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This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. If you’re a longtime subscriber to this newsletter, you know that I talk about China’s tech policies all the time. To me, it’s always a challenge to understand and explain the government’s…

Chinese multinational technology giant Alibaba has pledged to inject HK$5 billion into Hong Kong’s entertainment sector to finance promotion to an international audience. Hong Kong-made television dramas, films, events and training of young creatives will receive funding from video platform Youku, Alibaba Pictures and other businesses under the media arm of Alibaba, the company announced […]

Abacaus AI tested the uncensored LLM on MT-Bench and found it performs slightly better than the best open-source model on the HumanEval leaderboard – Qwen1.5-72B chat.

This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. If you ask any child in China what’s the most exciting thing about welcoming another year, they are likely to answer: the red packets. It’s a festive tradition: During the holidays, people…

More than two decades on from his first bet on Alibaba, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is ready to go all in on the AI revolution.

By Qian Ye and Greg Baker It’s just after midday in a quiet studio in Beijing, and Xuan Yi is finally getting the deep sleep she’s craved for months. Xuan is one of an estimated 300 million Chinese people suffering from insomnia, the product of a high-stress, high-pressure culture that has left many young people […]

Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma has stayed out of the limelight since angering Beijing. In the meantime, he's been busy in his retirement from the tech giant.