China Digital Digest Weekly: Exploring the Chinese Digital Landscape
- ClickInsights
- Oct 5
- 2 min read
Hi folks, we are back with our weekly edition of China’s Digital Digest, wherein we bring you weekly updates on China’s digital space. The report takes a quick glance at China’s complex and rapidly evolving social media landscape by providing updates on the latest happenings across the social media industry. Here are the major highlights of the report.
1. China’s DeepSeek Unveils New AI Model That Could Halve Usage Cost
The team led by DeepSeek founder Wenfeng Liang has launched a new experimental model, DeepSeek-V3.2-Expx, marking a significant step in exploring next-generation transformer architectures.
Released as an open-source transitional product, its core upgrade lies in the introduction of DeepSeek’s proprietary Sparse Attention (DSA) mechanism, designed to optimize training and inference efficiency for long-text processing. Excitingly for developers, API prices have been drastically reduced: the input cache hit price dropped from 0.5 CNY per million tokens to 0.2 CNY, the non-cache hit price fell from 4 CNY to 2 CNY, and the output price was halved from 12 CNY to 3 CNY, resulting in an overall cost reduction of over 50%.
2. OpenAI Lets Users Make Etsy, Shopify Purchases Directly in ChatGPT
OpenAI has introduced a feature that would allow users to make purchases through ChatGPT, in partnership with Etsy and Shopify.
Merchants will have to pay a fee on completed purchases to OpenAI, and it does not affect their prices. There will be no charges for Instant Checkout for users. The move opens up a new source of revenue for OpenAI, taking advantage of the heavy user traffic on ChatGPT, in addition to its traditional subscription model.
3. OpenAI Releases Social App For Sharing AI Videos From Sora
OpenAI is releasing a stand-alone social app for making and sharing artificial intelligence-generated videos with friends, an attempt to supercharge adoption for the emerging technology just as ChatGPT did for chatbots three years ago.
The free Sora app is powered by a new version of OpenAI’s video-making software of the same name. As with the original Sora, released in December, users can generate short clips in response to text prompts, but the new app allows people to see videos created by others
4. Alibaba’s Lazada Brings South Korea’s Gmarket to Southeast Asia
Lazada, the Southeast Asian e-commerce arm of Alibaba Group Holdings, has partnered with Gmarket, a South Korean online marketplace, to give shoppers across Southeast Asia access to 20 million products from South Korean sellers.
The partnership introduces a storefront for Gmarket within LazMall, Lazada’s flagship virtual shopping mall. Shoppers in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam will be able to buy a wide range of products from popular beauty and personal-care brands such as Sulwhasoo, d’Alba, Mediheal, COSRX, Skinfood and Laneige.
Wrapping Up
The vast and diverse nature of the Chinese Social Media space makes it incredibly challenging to keep a tab on the rapid developments taking place. However, China’s Digital Digest brings you all the latest updates from there to keep you abreast of all the evolving trends.
To delve deeper into the findings of our latest report, click here.
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