China’s Quora-like Zhihu unveils AI-powered search-and-answer feature to engage more users

Zhihu, mainland China’s Quora-like question-and-answer service, on Saturday launched a new generative artificial intelligence (AI) feature that responds to users’ inquiries on the platform, showing how the technology has quickly become a component of online consumer tools in the country. The feature called Zhida, which means “direct response” in Mandarin, taps into the platform’s vast … Read more

Tencent launches Yuanbao AI assistant app as internet giant moves to close gap with other Chinese chatbots

Yuanbao can be used to analyse and summarise documents, provide questions and answers, and generate texts and images, similar to the functions of ChatGPT and alternative Chinese AI chatbots. Tencent’s AI assistant was built on the company’s own large language model (LLM) – the technology behind ChatGPT and other generative AI services – known as … Read more

Tencent pushes wider adoption of AI-powered smart mobility system from a vehicle’s cockpit to the factory floor

Senior executives of the Shenzhen-based technology behemoth on Wednesday took the wraps off this initiative at an event in Beijing, where they touted the advantages of having its mobility solution backed by the firm’s own large language model (LLM) – the technology used to train generative AI services like ChatGPT – to not only enhance … Read more

Chinese Big Tech firms from Tencent to Kuaishou tout advancing generative AI models in race to catch up

The KwaiYii LLM from Kuaishou, a top Chinese short-video platform operator, has “significantly surpassed GPT-3.5 in overall performance … and is approaching the levels of GPT-4 in certain metrics”, said Cheng Yixiao, company founder and CEO, during its post-earnings call on Wednesday. 01:45 Chinese AI-generated cartoon series broadcast on state television Chinese AI-generated cartoon series … Read more

Tencent’s new AI video-generation tool brings static images to life in collaboration with Tsinghua and HKUST

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings has introduced an image-to-video artificial intelligence (AI) model in collaboration with academic partners on Friday, a release that comes amid the rising fervour around content-generating tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora. The image-animation tool called Follow-Your-Click, released on Microsoft’s open-source code website GitHub, allows users to click on certain parts … Read more