Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently warned that the US could lose AI race to China. In an All In Podcast interview with venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks, Eric Schmidt said that he believed both countries were competing on equal footing, but China is “really doing something more different” than US. “They’re very focused…
China is running a different race. In China, by contrast, leader Xi Jinping has recently had little to say about AGI. Instead, he is pushing the country’s tech industry to be “strongly oriented toward applications”—building practical, low-cost tools that boost China’s efficiency and which can be marketed easily. The diverging visions represent a head-to-head bet…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has bluntly responded to recent attacks from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, saying he doesn’t spend much time thinking about the xAI founder. Speaking in an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, Altman dismissed Musk’s repeated criticisms of OpenAI and its newly launched GPT-5 model.ChatGPT creator OpenAI recently unveiled its latest AI model…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has claimed that while artificial intelligence (AI) can currently replace humans in simpler tasks, but it is not capable enough to handle the most complex coding tasks yet. The tech billionaire shared his insights on the rapid progression of AI in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. Gates noted that experts…
OpenAI’s board of directors unanimously rejected on Saturday an offer from Tesla CEO Elon Musk to buy the artificial intelligence company for $97.4 billion.“OpenAI is not for sale, and the board has unanimously rejected Mr Musk’s latest attempt to disrupt his competition,” OpenAI’s board chairman Bret Taylor said in a statement posted on X, formerly…
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has continued to send ripples through the industry globally, while many questions remain surrounding the firm’s high-performance models developed at a fraction of the cost of their peers in the US. In a China Future Tech webinar on Monday hosted by SCMP Plus, South China Morning Post technology editor…
The Hangzhou-based firm over the past several weeks released two powerful new AI models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, that were built at a fraction of the cost and computing power that major tech companies muster to build large language models (LLMs) – the technology underpinning generative AI services like ChatGPT. On social media, the AI community…