6 d. ago Beyond DeepSeek: Moonshot and MiniMax step up as China’s new frontier AI labs

Chinese artificial intelligence start-ups Moonshot AI and MiniMax have emerged as China’s strongest contenders to rival US frontier labs in 2025 – even as DeepSeek has stolen the spotlight as the poster child for the country’s AI ambitions. Moonshot AI, founded by 33-year-old Yang Zhilin, has sharply raised its profile in China’s AI ecosystem with the launch earlier this month of Kimi K2 Thinking, an upgraded reasoning model. The system outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet...

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8 d. ago China's tech giants move AI model training overseas to access Nvidia chips, FT reports

China's tech giants move AI model training overseas to access Nvidia chips, FT reports  Reuters

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8 d. ago China’s tech giants move AI model training overseas to tap Nvidia chips, FT reports By Reuters

China’s tech giants move AI model training overseas to tap Nvidia chips, FT reports By Reuters  Investing.com

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8 d. ago China's tech giants move AI model training overseas to tap Nvidia chips, FT reports

China's tech giants move AI model training overseas to tap Nvidia chips, FT reports  Reuters

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1 week ago Volkswagen can now build EVs in China, claiming it can cut costs by up to 50%

Volkswagen can now build EVs in China, claiming it can cut costs by up to 50%  Electrek

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1 week ago Huawei’s latest Kirin 9030 processor powers premium Mate 80 smartphones

Huawei Technologies on Tuesday revealed that its next-generation Kirin 9030 system-on-a-chip powers the more advanced models of its newly launched 5G Mate 80 series smartphones. Shenzhen-based Huawei listed the Kirin 9030 as the processor for the 12-gigabyte random access memory (RAM) version of the Mate 80 Pro, while its Kirin 9030 Pro version is built into the 16GB RAM Mate 80 Pro, the Mate 80 Pro Max and Mate 80 RS models, according to the official website for the company’s latest flagship...

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2 w. ago China AI unicorn Moonshot raising fresh funds at $4 bln valuation

China AI unicorn Moonshot raising fresh funds at $4 bln valuation- WSJ  Investing.com

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2 w. ago China’s Moonshot AI Raising Fresh Funds That Could Value It at About $4 Billion

China’s Moonshot AI Raising Fresh Funds That Could Value It at About $4 Billion  The Wall Street Journal

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3 w. ago Baidu Unveils New Model, Chips to Keep Up in China’s AI Race

Baidu Unveils New Model, Chips to Keep Up in China’s AI Race  Bloomberg.com

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3 w. ago China’s Moonshot claims to build models with fewer AI chips than US rivals

Chinese artificial intelligence firm Moonshot AI continues to develop AI models with fewer high-end graphics processing units (GPUs) than what its US rivals use, according to the Beijing-based start-up’s executives. In a three-hour-long “ask me anything” session on Reddit on Monday evening, a Moonshot AI representative with the handle “ppwwyyxx” – the same moniker used by co-founder Wu Yuxin on X – said the company was “outnumbered” by rival US firms in terms of “high-end GPUs” used for AI model...

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3 w. ago Why new model of China’s Moonshot AI stirs ‘DeepSeek moment’ debate

A new reasoning model developed by a Chinese artificial intelligence start-up – with its performance exceeding OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in a number of metrics – has fanned fresh debate about another DeepSeek moment and the trajectory of America’s AI supremacy. Beijing-based Moonshot AI, a start-up valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by Chinese tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, has presented another David-vs-Goliath story after creating an...

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4 w. ago China’s Moonshot AI launches new model lauded as No 1 among open

Chinese artificial intelligence firm Moonshot AI has released a new reasoning variant of its open-source Kimi K2 model that has outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in several benchmarks, eliciting high praise from industry experts on social media. The Beijing-based start-up on Thursday said Kimi K2 Thinking was now accessible via Kimi.com and the model’s application programming interface (API), allowing developers and enterprises to use the model’s functionalities into...

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4 w. ago China’s Huaqiangbei wholesale market sees surge in memory chip prices

Huaqiangbei, home to the world’s biggest electronics wholesale market, is seeing a dramatic increase in the prices of memory chips and other storage products, which is expected to drive up the cost of consumer electronics goods such as smartphones, tablets and personal computers. The increase, especially for large-capacity models, has been “astounding”, as some memory chips had doubled in price, said Cai Zhaojie, a vendor who sells and builds personal computers for enterprises and professional...

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