A record high number of private-sector executives and chief scientists have been shortlisted this year to compete for academicianship in China’s top institute for engineering science and technology. Nineteen are included on the newly released candidate list for the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), including Hu Guoping, 48, principal researcher and co-founder of AI specialist…
Hong Kong’s ambition to create an artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem is bearing fruit, with more than 90 per cent of the city’s flagship supercomputing centre at Cyberport now in use, according to officials. The AI Supercomputing Centre, which began operations in December, is a cornerstone of the government’s strategy to foster a vibrant local AI…
Hong Kong’s ambition to create an artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem is bearing fruit, with more than 90 per cent of the city’s flagship supercomputing centre at Cyberport now in use, according to officials. The AI Supercomputing Centre, which began operations in December, is a cornerstone of the government’s strategy to foster a vibrant local AI…
Chinese voice recognition giant iFlytek has launched a series of artificial intelligence (AI) products in Hong Kong, where its new international headquarters will support its global expansion, as the firm doubles down on a commitment to home-grown computing infrastructure amid tightened US chip restrictions. iFlytek is making an upgraded international version of its Spark medical…
Hong Kong is an attractive regional hub for mainland Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups looking for a bridgehead to expand into overseas markets, according to company executives at a technology-themed event on Wednesday. CloudWalk Technology, a Guangzhou-based AI company that started in 2015 as a vendor of facial recognition software, was looking into establishing an…
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…
Several overseas and mainland Chinese technology companies set to open offices in Hong Kong have dismissed concerns the local economy could suffer under a second Trump presidency, saying they are confident about growth. Seventeen more companies signed deals with the Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises on Monday to establish a presence in Hong Kong, taking…