Juro Osawa is a Reporter at The Information. He covers technology in Asia with a focus on enterprise tech, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, exploring topics such as generative AI, open source software, and natural language processing. Juro's work has been featured in Knowledia, Chinafile, and The Information.
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By: Juro Osawa
Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin announced that he had started a new AI company, confirming The Information’s earlier reports.Lin, who left Alibaba in March, said in a post on X that his Shanghai-based startup, Pragmatik Labs, is focusing on “next-generation agents across digital and physical worlds.” Lin also said Chinese venture capital firms Gaorong Ventures and HongShan led
By: Juro Osawa
Tencent Holdings said its capital expenditures in the second quarter nearly tripled from a year earlier to 52.8 billion yuan ($7.8 billion), as the Chinese tech giant beefed up its computing infrastructure to train better AI models and meet growing demand for its coding and productivity tools.“We are allocating a very substantial proportion of new compute to our own models and applications,”
Chinese AI developer DeepSeek on Wednesday launched the official version of its most advanced model, V4-Pro, which offers capabilities comparable to Moonshot AI’s popular Kimi K3 model on some benchmarks at much lower prices.DeepSeek’s latest release further intensifies the competition among increasingly powerful Chinese open-source models and U.S. frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI. A
DeepSeek announced a significant increase in the prices of its models, a day after it released its flagship model, V4-Pro.From this Sunday, the cost of V4-Pro’s application programming interface will rise to $3.96 for output per 1 million tokens at peak hours and $1.98 at non-peak hours—up sharply from the current price of $0.87. The hike was expected: DeepSeek had said earlier this month
Chinese AI developer Z.ai on Friday released its new open-source model, GLM-5.3, saying its cybersecurity capabilities are on par with Anthropic’s Mythos 5.Beijing-based Z.ai, also known as Zhipu in Chinese, said GLM-5.3 has achieved significant improvements from its predecessor, GLM-5.2, in both coding and cybersecurity. In some security tasks, “the performance of GLM-5.3 is the same as
Alibaba Group CEO Eddie Wu said on an earnings call Thursday that the company expects the annualized revenue run rate for its AI-related products to reach $10 billion in the current quarter through September, up from $7.3 billion in the previous quarter.Alibaba’s revenue in the quarter through June increased 9%, thanks mostly to a 45% growth in its “AI cloud and compute services” business
By: Juro Osawa, Qianer Liu
DeepSeek generated about 475 million yuan ($70.7 million) in revenue in the first seven months of this year, roughly tenfold its full-year 2025 revenue, as the Chinese AI lab goes full steam ahead in its second round of funding, according to two people with knowledge of the company’s financial ...
Chinese AI firm Z.ai ’s new open-source model is generating a lot of buzz because of its near-frontier capabilities at super low costs. This further intensifies the price competition in the global AI model market.The new GLM-5.3 Flash model, officially released earlier this week, is ranked eighth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 57, matching OpenAI’s GPT-5.6
