Alibaba to boost AI spending as China tech giant sees AGI as new start

Alibaba to boost AI spending as China tech giant sees AGI as new start

Alibaba Group Holding plans to increase its capital expenditures on artificial intelligence infrastructure from the original 380 billion yuan (US$53 billion) over the next three years, the group’s CEO said on Wednesday. Eddie Wu Yongming, also the chairman of Alibaba Cloud, said at the Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, in China’s eastern Zhejiang province, that Alibaba’s…

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Exclusive | Geoffrey Hinton on preventing an AI takeover and the ‘very worrying’ China-US tech race

Exclusive | Geoffrey Hinton on preventing an AI takeover and the ‘very worrying’ China-US tech race

Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist often called the “godfather of AI” because of his revolutionary neural network models inspired by the structure of the human brain. His research brought about a paradigm shift that enabled today’s machine learning technology. He won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with John J. Hopfield of Princeton…

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