{
  "id": 19013,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3363762/chinese-ai-start-modelbest-kicks-pre-ipo-tutoring-process-mainland-listing",
  "title": "Chinese AI start-up ModelBest, partner to Samsung and Huawei, launches pre-IPO process",
  "summary": "Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has kicked off its pre-initial public offering (IPO) tutoring process for a listing in mainland China, capitalising on growing demand for compact artificial intelligence models that run locally on devices like smartphones and laptops, and in cars. The four-year-old company also appears to be banking on its small-model strategy to overcome China’s acute shortage of advanced American computing chips by training lightweight systems optimised for domestic...",
  "authors": "Xinmei Shen",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us,china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T07:26:50.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19013",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3363762/chinese-ai-start-modelbest-kicks-pre-ipo-tutoring-process-mainland-listing",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}