Chinese firms continue to release AI models that rival the capabilities of systems developed by OpenAI and other U.S.-based AI companies. MiniMax claims that MiniMax-Text-01, which is 456 billion ...

With the rising technological prowess and greater openness of Chinese models, the world is increasingly turning to the East for efficient and customizable AI, a new report finds.

China's open-source artificial intelligence models may have caught up or "even pulled ahead" of their US counterparts in capabilities and adoption, a Stanford University report has found. The ...

The Chinese automotive industry is not short of unique and extraordinary models, and many feature advanced self-driving technologies, bold, futuristic designs, and unique trends in this ever-evolving ...

Tesla released its larger, six-seat Model Y L in China one week ago, and now we’re starting to get an idea of what it’s capable of from the earliest reviews. Here at Electrek, we usually prefer to ...

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an open version of DeepSeek-R1, its so-called reasoning model, that it claims performs as well as OpenAI’s o1 on certain AI benchmarks. R1 is available from the AI ...

Former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt sounded the alarm on a looming global AI imbalance, warning that an inexpensive, open-source Chinese AI model might become the standard for most countries.

The Chinese AI Surge: One Model Just Matched (or Beat) Claude and GPT in Safety Tests Your email has been sent A new red-team analysis reveals how leading Chinese open-source AI models stack up on ...

Moonshot released its new Kimi K2 Thinking model on Thursday. It claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 on some benchmarks. Open-source AI poses a challenge to proprietary US models. The global AI ...

China's AI race is heating up, with new models making waves in the industry. One new contender is Manus, an AI agent being hailed as the next potential "DeepSeek moment." Here are five key players to ...

Chinese smartphone brands have a dual identity. The flagship phone you see in China often isn’t quite the same as the one launched globally. And while companies like Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo, and even ...