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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Ant Group’s tech unit picks Hong Kong for global headquarters amid AI, Web3 push

Ant Group’s tech unit picks Hong Kong for global headquarters amid AI, Web3 push

Ant Digital Technologies, the technology arm of Ant Group, has chosen Hong Kong for its international headquarters in a show of commitment to artificial intelligence (AI) and Web3 technologies, the unit announced on Tuesday. The subsidiary cited Hong Kong’s role as a “bridgehead” for its global strategy. The company plans to establish joint laboratories with…

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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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