The Microsoft Windows outage that affected foreign businesses and luxury hotels in China on Friday left the country’s key infrastructure unaffected.

Large language models are ‘bad at maths’ and can only predict answers based on training data, according to Zhejiang University researcher Wu Yiquan.

A sea change is taking place in China’s venture capital industry as the two-decade marriage between US investors and mainland start-ups comes to an end, casting a shadow over the country’s tech landscape.

The global smartphone market grew by 6 per cent year on year in the second quarter, with Apple and Samsung occupying the top two spots, followed by Chinese brands Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo.

TikTok’s latest initiatives in Southeast Asia show how parent ByteDance is strategically expanding the social media platform’s revenue stream.

A Chinese venture capital firm has dismissed talk that it has exited the primary market amid heated debate over the future of the country’s once vibrant venture funding industry.

Alibaba Cloud and rivals are gunning for a market that is expected to expand faster this year, thanks partly to popularity of generative AI.

The founder of Stepfun, which develops foundational models, has set its sights on improving multimodal models as China faces curtailed access to advanced chips.

An extensive army of manufacturers, managed through a complex digital system, has fed Shein’s meteoric growth.

AI start-ups from Hong Kong grabbed some of the spotlight at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai this week, as they showcased products and services to underscore the city’s ambitions to become an innovation hub.

China’s telecoms industry players are betting on the growth potential from increased demand for artificial intelligence by enterprises and consumers.

The move is set to deal a blow to Chinese companies developing services based on OpenAI’s large language models.

Plans for a quick blockbuster public listing by Shein are facing a host of uncertainties, according to people familiar with the matter.

A Shanghai-based AI start-up is betting on so-called ‘scaling law’ to increase its AI capabilities, despite the difficulties in obtaining advanced chips from the US.

Five of the championship’s 13 sponsors come from China, as these companies look abroad amid slow growth at home.

Even by the standards of Chinese tech business leaders, the lack of public information about Xu Yangtian is unusual.

Alibaba’s midyear shopping promotion has it going head-to-head with younger e-commerce competitors such as Xiaohongshu, China’s answer to Instagram.

The denial marks the latest dent on the reputation of flexible display maker Royole, which faces bankruptcy proceedings in Shenzhen.

Kuaishou, the major rival of TikTok’s sister app Douyin, has launched a text-to-video service similar to OpenAI’s Sora, as Chinese Big Tech firms race to catch up in AI.

WeChat’s updated content-moderation policy forms part of a broader industry effort to promote greater transparency of artificial intelligence-generated content.

The novelty of a Chinese internet company floating its shares in the UK could make Shein a trailblazer for other mainland tech firms.

The company, which runs a large sourcing centre in southern China, reportedly will file a confidential prospectus in the coming days.