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

Alibaba

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

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Vietnam

The Chinese tech group is renting server space from state-owned partners in the meantime.

Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law | KrASIA

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Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law

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

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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.

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Douyin

Tiktok

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.

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Creative

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

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Video

The automatic labeling of AI-generated content on TikTok is a small step in an uphill battle against the misuse of AI.

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation? | KrASIA

Will TikTok’s new content labels really combat AI misinformation?

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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.

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

Deals in brief: Osome extends Series B round, Kasagi Labo lands pre-Series A funding, Husk bags USD 5 million from Mekong Capital, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Osome extends Series B round, Kasagi Labo lands pre-Series A funding, Husk bags USD 5 million from Mekong Capital, and more

NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

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Nio narrows losses in Q2, plans launch for 3 new models despite chip shortage. It has established a new sub-brand with lower price tags.

Nio narrows losses in Q2, plans launch for 3 new models despite chip shortage | KrASIA

Nio narrows losses in Q2, plans launch for 3 new models despite chip shortage

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Mengyuan Ge

Former WeWork executive joins Nio to lead new affordable EV brand, which will sell mid-tier EVs that retail for around half the price of Nio’s vehicles.

Former WeWork executive joins Nio to lead new affordable EV brand | KrASIA

Former WeWork executive joins Nio to lead new affordable EV brand

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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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. 

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Hefei grew its GDP 2600% in 20 years to become one of China’s fastest-growing cities by investing in three companies: BOE, ChangXin Memory, and Nio.

Hefei grew its GDP 2,600% in 20 years to become one of China’s fastest-growing cities | KrASIA

Hefei grew its GDP 2,600% in 20 years to become one of China’s fastest-growing cities

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

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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.

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Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

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With futuristic cockpits and automated driving becoming reality, will manual driving become a thing of the past?

Here’s everything you’ll find in your fully autonomous vehicular future | KrASIA

Here’s everything you’ll find in your fully autonomous vehicular future

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Nio needs to tell international stories to investors worldwide, say analysts.

Nio launches in Norway, the first stop of an ambitious overseas plan | KrASIA

Nio launches in Norway, the first stop of an ambitious overseas plan

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Song Jingli

The EV maker suspended its production for five working days at the end of March due to a lack of chips, which is likely to affect deliveries in April.

Nio reports best ever vehicle margins, rules out mass market entry | KrASIA

Nio reports best ever vehicle margins, rules out mass market entry

Tesla reduced its prices by 20% after switching to the low-cost alternative.

Nio shifts to lithium iron phosphate batteries, following Tesla and Xpeng | KrASIA

Nio shifts to lithium iron phosphate batteries, following Tesla and Xpeng

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Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

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Eight years ago, Lei Jun purchased his first Tesla. Last Wednesday, speaking with a slightly husky voice because he had a cold, Lei said that Xiaomi is about to enter the electric vehicle business. He called it "the last major entrepreneurship project" of his life.The announcement cut through a series of leaks and denials from the past few months. Before this point, Lei himself had a hard time figuring out whether Xiaomi should be part of this highly competitive industry, with startups like Nio, Xpeng gaining heat, and conglomerates like Baidu and Evengrande already making headway.

A letter from Lei Jun: Starting over one last time | KrASIA

A letter from Lei Jun: Starting over one last time

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Julianna Wu

Electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Nio (NYSE: NIO) announced that its power swap stations across China have completed 2 million battery swaps until Wednesday, according to the firm's Weibo post.

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