Chinese AI companies make money

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AI can now solve more than 80% of online customers’ questions in a joint venture with Carmker of Toyota’s Chinese State-Malcolor FAW, more than half a year ago, Wu Yongsian, Vice President Wu Yongjian Tensent Cloud, told me on Friday. Tensent provides some AI tools for vehicle holders.

And now it takes about two weeks to the AI Consumer-Service Platform of Tensent, and for three months, Wu told me that we were sitting in the company’s bright new office in Shanghai Waterfront district.

By the end of the weekend, Tensent announced the upgrade in his Hunuan AI model with the release made by other companies as the “World AI Conference” was opened in the city.

Although not every company does not see the same demand for their products and services, focusing on business opportunities makes a change in China to gain AI opportunities. And it also reflects on job applications.

Temsek-supported Startup CEO of Black Lake Technologies, Zoou Yuksiang, told me on Saturday that he has resumed AI Model Engineers in the last few months who want to develop AI for specific industry applications. In Mandarne, translated by CNBC, “Before it is difficult to get AI engineers.”

Black Lake mainly sells AIP devices to small factories in China so that they will boost production speed and better use of capacity.

Many business owners are currently experiencing “FOMOs” because in the past few years, they have lost the momentum of consumer e-commerce, Zoou said the cost of using AI has also declined significantly.

Z.Ai, formerly Zipu, became the latest Chinese startup on Monday Slash operating costs With the open-source AI model release. Its price undercut Alibaba-supported startup Moonshot As K2 Earlier this month, the model was released and in January, Deepcik’s R1, who offered a lower rate than the people of the Open, the Oppanai people to use ChatGPT.

Open sources AI models can be used for free and even Changed and deliveredWithout special permission from the manufacturer. Users who choose not to download models can access them by cloud and reflect in use.

Last year, startup revenue increased by 88.3 percent to 242.9 million yuan, Depexi said in April. Filling with Hong Kong Stock Exchange For a planned list.

Data labeling, or commenting on information for good AI use, Also looking at the growing demand.

Beijing-based Haitian Ruisheng has increased his revenue estimation at least 61% in the first half of 2025 last week. His revenue in 2024 was about 240 million yuan.

After the exclusion of goods, the profit will double the first half of the year and will be between 4.5 million yuan and 4.9 million yuan, According to the company’s files With Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Haitan Ruishang, Alibaba, Tensent, Badu and many American “Magnificiant 7” companies, CNBC, translated to Mandarin as customers like Microsoft and Amazon Mezon.

In China, the company sees the biggest earnings opportunities in education, health care and tourism, Zhang said that smartphones and “idol intelligence” are also likely – including robots.

Haitanin Ruishang combined automatic data commentary with human expert evaluation, Zhang said that AI needs global cooperation and his company is in a foreign market with an assistant company in Singapore.

A few days after the United States unveiled its AI action plan, the Shanghai-based “World AI Conference” on Saturday announced the plans for Chinese Premier Lee Kiang. Global AI Cooperation Organization?? China urged the support of AI consolidation in industries including production, health care, education and agriculture.

Tensent has already taken steps in that direction.

“Japan has a local partnership in” virtual human service “that can buy home businesses, Wu said. It is a human digital avatar, which is often used for listing and other digital materials.

Other popular AII lines in regions like Southeast Asia include the verification of identifying “your customers know” for the platform for finance, translation services and developers to develop AI agents.

With these business projects-and the wide state-supporting ambition-Chin has clearly gone beyond the lab in the World AI race.

There is no US-China Trade Truck extension yet. A potential expansion Rate Will not agree until the president between Washington and Beijing Donald Trump The US newsmen said on Tuesday that he agreed.

At least 30 people die in torrential rains. The state media reported the report After the capital city of Beijing, the death of the outside of Beijing was given a red warning for torrential rains on Monday. President XI Jinping Asked for more work to prevent floods And disaster relief in a wide range of Uttar Pradesh.

China gained support for birth. The country declared equivalent on Monday $ 500 per child Under the age of three, after a free preschool education plan.

From Mainland China CSI 300 Hong Kong increased by 0.51% Hong Seng Index – which includes major Chinese companies – was 0.45% less than 10:07 o’clock in the morning (Tuesday 10:07 Prime Minister ET).

So far this year, the Mainland Benchmark has earned more than 5%, according to LSEG data.