ByteDance seeks US$1.1 million in damages from ex-intern who sabotaged AI project

ByteDance seeks US.1 million in damages from ex-intern who sabotaged AI project

ByteDance, the owner of TikTok and Douyin, filed a lawsuit against a former intern, accusing him of tampering with code and sabotaging an artificial intelligence (AI) training project and demanding 8 million yuan (US$1.1 million) in compensation as well as a public apology, according to a local media report. The case has already been accepted … Read more

Alibaba’s DingTalk launches new service bundled with AI features to boost productivity

Alibaba’s DingTalk launches new service bundled with AI features to boost productivity

The service called DingTalk 365 offers more than 10 features including AI-powered search, virtual assistant and automated reply, according to a DingTalk post published on Monday on the platform’s public WeChat account. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. The search feature, for example, uses large language models – the technology underpinning generative AI (GenAI) … Read more

Hello, Jarvis? China’s new AI app stirs dreams of Tony Stark’s assistant becoming reality

Hello, Jarvis? China’s new AI app stirs dreams of Tony Stark’s assistant becoming reality

The fictional Jarvis – an acronym that stands for “Just a Rather Very Intelligent System” – is a sophisticated AI assistant that made its debut in the 2008 film Iron Man, in which it manages and operates the internal systems of Stark’s laboratory, home and superhero armours. Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of Alibaba Group … Read more

Fintech giant Ant Group spins out AI service into a personal assistant app in China

Fintech giant Ant Group spins out AI service into a personal assistant app in China

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, the operator of one of China’s largest payment services, Alipay, has launched a stand-alone artificial intelligence (AI) app that works as a virtual assistant in its latest effort to turn large language models (LLM) into consumer services. Ant launched its chatbot app Zhixiaobao on Thursday, with a name meant to … Read more

Baidu rebrands Ernie Bot as Wenxiaoyan in China to stand out from AI rivals

Baidu rebrands Ernie Bot as Wenxiaoyan in China to stand out from AI rivals

Baidu on Wednesday announced a rebranding of its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) app Ernie Bot, as the Chinese technology giant tries to distinguish itself in an increasingly crowded and competitive market. The Chinese renaming of Ernie Bot to “Wenxiaoyan” from “Wenxin Yiyan” reflects the tool’s positioning as a “new search” assistant, according to Xue Su, … Read more