Chinese tech giants race to expand AI services market with latest open-standard protocol

Chinese tech giants race to expand AI services market with latest open-standard protocol

Major Chinese technology companies are racing to launch services based on the open model context protocol (MCP), which enables Manus-like artificial intelligence (AI) agents to connect with third-party online tools, data sources and systems – a trend that could expand the commercial adoption of such applications. Alipay operator Ant Group – the fintech affiliate of…

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Alibaba’s Quark surpasses ByteDance’s Doubao, DeepSeek as China’s top AI app

Alibaba’s Quark surpasses ByteDance’s Doubao, DeepSeek as China’s top AI app

Alibaba Group Holding’s revamped artificial intelligence (AI) assistant app, Quark, which offers a user-friendly interface, has surpassed ByteDance’s Doubao to become China’s most popular AI app in March, showing its appeal among local users. Quark ranked at the top among Chinese AI apps with nearly 150 million monthly active users (MAUs) worldwide, followed by ByteDance’s…

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Woman's Ghibli-Style Makeover Goes Wrong. She Gets A Third Hand

Woman’s Ghibli-Style Makeover Goes Wrong. She Gets A Third Hand

New Delhi: The internet has found its latest obsession: the Ghibli trend. Thanks to OpenAI’s newest image-generation tool, social media users, including celebrities and politicians, are transforming their pictures into dreamy, Studio Ghibli-style animations. For one woman, though, the trend took an unexpected turn when ChatGPT gave her an extra hand. She initially uploaded a…

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Celebrities can opt-out with OpenAI

Celebrities can opt-out with OpenAI

The new ChatGPT 4o image generation model is the talk of the town, and not just for good reasons. Everyone is marveling at the AI’s amazing new abilities, which include generating legible text in images, creating fake photos out of real ones, creating deepfakes of celebrities, and replicating copyrighted content like Studio Ghibli characters. It…

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Google, ChatGPT And More Weigh In

Google, ChatGPT And More Weigh In

Arnold and Patrick Schwarzenegger (Photo by Maya Dehlin Spach/WireImage) WireImage A lot has happened in the world of AI over the past few weeks. OpenAI has taken the lead with ChatGPT surpassing 400 million weekly users in February, a doubling from 200 million in August 2024 after shipping a slew of exciting new consumer features…

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