AI news from Asia
Asia sets the pace on hardware and increasingly on models. This page tracks Chinese model releases from Alibaba, DeepSeek and Baidu, Japanese and Korean industry news, and the Taiwanese and Korean supply chain — translated so language is never the reason you miss a story.
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Alibaba open-sources medical AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions
Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has open-sourced an artificial intelligence model capable of identifying nearly 150 abdominal conditions – including cancers – by reading computed tomography (CT) scans, marking the latest step in the firm’s growing medical AI efforts. The vision-language model, called Damo Radar, was designed to analyse contrast-enhanced CT scans covering 18 abdominal organs and identify a broad range of diseases and other abnormalities, such as malignant...
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Source: Beijing-based Naive AI, which plans to release its first AI model as early as this month, is now valued at $1.4B after raising $400M in three rounds (Juro Osawa/The Information)
Juro Osawa / The Information : Source: Beijing-based Naive AI, which plans to release its first AI model as early as this month, is now valued at $1.4B after raising $400M in three rounds — A secretive Chinese AI model startup founded in February by a Tsinghua University professor is now valued at more than $1.4 billion …
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Ant International embeds AI agents across all platforms in biggest-ever product upgrade
Ant International, the overseas affiliate of China’s Ant Group, is executing an artificial intelligence overhaul across its entire suite of global financial services, introducing AI agents designed to help manage payments, foreign exchange and treasury operations. Described by the company as its largest-ever product upgrade, the initiative embeds AI-native solutions across all platforms: cross-border payment network Alipay+, merchant services provider Antom, account and treasury platform...
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The U.S. says China's AI progress is down to 'distillation.' But is it that clear cut?
The U.S. administration and Anthropic have accused China's AI companies of 'distillation', but a growing cohort of voices are questioning the impact.
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China's RoboTechnik to launch $800 million Hong Kong listing on September 21
RoboTechnik, which is listed in Shenzhen, makes equipment for photovoltaic cell manufacturing and assembly and testing systems for silicon photonics devices used in optical interconnects for data centres and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Economic Times Tech
SoftBank adds $21 billion to AI firepower in new debt deals
The Japanese conglomerate increased its margin loan backed by shares of its chip unit Arm Holdings Plc by $5 billion to $25 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. And it recently secured an additional $450 million to an existing credit line, bringing the total to $6.5 billion, according to people familiar with that deal.
Economic Times Tech
MDR fears groundless, AI accountability lies with boards: RBI Dy Governor SC Murmu
Tackling industry anxieties head-on at the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry's (BCC&I) Financial Market Conclave in Mumbai, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor S. C. Murmu on Friday addressed lingering concerns over Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) costs and the potential impact of fee recovery on digital payment adoption.
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SK Hynix launches SK Hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley, expanding its corporate investment scope into AI computing, data centers, and optical interconnect tech (Jie Ye-eun/The Korea Herald)
Jie Ye-eun / The Korea Herald : SK Hynix launches SK Hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley, expanding its corporate investment scope into AI computing, data centers, and optical interconnect tech — Since 2018, I have covered South Korea's economic and financial landscape, with experience spanning the economy, banking, financial markets and securities industry.
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Sources: SK Hynix subsidiary Solidigm weighs building a NAND flash memory factory in the US; SK Hynix is also in talks with Intel for a separate project in Ohio (Reuters)
Reuters : Sources: SK Hynix subsidiary Solidigm weighs building a NAND flash memory factory in the US; SK Hynix is also in talks with Intel for a separate project in Ohio — Chipmaker SK Hynix's (000660.KS) subsidiary Solidigm is considering building a NAND flash memory chip factory in the US …
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Agent 失控再敲警鐘，OpenAI 公布六起新案例與通報機制
除近期 Hugging Face 遭 Agent 入侵的事件外，OpenAI 發現過去 6 個月內另有六起「非 […]
TechNews (TW)
Chinese AI developers generated $10.7b ARR: report
ByteDance led with US$4 billion in July.
Tech in Asia
US and China experts push for shared rules banning AI control over nuclear weapons
Experts from the US and China want to prevent AI systems from making autonomous decisions about deploying nuclear weapons. The article US and China experts push for shared rules banning AI control over nuclear weapons appeared first on The Decoder .
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India has a once-in-a-generation semiconductor demand window: Infosys SVP
Speaking at SEMICON India 2026, Meghal said the traditional semiconductor pipeline is breaking amid massive shifts driven by artificial intelligence (AI), geopolitical supply chain challenges, and a transition from Moore's Law towards system-level scaling.
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SK hynix launches venture arm to expand AI bets
The company said SK hynix Ventures builds on a corporate venture capital operation it has run since 2015.
Tech in Asia
繞道突破美晶片封鎖：中科院藉 GAA 創新延壽 DUV，5 奈米密度成短期極限
中國科學院（中科院）近日發表一項新型全環繞式閘極（GAA）電晶體架構，標榜即便使用較舊的深紫外光（DUV）微影 […]
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Top Chinese AI models make 10% of OpenAI, Anthropic revenue despite high valuations: report
Chinese artificial intelligence models from seven major developers combined generate only about 10 per cent of the revenue reported for OpenAI and Anthropic, even as investor enthusiasm remains intense, according to US-based research firm Rhodium Group. The Chinese AI models earned an estimated US$10.7 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) from March to August, a fraction of the more than US$100 billion combined for OpenAI and Anthropic, according to the Rhodium report published on...
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Inside the scramble for trusted AI cops
A host of industry players, policy wonks and businesses are grappling with the question of how to regulate AI in a trustworthy manner. Inside the White House, it's mostly business as usual. Why it matters: The industry's mad dash is the product of an ad hoc regulatory apparatus and a general consensus that swift action from Washington is unlikely in the near term . State of play: AI CEOs have been grappling with how to test advanced AI and work with Beijing on safety standards, while the White House favors a solution where the industry finds ways to police itself. That means the race is on to decide who will be anointed as third-party evaluators of AI systems and controls as the companies aw
Axios
Forge Nano 押注台灣，打造先進 ALD 設備生產基地
美國晶片製造設備商 Forge Nano 執行長告訴「日經亞洲」（Nikkei Asia），公司已選定台灣作為 […]
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Sources: Chinese DRAM leader CXMT is preparing to expand into flash memory, competing with Samsung and domestic rival YMTC amid an AI-driven memory shortage (Reuters)
Reuters : Sources: Chinese DRAM leader CXMT is preparing to expand into flash memory, competing with Samsung and domestic rival YMTC amid an AI-driven memory shortage — Chinese chipmaker CXMT (688825.SS) is preparing to enter the booming flash memory chip market dominated by Samsung Electronics …
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Analysis: China's 15th five-year plan spotlights diamond for AI chip thermal management
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) have highlighted ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductor materials, including gallium oxide (Ga₂O₃) and synthetic diamond, in their draft development plan for the electronic information manufacturing sector.
DIGITIMES
800V 後的新戰場：Vicor 搶攻垂直供電、股價飆近 18%
隨 AI 晶片功耗持續攀升，垂直供電（Vertical Power Delivery，VPD）技術成為電源大廠 […]
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AI 晶片封裝突破光罩極限，CoWoS-L 穩居先進封裝主流至 2028 年
根據 TrendForce 最新半導體先進封裝產業研究，隨著 GPU 業者、超大型雲端服務供應商（CSP）持續 […]
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Doosan commits KRW968 billion to CCL expansion as demand strains capacity
Doosan is investing KRW968.4 billion (approx. US$701 million) to expand high-end copper-clad laminate (CCL) production in South Korea and China, its largest-ever investment in the business, as growing demand for AI accelerators, network switches and optical modules pushes key production lines beyond full utilization.
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China's AI data center token costs hinge on access to advanced GPUs
China's AI data centers are confronting a severe chip access bottleneck, with the cost of producing tokens shaped less by model design than by geopolitics, according to a recent Caijing analysis. The report said restricted access to high-end GPUs has become the most critical cost burden in China's AI era.
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AI 資安風險曝 白帽駭客利用 Claude 入侵 OpenAI
AI引發的資安風險日益受到關注，獨立研究人員發現漏洞，利用 Anthropic 的 Claude 模型成功入侵 […]
TechNews (TW)
China's memory push gains ground across LPDDR6, advanced NAND, with HBM still the test
AI is reshaping the global memory industry, tightening supply while creating an opening for China's domestic suppliers. With Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron prioritizing high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and high-end server memory, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) are gaining ground in conventional DRAM, mobile memory, and NAND Flash.
DIGITIMES
Huawei Cloud introduces AI cloud and agent tools
Huawei Cloud operates globally across multiple regions and data centers, supporting the rollout outside China.
Tech in Asia
