Big tech firms like Tencent and even smaller and upcoming Chinese AI players are accelerating chip product launches and organising more marketing visits

Tencent is the second large Chinese technology company to look for domestic alternatives to Nvidia amid tightening US sanctions

Patent applications filed by Chinese companies have surged in the last five years since the US began its tech curbs campaign

New regulations are causing consternation that publishing apps in the world's second largest economy is set to become very difficult

Domestic big tech rivals including Baidu Inc and SenseTime Group released their AI chatbots last week

Investors are now hoping the strict rules that have stymied growth since late 2020 will start to ease, after China's central bank slapped a nearly $1 billion fine on Ant Group

Researchers from China’s Nanjing University are covering Dagu glaciers in the Sichuan province with thick rolls of white sheets that are designed to slow down climate change-induced melt

About a dozen Chinese firms, including Tencent Music Entertainment Group, Didi Global and NetEase, are likely to be inspected in a fresh round of routine checks

The move signifies Beijing's changing priorities as it looks to strengthen is capabilities while Washington cuts off access to cutting edge technology

Competitors Alibaba and Baidu are also working on products similar to the viral chatbot, which so far remains inaccessible in China

Baidu also said earlier this week it will soon finish internal testing for a ChatGPT alternative called 'Ernie Bot'

Tencent cut jobs earlier this year too, alongside the likes of Alibaba, as Beijing’s crackdowns and the economic slowdown take their toll