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Beijing to host artificial intelligence conference amid ChatGPT frenzy, joining other cities in promoting the industry

  • Beijing’s Mentougou district is hosting an AI conference on February 13, with Huawei, Baidu and other tech firms set to join
  • Shanghai, Shenzhen and Tianjin all have industry events, as China pours resources into AI while hype around OpenAI’s ChatGPT raises the tech’s profile

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Men interact with a Baidu's artificial intelligence robot at the company's headquarters in Beijing on April 23, 2021. Baidu is a partner of its home city’s Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation and Development Conference taking place on February 13. Photo: Reuters
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Beijing is the latest Chinese city set to host a large artificial intelligence (AI) conference this year, with the February 13 event to be attended by Big Tech players including Huawei Technologies Co and Baidu, which comes as the country is gripped by a ChatGPT frenzy amid global excitement over the technology from San Francisco-based start-up OpenAI.
The city’s Mentougou district government announced the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation and Development Conference in a post to its official WeChat account on Wednesday. The local government is a sponsor of the event and said the conference is meant to promote the city’s AI industry.

Government officials and industry players are scheduled to attend the event, where companies will showcase their tech’s business applications to “explore opportunities of AI and build up an open, win-win ecosystem”.

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The event shows how AI is receiving increased attention from local Chinese governments as an emerging technology that could potentially be used to upgrade other industries.

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Shanghai has been hosting the annual World AI Conference since 2018 as a venue for the country to showcase its achievements in the industry and communicate with global leaders in the field.

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