Alibaba releases the Qwen3-VL vision models, the Qwen3Guard “safety moderation” models, and three closed-weight models, including Qwen3-Max with 1T+ parameters
Qwen 50.6k — Safetensors qwen3_vl_moe Julian Nabil / Forbes Middle East : Alibaba Introduces Qwen3-Max AI Model With Over 1T Parameters Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Alibaba Releases Qwen3-VL O...
Ahead of a likely US TikTok ban, users flee to Chinese apps Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, and ByteDance's Lemon8, currently the top two apps in the US App Store
and how to prepare Koh Ewe / BBC : TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms New York Times : ‘Red Note,’ a Chinese App, Is Dominating Downloads, Thanks to TikTok Users Emily Hallas / ...
Microsoft adds voice mode to Bing Chat in Edge desktop, letting users verbally ask questions and hear answers in English, Japanese, French, German, and Mandarin
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Microsoft adds voice mode to Bing Chat on desktop, letting users ask questions using their voice in English, Japanese, French, German, and Mandarin
Microsoft is bringing Bing's voice mode to Edge on desktop. With this latest update, you can now ask Bing's chatbot questions using your voice …
A look at livestream shopping in China, where an estimated $500B in goods were sold on apps like Douyin in 2022, an 8x jump since 2019, amid regulatory scrutiny
who at first had kept a Mandarin dictionary just offscreen — became confident and unflappable. He heartily gnawed his jerky on camera” Andreas Harsono / @andreasharsono : China's story of livestreamin...
A look at livestream shopping in China, where an estimated $500B in goods were sold on apps like Douyin in 2022, an 8x jump since 2019, amid regulatory scrutiny
Star sellers can amass huge followings and eye-popping fortunes, through a format that mixes consumerism and entertainment. Tweets: @andreasharsono , @david_mulroney , and @alexludoboyd Tweets: Andrea...
The GitHub repository for Meta's open-source library React is being spammed with anti-US and anti-Ukrainian comments in English and Mandarin
The GitHub repository for Meta's open source library React is being spammed with anti-US and anti-Ukrainian comments in English and Mandarin
“False liberty and democracy make me sick!” one message written in Mandarin reads. — Joseph Cox — The Github repository for React … Tweets: @shortformernie , @chronotope , @akryum , @monday_chen ,...
HungryPanda, a Mandarin-language food and grocery delivery app aimed at overseas Chinese users, raises a $130M Series D, bringing its total funding to $220M
Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg :
Singapore-based LingoAce, which helps students learn Mandarin from native speakers, raises a $105M Series C led by Sequoia Capital India
Kul Bhushan / Tech in Asia :