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Alibaba to spend $431 million for Lunar New Year AI push as chatbot war heats upThe pledge by Alibaba, which triples the spending promised earlier by rivals Tencent and Baidu, is set to start on February 6. It will invo...
Alibaba’s main AI app debuts strongly in effort to rival ChatGPTAlibaba's Qwen app has seen a massive surge, crossing 10 million downloads post-relaunch, signaling a strong contender against OpenAI's Cha...
DeepSeek unveils GPT-5 challenger — cheaper, faster, and built for China’s chipsDeepSeek V3.1 vs OpenAI GPT-5: Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's latest model, V3.1, is drawing comparisons to OpenAI's GPT-5, with experts not...
Chinese startup DeepSeek releases upgraded AI modelThe company will also adjust the costs for using the model's API, a platform that allows developers of other apps and web products to integ...
Baidu crashes 75% from peak — is China's AI titan in trouble or just on sale?Baidu stock 2025: Once China's top search engine, Baidu faces challenges. Its stock has declined significantly from its 2021 peak. Online a...
After EVs, rockets, and social media, the world’s richest man Elon Musk is now eyeing your walletElon Musk is venturing into finance by integrating investment and trading features into X, aiming to create a comprehensive financial ecosy...
China's Baidu releases new AI model to compete with DeepSeekIn a post on WeChat, Baidu announced the launch of its latest X1 reasoning model -- which the company claims performs similarly to DeepSeek...
China's Tencent says trialling own AI reasoning model alongside DeepSeekOn Monday, Tencent said in a post on WeChat -- the social media platform it owns -- that selected users of its Yuanbao chatbot may address ...
From copycat to innovator: How China trumped US with DeepSeekChina, previously known for producing low-quality knock-offs, has emerged as an innovator in various high-tech fields. Recent breakthroughs...
Elon Musk has a job offer for ‘hardcore software engineers’. He has just one conditionElon Musk invites hardcore software engineers to join X by showcasing their best coding work, emphasizing that only the quality of code mat...
Masters of imitation: Copying has been a foundational element of innovation in the most successful tech ecosystemsThe article delves into how many successful tech companies, such as Apple, Facebook, and firms from China, build on existing ideas rather t...
From tweets to transactions: Inside Elon Musk's ambitious plan for X, the 'everything app'Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter, has set out his vision for transforming the social media platform into an everything app called X, which could i...
Elon Musk's quixotic quest to turn X into an 'everything app'In Silicon Valley, the pursuit of an everything app has come up time and again as tech leaders have strained to expand their digital empire...
Tencent resumes growth, posts $21.9 billion revenue in December quarterTencent Holdings Ltd.’s revenue inched up after two quarters of contractions, fueling hopes that Beijing will again allow the world’s large...
Chatbot providers upbeat on WhatsApp's ecommerce potentialAfter JioMart said its customers could now fill their shopping baskets within WhatsApp and pay either via JioMart or in cash when receiving...
Is Hike Messenger worth the hype and $1.4 billion?It is the lone company in the pack that is yet to make money. Hike will “start to try making money by 2018, perhaps 2020”, says founder Kav...
The future: Five ways mobile messaging will evolveConsumer-to-business chat will take off. If you think about it, there is still no easy way of connecting with a large brand or a local busi...