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Hong Kong tech start-ups eyeing US should ‘talk less' about AI: Science Park CEO

Hong Kong's tech start-ups should focus on the practical applications of their products and 'talk less' about artificial intelligence (AI) when pitching to the US market, the CEO of a government-backed innovation hub has said in a nod to geopolitical challenges. Advertisement Albert Wong Hak-keung, CEO of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, said on Sunday that the city's entrepreneurs could still learn a lot from the famed Silicon Valley on the west coast of America, even amid Sino-US tensions 'The west coast is a haven for entrepreneurship as it has a comprehensive ecosystem of funding and universities. They have been doing it for the past six to seven decades,' Wong told a radio show. But he said Hong Kong businesses should focus on pitching how their products could be used and 'talk less' about AI abilities. Advances in AI have been a source of tension between the US and China, with Washington restricting the access of Chinese firms to some of the most advanced chips used to power the technology. Advertisement The rivalry has been in particularly sharp focus since the recent unveiling of a powerful AI model by Chinese start-up DeepSeek, a low-cost competitor to market leaders such as the US-based OpenAI and its well-known ChatGPT tool.