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Baidui

Baidu operates the largest and most widely used search engine in China. It also offers maps, translation and e-commerce and operates a music-streaming service and a mobile app market. Baidu owns a majority stake in iQIYI, dubbed China’s answer to Netflix. The company also invests heavily in autonomous driving and artificial intelligence.

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Israel’s embrace of ‘balagan’ or chaos has boosted the nation’s tech prowess, but China’s aversion to risks in fields like AI and proposed regulations on reviewing apps are likely to dampen the spirit of innovation.

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Regulators moved on internet giants to tighten oversight, not for the sake of political intervention, and companies should be reassured their legal rights and legitimate businesses are fully respected and protected.

  • Robin Li Yanhong said his company’s Ernie model can produce better results when asked to write poetry following a Tang-era metre
  • Baidu is betting big on its AI capabilities at a time when OpenAI’s big advances have led to questions about how China can catch up

GSR Ventures’ Allen Zhu sees the current investor interest generated by artificial intelligence start-ups that are building large language models as based on a ‘fear of missing out’.

AMD had hoped to get Washington’s approval to sell to Chinese customers its MI309 processor, which performs at a lower level than what the company sells globally.

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Proposals like the one submitted by Zhihu CEO Zhou Yuan signal that policymakers are actively discussing how to boost the platform economy, analysts say.

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Shenzhen’s municipal government plans to boost the number of its native apps built on HarmonyOS and push for their adoption across major sectors, including education, healthcare, banking, transport and welfare.

Huawei Technologies’ new Ascend 910B chip, already available on the mainland, is said to be on par in terms of computing power with Nvidia’s sought-after A100 graphics processing unit.

Employers in China are scrambling for workers with skills in generative artificial intelligence, as the nation loses some of its top talent to the US.

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The introduction of Sora has forced China’s AI industry to again grapple with how it will catch up to the latest tech in the face of escalating US sanctions.

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Lenovo’s sharpened focus on artificial intelligence reflects the personal computer industry’s response to a projected shift in demand for machines that support the technology.

Increased artificial intelligence integration in Chinese handsets shows how a new tech arms race in the smartphone industry is heating up, as the global market is poised for a recovery in 2024.

IDG is one of the oldest venture firms in the market and has been in China since 1993, having invested in more than 1,600 companies, with 500 of them going public or getting acquired.

The new batch includes a number of industry-specific LLMs, compared with the general AI models from previous approvals, reflecting how the technology is being used to boost efficiency in enterprises.

The collaboration between Samsung and Baidu comes as the race to integrate generative artificial intelligence features into handsets has intensified in the world’s largest smartphone market.

Rabbit Inc, started by Xian native Jesse Lyu Cheng, has sold out of five rounds of pre-orders for its R1 device since launching in Las Vegas this month.

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The newly formed working group is tasked with building, maintaining and promoting metaverse industry standards, China’s technology regulator says.

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Companies from Alibaba to Tencent have been slashing external investments amid an economic slowdown, regulatory headwinds and geopolitical tensions, according to data compiled by a Chinese consultancy.

China is expected to ‘work within those constraints and try to make progress’ by tapping into domestic AI accelerator programmes and being more economical in using computing resources.

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Chinese search engine giant Baidu is donating its quantum computing research facility to a state-backed laboratory in Beijing, following a similar move by Alibaba last year, as both firms renew their focus on AI.

A research unit affiliated with China’s industry ministry predicts generative AI in China will produce US$4.2 trillion in economic value in the next 12 years.

The AI industry was transformed by the launch of ChatGPT in late 2023 and although China is racing to catch up, hurdles remain in the form of US chip sanctions and strict regulation.