Shenzhen’s government has issued a long list of subsidies to support artificial intelligence (AI) development in the city in a fresh sign of how local Chinese authorities are pulling out all the stops to support the growth of the industry. According to measures published by the Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Shenzhen on Wednesday, … Read more
New Delhi: Meta on Friday announced a strategic collaboration with ‘IndiaAI’ at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to drive advancement of open source AI innovation, R&D and skill development in India. This includes the establishment of the Center for Generative AI, Shrijan at IIT Jodhpur and the launch of the ‘AI for … Read more
Time Magazine has ranked China’s internet watchdog head and the chairman of TikTok owner ByteDance among the 100 most influential people working in artificial intelligence for their impact on the sector in the world’s second-largest economy. Zhuang Rongwen, director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, made the second annual Time 100 AI list as one … Read more
Apple’s main contract manufacturing partner, Foxconn Technology Group, said it expects revenue to grow in the current quarter and for the rest of year, after reporting a profit rise boosted by demand for servers powering artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The Taiwan-based company, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, said on Wednesday that net income … Read more
Algorithm engineer Zhou Chang, who worked on the Tongyi Qianwen large language models (LLMs), has decided to leave Alibaba’s cloud computing unit after seven years at the firm, according to two people familiar with the matter. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Zhou’s departure was first reported on Wednesday by Chinese media 36Kr. The … Read more
“Our initial budget is HK$400 million,” iFlytek senior vice-president Duan Dawei told the South China Morning Post at the opening ceremony of the new premises on Friday. “If everything goes well [in Hong Kong], that figure is going to be more.” Duan Dawei, senior vice-president at iFlyTek, speaks at the opening ceremony of the firm’s … Read more
Jacob Roach / Digital Trends I don’t use a lot of AI applications. There’s the generative fill-in apps like Photoshop and Lightroom, as well as the crop of online chatbots like ChatGPT and local bots like Chat with RTX. But there’s only one AI tool that I find myself constantly reaching for when using my … Read more
