Zhou Hongyi, the founder of Chinese internet security firm 360 Security Technology, which has joined China’s race to launch its own ChatGPT-style large language model, said the introduction of Sora was like a “barrel of cold water poured down China’s head”, Chinese media Yicai reported on Friday. “It cools down the heads of many people, …
Chinese authorities have reiterated the need for technological breakthroughs in a range of hi-tech areas, including graphics processing units (GPUs), quantum computing, humanoid robots and brain-computer interfaces, in Beijing’s latest effort to seek control of “the industries of the future”. A document issued on Monday by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry …
LLMs are deep-learning AI algorithms that can recognise, summarise, translate, predict and generate content using very large data sets. While the arrival of ChatGPT has spurred a frenzy among Chinese tech companies to develop domestic rivals, from Baidu’s Ernie Bot to Alibaba Group Holding’s LLM Tongyi Qianwen, the field is still led by US companies, …