Juro Osawa

Chinese food delivery giant Meituan unveiled its new open-source large language model that it says has been trained entirely on Chinese chips.Meituan, which developed its first LLM last year, said its new model, LongCat-2.0, which has 1.6 trillion parameters, is the first model of this scale to complete the full training as well as inference on domestic chip clusters. Meituan didn’t disclose

Anthropic is backtracking a spyware rolled out covertly to track users’ location and whether they are based in China or affiliated with Chinese AI labs, after the move sparked controversies on social media.A Reddit post earlier this week said Claude Code covertly tracks and transmits information on whether the user is in China and affiliated with a Chinese lab. International Cyber Digest, a

Kuaishou Technology said its Kling AI video unit has raised $2 billion in a fundraising at a pre-money valuation of $15 billion, as the Chinese social media giant taps outside investors to fund the unit’s rapid growth.As the agreement allows more investors to join the funding round later, Kling expects to raise nearly $3 billion in total, Kuaishou said in a regulatory filing Thursday. After

Alibaba Group has banned employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code, and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers, according to two employees with knowledge of the matter.Alibaba told some employees Friday that the ban is due to security concerns about Anthropic, after a recent controversy over Claude Code’s hidden code that was capable of tracking whether the user

Chinese officials have held meetings to discuss the idea of restricting overseas access to China’s most advanced AI models, Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the discussions..In the meetings, led by China’s Ministry of Commerce, officials discussed putting limits on the most advanced Chinese modes, including both close-source and open-source ones, as well as those yet to be

Zhipu AI, the Chinese AI lab behind the highly regarded GLM series of open-source AI models, is weighing designing its own AI chip as surging demand and U.S. export controls make computing resources a growing constraint, according to three people with direct knowledge of the plan. The ...

Anthropic on Thursday reiterated its policy that access to it Claude models and coding tools is not permitted in China, responding to the Chinese government’s recent warning about a security backdoor in Claude Code.The U.S. company said what Beijing’s warning described as a hidden backdoor is an anti-abuse mechanism its team operated earlier this year. That mechanism checked a device’s

Junjie Yan, founder and CEO of Chinese AI developer MiniMax told employees in an internal memo that he will forgo his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, while also promising to allocate some of his personal shares toward employee incentives.In the memo, which was shared publicly in an X post by another MiniMax executive, Yan said he will allocate shares

U.S. investment firm Susquehanna International Group, one of ByteDance’s biggest shareholders, is winding down its China-based venture investment team, another sign of the challenges facing U.S. venture investors operating in China. SIG China’s managing director, Tim Gong, who ran the team, is ...

Strong revenue growth at DeepSeek is empowering the Chinese open-source AI star to raise its second-funding round of 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) and plot a potential public offering in Shanghai next year, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The three-year-old startup’s ...