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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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21 Mar Chinese Big Tech firms from Tencent to Kuaishou tout advancing generative AI models in race to catch up

Posted at 23:01h in Asia

The KwaiYii LLM from Kuaishou, a top Chinese short-video platform operator, has “significantly surpassed GPT-3.5 in overall performance … and is approaching the levels of GPT-4 in certain metrics”, said Cheng Yixiao, company founder and CEO, during its post-earnings call on Wednesday. 01:45Chinese AI-generated cartoon series...

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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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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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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 China lures AI talent with hefty salary premium as demand far exceeds supply, report finds

Posted at 10:30h in Asia

Employers in China are scrambling for talent with skills in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), the technology underpinning a new generation of highly intelligent chatbots led by Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT.Computer vision engineers with GenAI skills are being offered an average annual salary of more than 480,000...

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27 Feb State TV airs China’s first AI-developed cartoon series, as Sora sets off frenzy for text-to-video generation tech

Posted at 14:00h in Asia

State broadcaster China Media Group aired the country’s first cartoon series made with the help of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) services, including text-to-video tools similar to OpenAI’s Sora, as the government calls on state-owned firms to pilot the use of AI in their businesses.The 26-episode...

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27 Feb ‘Shining on international stage’: Chinese developers of OpenAI’s text-to-video generator Sora receive acclaim at home

Posted at 11:00h in Asia

At least two Chinese developers involved in building Sora, the newly released text-to-video generator from ChatGPT creator OpenAI, have received acclaim on the mainland for their efforts, showing how the advanced generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology has ignited interest across the country where the Microsoft-backed...

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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

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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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