#China AI
26 stories taggedChina AI.
Manus Raised $500 Million After China Blocked Its Sale to Meta
The AI agent startup is back as an independent company, freshly funded and building its own technology stack, even as its cautionary tale about cross-border dealmaking lingers.
Alibaba Built Its Own AI Chip and Wants 20 Gigawatts of Data Centres by 2032
At its annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba announced the Zhenwu V900 chip, a 20-gigawatt data centre target, and confirmed its next frontier model is already in training.
Z.ai shares drop 10% as the company chases another $5 billion
The Beijing company has now sought roughly $9 billion in fresh capital over two months, spending it on next-generation AI models and the chips to run them.
The West Kept Waiting for China to Fail. Then China Shipped a Free AI That Rivals America's Best.
Chinese AI models are arriving fast, free, and competitive with the most expensive US systems. What that means for the global tech race, and what Britain might learn from it.
Inside Shanghai's Robot Carnival: China's Push to Make Humanoids Everyday
Families queued, children cheered robot duels, and a humanoid performed drunken boxing. A day at a Shanghai robotics showcase reveals how China is betting on machines that walk, fold laundry, and brew coffee.
XPeng's robot unit Dogotix raises $900 million and aims to put 1,000 humanoids a month on factory floors by 2027
The Chinese electric vehicle maker's robotics arm is now valued at over $6 billion and plans to start shipping its IRON humanoid robot to retail stores and industrial sites next year.
China's AI labs are renting Nvidia's banned chips from data centres in Southeast Asia
US export controls block China from buying Nvidia's most powerful chips. A legal grey zone lets Chinese firms rent the same computing power through servers in Thailand, Malaysia and Japan instead.
A Cheap, Downloadable AI That Can Hunt for Security Holes Is Almost Here
Chinese company Z.ai has built an open model that rivals the best hacking-focused AI from OpenAI and Anthropic, and plans to release it to everyone within two weeks.
Is China Winning the AI Race? A Clearer Picture Than the Headlines Suggest
Chinese AI models are cheaper, widely adopted, and strong in robotics. American labs still hold the frontier. The gap is closing faster than most people expected.
China's AI openness claims don't hold up under scrutiny
A geoscience AI tool promoted as 'open' at a major global conference fails the basic tests for genuine openness. Researchers say the same problem runs wider than China.
ByteDance Is Building One of the Biggest AI Models Ever Made
China's tech giant is training a model with up to 10 trillion parameters, which would dwarf any Chinese AI released so far and put it in the same conversation as Anthropic's most advanced systems.
A Chinese AI Model Nearly Matches the Best Western Systems. Its Safety Record Does Not.
A new evaluation finds GLM-5.2, an open-weight model from China's Z.ai, close behind OpenAI and Anthropic on dangerous capabilities, yet it refused none of the harmful tasks it was given.
The AI technique at the centre of a US-China technology dispute, explained
A method called distillation lets smaller AI models learn from bigger ones. Washington says China is using it to steal American technology. Silicon Valley says it's just standard engineering. Both sides have a point.
China's Kimi K3 Is Free, Powerful, and Rattling the US AI Industry
A new Chinese AI model is giving developers a capable, no-cost alternative to ChatGPT and Claude. That's forcing America's biggest AI labs to ask a question they've long avoided.
Meet the Seven People Deciding America's AI Policy Right Now
A senior White House official told Wired it is 'an argument with ten sides'. Here is who is pulling the strings on US AI rules, what each one wants, and what it means for the rest of us.