Chinese AI chip start-up Biren sees performance boost by teaming with Tencent-backed firm

Chinese AI chip start-up Biren sees performance boost by teaming with Tencent-backed firm

Artificial intelligence (AI) chip start-up Biren Technology, considered key to China’s efforts to reduce reliance on US chipmaker Nvidia, said it has significantly increased the performance of its hardware when training large language models (LLMs) by working with a Tencent Holdings-backed supplier of computing power, or compute. Biren, which Washington placed on a trade blacklist … Read more

Elon Musk claims Apple’s new AI tools are a privacy risk. How much of a concern are they?

Elon Musk claims Apple’s new AI tools are a privacy risk. How much of a concern are they?

On Monday, Apple revealed a suite of highly anticipated AI features — including ChatGPT — that it will soon integrate into its devices. But not everyone was thrilled at the news. While some observers were excited at the prospect of, for example, drawing math equations on an iPad that could then be solved by AI, billionaire tech mogul Elon … Read more