Joanna Chiu
China Editor at Rest of World
Editor, @RestofWorld covering global technology. Author, #ChinaUnbound. Founder, @NuVoices. Tips: [email protected]. Blue Sky ‘joannachiu’
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
restofworld.org | Kinling Lo |Joanna Chiu
Chinese companies are gaining ground in the global race to develop the next generation of artificial intelligence — not just chatbots, but autonomous agents designed to handle complex tasks with minimal human input. In recent months, Chinese tech giants and startups have launched their own agents. Startups Butterfly Effect and Zhipu claim their tools outperform OpenAI’s Deep Research in some metrics.
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1 month ago |
restofworld.org | Kinling Lo |Joanna Chiu
As Jessy Wu prepared to launch her Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup overseas last year, she grappled with a question familiar to many Chinese tech founders: Should her company hide its Chinese identity?
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2 months ago |
restofworld.org | Selina Cheng |Joanna Chiu
At a HuaweiiHuaweiHuawei is a Chinese technology company focused on mobile phones and telecommunications, and is seen as a poster child for China’s global tech ambitions.READ MORE store in a bustling shopping mall in northern Hong Kong last week, shoppers flocked to the Mate XT, the world’s first tri-fold smartphone, which can turn into a full-sized tablet.
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Nov 27, 2024 |
restofworld.org | Selina Cheng |Joanna Chiu
In the 1970s, China became the world’s factory when it started allowing international manufacturers to set up shop and produce goods cheaply within its borders. Initially, Chinese factories made low-end products like plastic toys, then more sophisticated items like personal computers, smartphones, and automobiles for tech giants like Apple, Tesla, and Volkswagen. Chinese industries have since matured: They’re making big-ticket tech products at lower costs than Western competitors.
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Nov 18, 2024 |
restofworld.org | Joanna Chiu |Viola Zhou
Silicon Valley tech giants, including Microsoft and Google, have supported tech companies that provide censorship and policing technologies in China, according to publicly available corporate and promotional materials reviewed by Rest of World. Data GrandYear incubated:2017, by MicrosoftSpecialty:Text processing and automationKey takeaway:Has provided censorship tools since at least 2017 and provided automation software to Chinese police since at least 2020, according to Data Grand online posts.
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