Ant Group’s new “vibe coding” artificial intelligence app LingGuang has overwhelmed servers after user downloads surpassed 1 million in just four days, hitting the milestone faster than OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora, according to the Chinese fintech giant. The app’s innovative functionality of generating applications in response to users’ text prompts was temporarily suspended on Thursday…
The US-China rivalry has long been cast as a contest between two superpowers, with one rising and the other defending its primacy. This competition has been largely measured in GDP growth, military spending and the number of aircraft carriers and alliances each side could marshal. The central criteria is “who holds power” or “who has…
Intuit announced Tuesday that it has struck a multiyear deal with OpenAI that will bring together Intuit’s lineup of financial apps—TurboTax, Credit Karma, Mailchimp, and QuickBooks—with ChatGPT to deliver personalized and actionable financial insights and recommendations. Intuit will pay ChatGPT maker OpenAI more than $100 million annually to implement its artificial intelligence models across its…
A US District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth has ruled that Elon Musk-owned X and xAI can move forward for now with their lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. On Thursday, the tech giants failed to convince the court to dismiss a lawsuit against them. Musk accused American firms of conspiring to monopolise markets for…
In a significant achievement, Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space venture, successfully launched its New Glenn rocket, sending NASA satellites towards Mars. The mission marked a milestone with the rocket’s reusable booster achieving a successful landing, placing Blue Origin in direct competition with industry leader SpaceX. Meanwhile, a legal tussle continues as Apple and OpenAI…
Chinese tech giant Baidu unveiled two artificial intelligence chips at its annual developer and client event on Thursday, underscoring the company’s ambition to play a pivotal role in the nation’s drive for technological self-sufficiency, alongside Huawei Technologies and other domestic players. Baidu introduced the M100, designed by its chip unit Kunlunxin Technology to significantly enhance…
The tech industry is moving fast and breaking things again — and this time it is humanity’s shared reality and control of our likeness before and after death — thanks to artificial intelligence image-generation platforms like OpenAI’s Sora 2. The typical Sora video, made on OpenAI’s app and spread onto TikTok, Instagram, X and Facebook,…
Beijing-based Moonshot AI, a start-up valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by Chinese tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, has presented another David-vs-Goliath story after creating an open-source model that “set new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities”. The new reasoning model, Kimi K2 Thinking, was the most…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reacted sharply to Sam Altman’s remarks about office productivity tools like Slack, saying that the ChatGPT-maker OpenAI will “compete directly with Microsoft”. Sam Altman, founder and CEO of OpenAI recently said that while there are many positives about Slack, it also creates a “lot of fake work”. In a now…
At OpenAI’s DevDay conference in early October, cofounder and CEO Sam Altman announced the addition of “apps” to ChatGPT—self-contained software programs that the large language model platform can invoke and use. One of the first such apps announced at the conference was Zillow, the industry-leading online real estate marketplace. To connect with Zillow on ChatGPT’s…