The internet search giant met with Shandong Heavy Industry Group to discuss using its autonomous driving tech in trucking, considered a better business opportunity than robotaxis.

The partnerships with 11 firms in sectors ranging from AI to new energy vehicles will help the city’s efforts to become an innovation and technology hub, minister says.

Generative AI tools such as Midjourney and Dall-E have triggered a ‘complete rejection’ of the tech in the European comic-book industry, according to an executive at Tintin publisher Le Lombard.

The Google tool can now translate between Cantonese and 242 other languages by text or voice inputs.

The HKIC will use its initial corpus of HK$62 billion (US$8 billion) to support innovative start-ups, enhance economic growth and generate returns for the government.

Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen family of AI models have already been adopted by more than 90,000 corporate clients.

At the unveiling of its latest Xinghuo 4 model, iFlyTek chairman Liu Qingfeng said the company is determined to train LLMs on ‘self-developed, controllable’ infrastructure.

The tech giants is partnering with MiniMax, Moonshot AI, Orionstar, Baichuan, Zhipu AI and 01.AI to develop new functions on its popular office app.

Singapore medical device maker E3A Healthcare and Vietnam’s Smartos, which provides a property management platform, among firms setting up shop in Hong Kong.

Micron sells high-bandwidth memory chips that work with processors from Nvidia Corp to crunch data for artificial intelligence projects.

The US tech giant has been offering eligible Hong Kong customers access to OpenAI tools such as ChatGPT since last year.

The company is now a member of an elite club of a handful of peers that have surpassed the key market capitalisation.

China’s telecoms industry players are betting on the growth potential from increased demand for artificial intelligence by enterprises and consumers.

OpenAI’s ban on Chinese access to its service is set to contribute to the growth of the Chinese AI sector rather than hinder its progress, industry experts said.

The start-up says it originally intended to roll out the feature in late June, but needs another month to address safety issues.

A facial reconstruction of the mummy Lady Dai is under fire after the images looked strikingly similar to the expert behind the project.

The move is set to deal a blow to Chinese companies developing services based on OpenAI’s large language models.

81 contracts involving the use of large language models for public projects found successful bidders in the first half of 2024, up from one a year earlier.

While State Department’s No 2 touts dialogue, a National Security Council official points to Beijing’s disagreement with long-stated policy.

High-bandwidth memory chips are an indispensable component for artificial intelligence development projects.

HeyGen co-founder and chief executive Joshua Xu said the firm’s early China-based investors have very little stake in the company today.

Following the announcement of restrictions on US investments into Chinese tech, the latter country’s Ministry of Commerce declared it reserves the ‘right to take countermeasures’.

The four-day event was made up mostly of Chinese companies showing off electric cars and robots, as foreign firms continue to sit out Chinese industry events.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms has discussed integrating its generative AI model into Apple’s recently announced AI system for iPhones, the Wall Street Journal.

The deal marks Nvidia’s first large-scale regional launch to an area the US curbed the export of US chips to stop Chinese firms from using as a back door to access the newest AI technology.

New technology is being used to create a product that will disguise irate customers’ tone of voice so that the psychological effect on staff dealing with them is reduced.