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Latest news and updates on ChatGPT, a large language model conversational bot operated by Microsoft-backed OpenAI that is able to understand sophisticated questions and give surprisingly humanlike text responses, and other generative AI, including Baidu's Ernie Bot, and image generation software such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and Dall-e 2. The articles focus on the implications of such technology, the challenges it could pose China’s censors, possible bans by educational institutions, AI regulation, and the development of other similar software.
The company is set to unveil iOS 18, which is expected to be the most ambitious overhaul of the iPhone’s software ever, with the new AI strategy front and centre.
ByteDance’s website listed more than 320 generative artificial intelligence-related job openings as of Tuesday, up from 307 vacancies posted a month earlier.
Mental health AI chatbots offer users sympathetic statements and, unlike therapists, are available 24/7. Their creators insist they don’t offer therapy, but healthcare professionals urge caution.
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.
The AI start-up says it is working to expand the service capacity of its Kimi chatbot, which has been adding new users rapidly after announcing a technological breakthrough.
Microsoft will pay US$620 million to license Inflection’s AI models and around US$30 million for waiving any legal rights related to its mass hiring of the start-up’s employees.
Comments made by top executives this earnings season have offered a glimpse into the progress made by China’s Big Tech firms, after US start-up OpenAI launched in late 2022 its groundbreaking ChatGPT.
Moonshot AI’s updated Kimi chatbot can handle up to 2 million Chinese characters in a single prompt, up from the previous 200,000 characters.
The Chinese giant has added new Nvidia GPU systems to its ThinkSystem servers and announced new computer workstations pre-installed with Nvidia chips.
Zhipu AI, among the first Chinese companies to explore development of LLMs, is pushing to develop similar technology to OpenAI’s Sora.
Follow-Your-Click, developed with researchers from universities in Hong Kong and Beijing, turns images and simple text prompts into short video clips amid Sora hype.
A presentation made to Chinese Premier Li Qiang pointed out major hurdles faced by the nation’s artificial-intelligence development initiatives.
One of DarwinAI’s core technologies is making artificial intelligence systems smaller and faster, which could help Apple run AI on devices.
The emergence of generative AI has left governments around the world scrambling to legislate against the risks posed by the fast-evolving technology. But India is especially vulnerable – and even Modi’s concerned.
AIsphere, which has raised more than US$14 million in a round led by venture firm Fortune Capital, launched a beta version of its PixVerse video generator for domestic users on Monday.
In its first legal response to Musk’s lawsuit, OpenAI said the tech billionaire’s allegations against it are ‘contrived’ and based on ‘the terms of his fictitious contract’ with the start-up.
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics expects its CARES Copilot 1.0 system to help neurosurgeons provide ‘more efficient clinical diagnosis’.
Robin Li Yanhong said his company’s Ernie model can produce better results when asked to write poetry following a Tang-era metre.
The scientists wrote in a recent paper that they had found ways to train machines with ‘prior knowledge’ such as the laws of physics or mathematical logic.
The CEO of the ChatGPT maker was ousted in November, a decision reversed 4 days later as employees threatened to quit.
Alibaba’s fresh push of AI tools comes amid increasing competiton among Chinese e-commerce players to woo consumers across the world amid sluggish growth at home.
Broadcom said on Thursday it expects US$10 billion in revenue from chips related to artificial intelligence this year, but its stock dipped after the tech company’s full-year forecast failed to impress investors.
More than 83 per cent of organisations said they intend to use GenAI to combat fraud efforts, according to report.
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’.
OpenAI’s response hits at the heart of a lawsuit filed by Musk, who accused the start-up of breaching their founding agreement to develop AI for the benefit of humanity.
At top advisory body meeting, Chinese UN ambassador Zhang Jun says Beijing should increase investment and promote rules for artificial intelligence as there is still ‘a lot of uncertainty’ surrounding the technology.
The MiniMax deal would mark Alibaba’s second major artificial intelligence start-up investment this year after leading Moonshot AI’s US$1 billion funding round in February.
Alibaba’s latest artificial intelligence push reflects a new tech arms race in mainland China’s e-commerce sector.