China has created a new specialist committee on artificial intelligence (AI), as part of the country’s vision for the development and governance of the technology, amid simmering tensions between Beijing and Washington. The AI Experts Committee will help spearhead efforts to promote the country’s perspective on how the fast-growing technology should be governed, according to…
More than 100 of the world’s wealthiest business owners gathered in Hong Kong this weekend, as the city stepped up its appeal to be the Asia-Pacific region’s wealth management and family office hub. Business owners from the US, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and mainland China joined their Hong Kong counterparts at the principals-only…
China’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups are looking to chase down new opportunities in their field, following the preview of an advanced new series of large language models (LLMs) – the technology underpinning generative AI services – by ChatGPT creator OpenAI, according to executives at Alibaba Cloud‘s Apsara Conference in Hangzhou. OpenAI o1, previewed earlier…
Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud unit is set to kick off its annual tech event this week, as China’s largest cloud service provider brings together large language model (LLM) start-ups to discuss the future of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Eddie Wu Yongming, chief executive of both Alibaba Group and its cloud unit, will deliver a keynote…