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16 Apr Alibaba strengthens commitment to open-source development of AI models amid debate over this strategy

Posted at 11:30h in Asia

The e-commerce giant could have been “more aggressive in open-source [development]” over the past year based on the gains made by Tongyi Qianwen, according to Alibaba’s Lin Junyang, who is in charge of the model’s open-source buildout, in a WeChat post published on Monday. Alibaba...

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13 Apr Generative AI takes centre stage at twin Hong Kong tech fairs, as government-backed research centre debuts

Posted at 13:15h in Asia

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...

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08 Apr Chinese tech giant Lenovo targets US$16 billion in sales of new AI-powered computers, smartphones via e-commerce partner JD.com

Posted at 09:00h in Asia

The two Hong Kong-listed partners are targeting 120 billion yuan (US$16.6 billion) in sales over the 2024-2026 period via JD.com’s online and offline channels, covering Lenovo’s next-generation AI PCs, AI-powered smartphones, tablets and other “AI-oriented infrastructure such as servers”, according to a statement published on...

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05 Apr Chinese firms lag behind US peers in AI development ‘by two years’, Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai says

Posted at 11:30h in Asia

“China is somewhat behind, obviously,” Tsai said, citing how ChatGPT creator OpenAI has leapfrogged the rest of the tech industry in AI innovation, in a podcast interview published on Wednesday with Nicolai Tangen, chief executive of Norges Bank Investment Management – the branch of Norway’s...

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27 Mar TikTok owner ByteDance accelerates generative AI efforts with increased talent acquisition, release of new tools

Posted at 00:30h in Asia

Beijing-based ByteDance’s website listed more than 320 GenAI-related job openings as of Tuesday, up from 307 vacancies posted a month earlier, according to a search conducted by the South China Morning Post.A specific search for jobs in the development of large language models (LLMs) –...

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20 Mar Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI claims breakthrough in expanded Chinese-character prompt for Kimi chatbot

Posted at 11:00h in Asia

Chinese artificial intelligence company Moonshot AI claims that its Kimi chatbot can now handle up to 2 million Chinese characters in a single prompt – the instruction or query a user enters into the interface of a ChatGPT-like service – to surpass the capabilities of...

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16 Mar China’s Zhipu AI says it is developing Sora-like technology as a path to artificial general intelligence

Posted at 03:00h in Asia

Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co (Zhipu AI), an early pioneer of Chinese large language models (LLM), said it is developing Sora-like technology as a pathway to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), underlining domestic ambition to catch up with US advances.Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video generator, will be...

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15 Mar Tencent’s new AI video-generation tool brings static images to life in collaboration with Tsinghua and HKUST

Posted at 13:10h in Asia

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings has introduced an image-to-video artificial intelligence (AI) model in collaboration with academic partners on Friday, a release that comes amid the rising fervour around content-generating tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora.The image-animation tool called Follow-Your-Click, released on Microsoft’s open-source code...

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15 Mar China said to fall short of matching US advances in AI owing to ‘many challenges in theory and technologies’

Posted at 11:00h in Asia

China is falling short of matching the United States in artificial intelligence (AI) advances because the nation’s efforts are “littered with many essential challenges in theory and technologies”, according to a recent slide presentation made to Chinese Premier Li Qiang.Those difficulties were pointed out to...

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12 Mar ChatGPT creator OpenAI slams Elon Musk’s claims as ‘incoherent’ in Microsoft-backed start-up’s first legal response to tech billionaire’s lawsuit

Posted at 05:23h in Asia

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has lambasted Elon Musk’s allegations against it, saying in a court filing that the billionaire entrepreneur’s claims “rest on convoluted – often incoherent – factual premises”.In the filing, OpenAI said that it did not violate its agreement with Musk because “there is...

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