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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.
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.
The country is well ahead of the US on the road to fully automated vehicles and in the drive to go further safely is asking the people for their views.
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.
- Ernie Bot has attracted more than 85,000 enterprise clients since being launched, Li said at Baidu’s AI developer conference in Shenzhen on Tuesday
- The chatbot was initially released in March 2023 as China’s first answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is not available on the Chinese mainland
The company’s latest AI push could fuel further debate on whether China can continue relying on open-source development, instead of bolstering its own tech ecosystem.
Generative AI may be the largest technological transformation since cloud computing or even the internet, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy writes in an annual shareholder letter.
Huawei announced new versions of its Luxeed S7 electric sedan and a PC with AI built in, but people are still awaiting its next big smartphone launch since the Mate 60.
Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai said US chip export restrictions to China have ‘definitely affected’ mainland tech firms, including the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing business.
ByteDance’s website listed more than 320 generative artificial intelligence-related job openings as of Tuesday, up from 307 vacancies posted a month earlier.
China’s biggest generative artificial intelligence (AI) developers, including Baidu and Alibaba, have upgraded their chat bots to handle super long texts of up to 10 million Chinese characters.
Apple taps Baidu’s Ernie Bot to provide AI services for its iPhone 16 in China as CEO Tim Cook tours country.
Apple is in talks with Baidu to bring AI on to iPhones in China, The Wall Street Journal reported. In China, AI tech must be vetted by regulators.
Robin Li Yanhong said his company’s Ernie model can produce better results when asked to write poetry following a Tang-era metre.
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.
Proposals like the one submitted by Zhihu CEO Zhou Yuan signal that policymakers are actively discussing how to boost the platform economy, analysts say.
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.
Robin Li Yanhong, co-founder, CEO and chairman, noted AI product Ernie Bot achieved ‘breakthroughs in monetisation’ in 2023.
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.
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.
Beijing-based Moonshot AI, known in Chinese as Yuezhi Anmian, was valued at about US$2.5 billion in its latest funding round.
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.
Some people have expressed concerns that the Baidu search features on the Galaxy S24 series are not as good as Google’s version.
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.
Polytechnic University has developed a ‘GBA Tourism Forecasting Platform’, a data analysis system for the Greater Bay Area.
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.
The newly formed working group is tasked with building, maintaining and promoting metaverse industry standards, China’s technology regulator says.
Samsung has shifted its focus to the high-end segment of mainland China’s smartphone market, particularly with its foldable handsets.
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.
