Indonesia Telecom Leader Warns of Digital Colonisation as China Promotes Open Source AI

Concerns over digital sovereignty are rising in Southeast Asia as artificial intelligence becomes a core layer of economic and strategic infrastructure. In Indonesia, one of the region’s largest telecom executives has warned that countries risk falling into a new form of digital colonisation

China’s AI industry gears up for pivotal launch week as flagship models near debut

China’s artificial intelligence industry is entering a decisive moment as major technology firms prepare to unveil a new wave of flagship models, marking what many insiders see as one of the most competitive weeks for domestic AI development so far this year. With

Ant Group Open Sources Robotics AI to Push Real World Deployment

China fintech giant Ant Group has moved deeper into advanced robotics by open sourcing its first artificial intelligence models designed to operate beyond controlled lab environments and into real world industrial settings. The release marks a strategic shift as Ant looks to extend

Open AI Models Expose New Front in Cybercrime Risk

Open source artificial intelligence models are emerging as a growing security concern as researchers warn that thousands of systems operating outside major platform controls are vulnerable to criminal misuse. Cybersecurity specialists say computers running self hosted large language models can be quietly commandeered

DeepSeek Turns to Alibaba Open Source AI to Upgrade OCR Model

China’s fast growing open source AI ecosystem is showing its practical impact as artificial intelligence start up DeepSeek upgraded its optical character recognition system by integrating open source technology developed by Alibaba Cloud. The company said its latest model, DeepSeek OCR 2, delivers

Jensen Huang says DeepSeek accelerated global shift toward open source AI

Nvidia highlights open source momentum at CES Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has credited Chinese start up DeepSeek with accelerating a global shift toward open source artificial intelligence. Speaking during his keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Huang said DeepSeek’s

Open Source Is Reshaping the Global AI Power Balance

The rapid rise of open source artificial intelligence platforms emerging from China is beginning to challenge one of the core assumptions behind today’s AI investment boom. For years, investors have poured money into AI on the belief that the sector would mirror earlier

SenseTime Expands Into Embodied Intelligence With Open Source AI and Robotic Dogs

Chinese artificial intelligence pioneer SenseTime is accelerating its move beyond software by open sourcing a new foundational AI model and unveiling its first robotic dogs. The initiative signals the company’s ambition to build what it describes as a universal smart brain that can