Amazon.com is adding artificial intelligence visionary Andrew Ng to its board of directors, a move that comes amid intense AI competition among start-ups and big technology companies. The Seattle company said Thursday that Ng, a managing director at the Palo Alto, California-based AI Fund, will replace a seat vacated by Judy McGrath, a former CEO …
Apple has been recently making headlines for holding talks with companies like Google and OpenAI to use their AI services in its devices. Recently, the company also invested in several AI startups for iOS 18. Now, Apple is reported to have partnered with a Chinese tech giant company named Baidu to take advantage of their …
As Apple prepares to announce its AI plans for the iPhone, a potential partnership with Google looks set to be bolstered by a similar deal with China’s Baidu. Apple CEO Tim Cook looks at a new iPhone (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images With every flagship Android handset launch promoting generative AI, Apple’s iPhone …
Topping the latest table of achievements was an artificial intelligence model from tech giant Huawei that can forecast the weather – including temperature, humidity and wind speed – more accurately than traditional predictions based on computing power. The model, named Pangu-Weather, was trained on decades of observation data and is able to predict the weather …
The head of China’s economic planning body made a tour of artificial intelligence firms and research institutes in the run-up to the annual meeting of the national legislature and top political advisory body, where technological development is expected to be high on the agenda. Zheng Shanjie, chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, “encouraged …
The Ascend 910B is believed to succeed the Ascend 910, which was released by Huawei in August 2019, three months after it was put on a trade blacklist by the US Commerce Department. The chip can compete with Nvidia’s A100 in terms of powering AI algorithms, according to Dylan Patel, chief analyst at San Francisco-based …
(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is rolling out its second major price cut for cloud services in years, aiming to win back users from rivals like Tencent Holdings Ltd. competing to provide the tools critical to training artificial intelligence. Most Read from Bloomberg The Chinese internet pioneer will slash prices starting Thursday on scores …
(Bloomberg) — Baidu Inc.’s revenue rose 6% after its ChatGPT-style service began to augment advertising sales, helping the Chinese AI leader weather a severe economic downturn. Most Read from Bloomberg The company reported sales of nearly 35 billion yuan ($4.9 billion) for the three months ended December, broadly in line with analysts’ projections. Net income …
Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Baidu have pulled out of the quantum computing race after shutting down their research units just over a month apart from each other. But experts say it would be premature to read this any marked cooling of China’s overall interest in quantum computing. Last November, the e-commerce and cloud computing …
Cambricon Technologies, a company ambitiously striving to become China’s Nvidia and once hailed as the pioneer of artificial intelligence (AI) chip development in the country, is anticipating a net loss ranging from 756 million to 924 million yuan for 2023. This marks the seventh consecutive year of losses for the company. After undergoing multiple rounds …