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DeepSeek unveils its newest model at rock-bottom prices and with ‘full support’ from Huawei chips

The narrow gap between DeepSeek and leading U.S. models, as well as its low prices, raises questions about OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s competitive moat.

Tech Brief (Apr. 14): CATL Nears 2 Trillion Yuan Valuation

Tech Brief (Apr. 14): CATL Nears 2 Trillion Yuan Valuation

DeeSeek V4 expected in late April, ShengShu Technology completes 2 billion yuan funding round

China went from uninvestable to unavoidable—and Hong Kong is cashing in with a slew of AI-centric IPOs

China went from uninvestable to unavoidable—and Hong Kong is cashing in with a slew of AI-centric IPOs

The boom in initial public offerings is boosting the city’s stature among the world’s exchanges.

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Blazing hot IPOs, an AI agent craze, and a new word for ‘token’: Here’s what’s happening in the world of Chinese AI

China hopes to build a “token economy,” backed by open-source models and real-world AI applications—even as U.S. export controls still hold things back.

China could be the ‘big winner’ in the AI race, thanks to abundant power, cheap manufacturing, and an open-source craze

Mohit Kumar, Jefferies’s global macro strategist, cites valuations, cheap power, and “wider adoption of AI” for his bullishness on China’s tech sector.

‘Raise a lobster’: How OpenClaw is the latest craze transforming China’s AI sector

The OpenClaw craze aligns with China’s embrace of open-source AI, a strategy that has helped build labs’ reputation among the developer community.

'People don’t trust bad AI voices': listeners rated a Chinese startup's synthetic voices higher for trust and realism than those from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon

Listeners rated a Chinese startup's AI voices more realistic and trustworthy than those from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.

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Anthropic claims 3 Chinese companies ripped it off, using its AI tools to train their models: ‘How the turn tables’

Anthropic claims 3 Chinese companies ripped it off, using its AI tools to train their models: ‘How the turn tables’

Anthropic, which settled a copyright claim by thousands of authors for $1.5 billion months ago, claims the Chinese firms used “distillation” techniques.

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, other Chinese AI developers of 'industrial-scale' copying — Claims 'distillation' included 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges to train smaller models

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, other Chinese AI developers of 'industrial-scale' copying — Claims 'distillation' included 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges to train smaller models

Anthropic claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax made 16 million exchanges using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to advance their models using Claude.

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The Week Ahead (Jan. 5–11): Chinese AI Startups Line Up for Hong Kong IPOs

The Week Ahead (Jan. 5–11): Chinese AI Startups Line Up for Hong Kong IPOs

South Korean President visits China, Lenovo to launch personal AI agent

China's premier GPU maker Biren kicks off Hong Kong IPO — GPU startups vying for Nvidia's crown race to fund AI chip development

China's premier GPU maker Biren kicks off Hong Kong IPO — GPU startups vying for Nvidia's crown race to fund AI chip development

Shanghai Biren Technology has begun bookbuilding for a Hong Kong initial public offering aimed at raising as much ad US$624 million as Chinese AI chipmakers accelerate listings to fund expansion.

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Tech Brief (Oct. 28): Meituan Releases Open-Source Video Generation Model

Tech Brief (Oct. 28): Meituan Releases Open-Source Video Generation Model

China’s securities regulator to deepen ChiNext board reforms, XPeng expands into the Baltics and Cambodia

Hollywood is suing yet another AI company. But there may be a better way to solve copyright conflicts

Hollywood is suing yet another AI company. But there may be a better way to solve copyright conflicts

This week Disney, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros Discovery jointly sued MiniMax, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, over alleged copyright infringement.

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Disney, NBCU, WBD sue Chinese AI firm MiniMax

Hollywood is starting to take a more aggressive stance in protecting its intellectual property.

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Forget virtual pets – the next AI video craze is cats doing Olympic diving, and it’s all thanks to this new Google Veo 3 rival

MiniMax’s Hailuo 02 is turning the internet into a feline Olympics.

These 2 AI Stocks Give You Access to China’s ‘New AI Tiger’ MiniMax

Investors could consider gaining exposure to tech giants such as Alibaba and Tencent, which offer indirect exposure to multiple AI startups in 2025.

China’s MiniMax LLM costs about 200x less to train than OpenAI’s GPT-4, says company

The claims may spook investors who’ve sunk billions into leading AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

MimicPC Introduces Free Flux 1.1 Pro & MiniMax I2V for Enhanced AI Creation

AI tools have revolutionized content creation, making it easier than ever to produce high-quality images and videos with minimal effort. Whether for designers, marketers, or casual creators, these advanced technologies streamline workflows, accelerate production, and unlock new creative possibilities—once exclusive to large studios.

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I put the new Hailuo MiniMax image-to-video model to the test — this is something special

Hailuo MiniMax is the last of the next-generation AI video platforms to launch an image-to-video model and it is very well done.

Forget Sora — MiniMax is a new realistic AI video generator and it’s seriously impressive

MiniMax is the latest ultra-realistic text-to-video generator trying to take on OpenAI's Sora. I put it to the test and as well as being very realistic, this one can accurately render human hand movements.

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Chinese Women Are Ditching Real Men For 'Perfect' AI Boyfriends Instead

Glow, a free app in China's expanding human-robot relations industry, facilitates friendly and even romantic interactions. MiniMax, the creators of Glow, reported a surge in daily downloads, reaching the thousands.

Is the Big Green Egg BBQ worth the price? We put the entry-level version to the test

Is the Big Green Egg MiniMax worth £800? We find out

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