Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI narrows gap with Baidu’s Ernie Bot as China’s generative AI rivalry heats up

Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI narrows gap with Baidu’s Ernie Bot as China’s generative AI rivalry heats up

Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI narrows gap with Baidu’s Ernie Bot as China’s generative AI rivalry heats up The competition among Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots is heating up, as Moonshot AI, a 12 month old start-up, has overtaken Alibaba Group Holding’s Tongyi Qianwen and is narrowing the gap with domestic leader Baidu’s Ernie Bot, according to … Read more

Chinese generative AI developers rush to upgrade chat bots to handle super long texts

Chinese generative AI developers rush to upgrade chat bots to handle super long texts

China’s biggest generative artificial intelligence (AI) developers, including Baidu and Alibaba Group Holding, have rushed to upgrade their chat bots so they can handle super long texts of up to 10 million Chinese characters. The move follows Google, which in February unveiled the latest version of its Gemini large language model (LLM) that achieves a … Read more

Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms

Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms

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