According to South Korean outlet News1, Chinese tech giant Tencent has made it clear it has no intention of producing AI chips, stressing that it neither manufactures them now nor plans to in the future. This contrasts with other major Chinese tech firms, which have responded to U.S. restrictions on...

According to Commercial Times, following the success of DeepSeek-R1 earlier this year, major Chinese tech companies have been actively advancing the development of open-source AI models, driving down the cost of using large models by 60% to 80%. Notably, on June 30, both Baidu and Huawei announced ...

With China's AI companies on the rise, the global AI industry has entered a new Warring States era. As noted by ijiwei, following the emergence of DeepSeek, Alibaba’s Qwen platform has become as a top competitor to OpenAI, and it claims to match DeepSeek’s performance with minimal data. As Ch...

As Samsung pushes to expand its advanced-node customer base, its 2nm collaboration with China’s Baidu may be put on hold, according to Sedaily. The report, citing an industry source, reveals that Baidu previously aimed to produce AI chips with Samsung’s 2nm process, but talks stalled after Tr...

According to Reuters, citing The Information, sources indicate that Apple and Baidu are collaborating to add AI capabilities to iPhones sold in China next year. However, the two companies are facing challenges in advancing the project. The report notes that if these issues cannot be resolved, it cou...