The China Technology Review

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Illicitly Copying Claude AI Capabilities

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of copying Claude Anthropic has accused Alibaba of improperly extracting capabilities from its Claude artificial intelligence system, intensifying a dispute over whether C...

Jun 24, 2026

ByteDance Targets July Launch of Upgraded Seedance AI Video Model

ByteDance prepares upgraded Seedance for studios ByteDance’s cloud unit is preparing to launch an upgraded artificial intelligence video model in early July, moving deeper into a fast-growing market...

Jun 23, 2026

China Opens STAR Market to Pre-Profit AI Firms in Push to Fund Tech Startups

China widens IPO path for AI firms China is opening a new route to public markets for money-losing artificial intelligence and other frontier technology companies, a shift aimed at steering more domes...

Jun 23, 2026

Alibaba Open-Sources LOGOS Scientific AI Model to Challenge Western Biotech Giants

Alibaba releases LOGOS for scientific research Alibaba Group has open-sourced a new artificial intelligence model designed to work across multiple branches of the natural sciences, a move that could l...

Jun 21, 2026

JD.com Reports Record Orders During 618 Shopping Festival as China E-Commerce Competition Intensifies

JD.com says 618 shoppers set record BEIJING — JD.com said its annual 618 shopping festival ended with a record number of users placing orders, a sign that China’s consumers are still responding t...

Jun 21, 2026

DeepSeek Becomes China’s Most Valuable AI Startup After $7.4 Billion Fundraise

DeepSeek draws China’s biggest AI bet DeepSeek has become China’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup after raising more than $7.4 billion in its first outside funding round, a deal that...

Jun 18, 2026

Alipay and WeChat Pay Race to Turn AI Agents Into China’s New Shopping Gateways

China’s payment giants turn to AI China’s two dominant digital payment platforms are moving beyond the wallet, racing to turn artificial intelligence agents into the next gateway for shopping, tr...

Jun 17, 2026

ByteDance Eyes Massive AI Chip Deal as China Pushes Domestic Semiconductor Drive

ByteDance weighs major domestic AI chip order ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is in talks to buy at least 50,000 artificial intelligence chips from Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX as it races to...

Jun 15, 2026

Nvidia Courts China With Vera AI CPU as U.S. Chip Curbs Reshape Market

Nvidia pushes Vera into China Nvidia is making a renewed push into China’s artificial intelligence market, pitching its new Vera central processing unit to Chinese customers as U.S. export controls ...