Honor is looking to expand outside of China and push into the higher-end part of the market where Apple and Samsung play.

China has blocked the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube but did not offer a reason for the ban. Google, which owns YouTube, said it began noticing a decline in traffic from China about noon Monday.

Honor is investing $10 billion in AI over five years and strengthening its partnership with Google to expand globally.

Google, once a trailblazer in artificial intelligence (AI) and cutting-edge technologies, now faces heightened competition from startups like OpenAI, xAI, and China's DeepSeek, prompting questions about its continued dominance in the AI landscape.

ByteDance's TikTok commits $8.8B for data centers in Thailand over 5 years, joining other tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in investing in the country's growing AI infrastructure.