China has created a new specialist committee on artificial intelligence (AI), as part of the country’s vision for the development and governance of the technology, amid simmering tensions between Beijing and Washington. The AI Experts Committee will help spearhead efforts to promote the country’s perspective on how the fast-growing technology should be governed, according to … Read more
OpenAI is working with Broadcom to develop a new artificial intelligence chip specifically focused on running AI models after they have been trained, according to two people familiar with the matter. The AI start-up and chipmaker are also consulting Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest chip contract manufacturer, said the people, who asked … Read more
“Huawei has years of experience with its own intelligent transformation, and we’ve been helping a wide range of industries go intelligent, too,” Xu said in his keynote speech at Thursday’s opening of the Huawei Connect 2024 event, which runs until Saturday in Shanghai. The 57-year-old Xu is set to complete a six-month stint as the … Read more
Lenovo Group, the world’s largest personal computer (PC) vendor by unit sales, has introduced a new range of devices powered by artificial intelligence (AI) for the enterprise and consumer market segments amid a much-anticipated refresh cycle in its industry. With dual headquarters in Beijing and Morrisville, North Carolina, in the United States, Lenovo on Thursday … Read more
He added that his bricks-and-mortar store on Tuesday received more than dozen inquiries about the PS5’s availability. Sony’s flagship store in Shanghai’s upscale Huangpu district on Tuesday saw its stock of six freshly delivered PS5 consoles quickly snapped up, as a stream of shoppers helped lift total sales that day above normal levels, according to … Read more
At present, Yang said LLM development has mostly relied on deploying advanced and expensive graphics processing units (GPUs), from the likes of Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, in data centres for projects involving vast amounts of raw data, which has put deep-pocketed Big Tech companies and well-funded start-ups at a major advantage. The entrance to … Read more
Intel has launched a new graphics processing unit (GPU) for cars in mainland China, as the US chip giant doubles down on the world’s largest electric vehicle market amid its slumping growth and intense competition in advanced semiconductors. The company’s new Arc Graphics for Automotive discrete GPU, designed to power in-car artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, … Read more
ASML and Tokyo Electron machines are used to produce dynamic random access memory dies, which are stacked together to make HBM chips. The United States’ Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, Alan Estevez, oversees the country’s export controls. Photo: Getty Images The Biden administration has tried for years to limit China’s ability to … Read more
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 country. The recognition of sovereign AI capabilities is global”. At the time of the … Read more
Chinese selfie apps giant Meitu said new image-and-video-editing tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) helped the company triple its profits last year, in stark contrast to how many other firms struggle to monetise the technology through their own generative AI initiatives. Citing its preliminary assessment of unaudited accounts, Hong Kong-listed Meitu estimated net profit last … Read more
