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Oxford AI star Song Yuhang returns to China, but why did he leave chip start-up?

A young scientist who was a leader in Britainโ€™s AI chip field has returned to China, joining Nanjing University earlier this year as an associate professor at its School of Artificial Intelligence. Song Yuhang, whose published papers on artificial intelligence (AI) have been widely cited and reported, obtained his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2022, and is also a recipient of the coveted JP Morgan AI Research Award. According to Song, he and his fellow Oxford PhD candidate Walter Goodwin...

Chinese investors cheer Teslaโ€™s AI chip progress, pushing up shares of local suppliers

Chinese suppliers of parts for Teslaโ€™s electric vehicles (EVs) and robots saw their stock prices gain on Thursday morning as the US tech giant announced that its AI5 artificial intelligence inference chip was 45 days ahead of schedule. After a nearly 7.7 per cent jump in Teslaโ€™s Nasdaq-listed stock on Wednesday, shares of the companyโ€™s Chinese suppliers were up by as much as 4.6 per cent on Thursday morning local time. Shanghai-listed Ningbo Tuopu Group and Shenzhen-listed Zhejiang Sanhua...