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Indonesia: Five-Year AI Roadmap Designed to Track Rapid Technology Change

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India Expands AI Use Across Ayurveda and Traditional Medicine

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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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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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Chip foundries better insulated in an AI slowdown than Asia-Pacific tech peers, S&P says

As market fears mount over waning Big Tech spending and calls to slow down frontier artificial intelligence development, Asia-Pacific semiconductor foundries are better positioned to withstand a potential downturn in AI investment than other tech hardware firms in the region, according to S&P Global Ratings. In a report published on Thursday, the rating agency said it had stress tested four key Asia-Pacific sectors – foundries, memory manufacturers, cooling component suppliers and original...

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China to see major shift to Huawei for AI model training in 2027: rotating chair

Huawei Technologies expects a major domestic shift towards its artificial intelligence computing infrastructure for model training next year, as its Ascend processors gain ground on Nvidia in China despite supply constraints, according to rotating chairman Eric Xu Zhijun. “I believe that starting from next year, a lot of the AI model training will be based on the SuperPoD or SuperCluster based on Ascend 950DT,” Xu told reporters during the Huawei Connect 2026 conference in Shanghai on...

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Huawei unveils Ascend 960 SuperPoD with NPO technology to power next-generation AI infrastructure

The TechNode team attended HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 this morning, where one thing stood out: as AI models continue to grow, the industry’s biggest question is no longer just what AI can do, but what it takes to run models at this scale. The answer increasingly comes down to computing power. At the event, Huawei Deputy […]

17 September 2026

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Huawei quickens AI chip pace, promises next entrant 3 quarters early

Huawei Technologies said on Thursday that it would launch its next-generation artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2027, moving the target launch forward by nine months as the firm aggressively expands its ecosystem amid China’s self-sufficiency push. David Wang Tao, rotating and acting chairman for Huawei, said on Thursday that the Ascend 960DT chip, an AI chip designed for model training, “with performance doubling”, would be “ready in the first quarter of 2027”, three quarters

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Huawei unveils latest tech to boost AI power in push to break China’s Nvidia reliance

Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled its latest Ascend 960 SuperPoD computing cluster and an upgraded version of its UnifiedBus interconnect technology, a key component of the Chinese tech giant’s strategy to build advanced artificial intelligence systems despite US semiconductor-related restrictions. At the Huawei Connect 2026 conference in Shanghai, the Shenzhen-based firm introduced near-packaged optics (NPOs) – a placement structure enabling higher speeds and lower energy use – to the...

17 September 2026

OpenGov Asia

Singapore: From AI Access to AI Application Across the Economy

Singapore is positioning itself as a centre for developing and deploying artificial intelligence through a capability-driven approach that combines engineering expertise, workforce development and sector transformation. Speaking at the inauguration of a new engineering centre in Singapore, Senior Minister of State Tan Kiat How said the country’s long-term advantage would depend on its ability to […]

17 September 2026

OpenGov Asia

Hong Kong: Five-Year Plan Puts AI and Digital Trade at the Forefront

Hong Kong has set out a five-year development plan for 2026 to 2030, placing artificial intelligence (AI), digital trade and innovation at the centre of its economic and technology agenda. The strategy focuses on strengthening AI capabilities, expanding digital trade and cross-border data flows, deepening technology co-operation across the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and […]

16 September 2026

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China’s AI chip stocks face crucial test as MetaX lock-up period expires

China is bracing for a potential massive sell-off of a high-profile artificial intelligence chip stock on Thursday, when a lock-up period affecting 14 million shares in MetaX Integrated Circuits is set to expire. Analysts expect MetaX to face “significant selling pressure” when the restricted shares are released for trading, after the expiry of a similar lock-up period for shares in fellow AI chip firm Moore Threads last week sparked an avalanche of sales that wiped nearly 49 billion yuan...

16 September 2026

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Kimi creator Moonshot draws global funds seeking ‘top-tier’ Chinese AI developers: sources

China’s Moonshot AI has attracted global investor interest spanning Europe, Asia and the Middle East, people familiar with the matter say, as international capital scrambles for access to Chinese frontier artificial intelligence labs, betting on their high-stakes race against US rivals. The Beijing-based developer of the Kimi family of AI models has seen mounting interest from overseas players ranging from European investment firms to Middle East family offices, with some seeking indirect...

16 September 2026

TechNode

The AI Boom Has a Bandwidth Problem

Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart, a TechNode Group publication. The popular story of artificial intelligence begins with the processor. Bigger models require more GPUs, more power and ever-larger data centers. Yet once thousands of accelerators are assembled into a single computing cluster, another problem emerges: the chips must constantly exchange enormous volumes […]

16 September 2026

TechNode

China Mobile open-sources Open-RAIL engineering base for VLA and WAM robot models

China Mobile has open-sourced Open-RAIL, an engineering base connecting vision-language-action and world-action-model systems with robot bodies. It combines model inference, real-robot execution, data feedback and model iteration in one workflow. Open-RAIL currently supports four heterogeneous robots and 10 VLA or WAM models. The project says a new model can be integrated with as little as […]

16 September 2026

OpenGov Asia

Hong Kong Sets Out Expanded AI Governance and Innovation Agenda

Hong Kong’s 2026 Policy Address sets out a broad programme to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) across public services, industry and research while strengthening governance and risk management. The measures cover finance, healthcare, transport, social welfare and education, alongside new regulatory proposals on deepfakes, AI ethics and employment impacts. According to the full […]

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