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Alibaba Tightens Grip on China’s AI Crown as Qwen3.5 Cracks Global Top Six

Alibaba Cloud has successfully defended its position as China’s premier artificial intelligence developer, with its latest flagship model penetrating the upper echelon of global rankings despite intensifying competition from Silicon Valley. The release of Qwen3.5-Max-Preview marks a critical juncture for the Chinese tech giant in 2026.

Huawei Bets on Active Cooling: Mate 80 Pro Max Leaks Suggest Radical Thermal Shift

Huawei appears poised to break a longstanding smartphone design taboo with its upcoming flagship, reportedly integrating active cooling mechanisms to push performance boundaries. Leaked schematics and supply chain chatter surrounding the purported "Mate 80 Pro Max" indicate a strategic pivot toward gaming-grade thermals in a mass-market

Vivo Targets High-End Camera Dominance with Dual-200MP Flagship

Vivo Mobile Communication Co. has confirmed it will unveil its latest premium smartphone lineup, the X300 series, on March 30 in Lijiang, escalating the industry’s megapixel arms race with a device featuring two 200-megapixel sensors and next-generation silicon-carbon battery technology. Following a preliminary tease at the

Chery Pivots to Global Markets as Export Margins Eclipse Domestic Returns

Chery Automobile Co. has set an aggressive target to deliver 3 million vehicles in 2026, banking on a rapidly expanding international footprint to offset a saturated domestic market. The Anhui-based automaker projects a 14% year-on-year volume increase, underpinned by a strategic mandate to derive half of its

Horizon Robotics Swaps Profit for Market Share as 2025 R&D Spend Deepens $1.45 Billion Deficit

Horizon Robotics reported a net loss of RMB 10.46 billion (US$1.45 billion) for 2025, reversing a previous-year profit as the Chinese autonomous driving chipmaker sacrificed short-term margins to bankroll an aggressive expansion in high-end driver assistance systems. The financial pivot, disclosed on March 19,

Xiaomi’s Upgraded SU7 EV Secures 15,000 Orders, Accelerating AI Ecosystem Push

Xiaomi locked in 15,000 firm orders within 34 minutes for its newly upgraded SU7 electric vehicle, signaling a maturation in consumer demand as the tech giant pivots toward a broader physical artificial intelligence ecosystem. Launched on March 19, 2026, the facelifted SU7 lineup—priced between RMB 219,900 (US30,

Alibaba Pivots Future to AI Cloud as Core E-Commerce Engine Sputters in Q3

Alibaba is increasingly relying on its booming artificial intelligence and cloud computing divisions to offset a rapid deceleration in its legacy e-commerce operations, signaling a structural pivot in its primary growth engine. The Hangzhou-based tech giant reported a meager 1.7% year-over-year total revenue growth for

ChinaBiz Briefing | Tencent Cloud Profit, Moonshot AI Shift, Xiaomi and Xpeng Lead EV Intelligence, NIO Expands Infrastructure

The Big Picture: China’s tech sector is entering a new phase where AI economics, autonomous driving, and infrastructure scale are converging. Tencent and Alibaba are reshaping cloud models under AI cost pressure, while EV makers like Xiaomi, Xpeng and NIO push deeper into software-defined mobility. Meanwhile, China’s

Chinese AI OALL Ignites Open-Source BCI Debate, Putting Musk’s Neuralink Under Spotlight

A Chinese AI known as “OALL” has pushed brain-computer interfaces into a new market debate—open versus closed—raising investor-relevant questions about security, governance and who controls neural data as Neuralink prepares to scale production in 2026. A livestream hosted with no human on camera vaulted OALL onto

Cloud Giants Push Through AI-Driven Price Hikes as Token Demand Strains Compute and Networks

Global cloud providers are resetting pricing power in 2026 as AI inference demand collides with higher supply-chain and infrastructure costs, accelerating a broad-based shift from “scale-first” growth to margin protection. Alibaba Cloud and Baidu AI Cloud on March 18 became the latest major vendors to raise prices