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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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15 Apr US grants Samsung up to US$6.4 billion in funding to produce advanced chips in Texas

Posted at 13:20h in Asia

“The US Department of Commerce and Samsung Electronics have signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding under the Chips and Science Act,” said a statement published by the Commerce Department.A general view of Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor...

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10 Apr TSMC’s sales surge most since 2022 after riding AI chip boom

Posted at 12:43h in Asia

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s quarterly revenue grew at its fastest pace in more than a year, shoring up expectations that a global boom in artificial intelligence (AI) development is fuelling demand for high-end chips and servers.The main chip maker to Nvidia and Apple reported a...

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10 Apr Google unveils Arm-based Axion chips for AI, as Intel details Gaudi 3 AI chip amid race against Nvidia

Posted at 04:18h in Asia

“Our customers, first and foremost, are asking for choice in the industry,” said Intel vice-president, strategy and product management Jeni Barovian.“They are coming to us and they are expecting that Intel, as a computing leader, will follow the wave of (generative AI) and deliver solutions...

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08 Apr Alibaba Cloud cuts prices again, this time for international customers as AI generates surging demand

Posted at 11:30h in Asia

Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing unit has slashed prices for international customers by up to 59 per cent, as the tech giant fights to woo users amid a global race for computing resources driven by rapid artificial intelligence (AI) development.The international cloud business of Alibaba,...

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05 Apr Opinion | Why world cannot rely on tech giants to solve its problems

Posted at 12:30h in Asia

The Kennedy-era guru on capitalism John Kenneth Galbraith presciently proclaimed in his 1967 book, The New Industrial State, that “the imperatives of technology and organisation, not the images of ideology, are what determine the shape of economic society”.According to the World Inequality Report 2022 stated,...

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04 Apr Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC restarts operations after earthquake, easing concerns of chip supply disruption

Posted at 12:30h in Asia

The world’s largest independent contract chip manufacturer, which supplies 90 per cent of the world’s most advanced semiconductors to technology giants like Apple and Nvidia, restarted operations within 10 hours after work was suspended because of the worst earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years....

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02 Apr Tech war: updated US semiconductor export restrictions raise demand in China for Nvidia’s RTX 4090 graphics card

Posted at 00:00h in Asia

“The demand for high-end graphic cards remains very robust, especially after the export curbs imposed by the US government,” said Cai Zhaojie, a vendor at Huaqiangbei in the Futian district of tech hub Shenzhen, southern Guangdong province.The Biden administration last Friday revised sweeping export controls...

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21 Mar US memory chip maker Micron soars after AI growth boosts revenue forecast

Posted at 07:28h in Asia

Micron Technology, the largest US maker of memory chips, jumped in late trading after giving a surprisingly strong revenue forecast for the current quarter, buoyed by demand for artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.Revenue for its financial third quarter will be US$6.4 billion to US$6.8 billion, Micron...

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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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