Chinese Ai Industry

China allows Baidu, other tech companies to release their ChatGPT-like chatbots to the public

China has allowed its tech companies to release their ChatGPT-like chatbots to the Chinese public. A total of 11 tech companies have launched their AI Chatbots, including Baidu and their Ernie bot

US tech ban and strong demand for AI chips in China is fuelling NVIDIA GPU smuggling

Because of the US tech ban on China, and the growing demands of the Chinese AI industry, some of China's largest tech companies are working with smugglers to get their hands on the latest AI and ML-enabled GPUs that NVIDIA makes

Baidu claims newest version of Ernie AI Bot is better than OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5 and GPT 4

Chinese tech giant Baidu has claimed that their Ernie AI bot is now much faster and better than OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 based ChatGPT, especially in Mandarin and Cantonese. When Baidu was launched a few of months ago, they had made a similar claim

No Country for Free Intelligence: China's top techie is worried about generative AI, vows to ‘control’ it

The head of China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC), Zhuang Rongwen, has stated that he is worried about generative AI bots like ChatGPT. He says that although ChatGPT-like AI Bots may be the future, the government needs to have control over it

Chinese tech firms are stealing AI-based IPs, US must form coalition to stop them, says diplomat

A US diplomat has claimed that several Chinese tech companies are stealing IPs for technologies like AI, large language models and other technologies, with the CCP's assistance. To stop that, US needs to form a coalition of nations and take on China

AI Leads To Arrest: Chinese man arrested for using ChatGPT to create fake news about a train crash

A man in China was arrested after he created a fake story about a train crash using ChatGPT, and spread the fake news over Chinese social media, causing widespread panic. This is the first time someone has been arrested for misusing ChatGPT-like AI.

China’s AI Race Heats Up: Alibaba unveils ChatGPT-like Tongyi Qianwen AI to take on Baidu’s Ernie

China's internal AI race is heating up. After Baidu launched its Ernie bot, Alibaba has unveiled its own ChatGPT-like Tongyi Qianwen AI. The AI bot will be integrated with their Alibaba Cloud Services.

Halting AI: Musk and China share an ulterior motive in calling for pause on development of ChatGPT

Several Chinese AI scientists are supporting Elon Musk's call to halt the development of AI programmes that can outperform GPT-4 enabled ChatGPT. However, it seems that the Chinese share an ulterior motive with Musk in calling for the pause.