The Nvidia chief’s praise for Chinese companies suggests a recognition of their growing influence in the global AI ecosystem. Open-source approaches to AI development allow for wider access to foundational models and accelerate innovation by enabling developers worldwide to build upon existing frameworks.

Star founders, Beijing officials and deep-pocketed financiers converge on Shanghai by the thousands this weekend to attend China’s most important AI summit. At the top of the agenda: how to propel Beijing’s ambitions to leapfrog the US in artificial intelligence — and profit off that drive.

What are the biggest cloud providers in Asia doing to meet the rising demand for AI inference? Omdia’s latest research offers an in-depth look at the evolving challenges of AI inference operations, the key trade-offs between throughput, latency, and support for diverse AI models, and the possible solutions.

More than half of US and EU respondents, however, say they will only use models hosted on non-Chinese infrastructure.

In an unprecedented operation, heavy-lift drones transported 180 tons of steel and concrete to a mountainous and hard-to-reach region in southwest China, for the construction of power transmission towers in a solar project in Yunnan province.

China is working to merge man and machine through brain-computer interface technology, as part of the country's ongoing efforts to compete in the AI race.

The administration’s long-awaited AI Action Plan gives Silicon Valley the green light.

The strict academic crackdown has ironically triggered a surge in the use of the technology to help ‘dumb down’ essays and assignments.

Alibaba-backed startup Moonshot released on late Friday night its Kimi K2 model, touting performance that rivals many U.S. models.

DeepSeek and Trump’s AI plan grabbed attention at China’s biggest AI forum, showing the growing tech rivalry between the U.S. and China.