Archive - Asia Tech Review

Razorpay plays up its AI smarts as it heads to an IPO

Fintech firm releases AI model for payments in rare move for Indian startup

4 hrs ago • Jon Russell

Alibaba’s AI strategy bears fruit with 3 billion downloads and an impressive new model

Its latest Qwen3.8-27B model brings frontier AI capabilities to laptops for free

Aug 17 • Jon Russell

Sea looks like Southeast Asia’s true internet giant

More records for Shopee and another promising period for its fintech division

Aug 13 • Jon Russell

DeepSeek enters a new era of raised ambition and higher prices

It turns out raising more than $7 billion from investors will change a company’s goals

Aug 10 • Jon Russell

Grab bets on fintech to reinforce its tech story

The company’s bid to become a fintech heavyweight is about to face its first major test

Aug 5 • Jon Russell

Alibaba, Moonshot and the US government squabble over what trained Kimi K3

The breakthrough model was likely developed using Nvidia, but was it legal?

Aug 3 • Jon Russell

July 2026

CXMT rises with blockbuster IPO as SK Hynix sinks despite record earnings

Chinese memory firm’s $8.6 billion listing triggered the Korean AI stock volatility we knew was coming

Jul 30 • Jon Russell

South Korea’s AI windfall is driving global investment deals

SK Hynix and Samsung are splashing the cash on startup investments, production and who knows what more to come

Jul 27 • Jon Russell

Malaysia clips Network School’s nomad ambitions

Experimental digital nomad community may be forced to move after running into Malaysian politics

Jul 22 • Jon Russell

Moonshot takes the limelight as China gets political with AI

Highly-rated Kimi K3 model is winning rave reviews just as President Xi launches AI initiative for developing nations

Jul 20 • Jon Russell

SK Hynix’s $26.5B US listing tests the AI memory boom

It feels like a bubble, but there’s huge demand for memory products that can’t be met

Jul 13 • Jon Russell

Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds are doubling down on AI startup investments

Temasek and GIC have already doubled last year’s investment count with deals across models, infra and more

Jul 10 • Jon Russell

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