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

Deals in brief: Toku to acquire AiChat, Strativity Group bought by UST, ADQ and OIA launch new fund to stimulate MENA tech innovation, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Toku to acquire AiChat, Strativity Group bought by UST, ADQ and OIA launch new fund to stimulate MENA tech innovation, and more

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

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New Zealand

The recent delegation visit underscores China's openness to collaborate more closely with "friend and partner" New Zealand.

Chinese delegation bolsters bilateral trade and cooperation in recent visit to New Zealand | KrASIA

Chinese delegation bolsters bilateral trade and cooperation in recent visit to New Zealand

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Energy

Recent developments in electric charging and seafaring may contribute to the island city-state’s aspirations of achieving net zero emissions.

Electric vessels are leading Singapore's decarbonization charge | KrASIA

Electric vessels are leading Singapore&#8217;s decarbonization charge

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.

KrASIA | AI Archives

Deep Tech

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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The car is equipped with Xiaomi's AI assistant.

Xiaomi launched its first crowdfunding campaign for cars | KrASIA

Xiaomi launched its first crowdfunding campaign for cars

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Song Jingli

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

Alibaba

5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

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

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

The Chinese government hopes companies can develop homegrown core technologies.

Alibaba's Pingtouge launches own processor, aiming to be a chip infrastructure provider for AI and IoT | KrASIA

Alibaba&#8217;s Pingtouge launches own processor, aiming to be a chip infrastructure provider for AI and IoT

It has big-name clients including Qualcomm, NVIDIA, China Mobile, and Huawei.

Chinese face recognition tech unicorn SenseTime to set up an R&amp;D center in the UAE | KrASIA

Chinese face recognition tech unicorn SenseTime to set up an R&amp;D center in the UAE

It is one of the largest funding rounds in the industry, the company said.

Singapore-headquartered AI platform raises USD 100 million from Greater Pacific Capital | KrASIA

Singapore-headquartered AI platform raises USD 100 million from Greater Pacific Capital

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Zhixin Tan

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

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Frost & Sullivan predicts sales related to cloud robotics to reach USD 103 billion by 2023.

SoftBank-backed Chinese robot producer CloudMinds files for USD 500 million IPO | KrASIA

SoftBank-backed Chinese robot producer CloudMinds files for USD 500 million IPO

Search engine backed by Chinese state media launches a youth version which blocks out violence and porn | KrASIA

Search engine backed by Chinese state media launches a youth version which blocks out violence and porn

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Luna Lin

The new technology could also be used in urban pet management.

AI

Xiaomi launched its first crowdfunding campaign for cars

Alibaba’s Pingtouge launches own processor, aiming to be a chip infrastructure provider for AI and IoT

Chinese face recognition tech unicorn SenseTime to set up an R&D center in the UAE

Singapore-headquartered AI platform raises USD 100 million from Greater Pacific Capital

SoftBank-backed Chinese robot producer CloudMinds files for USD 500 million IPO

Search engine backed by Chinese state media launches a youth version which blocks out violence and porn

Need to find your dog? Use Alibaba-backed Megvii’s canine nose print recognition

Geek+, which sells warehouse robots to Alibaba and Suning, says it’s about to break a fundraising record

A former Chinese police officer invented a hotel check-in robot

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