generative AI Tag

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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04 Mar Chinese researchers aim to ‘reproduce’ OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora with help from open source community

Posted at 13:00h in Asia

A team of researchers is making a fresh push to develop China’s answer to OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora, in the latest sign of the country’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) frenzy.Professors from China’s Peking University and Shenzhen-based AI company Rabbitpre on March 1 jointly launched an...

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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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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...

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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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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...

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21 Feb Chinese fintech firm claims priority access to Sora API through Microsoft amid new text-to-video AI frenzy

Posted at 13:00h in Asia

A Chinese fintech firm is already attempting to take advantage of OpenAI’s Sora by claiming it will have priority access to the application programming interface (API) through Microsoft’s Azure system, in the latest example of how mainland businesses are rushing to associate themselves with cutting-edge...

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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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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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