Microsoft-backed OpenAI has kept its hit ChatGPT app off-limits to users in China, but the app is attracting huge interest in the country, with firms rushing to integrate the technology into their products and launch rival solutions. While residents in the country are unable to create OpenAI accounts to access the artificial intelligence-powered (AI) chatbot, … Read more
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said Thursday it was working on a rival to ChatGPT, joining a flurry of global tech firms rushing to match the popular AI-powered chatbot. ChatGPT has sparked a gold rush in artificial intelligence technology, with Microsoft, Google and China’s Baidu all working to develop chatbots that can mimic human speech. The … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. on Thursday reported a single-digit increase in its fourth-quarter revenue, its slowest quarter yet as its online services and e-commerce businesses took a hit amid COVID-19 lockdowns across China. Revenue increased 9% to 204.05 billion yuan ($30.3 billion) in the three months ended March, as its core e-commerce platforms Taobao and … Read more
Baidu will launch paid driverless robotaxi services in Beijing from May 2, the Chinese tech giant said on Thursday, making it the among the first companies in the country to offer autonomous driving robotaxi services to paying users. Baidu’s driverless Apollo Robotaxi, to be launched in the Chinese capital’s Shougang Park, will operate without a … Read more
Logitech Voice M380 Wireless Mouse has been launched in China. The mouse makes its debut after Logitech and Baidu Brain announced a long-term partnership wherein the former will use the latter’s Intelligent Speech and Machine Translation technologies in its products to help the company “strengthen the leadership in peripherals.” The mouse has been designed especially … Read more