Investors’ ongoing excitement around building and adopting artificial intelligence has fuelled the recovery of venture-capital funding in the world’s largest economy.

Apple will get an observer role on OpenAI’s board as part of a landmark agreement announced last month, further tightening ties between the once-unlikely partners.

With standards in place, AI is expected to ‘profoundly change industrial production and economic-development patterns’ in the country, according to the draft policy.

Tencent said its focus on speeding up network communications to access idling GPU capacity resulted in a 20 per cent improvement in LLM training.

Macallan, Geodis, Biren Technology and Uisee are among the 322 companies that set up or enhanced their businesses in Hong Kong in the first half, a 43 per cent year on year jump, InvestHK says.

Google’s update earlier this year to get rid of low-quality content has caused massive drops in traffic at various online businesses.

The French watchdog cited risk of abuse by chip providers in a recent report on competition in generative AI.

Matrix Partners China has become MPC, while its India unit is now Z47, reflecting similar moves by other firms to distance themselves from foreign investments.

The non-binding resolution seeks AI development in a ‘free, open, inclusive and nondiscriminatory’ environment between wealthy and developing nations.

Shuttering the 10-year-old online education platform with more than 400 million users shows Tencent’s focus on its cost-cutting strategy.

Huawei’s high-bandwidth memory initiative reflects the growing global market for these chips, which are indispensable components in the computing infrastructure used for artificial intelligence projects.

Parents in China who are eager to see what their offspring will look like before they are born have turned to affordable artificial intelligence services to help them find out.

Beijing Zuojiang Technology, which once touted its potential to rival Nvidia, will be delisted later this month from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

European economist Rolf Strauch touches on climate change, demographic, geoeconomic fragmentation and financial challenges for the global economy.

A young Chinese woman was so concerned about how her cancer treatment would affect her 86-year-old grandmother that she used the latest technology to disguise her symptoms when on WeChat.

Zhihu has joined the ranks of Chinese technology companies that have enhanced their online services via the power of generative artificial intelligence.

FCM Travel Greater China plans to invest in its artificial intelligence capabilities and give its staff the skills they need to get the most out of the technology as China’s outbound travel market enjoys a resurgence.

Health-centric technologies are being used to make self-care ‘a cornerstone of modern living spaces’ – think smart mattresses, and interactive art that can ‘transform you based on your movement, heartbeat or mood’.

Alibaba Cloud’s updated infrastructure strategy prioritises expansion in Southeast Asia and Mexico.

The internet search giant met with Shandong Heavy Industry Group to discuss using its autonomous driving tech in trucking, considered a better business opportunity than robotaxis.

The partnerships with 11 firms in sectors ranging from AI to new energy vehicles will help the city’s efforts to become an innovation and technology hub, minister says.

Generative AI tools such as Midjourney and Dall-E have triggered a ‘complete rejection’ of the tech in the European comic-book industry, according to an executive at Tintin publisher Le Lombard.

The Google tool can now translate between Cantonese and 242 other languages by text or voice inputs.

The HKIC will use its initial corpus of HK$62 billion (US$8 billion) to support innovative start-ups, enhance economic growth and generate returns for the government.

Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen family of AI models have already been adopted by more than 90,000 corporate clients.