China National Space Administration

BEIJING - The fifth China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE), scheduled for April 13 to 18 in Haikou, capital of South China's Hainan province, will showcase the latest humanoid robots from leading domestic and international companies, the event's organizers announced on Thursday.

The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends.

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ByteDance's Doubao large model team has open-sourced a new generation of MoE (Mixture of Experts) training optimization technology called COMET, achieving a 40 percent reduction in model training costs and an average 1.7-fold increase in training efficiency, a breakthrough that could potentially reduce the demand for high-end Nvidia GPUs.

The three-module Tiangong was completed in late 2022 and has been constantly occupied ever since, with three-person crews spending roughly six months in orbit before handing over to a new crew. China also recently announced that it will train astronauts from Pakistan ahead of a short-term mission to Tiangong in the coming years.

Chinese cloud computing companies have ramped up efforts to expand their footprint in overseas cloud service markets, as an increasing number of businesses are leveraging the cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies to bolster digital transformation and upgrades.

The surprise retreat highlights NetEase's lack of a competitive edge against rivals like Alibaba and ByteDance, analysts say.