When some of China’s leading entrepreneurs met Xi Jinping last week, state television showed only the back of their heads, and its 45-second clip included none of their words. But the meeting itself, the first of its kind for seven years, and the presence of Alibaba founder Jack Ma sent a powerful signal to the…
If you buy the hype about China’s new chatbot DeepSeek, building a top AI model might cost you a similar amount of time and money as your dream home, replete with a tennis court, swimming pool and water views — roughly two months hunting and $US5.5 million. Depending on the location, inventing a new AI…
Dow Jones & Co., parent of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, both owned by News Corp., has sued the Jeff Bezos-backed generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, the latest in a stream of lawsuits around artificial intelligence that have met with varying degrees of success. Perplexity “claims to provide its…