OpenAI Tag

16 Apr Baidu claims 200 million users for Ernie chatbot, in sign that generative AI investments are paying off

Posted at 12:30h in Asia

Baidu’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Ernie Bot has attracted over 200 million users, according to company co-founder and chief executive Robin Li Yanhong, as the race to commercialise AI heats up in China.Ernie Bot reached the milestone just 13 months after its launch, with enterprise...

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16 Apr Officials promote China-led cyber governance to Belt and Road members during the Digital Silk Road forum in Xian

Posted at 09:30h in Asia

Chinese government officials on Tuesday trumpeted the country’s progress in shaping digital development models for Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) member states, taking aim at US policies amid an intensifying rivalry with the West.In keynote addresses to the Digital Silk Road (DSR) Development Forum held...

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13 Apr Generative AI takes centre stage at twin Hong Kong tech fairs, as government-backed research centre debuts

Posted at 13:15h in Asia

The projects are based on the centre’s “independently trained” large language model, which supports both Chinese and English languages, according to the exhibitor.It is Hong Kong’s first locally developed foundation model, signifying “a breakthrough in AI innovation”, said Guo Yike, Hong Kong University of Science...

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05 Apr Chinese firms lag behind US peers in AI development ‘by two years’, Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai says

Posted at 11:30h in Asia

“China is somewhat behind, obviously,” Tsai said, citing how ChatGPT creator OpenAI has leapfrogged the rest of the tech industry in AI innovation, in a podcast interview published on Wednesday with Nicolai Tangen, chief executive of Norges Bank Investment Management – the branch of Norway’s...

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05 Apr ChatGPT Enterprise quadruples user numbers in first quarter as OpenAI targets corporate use

Posted at 02:16h in Asia

OpenAI is seeing surging demand for the corporate version of ChatGPT even as it confronts a growing number of artificial intelligence companies offering similar products for the workplace.In an interview on Bloomberg Technology, OpenAI’s chief operating officer Brad Lightcap said there are now more than...

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28 Mar Amazon invests US$2.75 billion more in OpenAI rival Anthropic to boost generative AI efforts

Posted at 02:52h in Asia

Amazon.com says it is investing an additional US$2.75 billion in Anthropic, completing a deal it made last year to back the artificial intelligence (AI) start-up and expand a partnership between the companies.The infusion brings Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic, a well-regarded builder of AI tools...

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27 Mar Apple set to unveil AI strategy at June 10 worldwide developers conference

Posted at 01:59h in Asia

The iPhone maker announced the timing on Tuesday, saying the event will run through June 14. Though Apple did not say what it plans to unveil – in usual fashion – people familiar with the matter have said that the presentation will focus heavily on...

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27 Mar TikTok owner ByteDance accelerates generative AI efforts with increased talent acquisition, release of new tools

Posted at 00:30h in Asia

Beijing-based ByteDance’s website listed more than 320 GenAI-related job openings as of Tuesday, up from 307 vacancies posted a month earlier, according to a search conducted by the South China Morning Post.A specific search for jobs in the development of large language models (LLMs) –...

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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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16 Mar China’s Zhipu AI says it is developing Sora-like technology as a path to artificial general intelligence

Posted at 03:00h in Asia

Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co (Zhipu AI), an early pioneer of Chinese large language models (LLM), said it is developing Sora-like technology as a pathway to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), underlining domestic ambition to catch up with US advances.Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video generator, will be...

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