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Billionaires and bureaucrats mobilize China for AI race with US

China’s tech sector has a new obsession: competing with U.S. titans like Google and Microsoft Corp. in the breakneck global artificial intelligence race.

Tribune News Service

Chinese billionaires go all-in on AI

China’s tech sector has a new obsession: competing with US titans like Google and Microsoft in the breakneck global artificial intelligence "arms race".

Bangkok Post

Today’s Cache | Baidu’s AI claims; Google’s Android antitrust woes; Qualcomm launches new 5G SoC

News snippets for Chain’s Baidu claiming AI superiority, Google has urged the Supreme Court of India to squash antitrust directives, and Qualcomm announcing Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoC processor.

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Dan Ives says China is losing the A.I. race as Wedbush sees ‘discernibly more clients in Asia’ rotating toward Silicon Valley

Investors in Asia seem to be betting bigger on American A.I. than China's.

Fortune

Chinese Firms Foil US AI Sanctions With Older GPUs, Software Tweaks

Chinese AI developers simplify software and use all compute chips they can get to train large-scale AI models.

Tom’s Hardware

China wants to gives its AI systems ‘socialist values’ and bans them from criticising country’s leaders

Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Baidu have announced their own versions of ChatGPT

The Independent UK

China says chatbots must toe the party line

Five months after ChatGPT set off an investment frenzy over artificial intelligence, Beijing is moving to rein in China’s chatbots, a show of the government’s resolve to keep tight regulatory control over technology that could define an era.

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China releases new AI rules as tech giant Alibaba unveils ChatGPT rival

Alibaba working on ChatGPT rival Tongyi Qianwen, which it plans to integrate across its services

The Independent UK

SenseTime, Alibaba announce China ChatGPT competitors

SenseTime and Alibaba both announced new A.I. services in an effort to catch up to OpenAI's offerings.

Fortune

Baidu Sues Apple, App Developers over Fake Ernie Bot Apps

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has filed lawsuits against "relevant" app developers and Apple Inc over fake copies of its Ernie bot app available on Apple's app store. The company's artificial intelligence powered Ernie bot, launched last month, has been touted as China's closest answer to the US-developed chatbot ChatGPT.…

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt doesn’t support a 6-month A.I. pause ‘because it will simply benefit China’

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks competitors could gain an edge during a pause in A.I. development like the one that Elon Musk has called for.

Fortune

China’s tech old guard make way for young blood in AI, crypto era

Beijing is seeking to assure tech sector that crackdown has passed amid questions about direction of regulatory policy.

Al Jazeera

3 Companies Leading the Charge to the Driverless Car Future

In 1962, the Jetsons gave the world the idea that we would all have flying cars very soon. 61 years later, flying cars are still not a reality. However, a fully driverless vehicle IS a reality and may be the norm for everyone in just a few years. Here are…

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China’s Baidu cancels showcase for ChatGPT rival Ernie

Beijing-based search engine giant changes showcase to closed-door event for firms, citing ‘strong demand’.

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The Conversation

AI chatbots with Chinese characteristics: why Baidu's ChatGPT rival may never measure up

On March 16, Baidu unveiled China’s latest rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT – ERNIE Bot (short for “Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration”). The “multi-modal” AI-powered chatbot can generate text, images, audio and video from a text prompt.

Fortune

GPT-4, Bard are here. But GPU shortages, hallucinations remain issues

It's been an eventful week for A.I. But getting generative A.I. to work for business is still going to be a challenge.

Fortune

Investors didn’t think much of the debut of Baidu’s ChatGPT competitor: Shares are down almost 10%

Baidu’s CEO and cofounder said the company was launching an imperfect model “because the market demands it.”

IT Pro

Baidu unveils 'Ernie' AI, but can it compete with Western AI rivals?

Chinese tech giant Baidu has announced its own generative AI chatbot, known as Ernie Bot, in a press conference that aimed to put the firm on a competitive footing with OpenAI and Microsoft. Ernie Bot is a large language model (LLM) that has been in development at Baidu for some…

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The Guardian - UK

Chinese ChatGPT rival from search engine firm Baidu fails to impress

Shares plummet after Ernie Bot AI chatbot software falls short of expectations at unveiling in Beijing

The Independent UK

Baidu unveils ChatGPT-rival Ernie Bot; 650 companies sign up

Chinese search giant Baidu has unveiled its artificial intelligence chatbot Ernie Bot, presenting its rival to the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT in a pre-recorded video presentation that appeared to disappoint investors

Al Jazeera

China’s Baidu unveils ChatGPT rival Ernie

Investors give cool response to pre-recorded event showing off AI chatbot’s capabilities.

Foreign Policy

What the ChatGPT Moment Means for U.S.-China Tech Competition

The rise of American-made chatbots has kicked off a flurry of Chinese activity.

Al Jazeera

China wants AI to rival ChatGPT. Censorship makes that tricky

Chinese firms including Baidu and Alibaba are racing to roll out versions of the chatbots taking tech world by storm.

The Guardian - UK

‘Political propaganda’: China clamps down on access to ChatGPT

Leading tech firms reportedly ordered to remove workarounds allowing access to US-based service

The Independent UK

Baidu to implement ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot chatbot from March

Baidu Inc., one of China’s biggest search and artificial intelligence firms, says it plans to implement its artificial intelligence chatbot Ernie into its search services from March

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