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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.

Read the stories about Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), know about the trendings and the future of VR/AR/MR industry. 

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Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

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This Japanese beverage company made waves by featuring an AI-generated character in its latest commercial. Beyond the hype, can such creations truly outshine their human counterparts?

Fear the byte: What you should know about AI-generated characters | KrASIA

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Fear the byte: What you should know about AI-generated characters

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

KrASIA

A weekly newsletter analyzing the pros and cons of emerging technology. Published every Thursday.

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Luckin Coffee

Food Delivery

Luckin Coffee has achieved significant revenue growth through an aggressive store expansion strategy, but sustaining further growth may necessitate a different approach.

As it charges full speed ahead, how many good days are left for Luckin Coffee? | KrASIA

As it charges full speed ahead, how many good days are left for Luckin Coffee?

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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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.

Venture Capital

India

Singapore

Bringing you the latest news briefs on fundraising activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: CapitaLand announces sustainability challenge winners, BeeX closes USD 2 million bridge round, multiple China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: CapitaLand announces sustainability challenge winners, BeeX closes USD 2 million bridge round, multiple China and India deals, and more

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Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

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

Fostering global commerce inclusivity is central to Ant International's "4T" strategy, underpinned by its four key business pillars: Alipay+, Antom, WorldFirst, and Anext Bank.

Inclusivity in payment and commerce is core to Ant International's expansion strategy | KrASIA

Inclusivity in payment and commerce is core to Ant International&#8217;s expansion strategy

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Energy

Chinese companies are the early movers with wind turbines in disputed waterway.

South China Sea brims with rare earth and renewable power promise | KrASIA

South China Sea brims with rare earth and renewable power promise

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Deals in brief: Augmentus and Etaily secure Series A funding, SC Ventures launches Libeara, multiple China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Augmentus and Etaily secure Series A funding, SC Ventures launches Libeara, multiple China and India deals, and more

Deals in brief: Eu Yan Sang invests in Chien Chi Tow, Roller and Phantm secure funding, multiple China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Eu Yan Sang invests in Chien Chi Tow, Roller and Phantm secure funding, multiple China and India deals, and more

The Japanese home goods maker plans to add 100 robots yearly at factories

Iris Ohyama deepens robotics push to cope with China wage growth | KrASIA

Iris Ohyama deepens robotics push to cope with China wage growth

Electric Vehicles

The push by carmakers to electrify offers new opportunities abroad.

Chinese EV suppliers eye Japan as domestic competition heats up | KrASIA

Chinese EV suppliers eye Japan as domestic competition heats up

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

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

China Tech

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

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

From Tencent to Pinduoduo, companies use surveillance and lawsuits to retain staff as competition ramps up.

China's tech workers trapped in jobs by noncompete contracts | KrASIA

China&#8217;s tech workers trapped in jobs by noncompete contracts

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

The automotive aftermarket is the secondary market of the automotive industry, concerned with the manufacturing, remanufacturing, distribution, retailing, and installation of all vehicle parts, chemicals, equipment, and accessories, after the sale of the automobile by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to the consumer. 

Automotive Aftermarket

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

JD.com

New Energy Vehicle

new energy vehicles

Apart from selling its own cars, JD aims to handle every aspect of the automotive business.

What is JD's blueprint for entering the new energy vehicle industry? | KrASIA

What is JD&#8217;s blueprint for entering the new energy vehicle industry?

Climate

China is tapping into emerging markets for its solar exports amid trade tensions with the US and Europe.

China’s solar surplus creates opportunities for emerging green markets | KrASIA

China’s solar surplus creates opportunities for emerging green markets

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