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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

Posted at 00:30h in Asia

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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07 Mar Chinese venture capitalist Allen Zhu steers clear of mainland tech firms’ AI large language model frenzy

Posted at 13:30h in Asia

“I believe in applications and those that can commercialise immediately,” said Zhu, who indicated that he did not invest in any LLM-focused company on the mainland last year.Sample code for an artificial intelligence large language model. Photo: ShutterstockLi pointed out that there were too many...

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06 Mar Alibaba said to lead new financing round for Chinese AI firm MiniMax that would value the start-up at over US$2 billion

Posted at 00:00h in Asia

Shanghai-based MiniMax, which was founded in 2021, is in the process of raising new funding that would value the company at more than US$2 billion, another investor with knowledge of the matter said. The two investors requested anonymity because they are not authorised to speak...

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05 Mar Alibaba tests generative AI tools for Taobao and Tmall merchants as new tech arms race heats up China’s e-commerce sector

Posted at 13:00h in Asia

The generative AI tools provided by Huiwa, operated by Alibaba subsidiary Hangzhou Lianfan Information Technology, enable merchants to create both text and graphics content. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.A merchant, for example, can input a brief description of a product, which prompts the...

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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...

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02 Mar Chinese smartphone giants Honor and Xiaomi show AI’s vast market potential at MWC Barcelona to challenge Samsung, other global rivals

Posted at 07:08h in Asia

At a nearby booth in the same MWC Barcelona exhibition floor, Xiaomi displayed its new flagship handset model, the 14 Ultra, which features enhanced photography features and AI capabilities. The handset’s AI Album Search function employs natural language processing that enables users to locate specific...

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29 Feb Exclusive | AI takes priority at TikTok owner ByteDance, as Sora disrupts the future of video creation

Posted at 13:30h in Asia

ByteDance is “secretly” working on multiple AI products, including text-to-image and text-to-video technology, according to a report on Wednesday by Chinese media outlet Jiemian.The team responsible for video-editing app CapCut, managed by Kelly Zhang Nan – former CEO of the Douyin unit, which oversees TikTok’s...

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29 Feb Alibaba’s cloud computing unit cuts prices on 100 core products in China to capture more users involved in AI development projects

Posted at 11:00h in Asia

Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing unit has cut prices by up to 55 per cent on more than 100 core products – the largest discount offering in the company’s history – to attract more enterprises and software developers as users in mainland China, as the...

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27 Feb ‘Shining on international stage’: Chinese developers of OpenAI’s text-to-video generator Sora receive acclaim at home

Posted at 11:00h in Asia

At least two Chinese developers involved in building Sora, the newly released text-to-video generator from ChatGPT creator OpenAI, have received acclaim on the mainland for their efforts, showing how the advanced generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology has ignited interest across the country where the Microsoft-backed...

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25 Feb Opinion | Why chipmakers’ stock surge is no guarantee of AI revolution’s future

Posted at 12:15h in Asia

Some of the controversies are easier to manage. The machine learning driven by generative AI has already shown its value in speedy and reliable early indication of diseases, for example. We are at the earliest stages of discovering how these new technologies can enhance productivity...

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