# AI
Latest news and articles about AI
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The L3 Trap: Why Xpeng is Betting on a Direct Leap to Full Autonomy
Xpeng Motors CEO He Xiaopeng has reaffirmed the company's strategy to bypass Level 3 autonomous driving, moving directly from Level 2 to Level 4. The move aims to eliminate the safety risks associated with human-to-machine handovers and positions Xpeng's new GX model as a primary contender in the emerging Robotaxi market.
Samsung’s Dynastic Tax Bill Settled: Jay Y. Lee Bets $84 Billion on an AI Rebirth
The Lee family has completed the payment of a historic $9 billion inheritance tax, allowing Jay Y. Lee to solidify his control and launch a massive $84 billion investment plan. Samsung is now pivoting aggressively toward AI-centric semiconductors and hybrid manufacturing to challenge industry leaders like TSMC and NVIDIA.
Honor’s Strategic Pivot: New 'WIN' Gaming Laptop to Challenge Hardware Heavyweights
Honor has announced a dedicated 'WIN' gaming laptop to be released on April 23, marking a major expansion into high-performance hardware. The move is supported by a strategic partnership with JD.com to integrate AI and data-driven manufacturing into the new device lineup.
Ceasefire in the Clouds: Meituan and the End of China’s $20 Billion Food Delivery War
Meituan has successfully defended its market dominance in China’s food delivery sector despite a collective industry subsidy spend of 150 billion RMB in 2025. The company is now pivoting toward AI-driven logistics and global expansion as Chinese regulators signal an end to irrational price competition.
The Great Rebalancing: Meituan Emerges Scathed but Stronger from China’s 150-Billion-Yuan Delivery War
Meituan has successfully defended its 60% market share in China's food delivery sector following a massive 150-billion-yuan industry-wide subsidy war. The company is now pivoting toward AI-driven efficiency and international expansion as regulators call for an end to 'irrational' price wars.
China’s AI ‘Token’ Fever: A New Metric for an Emerging Compute Crisis
China is experiencing a massive surge in AI 'Token' usage, leading to a 30% price hike in computing services from major cloud providers like Alibaba and Tencent. This shift is transforming computing power into a strategic national resource and accelerating the push for domestic hardware alternatives.
Alibaba’s Tmall Pivot: The Battle for 'Certainty' in a Saturated E-Commerce Era
Tmall is shifting its 2026 strategy to focus on 'Confirmed Receipts' rather than GMV to combat high return rates and merchant fatigue. By leveraging AI for precision matching and aligning platform KPIs with merchant profitability, Alibaba aims to provide a more stable and cost-efficient environment for premium brands in a saturated market.
Silicon Sovereignty: Musk’s ‘Terafab’ Vision Challenges the Global Semiconductor Order
Elon Musk has announced the Terafab project, a massive semiconductor initiative aiming to produce one terawatt of computing power annually to support an interplanetary civilization. The project seeks to achieve silicon independence through atom-level manufacturing, potentially disrupting the current global foundry model and Nvidia's market dominance.
Xiaomi’s Sophomore Surge: Lei Jun Navigates the EV Price Wars with a Human Touch
Xiaomi has launched the next generation of its SU7 electric vehicle at a competitive 219,990 RMB, despite rising material costs. Founder Lei Jun is leveraging celebrity endorsements and a humble public persona to navigate market skepticism and technical controversies as the company expands into robotics and AI.
From Clever Vacuums to Autonomous Kitchens: How AI Is Sparking a New Wave of Consumer Robotics in China
At AWE 2026 in Shanghai Chinese appliance and robotics firms showcased a shift from conceptual demos to deployable, wheel-based home robots, edge AI devices and agent-driven software that enables continuous task execution. The convergence of embodied AI, open agent frameworks and China’s manufacturing scale is accelerating a global push of smarter consumer robotics, though challenges remain in software sophistication, regulatory differences and market fragmentation.
Tencent’s AI Push Goes From Labs to Ledger: Strong 2025 Results Mask a Strategic Pivot on Compute, WeChat Agents and ‘Shrimp’ Apps
Tencent’s 2025 results showed healthy revenue and profit growth while signalling an intensifying corporate pivot to AI. Management plans to double AI investment this year, is privately testing a major new foundation model, and is deploying AI across games, advertising and cloud, but is constrained by GPU supply and faces tough productisation and privacy challenges for a future WeChat agent.
Tencent Tops Estimates as Cloud Business Reaches Scaled Profitability, Buoyed by Enterprise AI Demand
Tencent beat fourth-quarter expectations with net profit of RMB 58.26 billion and revenue of RMB 194.37 billion, and said its cloud business has reached scaled profitability thanks to rising enterprise AI demand and stronger PaaS/SaaS uptake. While gaming and value-added services outperformed estimates, fintech and enterprise services slightly missed forecasts; the company proposed a final dividend of HKD 5.30 per share.