ChatGPT Tag

24 Feb OpenAI’s Sora pours ‘cold water’ on China’s AI dreams, as text-to-video advancements prompt more soul-searching

Posted at 00:00h in Asia

Zhou Hongyi, the founder of Chinese internet security firm 360 Security Technology, which has joined China’s race to launch its own ChatGPT-style large language model, said the introduction of Sora was like a “barrel of cold water poured down China’s head”, Chinese media Yicai reported...

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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...

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20 Feb Chinese entrepreneurs express awe and fear of OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video generator, as US sanctions weigh on AI race

Posted at 01:00h in Asia

“I’d like to compare this to the Newton moment of AI development,” Yin said.Chinese smartphone vendors from Meizu to Oppo step up AI integration in devicesZhou Hongyi, chairman and CEO of 360 Security Technology, said on the microblogging site Weibo that the gap between China...

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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...

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13 Feb OpenAI CEO Altman says UAE could serve as an AI ‘regulatory sandbox’ for the world

Posted at 10:09h in Asia

OpenAI CEO Altman says UAE could serve as an AI ‘regulatory sandbox’ for the worldOpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman said the United Arab Emirates could serve as the world’s “regulatory sandbox” to test artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and later spearhead global rules limiting their use.“It’s very...

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13 Feb Generative AI paints bleak pictures of Great Wall, Taj Mahal and other famous landmarks under climate change

Posted at 01:30h in Asia

Extreme weather caused by climate change and pollution could break down parts of the Great Wall of China, dry out the water system that supports Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and destroy other renowned global landmarks, according to images generated by a British start-up using ...

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02 Feb Nvidia chief sees rise of ‘sovereign AI’ infrastructure across nations, driving demand for company’s advanced chips

Posted at 07:52h in Asia

Nations including India, Japan, France and Canada are talking about the importance of investing in “sovereign AI capabilities”, Huang said in an interview on Thursday with Bloomberg Television. “Their natural resource – data – should be refined and produced for their...

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01 Feb TikTok owner ByteDance launches its answer to OpenAI’s GPTs, accelerating a generative AI push amid ChatGPT frenzy

Posted at 13:30h in Asia

ByteDance has launched a platform similar to OpenAI’s GPTs, which allows users to customise its ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) bot for specific tasks, as the Chinese owner of TikTok accelerates its AI drive.Coze, rolled out on Thursday in China where OpenAI’s services are not officially...

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31 Jan ByteDance CEO berates staff for reacting too slowly to ChatGPT, new tech trends

Posted at 14:30h in Asia

The chief executive of ByteDance, owner of TikTok and its mainland sibling Douyin, berated employees for “not being sensitive enough” to the emergence of new technologies such as ChatGPT.In an internal meeting on Tuesday, CEO Liang Rubo said staff only began discussing ChatGPT in 2023,...

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31 Jan Chinese selfie apps giant Meitu sees profits triple in 2023 on back of new generative AI-powered tools

Posted at 10:23h in Asia

Chinese selfie apps giant Meitu said new image-and-video-editing tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) helped the company triple its profits last year, in stark contrast to how many other firms struggle to monetise the technology through their own generative AI...

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