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DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b (www.scmp.com)
1 day ago Alibaba

Sources: China has told Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance that they can prepare orders for Nvidia's H200 chips, suggesting Beijing is close to approving imports (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago China Alibaba Tencent Nvidia

Sources: ByteDance boosted its cloud offering via more sales hires and lower prices; IDC: it had 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, behind Alibaba's 23% (t.co)
9 days ago China Alibaba AI

Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Transsion trimmed their 2026 shipment targets, with Oppo cutting up to 20%, due to the memory chip shortage (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago China Xiaomi OPPO Vivo

Sources: Chinese AI companies seek to rent compute in Southeast Asia and the Middle East for Nvidia Rubin access, as Zhipu and Alibaba warn of a widening US gap (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago China Alibaba Asia AI Nvidia Southeast Asia

Alibaba links Qwen to its online shopping and travel services, including Taobao, Alipay, Fliggy, and Amap, aiming to build a one-stop AI app for its 100M users (www.bloomberg.com)
14 days ago Alibaba AI Alipay

Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai-listed company valued at $22B, plans a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $900M+, backed by Alibaba and JPMorgan (www.bloomberg.com)
14 days ago China Hong Kong IPO Alibaba JPMorgan Shanghai

CES 2026: how some companies are trying to make their AI products cute and relatable, from Lenovo's chatty motorized laptop to Sharp's ChatGPT-powered Poketomo (www.washingtonpost.com)
16 days ago AI Lenovo

China unveils rules banning major platforms like Alibaba from forcing merchants into discounts or practices seen as disrupting market order, effective February (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago China Alibaba

Lenovo introduces Qira, a system-level, cross-device AI assistant for both its computers and Motorola smartphones, arriving later this quarter (www.engadget.com)
22 days ago AI Lenovo

Sources: Alibaba's Amap will soon launch an AI tool to let restaurants render 3D images by just uploading videos or photos, in a bid to compete with Meituan (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago Alibaba AI

A Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180,000 CT scans and detected ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its deployment in November 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago China Alibaba AI

Report: China-based Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital, with Alibaba and Tencent participating (www.scmp.com)
28 days ago China Alibaba AI Tencent IDG

Get more done for less with this $80 refurbished Lenovo Chromebook deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
28 days ago Lenovo

Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax is seeking to raise $600M+ from its Hong Kong IPO, set for January 2026, and has secured Alibaba and the ADIA as backers (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago China Hong Kong IPO Alibaba Startup AI

A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan's subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, leading Meituan to a big Q3 loss and internal debate over global expansion (t.co)
2025-12-28 China Alibaba

Xiaomi unveils $999+ 17 Ultra in China with three rear cameras, including a 50MP 1" sensor and a 200MP periscope lens; Leica edition gets a mechanical zoom ring (www.gsmarena.com)
2025-12-26 China Xiaomi Sensor

Chinese automakers delay plans to mass-produce self-driving vehicles as Beijing becomes more cautious, after a fatal Xiaomi crash in March caused public concern (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-23 China Xiaomi Autonomous Car

A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which sources say has a $1.2B+ contract giving Tencent access to a large share of its 15K Blackwell chips (www.ft.com)
2025-12-21 Tencent Tokyo

Source: Tencent has secured access to Nvidia's Blackwell chips through a cloud service operated by Tokyo-based Datasection (www.barrons.com)
2025-12-20 Tencent Nvidia Tokyo

Filing: Sony and Tencent reach a “confidential settlement” over Tencent's Light of Motiram, a game that Sony alleged was a “slavish clone” of its Horizon series (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-18 Tencent Sony

Meta says it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets (www.roadtovr.com)
2025-12-18 Lenovo

Source: Tencent tells staff that Yao Shunyu, an ex-OpenAI researcher who joined in September, is now its chief AI scientist, reporting to President Martin Lau (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-17 AI Tencent

Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios (mimo.xiaomi.com)
2025-12-17 Xiaomi

Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-12 AI Tencent

Sei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 (www.coindesk.com)
2025-12-11 China Xiaomi

Sources: ByteDance and Alibaba have asked Nvidia about placing large orders for H200 chips after Trump's export approval, as they remain concerned about supply (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-11 Trump Alibaba Nvidia

An interview with Tencent Games Global CEO Michelle Liu, whose hands-on dealmaking approach generated $10B in international gaming revenue over the past year (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-10 Interview Tencent

Lenovo's Next Gaming Laptop May Have a Rollable OLED Screen That Stretches Ultrawide (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-9 Lenovo

Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-8 Alibaba AI WeChat Tencent

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