A group of artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups are emerging as China’s best hopes for reaching the frontier of ChatGPT-like technology, as they draw increasing attention from users and investors. Among them, Baichuan is the latest to complete a new round of fundraising. While the start-up told the Post on Thursday that there had been some … Read more
Chinese artificial intelligence company Moonshot AI claims that its Kimi chatbot can now handle up to 2 million Chinese characters in a single prompt – the instruction or query a user enters into the interface of a ChatGPT-like service – to surpass the capabilities of existing home-grown AI tools. The Beijing-based start-up, known in Chinese … Read more
“I believe in applications and those that can commercialise immediately,” said Zhu, who indicated that he did not invest in any LLM-focused company on the mainland last year. Sample code for an artificial intelligence large language model. Photo: Shutterstock Li pointed out that there were too many LLMs being introduced in mainland China, “but too … Read more
Shanghai-based MiniMax, which was founded in 2021, is in the process of raising new funding that would value the company at more than US$2 billion, another investor with knowledge of the matter said. The two investors requested anonymity because they are not authorised to speak to the media. A report by Bloomberg on Tuesday said … Read more
The start-up in October launched smart chatbot Kimi Chat, built on its self-developed Moonshot large language model (LLM), which can process as many as 200,000 Chinese characters in a context window – referring to the swathe of text that an AI model can process during conversation with users. A screenshot of smart chatbot Kimi Chat. … Read more
