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Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on “red envelope” freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-2-10 China Alibaba AI Tencent

Alibaba's Qwen temporarily stops issuing coupons due to customer overload, hampering Alibaba's Agentic AI ad campaign; Qwen began offering coupons on February 6 (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-10 Alibaba AI

Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, giving users access to the AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini (www.theregister.com)
2026-2-4 Alibaba AI Tencent

Alibaba plans to spend ~$431M in a Lunar New Year campaign starting February 6 to attract users to its Qwen AI app, above Tencent's ~$143.7M and Baidu's ~$71.8M (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-2 Alibaba AI Tencent

Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon (www.scmp.com)
2026-2-1 Alibaba AI

These refurbished Lenovo Chromebooks are only $80 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-30 Lenovo

Sources: ByteDance and Alibaba both plan to release flagship AI models around China's mid-February Lunar New Year holiday, including ByteDance's Doubao 2.0 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-30 China Alibaba AI

Alibaba's Cainiao logistics unit merges with Chinese robovan company Zelos, creating a business sources say valued at ~$2B with a fleet set to hit 20K+ vehicles (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-29 China Alibaba Logistics

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)
2026-1-28 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)
2026-1-24 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)
2026-1-20 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)
2026-1-19 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)
2026-1-16 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)
2026-1-15 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)
2026-1-14 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)
2026-1-12 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)
2026-1-7 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)
2026-1-7 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)
2026-1-5 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)
2026-1-5 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)
2026-1-1 China Alibaba AI Tencent IDG

Get more done for less with this $80 refurbished Lenovo Chromebook deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-1 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)
2025-12-30 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

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