2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (141+ words) BEIJING, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Chinese artificial intelligence startup ​DeepSeek on ‌Thursday launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, which the company said is ‌the ​smallest ⁠model in its ⁠new architecture family, according to a statement. The release ​came as th... BEIJING, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Chinese…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (471+ words) HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has tapped CITIC Securities to prepare for an initial public offering on Shanghai’s tech-focused STAR Market, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The Hangzhou-based company aims to begin…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (100+ words) WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - U.S. cyber and ​law ‌enforcement officials on Tuesday accused Chinese AI ‌companies ​of "aggressive, ⁠industrial-scale distillation ⁠activities," according to a statement from three ​U.S. security agencies. Distillation ⁠... WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) – U.S. cyber and ​law ‌enforcement officials…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (460+ words) By Kane Wu and Yantoultra Ngui HONG KONG, Sept 4 (Reuters) – ByteDance has secured a $29.6 billion loan from nearly 30 banks, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday, with the Chinese social media giant’s bet on AI development…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (108+ words) Sept 3 (Reuters) - Bytedance has secured a $29.6 ​billion ‌loan, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, ‌citing ​people ⁠familiar with ⁠the matter. The Chinese tech giant ​was originally ⁠seeking ⁠a $20 billion ​facility, but ​increased the size ‌after g... ByteDance gets $30 billion loan, Bloomberg…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (357+ words) BEIJING, Aug 31 (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies reported a 36% plunge in first-half net profit on Monday as soaring input costs and heavier spending on research and development outweighed revenue ​growth. The Chinese technology company said net profit for January to ‌June…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (168+ words) Aug 28 (Reuters) – Tencent released a preview version of a new open-source AI model aimed at ​tasks such as software ‌engineering, research and financial analysis, according to its post published on Friday on Hugging Face, a repository of open-source AI ‌models....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (205+ words) BEIJING, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Alibaba’s Qwen has released a new multimodal model, Qwen3.8-Flash, that delivers stronger coding and office-task ​performance while cutting training costs, ‌it said in a statement on Wednesday published on social media. • As e-commerce growth stagnates, AI has…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (266+ words) Aug 26 (Reuters) – Chinese AI startup MiniMax on Wednesday posted a nearly four-fold jump in first-half revenue as demand for its low-cost models ​and AI platform accelerated, with the company ‌continuing to target cheaper ways to deploy AI at scale. Revenue…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (569+ words) BEIJING/SINGAPORE, Aug 26 (Reuters) – China’s Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet’s Google that would allow the U.S. cloud giants to host its blockbuster Kimi K3 model, three people familiar with the talks said. Any deal…...