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| Aug 13, 2026 | Chinese AI firms expand South-South local language model cooperation | Visitors try out a smart translation tool at an experience center of iFlytek in Hefei, Anhui province, on Aug 6. LIN QIUJIN/XINHUA
HEFEI — Inside the smart exhibition hall of Safaricom, Kenya's largest telecommunications operator, a di... |
| Aug 2, 2026 | The Rise of Chinese AI Companies | For most of the last decade, the story of artificial intelligence had a single geography. The labs that mattered, such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta AI, sat within a few miles of each other in the Bay Area. The capital that ma... |
| Jul 27, 2026 | Anthropic gets heat for being the only major AI lab not supporting open models | The tech industry is rallying around open-weight AI, but one major lab is staying conspicuously silent.
Anthropic is drawing criticism from across Silicon Valley for not signing an open letter advocating for open-weight AI as Washington con... |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Китайский стартап 01.ai нацелился на IPO в Гонконге в 2027 году | Пекинская компания 01.ai, основанная известным разработчиком искусственного интеллекта Кай-Фу Ли, готовится провести pre-IPO раунд финансирования перед выходом на Гонконгскую фондовую биржу. Об этом основатель компании рассказал в интервью ... |
| May 20, 2026 | AMD CEO Predicts AI User Boom Over Next Five Years | (Yicai) May 20 -- Lisa Su, chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices, forecast explosive adoption of artificial intelligence over the next five years at the US semiconductor giant’s AI conference in Shanghai.
The number of people us... |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Baidu veteran Shen Pengfei joins Lee Kai-Fu at 01.AI as co-founder | Header photo source: 01.AI.
01.AI is reportedly undergoing a major round of executive reshuffling, according to 36Kr. Shen Pengfei, former vice president of Baidu AI Cloud’s China operations, joined 01.AI as co-founder over a month ago, fol... |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Cutting months to a day: AlignBase taps AI to automate enterprise workflows | Domestic market. B2B. Customization. Each term sparks debate in today’s artificial intelligence startup landscape. But that’s exactly where Dai Zonghong, co-founder of 01.AI, has decided to stake his new venture.
On March 24, after leaving ... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | China’s “AI tigers” return to the ring as the foundation model race reignites | Competition among China’s foundation model makers flared again this summer, with a fresh wave of model launches and technical one-upmanship taking center stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai.
This latest ... |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Is Kimi K2 strong enough to spark China’s next “DeepSeek moment?” | Kimi K2’s launch on July 16 drew global attention after Nature described it as “another DeepSeek moment.”
Why does that matter? Because Kimi K2 follows the DeepSeek playbook: high performance, low cost, and truly open-source. Most important... |
| May 1, 2025 | Alibaba launches and open-source Qwen3, China’s first hybrid reasoning AI model | On April 29, Alibaba unveiled Qwen3, its newest large language model and China’s first hybrid reasoning model that integrates both fast and slow thinking modes to reduce computational costs.
The Qwen3 series includes a range of models, such... |
| Mar 11, 2025 | China evolving into AI 'super market' driven by scale, innovation | Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words "Artificial Intelligence AI" in this illustration taken, Feb 19, 2024. [Photo/Agencies]
BEIJING - The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) has stood out at m... |
| Nov 11, 2024 | Meituan co-founder returns to lead company’s AI ambitions | Wang Huiwen, a co-founder of Meituan and founder of Light Year (Guangnian Zhiwai), has returned to Meituan to lead its artificial intelligence efforts. His team, internally known as “GN06,” is focused on AI companions and chatbots. Job list... |
| Sep 5, 2024 | Yi-Coder: The open-source AI that wants to be your coding buddy | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
01.AI, a rising star in the artificial intelligence arena, has launched Yi-Coder today, a powerful yet surprising... |
| May 24, 2024 | Alibaba says it holds 36% stake in Moonshot as it pivots to AI for future growth | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd revealed on Friday that its overall investment in Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup Moonshot AI in the latest fiscal year has reached $800 million.
Alibaba holds about 36% of preferred stocks in Moonshot... |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Задача Эйнштейна — большой тест LLM нейросетей на логическое мышление | Я был вдохновлен ранее вышедшей статьей автора MikeMSN - "Задача Эйнштейна. ChatGPT, YaGPT2, Gigachat, Mistral Large" и решил провести большой тест наиболее популярных LLM нейросетей. Использовал для этого сайт Chatbot Arena, а та... |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Chinese AI startup 01.AI to raise $200 million to build the next generation of open-source AI models | Beijing-based 01.AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup founded by former Google China chief Lee Kai-fu, is raising up to $200 million in fresh funding, according to an exclusive report from Reuters. The move to raise funds comes ami... |
| Nov 20, 2023 | Microsoft releases Orca 2, a pair of small language models that outperform larger counterparts | Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here.
Even as the world bears witness to the power struggle and mass resignation at OpenAI, Microsof... |
| Nov 14, 2023 | Deals in brief: Eu Yan Sang invests in Chien Chi Tow, Roller and Phantm secure funding, multiple China and India deals, and more | Eu Yan Sang International invests in Chien Chi Tow Healthcare
Singapore-headquartered health and wellness company Eu Yan Sang International (EYSI) has announced its investment in Chien Chi Tow Healthcare (CCTH), a healthcare company special... |
| Nov 10, 2023 | This week in AI: OpenAI plays for keeps with GPTs | Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on th... |
| Nov 10, 2023 | Deals in brief: BondbloX secures Series B funding, 01.AI achieves unicorn status, multiple China and India deals, and more | Did you know that China and the Middle East have been expanding the scale of their economic collaborations? This trend is increasingly evident across various industries, with a particular emphasis on the thriving technology sectors.
One exa... |
| Nov 7, 2023 | Kai-fu Lee’s AI startup achieves $1 billion valuation in eight months | 01.AI, a Chinese AI startup founded by AI pioneer Kai-fu Lee, has achieved a $1 billion valuation, earning unicorn status in less than eight months, according to a Monday report by local outlet 36Kr. The company reached this valuation after... |
| Nov 6, 2023 | Chinese AI unicorn’s 34B LLM outperforms larger Llama 2 and Falcon models | VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass
01.AI, the Chinese startup founded by veteran AI expert and investor Kai-Fu Lee,... |
| Nov 5, 2023 | Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model | Kai-Fu Lee, the computer scientist known in the West for his bestseller AI Superpowers and in China for his bets on artificial intelligence unicorns, has a new venture — and a great ambition.
In late March, Lee launched a company called 01.... |