Rokid, the Hangzhou-based augmented reality startup that has staked its identity on putting a display screen in front of users’ eyes, is facing a public relations crisis that strikes at the heart of that very proposition.
China’s top data authority has unveiled a sweeping nationwide plan to build high-quality datasets for artificial intelligence training, as developers worldwide grapple with a looming shortage of human-generated text that has powered the current generation of large language models.
The global race to achieve recursive self-improvement (RSI) in artificial intelligence, the theoretical point where an AI system can autonomously improve its own code and capabilities, is intensifying in China, spurred by recent claims from US-based Anthropic that its frontier model is nearing this critical threshold.
Chinese regulators are stepping up public enforcement against the country’s corporate giants, marking a departure from the deliberately low-key approach adopted in the years following the bruising 2021 tech crackdown.
Despite pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence infrastructure and development, China’s AI boom is failing to deliver the broad economic lift that policymakers had hoped for, prompting analysts to question the structural bottlenecks hindering the technology’s impact.
ByteDance is spinning out its artificial intelligence drug discovery unit into an independent entity, marking the tech giant’s first major attempt to commercialize its “AI for Science” (AI4S) research.
The release of Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Fable 5, has ignited a fierce debate within China’s AI community, as strict new safeguards embedded in the model effectively block Chinese developers from using it to accelerate their own research.
MetaX, a prominent Chinese developer of graphics processing units (GPUs), has announced plans to pursue a secondary listing in Hong Kong, seeking fresh capital to accelerate its development of artificial intelligence chips amid tightening United States export controls.
In a strategic bid to circumvent tightening United States export controls and address the escalating energy demands of artificial intelligence, China has inaugurated a new research facility dedicated to developing light-powered computing chips.
Huawei Technologies has escalated the mobile operating system wars with the launch of HarmonyOS 7, a major update that deeply integrates artificial intelligence into the core of its device ecosystem.
