Hong Kong’s government is partnering with technology experts, professionals and educators to develop a highly intelligent AI platform tailored to the needs of the city’s schools, Secretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin has said. Choi told the Legislative Council on Wednesday that authorities were exploring launching a large language model (LLM) relating to the academic…
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest stories about AI developments in China this year. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough could alter China’s ‘national fate’ in US tech war DeepSeek, extolled by some as the “biggest dark horse” in the open-source large language…
When Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek unveiled an updated foundational model late in August, investors in Nvidia were stunned. Shares of the US chip giant slid, as market watchers grappled with news that the two-year-old start-up, which has developed models rivalling the world’s best, was shifting towards supporting domestically produced chips. Adding to their concerns,…
Beijing’s decision this week to ban Chinese companies from using microchips made by US firm Nvidia indicates the country is increasingly confident about replacing them with domestically produced chips, experts say. Experts believe that after years of research, China can now produce chips that could replace the H20, the most powerful model chip Nvidia is…
, the standard “text in, text out” paradigm will only take you so far. Real applications that deliver actual value should be able to examine visuals, reason through complex problems, and produce results that systems can actually use. In this post, we’ll design this stack by bringing together three powerful capabilities: multimodal input, reasoning, and…
Two new papers in Science Robotics, published on August 27 by UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg, argue that truly capable humanoid robots remain far further off than the most optimistic timelines suggest. While large language models (LLMs) surged into everyday use by training on vast internet text, Goldberg says robots can’t ride the same data…