OpenAI Tag

15 Mar Tencent’s new AI video-generation tool brings static images to life in collaboration with Tsinghua and HKUST

Posted at 13:10h in Asia

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings has introduced an image-to-video artificial intelligence (AI) model in collaboration with academic partners on Friday, a release that comes amid the rising fervour around content-generating tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora.The image-animation tool called Follow-Your-Click, released on Microsoft’s open-source code...

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15 Mar China said to fall short of matching US advances in AI owing to ‘many challenges in theory and technologies’

Posted at 11:00h in Asia

China is falling short of matching the United States in artificial intelligence (AI) advances because the nation’s efforts are “littered with many essential challenges in theory and technologies”, according to a recent slide presentation made to Chinese Premier Li Qiang.Those difficulties were pointed out to...

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15 Mar Apple buys Canadian start-up DarwinAI after falling behind Microsoft, Google in generative AI

Posted at 02:44h in Asia

Apple has acquired Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DarwinAI, adding technology to its arsenal ahead of a big push into generative AI in 2024.The iPhone maker purchased the business earlier this year, and dozens of DarwinAI’s employees have joined Apple’s artificial intelligence division, according to...

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12 Mar ChatGPT creator OpenAI slams Elon Musk’s claims as ‘incoherent’ in Microsoft-backed start-up’s first legal response to tech billionaire’s lawsuit

Posted at 05:23h in Asia

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has lambasted Elon Musk’s allegations against it, saying in a court filing that the billionaire entrepreneur’s claims “rest on convoluted – often incoherent – factual premises”.In the filing, OpenAI said that it did not violate its agreement with Musk because “there is...

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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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11 Mar Baidu CEO says its AI model bests OpenAI’s GPT-4 in Imperial Chinese poetry, citing Mao Zedong poem as example

Posted at 13:30h in Asia

Baidu’s Ernie 4 artificial intelligence (AI) model, one of China’s leading large language models (LLMs), has outperformed similar technologies from US peers in generating Chinese texts such as those in the style of Imperial Chinese poetry, according to Robin Li Yanhong, co-founder and CEO of...

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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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07 Mar OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk, says billionaire pushed for merger to make Tesla its ‘cash cow’

Posted at 04:40h in Asia

“We’re sad that it’s come to this with someone whom we’ve deeply admired – someone who inspired us to aim higher, then told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI’s mission without him,”...

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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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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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