artificial intelligence Tag

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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20 Mar Tech war: US said to weigh sanctions against Huawei’s secretive Chinese semiconductor supply network

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No final decisions have been made, the people said. Bloomberg News first reported about SIA’s presentation in 2023. 27:21Biden’s China tech policy goal: a 10 year handicapBiden’s China tech policy goal: a 10 year handicapSuch a move by the US government would mark another escalation in...

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19 Mar Opinion | US TikTok hysteria pushes key questions about the app to the margins

Posted at 07:30h in Asia

As we wait to see whether the Senate will do the same, we’re treated to the full spectrum of hypocrisy that the “China threat” induces in American politicians.Let’s examine this starting at the top, with US President Joe Biden, who has said he would sign...

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18 Mar Huawei injects fresh capital into Shenzhen investment subsidiary as US-sanctioned tech giant returns to growth

Posted at 13:30h in Asia

With that infusion, Shenzhen Habo Technology Investment Partners – established in 2021 by Huawei and Habo Investment – last Thursday raised its registered capital to 7.98 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion) from 7 billion yuan previously, according to data from Chinese business registry platform Tianyancha.Huawei did...

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18 Mar Hong Kong’s Gaw Capital bets on ‘China plus one’ opportunities in Vietnam and Mexico, AI-boom driven US office market growth to offset mainland woes

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Vietnam, India and Mexico are seen as countries most likely to capture business from China.“Vietnam and Mexico are easier as these two countries welcome [Chinese firms] setting up production facilities,” Gaw said. “But India doesn’t like domestic investment from China.“The biggest beneficiaries will be those...

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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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14 Mar TikTok owner ByteDance acquires stake in memory chip firm InnoStar to bolster VR unit Pico as it takes on Apple’s Vision Pro

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Picoheart, a Singapore-based affiliate of ByteDance, earlier this month invested an undisclosed amount to acquire a 9.5 per cent shareholding in state-backed InnoStar, which is headquartered in Shanghai, according to data from company registry information provider Qichacha.That investment was made “in hopes of utilising the...

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13 Mar Chinese-origin researchers stand out in Apple’s 2024 AI scholarship programme, shining a light on mainland’s brain drain

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Each scholar will receive funding under the programme, as they pursue their PhD, internship opportunities and mentorship with an Apple researcher in their chosen field.The Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship is focused on machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence concerned with developing algorithms...

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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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12 Mar Hong Kong research centre under China Academy of Sciences launches AI tool to assist in complex brain surgery procedures

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A Hong Kong-based research centre under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool to assist in complex brain surgery, even as the healthcare industry deals with an inadequate number of specialised databases for this procedure.The Centre for Artificial...

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