Baidu’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Ernie Bot has attracted over 200 million users, according to company co-founder and chief executive Robin Li Yanhong, as the race to commercialise AI heats up in China.Ernie Bot reached the milestone just 13 months after its launch, with enterprise...
Chinese government officials on Tuesday trumpeted the country’s progress in shaping digital development models for Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) member states, taking aim at US policies amid an intensifying rivalry with the West.In keynote addresses to the Digital Silk Road (DSR) Development Forum held...
Why is a government like a computer program? To a Hong Kong start-up, it’s because its activities can be mapped, converted into structured data, and studied using computers – to the extent that their next move can be predicted.Bilby, which bills itself as an AI-powered...
The projects are based on the centre’s “independently trained” large language model, which supports both Chinese and English languages, according to the exhibitor.It is Hong Kong’s first locally developed foundation model, signifying “a breakthrough in AI innovation”, said Guo Yike, Hong Kong University of Science...
The hi-tech manufacturing hub of Suzhou has unveiled a plan to double the city’s cross-border e-commerce annually for the next three years, as it looks to tap into the growing influence of Chinese platforms such as Shein and PPD Holdings’ Temu.The municipal government of the...
Huawei Technologies launched its revamped Luxeed S7 electric sedan, co-developed with Chinese carmaker Chery Auto, and a new personal computer (PC) with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) support at its latest event on Thursday, but there was no mention of the highly anticipated P70 smartphone.The new...
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI), the powerful tool behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, could push the capabilities of cyberattacks to new heights while also offering new defence mechanisms, but most organisations are still learning to harness the tool, according to one of Microsoft’s leading AI...
China last year bred an average of one new unicorn each week amid frenzied growth in the country’s artificial intelligence (AI) sector, bucking a declining trend in global venture capital investments, according to a new research report.The nation added 56 unicorns – start-ups valued at...
Alibaba Group Holding has fundamentally changed its corporate culture to put customers first in its adaptation of technology, its co-founder Jack Ma wrote, as he stepped into a social media hubbub over the hubris that caused what was once the world’s largest e-commerce platform to...
The world’s second-largest economy is still the single-biggest contributor to global gross domestic product growth, and the size and scale of its industries is still huge, he told a panel called “The new China playbook, China by numbers”.“Any global investor who seeks to build a...