Chinese tech firms are scrambling to hire more artificial intelligence (AI) talent, especially anyone with a track record of success, amid a shortage of top AI brains in the country, according to local media reports and industry data. Moonshot AI, one of the country’s top AI start-ups, has recruited Tan Xu, the former principal research … 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
China’s No 2 short video app Kuaishou unveils Sora-style product amid rush to catch up in AI Chinese short-video app Kuaishou, the major rival of TikTok’s sister app Douyin, has launched a text-to-video service similar to OpenAI’s Sora, in the latest sign that Chinese Big Tech firms are trying hard to catch up with US … Read more
