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04 Mar Chinese tech hub Shenzhen to expedite adoption of apps built on Huawei’s HarmonyOS across various industries in 2024

Posted at 11:00h in Asia

The Shenzhen municipal government intends to boost the number of its native apps built on HarmonyOS and push for their adoption across several major sectors, according to a 2024 action plan published on Sunday by the city’s Industry and Information Technology Bureau.Under that initiative, HarmonyOS-based...

03 Mar Tech war: Huawei’s AI chip capabilities under intense scrutiny after market leader Nvidia taps it as potential rival

Posted at 04:00h in Asia

The Ascend 910B is believed to succeed the Ascend 910, which was released by Huawei in August 2019, three months after it was put on a trade blacklist by the US Commerce Department. The chip can compete with Nvidia’s A100 in terms of powering AI...

28 Feb Baidu reports modest revenue growth amid signs search engine giant’s big tilt to AI is beginning to pay off

Posted at 10:08h in Asia

China search engine and artificial intelligence (AI) giant Baidu reported modest revenue growth in the three months to end-December as the Beijing-based company’s big investments in AI begin to pay off.Baidu posted revenue of 35 billion yuan (US$4.9 billion) for the quarter, up 6 per...

22 Feb Chinese tech giant Lenovo doubles down on AI after world’s largest PC maker posts first quarterly revenue growth since late 2022

Posted at 13:30h in Asia

Lenovo Group, the world’s largest personal computer (PC) maker, said it is doubling down on various artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, including new computing devices and services that support the technology, after reporting a 3 per cent year-on-year increase in revenue in the December quarter.The Beijing-based...

20 Feb Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms

Posted at 12:30h in Asia

The start-up in October launched smart chatbot Kimi Chat, built on its self-developed Moonshot large language model (LLM), which can process as many as 200,000 Chinese characters in a context window – referring to the swathe of text that an AI model can process during...

19 Feb Chinese smartphone vendors from Meizu to Oppo step up AI integration in their devices amid expected industry recovery in 2024

Posted at 09:30h in Asia

“Meizu will build an ecosystem to fully open its AI devices to leading global LLM providers, including OpenAI, to jointly promote AI innovation and development,” the company said.An Oppo internal letter released on February 18, 2024, said the impact of artificial intelligence on its industry...

07 Feb IDG Capital works to rebut US ‘confusion’ over its inclusion on Pentagon’s list of companies with ties to China’s military

Posted at 02:46h in Asia

IDG Capital, a venture firm with offices in Beijing and Hong Kong, said it’s working to clear up “confusion” over its inclusion on a US Pentagon list of companies with ties to the Chinese military.The company was surprised to discover its name on the list...

29 Jan China approves 14 large language models and enterprise applications, as Beijing favours wider AI adoption across industries

Posted at 10:04h in Asia

A total of 14 LLMs and enterprise applications were recently given the green light by authorities for commercial use, according to local media reports and company announcements including those from smartphone giant Xiaomi, AI specialist Beijing Fourth Paradigm Technology Co and Beijing-based tech...

26 Jan Samsung to integrate Baidu’s AI model into new Galaxy S24 handsets, as mainland Chinese rivals push new smartphones with similar tech

Posted at 23:00h in Asia

Under a strategic partnership between Samsung’s China arm and Baidu AI Cloud, the recently unveiled Galaxy S24 series will deploy the Ernie LLM to perform the handset’s new “Circle to Search” feature that enables users on the mainland to search texts, images...

20 Jan China convenes Huawei, Tencent, Baidu to draft metaverse standards in bid to become global technology leader

Posted at 08:11h in Asia

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has assembled 60 experts, including some from the country’s largest technology firms, to form a new working group to establish standards for the metaverse sector.Representatives from telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies, video gaming titans Tencent Holdings and...

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