Generative AI product user base in China reaches 230 mln
4 months ago

Generative AI product user base in China reaches 230 mln

China Daily  

A participant visits the exhibition booth of China Mobile at the 2024 Artificial Intelligence for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, May 30, 2024. BEIJING -- The user base of generative artificial intelligence products in China had reached 230 million by June 2024, highlighting the country's widespread adoption of generative AI-driven upgrades across various industries, a report released Saturday stated. China has built a relatively comprehensive AI industry ecosystem, with over 4,500 related companies in the sector, according to a report on the development of generative AI released by the China Internet Network Information Center. As of July 2024, more than 190 generative AI models had been registered and live online, offering users a diverse range of options and tailored experiences, said the report. A key reform resolution adopted at the third plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee in July 2024 also noted that the country will improve mechanisms for developing and managing generative AI.

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China floods the world with new low-cost AI models after DeepSeek’s success, undercutting OpenAI, Google, and others
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5 days, 19 hours ago

China floods the world with new low-cost AI models after DeepSeek’s success, undercutting OpenAI, Google, and others

Hindustan Times  

DeepSeek did more than just show the AI industry you don’t have to spend billions to build artificial intelligence. Since DeepSeek upstaged OpenAI in January with a powerful model that purportedly cost just several million dollars to build, China’s tech leaders have flooded the market with a rapid succession of low-cost AI services, undercutting premium offerings from the likes of …

Beijing AI academy slams inclusion on US Entity List
6 days, 6 hours ago

Beijing AI academy slams inclusion on US Entity List

China Daily  

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a Chinese non-profit AI institution, strongly condemned its inclusion on the US Entity List, calling the decision unjustified and urging Washington to reverse the move. The step came as the US Commerce Department's bureau of industry and security added BAAI to the so-called entity list, imposing trade restrictions that could limit its access to US …

TCS, Infosys hop onto Adobe’s new platform to sell AI services to clients
1 week ago

TCS, Infosys hop onto Adobe’s new platform to sell AI services to clients

Live Mint  

LAS VEGAS : India’s largest software services firms, which have lagged their global peer Accenture PLC in selling generative artificial intelligence -based services to clients, are piggybacking on software maker Adobe Inc's platform to win more clients incorporating AI into their businesses. “With agentic AI automation, we are seeing significant interest from companies to adopt TCS’ AI offerings, in which …

AI seen as key to high-quality growth
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1 week ago

AI seen as key to high-quality growth

China Daily  

China's emphasis on advancing the application of fast-evolving artificial intelligence technology in a wide range of industries will inject new momentum into the country's high-quality economic growth and create enormous opportunities for multinational corporations to invest in the country, said government officials and business executives. "For businesses in China looking to boost their productivity and maintain competitiveness, technologies led by …

AI seen as key to high-quality growth
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1 week ago

AI seen as key to high-quality growth

China Daily  

China's emphasis on advancing the application of fast-evolving artificial intelligence technology in a wide range of industries will inject new momentum into the country's high-quality economic growth and create enormous opportunities for multinational corporations to invest in the country, said government officials and business executives. "For businesses in China looking to boost their productivity and maintain competitiveness, technologies led by …

Meitu drawing bigger global picture with generative AI
1 week, 4 days ago

Meitu drawing bigger global picture with generative AI

China Daily  

By FAN FEIFEI | China Daily | Updated: 2025-03-21 09:41 Meitu's booth is seen during a tech fair in Fuzhou, Fujian province. CHEN HAO/FOR CHINA DAILY Meitu Inc, a Chinese tech company known for its popular image-editing app and content-sharing software, is ramping up efforts to make forays into overseas markets while doubling down on generative AI technology to improve …

Tariffs only accelerate China's self-reliance in high-tech sector
1 week, 5 days ago

Tariffs only accelerate China's self-reliance in high-tech sector

China Daily  

Cai Meng/China Daily In a perilous move to reshape international trade dynamics, the US administration has escalated tariffs on Chinese imports from 10 percent to 20 percent as of March 4, intensifying economic tensions between the world's two largest economies. For instance, in the semiconductor sector, the US Department of Commerce added 140 Chinese entities to its export control list, …

China transforming into innovation powerhouse
2 weeks, 1 day ago

China transforming into innovation powerhouse

China Daily  

People discuss a quantum computer exhibited at Zhongguancun Exhibition Center in Beijing on April 28. As the nurturing of new quality productive forces gains traction in China, "In the future, we may see more similar patterns in industries such as healthcare, new materials and AI, and these efforts will provide big opportunities for foreign companies," Depoux added. Ma said that …

Man vs Machine | The age of the AI agents
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Man vs Machine | The age of the AI agents

India Today  

The disruption that DeepSeek’s emergence has caused in the field of Generative Artificial Intelligence has re-energised the discussion on ‘Sovereign AI’. The term broadly refers to a nation’s ability to create its own AI infrastructure, including foundational large language models such as DeepSeek-R1, developed by a Chinese startup at a much lower cost than OpenAI’s industry-leading GPT-4the building blocks of …

Mint Primer: AI power shift: Can China close the gap with the US?
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Mint Primer: AI power shift: Can China close the gap with the US?

Live Mint  

If Chinese AI lab Deepseek shook the industry with its open-source, budget-friendly reasoning model earlier this year, another Chinese startup, Monica, is impressing many with its new general-purpose AI agentic model, Manus. Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek disrupted AI with its low-cost reasoning R1 model this year, prompting OpenAI to respond with o3 mini and GPT-4.5. Now, another Chinese startup …

Cost of intelligence: Can AI sustain itself?
3 weeks ago

Cost of intelligence: Can AI sustain itself?

New Indian Express  

Artificial intelligence firms are grappling with significant financial challenges despite rapid growth. With projected losses of $5 billion in 2024 against revenues of $3.7 billion, the company is struggling to sustain the high costs of running advanced AI models while maintaining user accessibility. This highlights a broader issue in the AI industry: balancing innovation, scalability and profitability in a sector …

AI success signals new tech shift among startups
3 weeks ago

AI success signals new tech shift among startups

China Daily  

Fan Feifei As a technology industry reporter for over a decade, I have been closely monitoring the latest developments and trends in the fast-changing tech sector. They told me that the meteoric rise of DeepSeek has showcased China's immense potential in bolstering technological innovation, signaling a profound shift in the global AI landscape. Zhou Hongyi, a member of the 14th …

China says it will increase support for AI, science and tech innovation
3 weeks, 6 days ago

China says it will increase support for AI, science and tech innovation

The Hindu  

China said on Wednesday it would boost support for the application of artificial intelligence models and the development of venture capital investment, in a bid to foster more technology breakthroughs and become more self-reliant. The country wants to foster "industries of the future" including biomanufacturing, quantum technology, embodied AI and 6G technology, the report said. To do so, China plans …

DeepSeek a wake-up call for global AI industry
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1 month, 1 week ago

DeepSeek a wake-up call for global AI industry

China Daily  

The DeepSeek logo is seen in this illustration taken Jan 27, 2025. Compare that to the over $100 million routinely spent by the leading US companies, and the implications become clear: China is not just building AI capability, rather it is doing it in a smarter way. For too long, the conversation around China's AI progress has been framed in …

AI trends transforming industrial development
1 month, 1 week ago

AI trends transforming industrial development

China Daily  

By Shao Xinying | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2025-02-25 10:33 The DeepSeek app is seen in this illustration taken on Jan 29, 2025. In just one month, every link in the AI industry chain — from hardware suppliers to software developers to end users — has rapidly shifted, leading to far-reaching industrial transformation, with domestic tech companies such as Alibaba and …

Chinese AI companies celebrate DeepSeek, shrug off global curbs
1 month, 1 week ago

Chinese AI companies celebrate DeepSeek, shrug off global curbs

Raw Story  

by Jing Xuan TENG Chinese tech companies shrugged off foreign scrutiny of upstart chatbot maker DeepSeek, telling AFP on Friday they were confident the country's tech startups would make more gains in the global artificial intelligence race. "In the past few years, China has faced all sorts of restrictions from the U.S.," Sun Dasheng, an employee of AI server maker …

China’s Alibaba sees revenue surge on back of artificial intelligence, e-commerce
1 month, 1 week ago

China’s Alibaba sees revenue surge on back of artificial intelligence, e-commerce

Associated Press  

HONG KONG — Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding posted its fastest revenue growth in more than a year, beating analyst expectations as it capitalizes on the artificial intelligence boom in China. In an earnings call, Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu said that Alibaba plans to “aggressively invest” in artificial intelligence and cloud computing infrastructure in the coming three years, with …

No time for domestic AI to rest on laurels
1 month, 2 weeks ago

No time for domestic AI to rest on laurels

China Daily  

Robin Li, co-founder and CEO of Baidu, speaks during a session at the World Governments Summit 2025 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday. AMR ALFIKY/REUTERS Continued investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure is still very much required despite Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's open-source model challenging the cost efficiency of peers' large language models, said Robin Li, co-founder and CEO …

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment

China Daily  

Artificial intelligence-aided robots sort products at a logistics center of a garment company in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. The report said that 87 percent of the surveyed Chinese companies plan to ramp up AI investment in 2025 — a year of rapid change — while 58 percent of the interviewed business executives in China feel that their enterprises' AI …

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment

China Daily  

Artificial intelligence-aided robots sort products at a logistics center of a garment company in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. NI LIFANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Chinese companies are accelerating the adoption of generative artificial intelligence, as the cutting-edge disruptive technology presents a significant opportunity for enterprises to boost operational efficiency, remain competitive and navigate the complex business landscape, according to a new …

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment

China Daily  

By Fan Feifei | China Daily | Updated: 2025-02-07 07:37 Artificial intelligence-aided robots sort products at a logistics center of a garment company in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. NI LIFANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Chinese companies are accelerating the adoption of generative artificial intelligence, as the cutting-edge disruptive technology presents a significant opportunity for enterprises to boost operational efficiency, remain competitive …

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment

China Daily  

By Fan Feifei | China Daily | Updated: 2025-02-07 07:37 Artificial intelligence-aided robots sort products at a logistics center of a garment company in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. NI LIFANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Chinese companies are accelerating the adoption of generative artificial intelligence, as the cutting-edge disruptive technology presents a significant opportunity for enterprises to boost operational efficiency, remain competitive …

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment

China Daily  

Artificial intelligence-aided robots sort products at a logistics center of a garment company in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. NI LIFANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Chinese companies are accelerating the adoption of generative artificial intelligence, as the cutting-edge disruptive technology presents a significant opportunity for enterprises to boost operational efficiency, remain competitive and navigate the complex business landscape, according to a new …

OpenAI CEO calls India potential AI leader, sees 10x dip in key AI module cost in a year
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

OpenAI CEO calls India potential AI leader, sees 10x dip in key AI module cost in a year

Live Mint  

New Delhi, Feb 5 Two years after his dismissive stance on India's AI potential raised eyebrows here, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday gave a ringing endorsement to Artificial Intelligence momentum in the country -- and billed India as an important market not just for the new-age technology itself but for the ChatGPT creator as well. In New Delhi on …

India and U.S. lead Coursera enrolments for Gen AI courses
1 month, 4 weeks ago

India and U.S. lead Coursera enrolments for Gen AI courses

The Hindu  

The demand for generative AI training has grown significantly among learners and enterprises, according to Coursera data, highlighted in the Future of Jobs Report 2025. The survey reveals that among nine transformative technologies, AI and information processing technologies are expected to have the most significant impact on businesses by 2030, with 86% of employers identifying them as likely to drive …

It’s time for AI to come home
1 month, 4 weeks ago

It’s time for AI to come home

Live Mint  

Put aside the claims that can’t be confirmed. Outside China’s government-run industrial policy, a young hedge-fund guy using his own money reproduced a highly competitive AI chatbot with genuine innovations to reduce costs and improve performance. Liang Wenfeng’s project, which he partly revealed in an open-source release, rattled global markets this week but also confirmed the direction Western tech leaders …

Made-in India AI soon? Ashwini Vaishnaw says 6 major models expected by year-end as China’s DeepSeek makes global waves
2 months ago

Made-in India AI soon? Ashwini Vaishnaw says 6 major models expected by year-end as China’s DeepSeek makes global waves

Live Mint  

India is stepping up its game in artificial intelligence, with the government pushing an ambitious plan to develop homegrown AI models within the next ten months. “The AI models built in India will be world-class, capable of competing with the best out there,” Vaishnaw said, highlighting the country’s ambition to catching up with global AI leaders. Companies like homegrown E2E …

Now, Alibaba claims its AI model has beaten OpenAI, DeepSeek, second Chinese AI model in a week to do so
2 months ago

Now, Alibaba claims its AI model has beaten OpenAI, DeepSeek, second Chinese AI model in a week to do so

Firstpost  

China’s growing influence in AI is evident as companies like DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI are challenging the traditional dominance of US tech giants Chinese tech giant Alibaba has unveiled its Qwen 2.5-Max AI model, boldly claiming it has surpassed DeepSeek’s well-regarded DeepSeek-V3 model. ByteDance, for instance, updated its flagship AI model shortly after DeepSeek’s R1 release, claiming it outperformed …

DeepSeek effect: India should build cheaper AI models
2 months ago

DeepSeek effect: India should build cheaper AI models

New Indian Express  

This shows that countries, especially India, need not depend on advanced hardware and that this R1 model drives home the importance of innovation. The fact that they created this platform with under $6 million investments has shaken the tech CEOs globally highlighting that game changing innovations don’t necessarily need billion-dollar investments, he added. Narendra Bhandari, General Partner, Seafund, a deeptech …

DeepSeek has rattled the AI industry. Here's a quick look at other Chinese AI models
2 months ago

DeepSeek has rattled the AI industry. Here's a quick look at other Chinese AI models

Hindustan Times  

HONG KONG — The Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has rattled markets with claims that its latest AI model, R1, performs on a par with those of OpenAI, despite using less advanced computer chips and consuming less energy. Here's a quick look at other Chinese AI models DeepSeek’s emergence has raised concerns that China may have overtaken the U.S. in …

China's DeepSeek suggests AI can be done cheap. The fallout could be costly
2 months ago

China's DeepSeek suggests AI can be done cheap. The fallout could be costly

ABC  

From market darling to the biggest value destructor in history Investors in computer chip company Nvidia have seen nearly a trillion US dollars of value wiped out in a day — the worst-ever result for a single company in absolute terms. And yet, here is a Chinese company, founded in 2023, seemingly without access to America's best chips, creating a …

Report: Millions using generative AI software
2 months, 1 week ago

Report: Millions using generative AI software

China Daily  

China is experiencing a surge in generative artificial intelligence usage, with millions embracing the technology and its applications expanding across various fields, according to a report by the China Internet Network Information Center. As of December last year, 249 million people in the country had used AI-generated products, and 302 AI-powered services were registered with the Cyberspace Administration of China, …

Report: Millions using generative AI software
2 months, 1 week ago

Report: Millions using generative AI software

China Daily  

China is experiencing a surge in generative artificial intelligence usage, with millions embracing the technology and its applications expanding across various fields, according to a report by the China Internet Network Information Center. As of December last year, 249 million people in the country had used AI-generated products, and 302 AI-powered services were registered with the Cyberspace Administration of China, …

Overall scale of China's manufacturing industry tops world for 15 consecutive years
2 months, 1 week ago

Overall scale of China's manufacturing industry tops world for 15 consecutive years

China Daily  

An automated production line at the CITIC Dicastal Morocco plant, Africa's first Lighthouse Factory. BEIJING -- China's manufacturing industry has maintained the top position in the world in terms of overall scale for 15 consecutive years in 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Tuesday. In 2024, China's total value-added industrial output reached 40.5 trillion yuan. The industrial …

Five artificial intelligence trends to track in 2025
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Five artificial intelligence trends to track in 2025

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: Notwithstanding some of last year’s tech disappointments, including the metaverse and Generative AI, which fell short on scalability and returns, tech innovation continues at a scorching pace. View Full Image A file photo of Geoffrey Hinton Proponents highlight AI’s benefits such as its contributions to areas like driverless cars, satellite technology, chatbots, and disaster forecasting. Additionally, the IndiaAI Innovation …

China's marketing expenses set to grow while AI showing great potential
2 months, 4 weeks ago

China's marketing expenses set to grow while AI showing great potential

China Daily  

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2025-01-02 17:31 According to the 2025 China Digital Marketing Trend Report, marketing expenses will continue to grow in China in 2025, though at a lower annual growth rate. Mobile and outdoor marketing remains the focus of increased investment, and AI marketing shows great growth potential, according to the report released by Miaozhen Systems, a Beijing-based marketing research …

Companies expected to increase Gen AI investments by half this year
3 months ago

Companies expected to increase Gen AI investments by half this year

Live Mint  

Companies worldwide are expected to spend 50% more on adopting generative AI technologies in 2025 compared to last year, according to a report from an American technology research and IT advisory firm. Last year, seven IT services firms, including Accenture Plc., Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., and Capgemini SE, flagged the rise of AI and GenAI tools as a risk factor …

Beyond the hype: How India can be an AI powerhouse
3 months ago

Beyond the hype: How India can be an AI powerhouse

New Indian Express  

It’s been two years since the term ‘generative AI’ started gaining widespread attention. Although it wasn’t new—it appeared on Gartner’s ‘hype cycle’ as early as 2020—by the end of summer 2022, excitement was mounting around genAI tools capable of generating text, images and computer code. In 2013, the M D Anderson Cancer Center at University of Texas launched a moonshot …

Country heads charge for AI competitive edge
3 months ago

Country heads charge for AI competitive edge

China Daily  

By FAN FEIFEI | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2024-12-30 07:54 LI MIN/CHINA DAILY As the latest tech frontier, the fast development of artificial intelligence is poised to play a pivotal role in driving China's industrial upgrade, experts and business leaders said. "Chinese tech companies' continuous technological advancements in LLMs will further promote the popularization of AI models, and bring fresh …

Country heads charge for AI competitive edge
3 months ago

Country heads charge for AI competitive edge

China Daily  

By FAN FEIFEI | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2024-12-30 07:54 LI MIN/CHINA DAILY As the latest tech frontier, the fast development of artificial intelligence is poised to play a pivotal role in driving China's industrial upgrade, experts and business leaders said. "Chinese tech companies' continuous technological advancements in LLMs will further promote the popularization of AI models, and bring fresh …

Generative AI, data centres to define India’s tech industries in 2025
3 months, 1 week ago

Generative AI, data centres to define India’s tech industries in 2025

Live Mint  

New Delhi: India’s technology sector is likely to see generative artificial intelligence and related data applications define client orders, financial growth and technical innovation in 2025. On 19 December, Accenture, the world’s largest technology services outsourcing and consultancy firm and a bellwether for India’s $300-billion IT services sector, disclosed $1.2 billion in net new generative AI deals with businesses worldwide. …

Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness
3 months, 1 week ago

Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness

Wired  

Generative AI took the world by storm in November 2022, with the release of OpenAI’s service ChatGPT. There is just one thing: Generative AI doesn’t actually work that well, and maybe it never will. Fundamentally, the engine of generative AI is fill-in-the-blanks, or what I like to call “autocomplete on steroids.” Such systems are great at predicting what might sound …

Chinese telecom operators undergoing transformation amid AI revolution
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese telecom operators undergoing transformation amid AI revolution

China Daily  

A participant visits the exhibition booth of China Mobile at the 2024 Artificial Intelligence for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, May 30, 2024. Chinese telecom operators are undergoing a transformation amid the AI revolution, reshaping customer service through artificial intelligence-driven innovations in public management, customer service and social service sectors, according to a report released on Wednesday by GSMA, …

US ahead in AI innovation, easily surpassing China in Stanford’s new ranking
4 months, 1 week ago

US ahead in AI innovation, easily surpassing China in Stanford’s new ranking

Associated Press  

The U.S. leads the world in developing artificial intelligence technology, surpassing China in research and other important measures of AI innovation, according to a newly released Stanford University index. “The gap is actually widening” between the U.S. and China, said computer scientist Ray Perrault, director of the steering committee that runs Stanford’s AI Index. “The U.S. is investing a lot …

A US Ban on Investing in Chinese AI Startups Could Escalate Under Trump
4 months, 1 week ago

A US Ban on Investing in Chinese AI Startups Could Escalate Under Trump

Wired  

Late last month, the US Treasury Department finalized new restrictions limiting what kinds of Chinese tech startups US venture capital firms can invest in for national security reasons. The first is companies developing tech designed exclusively for sensitive uses like China’s military and intelligence services, which investors will be prohibited from putting money into regardless of how advanced their AI …

AI applications driving enterprise productivity
4 months, 3 weeks ago

AI applications driving enterprise productivity

China Daily  

By Li Jiaying | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-11-06 14:46 Victor Tsao, vice-president of open-source solutions provider Red Hat and general manager of Red Hat Greater China, delivers a speech at the 2024 Red Hat Summit in Beijing. "We began applying small language models early on, particularly in production areas like machine vision," said Yang Jian, IT department manager at the …

Added value of China's patent-intensive industries over 15 trillion yuan
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Added value of China's patent-intensive industries over 15 trillion yuan

China Daily  

Added value of China's patent-intensive industries over 15 trillion yuan Xinhua Updated: Oct 18, 2024 The added value of China's patent-intensive industries in 2022 reached 15.32 trillion yuan. The added value of China's patent-intensive industries in 2022 reached 15.32 trillion yuan, contributing 12.7 percent to its GDP, according to a report released by the country's top intellectual property regulator. The …

Four young guns share secrets to successful startups
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Four young guns share secrets to successful startups

China Daily  

Gao Boting, founder of Shanghai Jobly AI. My research on TRNS therapy was at the cutting edge of brain science, which I believe has paved the way for my work in AI," said Gao. "Being in a burgeoning field, the competitive pressure is somewhat less intense since everyone is still in a stage of exploration and learning," said Gao. My …

Chinese market enthusiastic about emerging technologies
6 months ago

Chinese market enthusiastic about emerging technologies

China Daily  

Visitors check out Chinese tech company iFlytek's large language model during the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July. According to a recent Vodafone Business report, 65 percent of surveyed Chinese companies firmly believe that the application of new technologies can help them overcome business challenges, exhibiting a stronger confidence in emerging technologies compared with other markets in …

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