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Nowwa follows Cotti in expanding to the Middle East, targeting growth in an untapped market for Chinese coffee brands.

Chinese coffee brands set sights on Middle East as next big market | KrASIA

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36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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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

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Philippines

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Insider raises USD 500 million, UOB FinLab funds ASEAN green tech pilots, six China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Insider raises USD 500 million, UOB FinLab funds ASEAN green tech pilots, six China deals, and more

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KrASIA Writers

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

MiniMax’s Talkie app defies AI market skeptics with USD 70 million in projected revenue, but can it replicate its success?

Talkie’s global traction puts MiniMax in AI’s top tier, but risks loom | KrASIA

Talkie’s global traction puts MiniMax in AI’s top tier, but risks loom

Baidu

KrASIA | Baidu Archives

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

Didi

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.

WeRide

Xpeng

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

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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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Baidu’s AI chip unit Kunlun has been spun off as an independent company as demand for integrated circuits skyrockets in use cases across sectors.

Baidu’s AI chip unit Kunlun becomes independent company | KrASIA

Baidu’s AI chip unit Kunlun becomes independent company

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Baidu and Arcfox are teaming up for robotaxi services provided through the Apollo Moon vehicle, whose name invokes NASA's lunar program.

Baidu Apollo and Arcfox team up for robotaxi vehicle inspired by 'Moon' landings | KrASIA

Baidu Apollo and Arcfox team up for robotaxi vehicle inspired by &#8216;Moon&#8217; landings

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Videos

Are self-driving cars ready for the masses? Probably not, but rides are being tested in Beijing right now. In Shougang, Baidu runs a self-driving bus service, named Apolong, and a paid fully autonomous ride-hailing service called Apollo Go, which was just introduced at the beginning of May. The KrASIA team wanted to bring you a first-hand experience at this experience, and so we went to the park to try this new service and document the journey.

VIDEO | KrASIA tries Baidu's first commercial autonomous ride-hailing service in China | KrASIA

VIDEO | KrASIA tries Baidu&#8217;s first commercial autonomous ride-hailing service in China

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James Chan

Baidu's autonomous driving unit Apollo is morphing into an income driver outside of its advertising business.

Baidu thickens revenue stream with Apollo autonomous driving unit | KrASIA

Baidu thickens revenue stream with Apollo autonomous driving unit

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Song Jingli

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

Xiaomi

WM Motor now operates in a crowded sector packed with recognizable names like Baidu, Xiaomi, and Didi.

EV maker WM Motor pulls out of Star Market IPO, report says | KrASIA

EV maker WM Motor pulls out of Star Market IPO, report says

Guangzhou-based WeRide received approval from the California Department of Motor Vehicles on Monday to test driverless vehicles on public roads in San Jose, two and a half months after Baidu was granted a permit to do the same.

WeRide's cars to go fully driverless in California | KrASIA

WeRide&#8217;s cars to go fully driverless in California

WM Motor

Visual Stories

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

With investor excitement cooling toward Chinese technology stocks, search engine operator Baidu edged just slightly higher on its market debut in Hong Kong on Tuesday, while streaming service Bilibili priced its stock sale well below the maximum it had set earlier.

Baidu fails to make splash with Hong Kong debut | KrASIA

Baidu fails to make splash with Hong Kong debut

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