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China’s DeepSeek quietly releases upgraded R1 AI model, ramping up competition with OpenAI
Deepseek’s logo on Jan. 29, 2025. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese startup DeepSeek, which caused shockwaves across markets this year, quietly released an upgraded version of its artificial intelligence reasoning model. The company did not make an official announcement, but the upgrade of DeepSeek R1 was released on AI model repository Hugging […]
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Chinese tech giants reveal how they’re dealing with U.S. chip curbs to stay in the AI race
Niphon | Istock | Getty Images Tencent and Baidu, two of China’s largest technology companies, revealed how they’re keeping in the global artificial intelligence race even as the U.S. tightens some curbs on key semiconductors. The business’ methods include stockpiling chips, making AI models more efficient and even using homegrown semiconductors. While the administration of […]
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Tencent bets on 1.4 billion user WeChat empire to get ahead in China’s AI race
China has not released specific regulation around non-fungible tokens. But technology platforms like Tencent’s WeChat are taking a cautious approach to prevent speculation with NFTs. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Tencent‘s WeChat app is indispensable for people in China. It has 1.4 billion monthly users and is the main messaging service in the […]
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Baidu’s robotaxi unit plans Europe expansion
More than 70% of Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi rides in Wuhan were fully driverless as of April, and the company said in May it expected 100% of the rides to be completely autonomous in coming quarters. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese tech company Baidu‘s Apollo Go robotaxi business plans to expand […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Amazon, Alibaba, Merck, Five Below, Nike and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Drugmakers — Pharmaceutical stocks bounced back from earlier losses after an executive order aimed at bringing down drug prices was deemed not as bad as feared for the industry. Merck jumped 5%, while Pfizer , Bristol-Myers Squibb and Eli Lilly all rose more than 2%. However, […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Nvidia, Best Buy, Eli Lilly, Tesla, Amazon and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Big Tech stocks – Shares of megacap technology companies surged after the U.S. and China agreed to temporarily cut tariffs , bringing the U.S. tariff rate on Chinese imports down to 30% and China’s duties on U.S. imports to 10%. Tesla , which has seen declining […]
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U.S.-China breakthrough send tech and chip stocks soaring
HANGZHOU, CHINA – JUNE 3, 2024 – The NVIDIA logo and the Apple logo are pictured in Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province, China, June 6, 2024. On June 5, Eastern time, Nvidia’s stock market value exceeded $3 trillion, officially surpassing Apple’s market value and becoming the world’s second largest technology giant by market value. It is […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Apple, Alibaba, Palantir Technologies and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Apple — The stock added more than 2% as sentiment on tech shares broadly rose Monday. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that several electronic devices and components will be exempt from U.S. tariffs . The policy benefits Apple given that the majority of the iPhone […]
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Alibaba launches new open-source AI model for ‘cost-effective AI agents’
The Alibaba office building in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, on Aug 28, 2024. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Alibaba Cloud launched Thursday its latest AI model in its “Qwen series,” as large language model competition in China continues to heat up following the “DeepSeek moment.” The new “Qwen2.5-Omni-7B” is a multimodal model, which […]
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