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AI Impostors: Baidu sues Apple and iOS developers over fake Ernie bot apps on Apple’s app store
Mehul Das •Apple's app store has many fake Ernie bot apps developed by small-time iOS developers. As a result, Chinese tech giant Baidu is suing these developers as well as Apple for allowing these fake apps on the Apple App Store.
Xi Jinping breaking up Chinese tech giants into smaller parts is making Google and Apple very happy.
Mehul Das •Xi Jinping wants to break large tech companies in China into smaller ones so that they do not become too powerful. As a result, Alibaba will be broken into 6 smaller companies. This makes American tech companies, mainly Apple and Google, very happy.
China’s Baidu cancels public showcase for Ernie AI, its ChatGPT rival, shows it behind closed-doors
Mehul Das •China's Baidu cancelled the public showcase of its Ernie AI bot, a chatbot that is supposed to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT. Instead, they chose to show the AI bot to select tech firms behind closed door, under pressure from the Chinese government.
From Google to Musk, everyone wants a piece of ChatGPT’s action as AI race heats up
•When it comes to AI and implementing it well, ChatGPT is way ahead of its rivals, including some big wigs like Google, Microsoft and Baidu, so much so that they need to catch up. Even Elon Musk wants a piece of the action that ChatGPT is getting.
AI frenzy: Chinese tech firms are scrambling to make AI generative bots like ChatGPT
Mehul Das •ChatGPT is blocked in China, but businesses and people love the programme and access it using VPNs. To cater to growing domestic demands, Chinese tech companies are rushing to create their own AI Generators and launch them in the Chinese market
China’s stride in AI: Baidu set to finish testing ChatGPT-like project called 'Ernie Bot' by March
Mehul Das •Because of US sanctions, China couldn't access technologies like Microsoft and OpenAI's ChatGPT. As a result, they had to develop their own AI generative tech. Baidu, one of China's largest tech companies, is set to launch ErnieBOT that functions like ChatGPT
How China is developing its own parallel generative AI universe by copying Stable Diffusion and DALL-E2
Mehul Das •China, like the US, has been developing its own version of AI bots like ChatGPT and DALL-E2, despite the US imposing sanctions on China, which bars tech companies to work with them.
Beyond The Lines | Why Xi Jinping wants the chip? Tech it up, when chips are down
Probal Dasgupta •The Chinese economy — including its strategic economy — is so dependent on Taiwan that its missiles, cyber capability, technology-integrated weapon systems, its tech sector would have been swiftly dismantled in the event of an attack on Taiwan
China's Baidu defers earnings date to 27 Feb as coronavirus outbreak threatens to affect business
•Baidu said the revised date would give it more time to observe the business condition for the first quarter of 2020.
Baidu shares rise by 5 percent, video streaming platform iQIYI, contributes most
•Baidu has been trying to cut its dependence on the core search business and expand into areas such as AI.