Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) CEO Lisa Su took a notably understated approach during her visit to China last week, in contrast to the high-profile public appearances of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok and the Doubao AI assistant, is developing its own central processing units to support its growing AI infrastructure, according to an exclusive Reuters report published on May 28.
China’s pharmaceutical industry is producing results that would have seemed implausible five years ago. Of the 19 innovative drugs cleared by China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for sale so far in 2026, 15 came from domestic Chinese companies, according to South China Morning Post reporting published on May 27.
China’s approach to AI governance is entering a new phase.
BYD, the world’s largest electric vehicle maker, has made a commitment that no other automaker has attempted: if a driver activates the company’s God’s Eye advanced driver-assistance system and an accident still occurs, BYD will cover the costs.
MiniMax, the Shanghai-based AI startup best known for its M-series large language models and the Hailuo AI video generation tool, has disclosed growth metrics that underscore the accelerating commercial momentum of China’s second-tier AI companies.
China’s AI industry is undergoing a strategic reorientation. The chatbot era, defined by text generation, question answering, and conversational interfaces, is giving way to what Chinese technologists are calling “physical AI” or “embodied AI”: systems that can perceive, reason, and act in the real world.
Alibaba has a new bet on the future of work, and it runs like a mule.
China’s largest domestic DRAM maker has cleared a critical hurdle on its path to a landmark public listing. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) received approval from the Shanghai Stock Exchange on May 29 to list on the STAR Market, China’s technology-focused exchange, according to Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.
When China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched its first full lifecycle management platform for humanoid robots in late May, it was widely reported as a governance framework in its infancy. Four days later, the numbers tell a different story.
China is moving to create an entirely new class of financial derivative built around artificial intelligence.
Nvidia retained a commanding 55% share of China’s artificial intelligence chip market in 2025, shipping 2.2 million AI accelerators to Chinese customers despite the progressive tightening of US export controls, according to IDC data reviewed by Reuters.
Volant Aerotech, a Chinese startup developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for urban air mobility, has raised $147 million in a new funding round, according to Caixin Global. The capital injection comes as the company accelerates its development timeline and prepares for a potential initial public offering.
China is moving to establish a comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence and the low-altitude economy, with Vice Minister of Justice Wu Zeng announcing at a press conference on Wednesday that legislation in both areas will be accelerated throughout 2026.
The 2026 World Intelligence Expo opened on Wednesday in Tianjin Municipality, drawing more than 500 exhibitors from 30 countries for a four-day showcase of China’s most advanced artificial intelligence and smart technology developments.
Chinese scientists have unveiled an artificial intelligence drug discovery platform that compresses the initial compound screening phase of pharmaceutical research from years to seconds, achieving a throughput that is one million times faster than the previous world record for supercomputing molecular docking.
Researchers at Peking University’s School of Integrated Circuits have unveiled a prototype electronic design automation (EDA) tool that takes a fundamentally different approach to chip design, and one that is directly compatible with Huawei Technologies’ newly announced LogicFolding semiconductor architecture.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a comprehensive 2026 work plan on automotive standardization on Tuesday, outlining an ambitious agenda to establish technical rules for electric vehicles, artificial intelligence systems, and automotive semiconductors.
China has formally extended its Xinchuang technology localization campaign to artificial intelligence chips, creating a new certification category for “AI training and inference chips” and publishing the first batch of approved domestic products.
Alibaba Group Holding’s Qwen3.7-Max has secured the fourth position on the Code Arena global coding leaderboard, achieving a score of 1,541 and becoming the only non-US model in the top five.
