China Technology
China’s homegrown AI model, DeepSeek, has surged to the top of the free app download charts in the United States region of the Apple App Store, surpassing the once-dominant ChatGPT. It also secured the number one spot on the free app rankings in China. On Jan 20, Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek officially launched its…
[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Amap, a leading Chinese digital map provider, has launched the first English-language version of its popular navigation app, aiming to facilitate travel for the growing number of international tourists visiting China. The app, available globally on both App Store and Google Play, provides a localized experience with English names and descriptions…
If you thought humanoid robots all have stiff, unnatural movements, it’s time to take a new look. A company in Shenzhen has taken a giant leap forward, perfecting robots capable of the smooth, organic movements of real people. EngineAI Robotics captured the public’s imagination recently with a viral video showcasing the natural walking gait and…
This “fireworks plus drones” hybrid has also become a global social media phenomenon with a reach extending far beyond domestic audiences, Dec 7, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING — As dusk settles over Liuyang, a small city known as China’s “fireworks capital,” the weekend sky ignites with a choreographed fusion of tradition and technology. Here, pyrotechnic craft…
China’s latest move to improve security governance for data circulation is expected to better fully unleash the value of data elements, boost the high-quality development of the data industry and bring about more business opportunities for data security enterprises, experts said. Highlighting the fact that data has become a new type of production factor, the…
The SE01, a humanoid robot developed by EngineAI Robotics, a Chinese artificial intelligence technology company, undergoes a long-distance walking test in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Jan 8. [Photo provided to China Daily] If you thought humanoid robots all have stiff, unnatural movements, it’s time to take another look. A company in Shenzhen has taken a…
South Korean technology company Samsung Electronics unveiled on Thursday its latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S25 series. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The shipments of artificial intelligence-powered smartphones across the globe are expected to rise by 73.1 percent year-on-year in 2025, according to a report from global market consultancy IDC. The triple-digit growth in 2024 will be…
Staff members work on flu vaccines in Sinovac’s R&D lab in Beijing. [Photo/China Daily] China’s research and development spending totaled 3.61 trillion yuan ($496.32 billion) in 2024, up 8.3 percent from the previous year, while R&D intensity, the ratio of R&D to GDP, hit 2.68 percent during that period, an increase of 0.1 percentage point,…
An employee trains a humanoid robot at the nation’s first training ground for heterogeneous humanoid robots in Shanghai on Tuesday. CHEN MENGZE/FOR CHINA DAILY China has unveiled its first training ground for heterogeneous humanoid robots in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area, a milestone for the humanoid robot industry. The facility, which can accommodate more than 100…
The US Congress passed a law last year forcing ByteDance to either sell TikTok or close it by this Jan 19, 2025. [Photo/Agencies] After a brief weekend outage, TikTok was up and running again on Sunday in the United States after President-elect Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order Monday to keep the…