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The moves highlight how elite AI engineers are now seen as strategic assets to the country

Low-cost AI models from China that can perform almost as well as costlier offerings from premier US labs

Ant has been investing in AI to find new revenue streams

Since 2022, Washington has effectively blocked these processors from going to China over concerns that advanced AI could lend Beijing a military edge

The Big Fund is a backer of some of the country’s largest chip players

AI fundraising highlights the intense capital needed to build and run top-tier models

The market remains hypercompetitive with new players all the time, and the deeper-pocketed, larger firms are not sitting still

The country’s hyper-competitive instant delivery market engaged in a price war in the past year as platforms tried to defend their market share

The robotics specialist eyes 4.2 billion yuan IPO as it taps Alibaba to boost global humanoid robot sales

This comes amid the Chinese company’s push to remake itself into a leading player in artificial intelligence