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News articles, analyses and commentary about machines that mimic human cognitive functions such as learning and problem solving. This also covers chatbots, algorithms, consumer products and Big Data analysis that make use of AI.

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  • The company’s LLM series, also known as Qwen, is in industries ranging from consumer electronics to cars with clients that include Xiaomi
  • Some 2.2 million corporate users also have access to Qwen-powered AI services through Alibaba’s office collaboration tool DingTalk

China’s strengthened push to use RISC-V, an open-source chip-design architecture, is facing new risks amid scrutiny by the US and Google’s move to stop supporting it on Android.

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Further restrictions on access to Intel and Qualcomm chips would pose challenges to Huawei’s PC business, which has been gaining ground in the China market.

The hottest app in China right now is an artificial intelligence-powered photo editor, the same one that went viral in the US last year for its ability to generate images of what a couple’s child could look like.

Alat CEO Amit Midha said the only request so far has been to keep supply chains separate, but it would divest if asked because the ‘US is the number one partner for us’.

The Beijing-based start-up, dubbed one of the ‘four new AI tigers’ of China, is said to have plans to release ‘high-quality text-to-video tools’ by this year at the earliest.

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Meta AI recently brought assistants powered by generative AI to Instagram and WhatsApp. But beyond helping personalise social media, the technology may threaten democracy, and even freedom of speech.

Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi made a rare public appearance via video at the anniversary celebration for a patent registration firm, a year after Beijing cracked down on online attacks against entrepreneurs.

The MAI-1 model is being overseen by Mustafa Suleyman, the Google DeepMind co-founder and former CEO of AI start-up Inflection, The Information reported.

As well as shining a spotlight on the conflicts in Ukraine and the Palestinian West Bank, the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2024 will for the first time show a movie made completely by AI.

Apple is developing a chip to run AI tools on servers, but it is unclear if the tech giant will deploy it, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer, expects its second-quarter financial results to show both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year growth.

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The new pact promises to deliver improved remuneration and promotion for UMG-represented songwriters and artists on TikTok, as well as protections related to generative artificial intelligence.

AI was used to test 260 billion billion ingredient combinations for a plant-based mock turtle soup. The process was filmed for a documentary, Not Turtle, to raise awareness about the endangered animals.

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The South Korean memory chip maker has already sold out its high-bandwidth memory chips for this year, as enterprises aggressively expand artificial intelligence services.

Silicon Valley giants including Microsoft, Amazon and Google, along with Chinese tech conglomerates such as Alibaba, are making a big push to grow in Southeast Asia.

The leadership reshuffle at Huawei’s consumer business group comes as the company regains lost ground in China’s smartphone market and doubles down on electric vehicle systems.

Scammers have published a fictitious article with the appearance of a South China Morning Post story and a reporter’s byline to promote two online financial trading apps.

Eight US newspapers are suing ChatGPT creator OpenAI and Microsoft for alleging ‘purloining millions’ of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbot.