LLMs

Baidu and Zhipu AI’s large language models top Chinese generative AI rankings, but OpenAI, Anthropic remain ahead in overall performance

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Baidu’s Ernie Bot 4.0 and start-up Zhipu AI’s GLM-4 rank top among Chinese large language models (LLMs), but their foreign rivals still lead in overall capabilities, according to a new test by Tsinghua University in Beijing. The SuperBench assessment report examined 14 representative LLMs – the technology underpinning generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots – and … Read more

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group sets up AI unit led by former Google researcher

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Ant Group, the Chinese fintech giant affiliated with Alibaba Group Holding, has set up a new artificial intelligence (AI) unit led by a former engineer at Google, demonstrating its ambitions in applying the fast-developing technology to its expanding business. The new unit – called NextEvo and headed by Xu Peng, a vice-president of engineering at … Read more

TikTok owner ByteDance says use of OpenAI technology in compliance with service terms

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TikTok parent ByteDance said that its use of OpenAI’s technology to aid the development of its own artificial intelligence (AI) models was in compliance with the US firm’s service terms, refuting a claim that it made use of the technology to build a rival service. ByteDance made the clarification on Sunday after a report by … Read more