OpenAI’s Sora pours ‘cold water’ on China’s AI dreams, as text-to-video advancements prompt more soul-searching

OpenAI’s Sora pours ‘cold water’ on China’s AI dreams, as text-to-video advancements prompt more soul-searching

Zhou Hongyi, the founder of Chinese internet security firm 360 Security Technology, which has joined China’s race to launch its own ChatGPT-style large language model, said the introduction of Sora was like a “barrel of cold water poured down China’s head”, Chinese media Yicai reported on Friday. “It cools down the heads of many people, … Read more

Head of leading Chinese defence university sanctioned by US promoted to vice-minister for industry

Head of leading Chinese defence university sanctioned by US promoted to vice-minister for industry

Trump said the measure was designed to stop spying and the illegal collection of American intellectual property – accusations China denied. Later in the year, the university was also included on a entities list that identified institutions that posed a threat to US national security. The Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, was classified as … Read more

China’s top fabless chip firms estimate big 2023 losses despite push for greater self-sufficiency in semiconductors

China’s top fabless chip firms estimate big 2023 losses despite push for greater self-sufficiency in semiconductors

China’s leading chip companies, from Loongson Technology to Cambricon Technologies, expect to log huge losses for 2023 in spite of Beijing’s push for greater self-sufficiency in semiconductors, according to corporate filings. Loongson Technology, a fabless chip firm that is a firm advocate for domestic semiconductor development, is estimating a full-year loss of 310 million yuan … Read more

Tech war: Nvidia’s new H20 chip, tailored for China, set to go head-to-head with Huawei product

Tech war: Nvidia’s new H20 chip, tailored for China, set to go head-to-head with Huawei product

Newly-tailored chips for China from Nvidia are set for direct competition with a processor developed by domestic giant Huawei Technologies, with the two products having a similar price and performance, according to industry sources. Nvidia has started to take pre-orders for its H20, a powerful graphics processing unit (GPU) that the US chip design firm … Read more

China’s Xi Jinping pushes ‘disruptive innovation’ at first Politburo study session of the year

China’s Xi Jinping pushes ‘disruptive innovation’ at first Politburo study session of the year

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for efforts to boost “disruptive innovation”, integrate technology with industry, and increase supply chain resilience as he presided over this year’s first Politburo study session. At the meeting of the Communist Party’s top policymaking body on Wednesday, Xi said China must strengthen scientific and technological innovation – especially “original and … Read more

Tech war: US wants cloud firms to report foreign users tapping their computing power for AI applications

Tech war: US wants cloud firms to report foreign users tapping their computing power for AI applications

United States Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said her department is exploring how to force cloud companies to disclose when a foreigner taps their computing power to fuel artificial intelligence (AI) applications, signalling the next phase of the tech war between Washington and Beijing. “We’re beginning the process of requiring US cloud companies to tell us … Read more

Tech war: China memory chip maker CXMT may have made a breakthrough amid US sanctions, paper indicates

Tech war: China memory chip maker CXMT may have made a breakthrough amid US sanctions, paper indicates

A leading Chinese memory chip maker may have achieved another technological breakthrough amid tight US trade restrictions, according to third-party analysis of a company paper delivered to an international conference. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s top dynamic random access memory (DRAM) developer, this week presented a paper to the 69th annual IEEE International Electron Devices … Read more