Announcements

Ecosystem

Events

Features

Insights

News

Opinion

Q&As

China

Southeast Asia

Rest of World

Places

KrASIA Connection

Profiles in Tech

Venture Roundup

Open Source

Startup Wire

Our Events

View All Collections

Collections

About

36Kr (EN)

Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

Food Delivery

Grocery Delivery

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

The leading Chinese operator is eyeing expansion into other markets.

Food delivery service Meituan beats revenue forecast | KrASIA

Home

Food delivery service Meituan beats revenue forecast

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

KrASIA

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/aec5e55596415464d13490d0e0caa9a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g

Nikkei Asia

Photo of Benjamin Stein, co-founder and CEO of Staple.

Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

Europe

India

Japan

Singapore

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Staple and Aliena secure funding, Toyota earmarks USD 300 million for climate and “frontier” tech investments, Carro eyes pre-IPO financing, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Staple and Aliena secure funding, Toyota earmarks USD 300 million for climate and “frontier” tech investments, Carro eyes pre-IPO financing, and more

https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/972f75dd52ed83672433f4213ed054a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g

KrASIA Writers

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

Insurance

The insurance group says its stock price falls out of line with company fundamentals.

China's Ping An hit by USD 2.7 billion loss in asset management business | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Ping An hit by USD 2.7 billion loss in asset management business

Baidu

KrASIA | Baidu Archives

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

Japan, Korea, and the West

Samsung

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

Deep Tech

Facial Recognition

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

Smartphones

Artificial intelligence

Smartphone

All eyes are on Apple following the integration of AI features into the latest smartphones of rivals Samsung and Google.

Can Apple catch up with Samsung and Google in the AI smartphone race? | KrASIA

Can Apple catch up with Samsung and Google in the AI smartphone race?

https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/34168bc9ad1df60b7223d16fd046d296?s=96&d=mm&r=g

Marvin Goh

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Mobility

Didi pulls out of the program as US scrutiny of China tech mounts.

Chinese self-driving car developers slash California test drives | KrASIA

Chinese self-driving car developers slash California test drives

Photo of Robin Li, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Baidu.

baidu

Baidu has introduced Ernie 4.0, the latest iteration of its large language model, but will its enhanced features stack up against OpenAI's GPT-4?

Baidu claims its latest AI model Ernie 4.0 is on par with OpenAI’s GPT-4 | KrASIA

Baidu claims its latest AI model Ernie 4.0 is on par with OpenAI’s GPT-4

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/95a233416d3f865e26cf30c8378b6b83?s=96&d=mm&r=g

ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

Among the roster of companies that obtained approval for their LLM products are not only tech giants like Baidu and Douyin Group, but also Chinese startups and research institutions.

Baidu’s Ernie Bot among eight Chinese LLM products approved for public launch | KrASIA

Baidu’s Ernie Bot among eight Chinese LLM products approved for public launch

Apollo Go has become the first autonomous ride provider for airport transfers in China.

Baidu's Apollo Go is China’s pioneer of driverless airport travel | KrASIA

Baidu&#8217;s Apollo Go is China’s pioneer of driverless airport travel

https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ca1cf2f78ce42a1c9508cb3e1a121604?s=96&d=mm&r=g

Gideon Ng

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

Cloud

With new challengers emerging, industry leaders are adopting innovative strategies to maintain their dominance and drive growth.

Cloud Computing Giants Compete for Market Share as Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba Release Q1 Financial Reports | KrASIA

Cloud Computing Giants Compete for Market Share as Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba Release Q1 Financial Reports

Chinese company sees opportunity as Beijing bans Microsoft-backed bot.

Baidu to integrate ChatGPT-style Ernie Bot across all operations | KrASIA

Baidu to integrate ChatGPT-style Ernie Bot across all operations

Alibaba's core revenue estimated to shrink for first time ever.

Chinese tech giants set to release first post-reopening earnings | KrASIA

Chinese tech giants set to release first post-reopening earnings

krasia ai artificial intelligence machine learning

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

China authorities say to be wary of hype as companies chase AI opportunities.