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Thursday 17 July 2025
DeepSeek stumbles as user growth slows and R2 delay drags on; Nvidia H20 restart offers a lifeline
Once hailed as China's rising AI star, DeepSeek is now facing a period of waning momentum. However, the company's founder and CEO, Liang Wenfeng, might soon benefit from an expected...
Thursday 17 July 2025
H20 reenters China: lifeline for AI startups, blow to GPU sovereignty
Amid rising doubts over China's AI trajectory, two setbacks have rattled its startup ecosystem: Manus, the buzzed-about AI agent startup, is reportedly exiting the Chinese market,...
Thursday 17 July 2025
Nvidia's Jensen Huang names 10 Chinese AI firms shaping the future — from Tencent to MiniMax

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a rare Mandarin-language keynote at the China International Supply Chain Expo on July 16, appearing...

Tuesday 15 July 2025
OpenAI delays open-weight model as Chinese rivals close in
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said on social media January 12 that the company will release an open-weight model next week, citing the need for additional safety testing...
Friday 27 June 2025
Alibaba Cloud to deploy AI models worldwide with US$52 billion infrastructure push
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group, plans to expand access to its proprietary and third-party artificial intelligence models across more of...
Wednesday 25 June 2025
Huawei's benchmarks show CloudMatrix 384 helps put Ascend chips ahead of Nvidia H800
Huawei has released new benchmark results showing its CloudMatrix 384 AI infrastructure outperforming Nvidia's H800 GPU in running DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model, which contains 671...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Apple turns to Alibaba for AI push in China, drawing US concern

Alibaba has open-sourced 32 variants of its latest Qwen 3 language models, designed specifically to run on Apple's MLX machine learning...

Friday 13 June 2025
Mistral AI launches Magistral series, boosting multilingual reasoning and open-source offerings
French AI startup Mistral AI has unveiled its new Magistral series models, aiming to elevate logical reasoning performance in enterprise and open-source applications. The lineup includes...
Thursday 12 June 2025
Alibaba staff worked through holiday after DeepSeek breakthrough
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s engineers canceled vacations and worked through the Lunar New Year holiday to play catch up after DeepSeek shocked the global tech industry with its low-cost,...
Monday 9 June 2025
Quantum computing sidelined amid AI hardware boom
While ChatGPT and DeepSeek have already demonstrated the remarkable results that generative artificial intelligence applications can achieve using graphics processing units, the outlook...
Thursday 5 June 2025
Huawei cloud unit claims AI model breakthrough with new training method
Huawei's cloud division said its Pangu large language model achieved a breakthrough in training architecture with a new "Mixture of Group Experts" technology that outperforms competing...
Sunday 1 June 2025
DeepSeek’s stealth upgrade inches closer to OpenAI in code race

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has quietly released a minor update to its R1 model, uploading the latest version to open-source platform Hugging...

Monday 26 May 2025
Weekly news roundup: Huawei's 5G lead, DeepSeek's LLM moves, and TSMC's packaging gap
These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of May 19 – May 25. Highlights include China's accelerating push for tech self-sufficiency with new AI...
Monday 26 May 2025
Taiwan researchers step up development of distilled AI models
Taiwan has geared up efforts to develop distilled versions of large language models (LLM) in a bid to accelerate the development and penetration of AI applications.
Friday 23 May 2025
DeepSeek's next move? Wenfeng Liang stays silent on R2, releases V3 study instead
On January 20, 2025, China's DeepSeek unveiled its R1 model, marking a strategic breakthrough in the global race for large language models (LLMs). Spearheaded by founder Wenfeng Liang,...