A promotional ad for the movie “Ne Zha 2” in collaboration with Honor, a leading Chinese smartphone brand, on display at a shopping mall in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Feb 10, 2025. [Photo/VCG] Editor’s Note: The extensive promotion and merchandise surrounding “Ne Zha 2,” China’s highest-grossing movie, exemplify the growing influence of intellectual property (IP)…
The US Congress passed a law last year forcing ByteDance to either sell TikTok or close it by this Jan 19, 2025. [Photo/Agencies] SAN FRANCISCO – TikTok was once again available for download in the Apple app store and Google Play store in the United States on Thursday. The video-sharing app, used by 170 million…
WeChat, China’s leading social media platform, is conducting small-scale testing to integrate DeepSeek’s R1 large model, joining a group of Chinese tech giants in embracing DeepSeek for enhanced AI capabilities, Tencent confirmed to China Daily on Sunday. Users included in the test can see the “AI Search” label at the top of the search bar…
Combating labor shortages and an aging workforce — or simply supporting mountain climbers and improving elderly mobility — China’s exoskeleton makers are pushing into the global market with advanced technology and cost-effective solutions. ULS Robotics, a Shanghai-based developer founded in 2018, said that last year they saw an improvement in product maturity and growing market…
Air Astana, the national flag carrier of Kazakhstan, is scheduled to launch a route between Guangzhou, Guangdong province, and Almaty on March 31. Guangzhou will become the fourth direct flight destination opened by Air Astana in China after Beijing, Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and Sanya in Hainan province. The new route will…
A view of a KCOFFEE cafe in Beijing in September. [CHINA DAILY] Fast-food giants Yum China and McDonald’s China expanded rapidly in 2024, opening record numbers of new stores and deepening their market presence. With a focus on operational efficiency, product innovation — especially in coffee — and increased reach in lower-tier cities, both companies…
Employees check auto components at a German funded high-tech company in Suzhou, Jiangsu province.[JI HAIXIN/FOR CHINA DAILY] In Taicang, a county-level city in Suzhou, East China’s Jiangsu province, runs the No 103 bus route. The route is peppered with stops that are mostly named after German companies, such as Krones, a leading beverage filling and…
Employees of Guangdong Xiangguan Optoelectronics work at a research facility in Dongguan, Guangdong province. The company is a major producer of mid- to high-end light-emitting diodes and LED application products. [CHINA DAILY] In the production workshop of Emma CNC Technology Co in Dongguan, Guangdong province, workers are busy debugging intelligent cutting devices and directing them…
[Photo/VCG] Chinese tech heavyweight ByteDance announced on Thursday the launch of its new model architecture, UltraMem, which reduces the inference costs of artificial intelligence-powered models by up to 83 percent. According to the company’s Doubao LLM team, UltraMem enhances the inference speed by 2 to 6 times compared to traditional MoE (mixture-of-experts) architectures. This technological…
Robin Li, co-founder and CEO of Baidu, speaks during a session at the World Governments Summit 2025 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday. AMR ALFIKY/REUTERS Continued investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure is still very much required despite Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s open-source model challenging the cost efficiency of peers’ large language models, said Robin…