the ways the US limits China's access to state-of-the-art semiconductors needed to develop AI.
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Quark, China's Most Popular AI App, Launches 'Deep Search' Feature For Users
Quark is not the first in the country to combine AI reasoning with online search. Similar features were earlier announced by the Kimi chatbot from Moonshot AI.
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Xiaomi MiMo AI Models Launched With Efficient Reasoning, Small Size
Xiaomi released an open-source reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. Dubbed MiMo, the family of reasoning models innovate the optimisation of reasoning capability in a relatively smaller parameter size. This is also the first open-source reasoning model by the tech giant, and it competes with Chinese models such as DeepSe...
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Trump Tariffs Wiped $10 Trillion From Stock Markets. It's 50% Of EU Economy
The stock market rout triggered by US President Donald Trump's punishing tariff wars wiped over $10 trillion off major markets across the globe.
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DeepSeek and Tsinghua Developing Self-Improving AI Models
DeepSeek has collaborated with researchers from Beijing-based Tsinghua University to develop a way to make AI models better adhere to human preferences by offering rewards for more accurate and understandable responses. DeepSeek will release the GRM models on an open source basis.
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Crocodiles Worth Rs 4.7 Crore Put Up For Sale In Unusual Chinese Auction
Over 4,000 people had viewed the auction page on Alibaba's Judicial Auction platform but no one had registered to participate in it so far.
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Alibaba Preparing for Flagship AI Model Release as Soon as April
Alibaba is planning to release Qwen 3, an upgraded version of its flagship AI model. The wave of new models out of Asia are threatening to undercut premium US offerings from the likes of OpenAI, Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft.
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Alibaba Qwen 2.5 Omni AI Model With Real-Time Speech Generation Released
Alibaba’s Qwen team released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Qwen 2.5 family on Wednesday. Dubbed Qwen 2.5 Omni, it is a flagship-tier end-to-end multimodal model. The company claims it can process a wide range of inputs, including text, images, audio, and videos, while generating real-time text and natural speech responses.
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Alibaba Qwen 2.5 Vision Language Model Released in a Smaller Size, Packs Agentic Capabilities
Alibaba’s Qwen team released another artificial intelligence (AI) model to the Qwen 2.5 family on Monday. Dubbed Qwen 2.5-VL-32B, the AI model comes with improved performance and optimisations. It is a vision language model with 32 billion parameters, and it joins the three billion, seven billion, and 72 billion parameter size models in the Qwen ...
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Alibaba Releases AI Model That Reads Emotions to Take On OpenAI
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab researchers showed their new open source R1-Omni in two demonstrations inferring the emotional state of a person in a video while also offering descriptions of their clothes and environment. The Chinese tech giant is looking to outpace OpenAI's latest model.
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Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases QwQ-32B Open-Source Reasoning Model, Said to Perform Similar to DeepSeek-R1
Alibaba’s Qwen Team, a division tasked with developing artificial intelligence (AI) models, released the QwQ-32B AI model on Wednesday. It is a reasoning model based on extended test time compute with visible chain-of-thought (CoT). The developers claim that despite being smaller in size compared to the DeepSeek-R1, the model can match its perfor...
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Alibaba Shares Rise By Over 7% After Launch Of DeepSeek competitor
Alibaba shares surged more than seven percent in Hong Kong trade on Thursday after the Chinese tech giant launched an artificial intelligence model it says can compete with DeepSeek, this year's surprise tech star.
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Tencent’s AI Bot Passes DeepSeek as China’s Favorite on iPhones
Tencent Holdings’s Yuanbao became the most downloaded iPhone app in China this week. It overtook DeepSeek to claim the position. With this, Tencent has stolen a march on rivals like Alibaba and Baidu, which have made bigger bets on AI than the Shenzhen company.
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Apple and Alibaba's AI Rollout in China Said to Be Delayed by Trump's Trade War
Apple and Alibaba's rollout of artificial intelligence services in China is being delayed by a Beijing regulator. Industry analysts have pointed to the absence of advanced AI features - a key selling point in latest-generation smartphones - as a significant disadvantage for Apple in the Chinese market.
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AI Upstart Manus Starts Text-to-Video Service to Take On OpenAI
Manus unveiled a text-to-video generation feature. The upstart, whose AI service is known for its ability to carry out multistep tasks the way humans do, said users can now similarly generate videos with text instructions.
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How US-China Chip War Is Evolving Under Trump
A US government statement this month showed how the Trump administration is seeking to change the ways the US limits China's access to state-of-the-art semiconductors needed to develop AI.
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Quark, China's Most Popular AI App, Launches 'Deep Search' Feature For Users
Quark is not the first in the country to combine AI reasoning with online search. Similar features were earlier announced by the Kimi chatbot from Moonshot AI.
-
Xiaomi MiMo AI Models Launched With Efficient Reasoning, Small Size
Xiaomi released an open-source reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. Dubbed MiMo, the family of reasoning models innovate the optimisation of reasoning capability in a relatively smaller parameter size. This is also the first open-source reasoning model by the tech giant, and it competes with Chinese models such as DeepSe...
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Trump Tariffs Wiped $10 Trillion From Stock Markets. It's 50% Of EU Economy
The stock market rout triggered by US President Donald Trump's punishing tariff wars wiped over $10 trillion off major markets across the globe.
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DeepSeek and Tsinghua Developing Self-Improving AI Models
DeepSeek has collaborated with researchers from Beijing-based Tsinghua University to develop a way to make AI models better adhere to human preferences by offering rewards for more accurate and understandable responses. DeepSeek will release the GRM models on an open source basis.
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Crocodiles Worth Rs 4.7 Crore Put Up For Sale In Unusual Chinese Auction
Over 4,000 people had viewed the auction page on Alibaba's Judicial Auction platform but no one had registered to participate in it so far.
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Alibaba Preparing for Flagship AI Model Release as Soon as April
Alibaba is planning to release Qwen 3, an upgraded version of its flagship AI model. The wave of new models out of Asia are threatening to undercut premium US offerings from the likes of OpenAI, Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft.
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Alibaba Qwen 2.5 Omni AI Model With Real-Time Speech Generation Released
Alibaba’s Qwen team released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Qwen 2.5 family on Wednesday. Dubbed Qwen 2.5 Omni, it is a flagship-tier end-to-end multimodal model. The company claims it can process a wide range of inputs, including text, images, audio, and videos, while generating real-time text and natural speech responses.
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Alibaba Qwen 2.5 Vision Language Model Released in a Smaller Size, Packs Agentic Capabilities
Alibaba’s Qwen team released another artificial intelligence (AI) model to the Qwen 2.5 family on Monday. Dubbed Qwen 2.5-VL-32B, the AI model comes with improved performance and optimisations. It is a vision language model with 32 billion parameters, and it joins the three billion, seven billion, and 72 billion parameter size models in the Qwen ...
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Alibaba Releases AI Model That Reads Emotions to Take On OpenAI
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab researchers showed their new open source R1-Omni in two demonstrations inferring the emotional state of a person in a video while also offering descriptions of their clothes and environment. The Chinese tech giant is looking to outpace OpenAI's latest model.
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Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases QwQ-32B Open-Source Reasoning Model, Said to Perform Similar to DeepSeek-R1
Alibaba’s Qwen Team, a division tasked with developing artificial intelligence (AI) models, released the QwQ-32B AI model on Wednesday. It is a reasoning model based on extended test time compute with visible chain-of-thought (CoT). The developers claim that despite being smaller in size compared to the DeepSeek-R1, the model can match its perfor...
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Alibaba Shares Rise By Over 7% After Launch Of DeepSeek competitor
Alibaba shares surged more than seven percent in Hong Kong trade on Thursday after the Chinese tech giant launched an artificial intelligence model it says can compete with DeepSeek, this year's surprise tech star.
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Tencent’s AI Bot Passes DeepSeek as China’s Favorite on iPhones
Tencent Holdings’s Yuanbao became the most downloaded iPhone app in China this week. It overtook DeepSeek to claim the position. With this, Tencent has stolen a march on rivals like Alibaba and Baidu, which have made bigger bets on AI than the Shenzhen company.
