City governments across China have launched online services featuring DeepSeek while local officials studied the AI start-up, which has emerged as a challenger to US rivals such as OpenAI. Nanfang Daily, a Communist Party-affiliated newspaper in the southern province of Guangdong, reported on Sunday that senior officials in the city of Zhuhai had “watched reports…
WMDoll, one of China’s biggest sex doll makers, expects to record a 30 per cent jump in sales this year, as the company’s adoption of open-source generative artificial intelligence (AI) models helped improve the user experience of its products. Feedback received by WMDoll has been generally good after integrating large language models (LLMs) – the…
With Chinese start-up DeepSeek and its artificial intelligence (AI) model shaking up the global tech sector, China’s top diplomat appeared to seize the chance to promote the chatbot at the high-profile Munich Security Conference. Immediately after his address to the forum on Friday, Foreign Minister Wang Yi quoted some ancient Chinese sayings as he talked…
OpenAI is keen to collaborate with China, according to chief executive Sam Altman, in a 180-degree turn for the company nearly eight months after tightening measures that barred the mainland and other “unsupported countries and territories” from accessing ChatGPT and its other artificial intelligence (AI) services. “We’d like to work with China,” Altman told Sky…
Elon Musk’s offer to buy OpenAI is drawing pity from the company’s CEO, Sam Altman. One day after a Musk-led team of investors submitted a $97.4 billion bid to take control of the nonprofit behind ChatGPT, OpenAI co-founder Altman weighed in on the proposal during the AI Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday. Dismissing the…
Elon Musk Getty Images Elon Musk’s surprise bid for the nonprofit controlling artificial intelligence behemoth OpenAI did exactly what he wanted it to. Announced as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other business and world leaders convened in Paris for a global AI summit, the unsolicited $97.4 billion offer for the nonprofit refocused the world’s attention…
China’s venture capital (VC) firms have been sidelined in the frenzy surrounding DeepSeek, with none of them known to have invested in the open-source large AI model developer. Baidu Venture, an independent AI-focused investment arm initiated by its namesake Chinese internet giant, did not invest in DeepSeek even though the venture company sits just one…
Among the many storylines emerging in the wake of the sudden rise of Chinese AI development firm DeepSeek has been the importance of talent retention, which has taken on a new sense of urgency in light of the country’s growing tech race with the United States, according to analysts. The debut of the little known…
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 geopolitics of artificial intelligence will be in focus at a major summit in France where world leaders, executives and experts will hammer out pledges on guiding the development of the rapidly advancing technology. President Donald Trump talks with China’s President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in…