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ABC News
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Chinese humanoid robots fight in what was promoted as the world's first-ever robot kicking boxing match.
Chinese humanoid robots fight in what was promoted as the world's first-ever robot kicking boxing match..
NHK
3 days ago
- Business
- NHK
China calls on nations to safeguard free trade
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has expressed concern over protectionism and called on the international community to unite in safeguarding free trade. Li spoke on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting known as the "Summer Davos" in China's Tianjin. The meeting is attended by political and business leaders from around the world. Li expressed concern, stating that "protectionist measures are significantly increasing, partly due to the intensification of global trade friction," referring to the tariff measures implemented by US President Donald Trump's administration. Li noted that there are also proactive forces that seek common understanding and strengthened collaboration to confront these unstable and uncertain risks. Li expressed hope that countries will promote open markets and cooperation, always in accordance with market principles, to protect economic globalization and reject division.
South China Morning Post
4 days ago
- Business
- South China Morning Post
iFlytek unveils medical AI, smart classroom tech in Hong Kong amid global push
Chinese voice recognition giant iFlytek has launched a series of artificial intelligence (AI) products in Hong Kong, where its new international headquarters will support its global expansion, as the firm doubles down on a commitment to home-grown computing infrastructure amid tightened US chip restrictions. iFlytek is making an upgraded international version of its Spark medical large language model (LLM) V2.5 available to organisations in Hong Kong, aiming to assist medical professionals in diagnosis and treatment, with language support for Cantonese and English. It has also launched a Hong Kong version of its healthcare chatbot app Xiaoyi for consumers in the city, the company said on Tuesday. iFlytek also announced the Hong Kong roll-out of products including a smart blackboard for classrooms, and a meeting transcription and translation solution that lets users switch freely among Cantonese, Putonghua and English. Hong Kong would be a launch pad for the company's global expansion in the future, founder and chairman Liu Qingfeng said on Tuesday. 'Hong Kong is not merely a market for iFlytek,' Liu said. 'It is instead our base for innovation and internationalisation.' An aerial photo shows a view of Hong Kong island on May 19, 2025. Photo: AFP The city would play a major role in iFlytek's medical AI efforts, as it offered English-language medical data, and the overseas training of some local doctors could help improve the capabilities of its medical LLM, Tao Xiaodong, president of iFlytek Healthcare, said.
South China Morning Post
4 days ago
- Business
- South China Morning Post
In light of US sanctions, China unveils first parallel optical computing chip, ‘Meteor-1'
Chinese researchers have developed the first highly parallel optical computing integrated chip, named 'Meteor-1', setting a milestone for using light to perform an enormous number of operations at the same time, the scientists say. The advance promises hardware acceleration for AI and data centres struggling with soaring computational demands The chip achieves a theoretical peak computing power of 2,560 TOPS (tera-operations per second) at 50GHz optical frequency – performance comparable to Nvidia's advanced GPUs – according to a report by Chinese publisher DeepTech last week. 02:17 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveils plan to build 'AI supercomputer' in Taiwan Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveils plan to build 'AI supercomputer' in Taiwan Nvidia's latest GeForce RTX 5090 graphic card, for instance, peaks at 3,352 TOPS while its previous flagship RTX 4090 only reached 1,321 TOPS. In the past, optical chips remained mostly in laboratory settings, and could not come close to commercial flagship GPUs in real-life tasks. Nvidia's 4090 and 5090 are effectively banned for sale to China because of US export controls on advanced semiconductors and AI chips that could aid Beijing in advancing its military capabilities. As traditional electronic chips hit fundamental physical limits – from heat build-up, quantum effects and unsustainable power consumption – optical computing emerges as a critical future direction. Its inherent advantages, such as ultra-high speed, broad bandwidth, low power and minimal latency, position it to overcome these barriers. Progress in optical computing has long focused on two key challenges: scaling up the matrix size and increasing optical frequency. Existing top models – exemplified by prototypes from TSMC and the California Institute of Technology – are pushing against both engineering and physical limits. Consequently, a third way – expanding computational parallelism, or the ability of chips to multitask – has become the necessary path forward.
Zawya
18-06-2025
- Business
- Zawya
China's Premier urges companies to use AI and clean energy
Chinese Premier Li Qiang called for companies to use artificial intelligence and clean energy to advance industrial transformation, state media reported on Wednesday. Li also urged businesses to use policies such as the consumer goods trade-in scheme to unleash demand potential, and vowed to create a good business environment for foreign companies to invest in China, according to state media. (Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
