Vidu, launched by Beijing-based start-up Shengshu Technology and Tsinghua University, can generate 1080p videos as long as 16 seconds.

The city’s focus on China-made graphics processing units shows how mainland authorities are scrambling to build up computing resources, despite US export restrictions on advanced chips.

Henan, home to the world’s largest iPhone factory, saw smartphone exports reach 6.65 million units in the first quarter, down 60.1 per cent from the same period last year.

The carmaker hopes to lure high-end Chinese consumers amid an escalating price war among some of its top rivals.

The Chinese tech giant already counts more than 100 carmakers and various automotive industry players as partners.

AliExpress, the international online retail platform of Alibaba, has been in talks to invest US$72.4 million to acquire a 5 per cent stake in Ably Corp.

The country remains the US tech giant’s main manufacturing base, home to over a third of the factories run by its disclosed suppliers.

Alibaba and Baidu are adding support for Meta’s Llama 3 large language model to their cloud computing platforms, after the technology used to train chatbots like ChatGPT was released last week.

China’s online retail market expanded in the first quarter led by rebounds in sectors such as online travel as well as robust cross-border e-commerce trade, the country’s commerce ministry said on Friday.

Chinese regulatory authorities had ordered the removal of those two apps over national security concerns, according to Apple.

Baichuan, Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI and MiniMax are amassing billions of yuan of funding from domestic tech giants, venture capitalists and state-backed investors.

The grievances raised by the All India Mobile Retailers Association show the current precarious position of OnePlus’ business in the world’s second-largest smartphone market.

At the Digital Silk Road Development Forum in Xian, Alibaba and Shein were praised for helping advance the country’s booming cross-border e-commerce sector.

Officials touted China’s progress in strengthening digital development initiatives for BRI members, calling for countries to work together and ‘oppose technological blockades’.

OnePlus, a sub-brand of Oppo, is facing a slew of complaints related to low profit margins and warranty claims in India.

Amid rising geopolitical tensions, most of the top 30 investors that invested in Chinese unicorns are based within the country.

Hytera is appealing against US sanctions that bar it from selling two-way radio products globally as part of a years-long trade secrets dispute with Lenovo-backed Motorola.

Alibaba’s e-commerce platform AliExpress is betting on the European market by sponsoring Euro 2024, a move that comes after its rival Temu cracked the US market through ads that ran in the Super Bowl.

With China at odds with Western countries in data and cyberspace management, Beijing is trying to sway other parties to side with its vision.

Industry and information technology minister touts benefits of setting up R&D centres in China and teaming up with domestic firms, as inbound investments have slowed amid geopolitical tensions.

Tim Cook’s appearance at the China Development Forum, Beijing’s answer to the Davos summit, was the latest stop of his jam-packed trip in the world’s largest smartphone market, where Apple is struggling with declining sales.

The AI start-up says it is working to expand the service capacity of its Kimi chatbot, which has been adding new users rapidly after announcing a technological breakthrough.

Its number of on-demand delivery transactions grew 25 per cent in the fourth quarter, while the company continues to narrow losses from new initiatives.

Comments made by top executives this earnings season have offered a glimpse into the progress made by China’s Big Tech firms, after US start-up OpenAI launched in late 2022 its groundbreaking ChatGPT.

Moonshot AI’s updated Kimi chatbot can handle up to 2 million Chinese characters in a single prompt, up from the previous 200,000 characters.

Video game sales, traditionally Tencent’s strongest revenue driver, declined in the fourth quarter.

Customers who place an order in the US on AliExpress can now expect to receive their parcel in five days, according to Alibaba’s logistics unit Cainiao.

From April 1, EHang’s EH216-S electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle will be available in overseas markets at a suggested retail price of US$410,000.

The move is the biggest overhaul since Ant Group’s US$39.7 billion IPO was foiled by regulators in 2020, two days before shares were due to commence trading in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Zhipu AI, among the first Chinese companies to explore development of LLMs, is pushing to develop similar technology to OpenAI’s Sora.