Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings announced on Friday a new strategic partnership with smartphone maker Honor for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI), giving a boost to a domestic rival to Apple, which has yet to settle on a partner to launch AI on iPhones in the country. Shenzhen-based Tencent said in a post on … Read more
An annual gathering of the world’s top minds in artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining wider attention as it emerges as the new battleground in the competition between the US and China, according to event attendees. The six-day Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, or NeurIPS, wrapped last week in Vancouver, Canada, and attracted more than … Read more
TikTok parent ByteDance has turned up the heat in the Chinese generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) market by slashing the price of a new AI model with “visual understanding” capabilities and launching a slew of product updates. The new model, part of the company’s popular Doubao family, was introduced at 0.003 yuan (US$0.00041) per thousand token … Read more
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Sholay starring Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bachchan and many others still remains to be iconic. One of the most celebrated and successful films of Bollywood, Sholay gave many iconic characters that are still remembered. From the dreaded Gabbar to besties Jay-Veeru, Sholay is etched in everyone’s hearts. But AI … Read more
It may sound like a holiday from hell to some, but Hong Kong people love to travel not just with their children but with their parents in tow. The latter are often the ones paying for the holiday. And we will be seeing more of these “multigenerational trips” in the coming year, according to the … Read more
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) stock was added to the Nasdaq 100 index, according to a NASDAQ announcement on 13th December. PLTR shares became eligible to join the tech-heavy benchmark after a strategic move to the NASDAQ from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) last month. The company is a leading AI software system provider facilitating … Read more
Beijing is stepping up its defence of classic literature against AI misuse that it says could undermine and endanger China’s leading ideology. The Chinese government says AI’s “peculiar adaptations” from classic television dramas based on Chinese literature are “highly deceptive”. Like memes, these edited video clips are made largely for laughs and social media traction, … Read more
However, when handling the operations of these events, Choy and her friends quickly realised how tiresome the process was: “It wasn’t straightforward at all, a lot of manual work had to be done.” She gave the example of reselling an old book. Before listing the item, the team needs to identify the publisher and genre, … Read more
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Friday announced the establishment of an “artificial intelligence (AI) standardisation technology committee” that includes executives from tech giants Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding, Tencent Holdings and Huawei Technologies. The committee will be responsible for “making and revising” standards for different AI vertical markets, including assessment and testing, … Read more
Character.AI, the artificial intelligence company that has been the subject of two lawsuits alleging its chatbots inappropriately interacted with underage users, said teenagers will now have a different experience than adults when using the platform. Character.AI users can create original chatbots or interact with existing bots. The bots, powered by large language models (LLMs), can … Read more
