After launching its own chip, Alibaba buys Chinese AI chipmaker
After announcing its very own neural network chip, Alibaba has made another step towards strengthening its new AI chips business. The e-commerce giant …
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Alibaba is making its own neural network chip
Alibaba is developing its own neural network chip, the Ali-NPU, which will be used in AI applications, such as image video analysis, machine learning, …
OPPO launches new research institute to boost capability in 5G, AI, and image processing
OPPO announced today the launch of its new research institute according to local news media reports. The new OPPO research institute is headquartered i…
Beijing gives Baidu licenses to road test driverless cars
Beijing city authorities gave Baidu the first batch of licenses to conduct open road test for driverless vehicles. Chinese tech giant Baidu has been m…
Belt and Road, customer experience, IoT: Why China’s 8% tech market growth in 2018 isn’t just about tech companies
China’s tech sector saw huge developments in 2017, and spending on tech here is predicted to grow 8% in 2018. Here we look at some of the reasons why a…
Kai-Fu Lee leads Beijing’s new AI research center
Beijing city officials yesterday launched a new international artificial intelligence research center in Beijing. The center will be led by Kai-Fu Lee,…
6 shifts in China’s internet sector from 2017 into 2018: report
China is the largest internet market in the world. Many of its homegrown internet companies are increasingly dominating the global tech scene—not only …
Like a child teaching itself to recognize dangerous animals: Machine learning and fraud prevention
Describing how his company's fraud prediction system is like an unaccompanied child visiting a zoo, is when Wally Wang becomes the most animated... and…
Toutiao reveals logic behind its algorithms, shows they are serious about filtering “unsavory” content
News aggregation platform Jinri Toutiao held a meeting with engineers from other internet companies yesterday to disclose how Toutiao derived its algor…
How a Taiwan-based AIoT startup is taking on the next big wave
We are entering the era of intelligent things where smart devices seep into every aspect of our lives. As AI continues to evolve and IoT devices prolif…
Explainer: Why Taiwan is down but not out in the global AI race
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our businesses, industries and the global economy at large. As other countries swarm to seize emerging opp…
Toutiao hiring Party members to comb content, number of censors to reach 10,000
No rest for the wicked (or the lustful) in the Middle Kingdom. News aggregation platform Jinri Toutiao is hiring 2000 content review editors to comb it…