Alphabet’s Google rebranded its chatbot and rolled out a new subscription plan that will give people access to its most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model, placing it squarely in competition with rival OpenAI.Google’s chatbot, which had been known as Bard and was its answer to...
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...
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,...
Under a strategic partnership between Samsung’s China arm and Baidu AI Cloud, the recently unveiled Galaxy S24 series will deploy the Ernie LLM to perform the handset’s new “Circle to Search” feature that enables users on the mainland to search texts, images...
The FTC orders will allow the agency to scrutinise the inner workings of deals between Microsoft, Google and Amazon and AI providers to help the antitrust and consumer protection agency understand how these deals have affected competition. 03:08What if robots took over the world? One ‘imagines’...
Microsoft briefly achieved a historic US$3 trillion market valuation on Wednesday, in the latest example of how optimism over artificial intelligence (AI) has fuelled a seemingly unstoppable advance in the software giant.The stock rose as much as 1.7 per cent to US$405.63, taking...
However, generative AI has its limitations. Because the content it produces is generated from a complex large-language model instead of logically developed and based on facts, AI sometimes “hallucinates”, that is, produces incorrect or misleading results, due to insufficient training data, bias and incorrect assumptions....
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said he had no issue with partner OpenAI’s governance structure, two months after the start-up’s non-profit board temporarily ousted its chief executive without regard to investors’ interests.“I’m comfortable. I have no issues with any structure,” Nadella said at a...
The total number of video game players in China has been peaking.By the end of 2023 there were 668 million gamers in China, a tiny increase from the 666 million at the end of 2022. They jointly spent 303 billion yuan (US$42 billion) on games,...
Apple just had its worst start to the year by one measure, as investors react to mounting pressures on the company, putting its long-standing status as the world’s most valuable stock by market value in jeopardy.Shares of the technology giant fell 0.4 per...