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Kai-fu Lee: Why American Companies Struggle in China

Kai-fu Lee, chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, spoke at the Davos World Economic Forum on the development of China, European and American venture capital and technology companies.

Alibaba Cloud ET City Brain Help Malaysia to Ease Traffic

Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) announced plans to introduce Alibaba Cloud ET City Brain. Artificial intelligence will be fully applied to the Malaysia transportation management, urban planning, environmental protection and other fields. In the first phase, AI will be applied to 281 road crossings in Kuala Lumpur.

Alibaba’s Wang Jian: Mayors in the Machine Intelligence Era will not be Human

Wang Jian, Alibaba‘s technical committee chairman, spoke at the Global Emerging Technology Summit sponsored by the MIT Technology Review and DeepTech in Beijing on January 28.

Didi Sets Up AI Labs to Upgrade Smart Transportation

In the age of artificial intelligence, a new war in ride-hailing services is beginning.

Robin Li: Day for Baidu Comes, Negotiations Begin with Facebook

How does Robin Li view the past year? Baidu‘s founder, chairman and CEO gave a detailed answer at the Geek Park Innovation Conference 2018.

Microsoft AI, Alibaba AI Outscore Humans in Reading Comprehension

AI has defeated humans in chess and poker, and now it has come to dominate another field: reading comprehension.

Pony Ma: Chinese Criminal Gangs Lead the World in Data Theft Through AI

Chairman and CEO of Tencent Pony Ma said at the 2018 Guardian Plan Conference that China’s criminal gangs lead the world, and AI technology has accelerated their ability to steal user data from corporate databases. New types of cybercrime are developing features of industrialization, intelligence and internationalization.

CES2018: Microsoft, Xiaomi Unveil World’s First Dual AI Voice Assistant

Yeelight voice assistant debuted at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in the US. Amazon Alexa has opened up the market for voice assistants, and Xiaomi and Microsoft Xiaoice designed Yeelight to fill the gap. Yeelight voice assistant is the world’s first smart device with a dual AI voice assistants, allowing you to “bring two girls […]

Toutiao Ordered to Suspend Multiple Channels from Updating for 24 Hours

Guided by the China Internet Network Information Office, the Beijing Internet Network Information Office ordered executives at Toutiao and Ifeng News to cease spreading “pornographic and vulgar information, and illegally providing Internet information services” on December 29.

Baidu and Huawei Reached Strategic Cooperation

Baidu and Huawei announced strategic cooperation in artificial intelligence on December 21. Baidu voice, visual recognition and other artificial intelligence technologies will be used in Huawei phones. In addition, Baidu‘s content ecology will also conduct in-depth cooperation with Huawei mobile phones.

Can Xiaomi Support its US $100B Valuation?

Xiaomi may be the most shining Internet company of 2017. Relying on Mi MIX 2 and eco-chain, the brand has won back fans and cultivated a good reputation. Xiaomi‘s mobile phone sales are back in the world’s Top 5 and it met a sales target of hundreds of billions yuan two months ahead of schedule. […]

Tencent Security Team: Google AI Learning System Has Major Security Holes

Tensor Flow, Google AI learning system, had significant security flaws. When using this system to edit the AI scenarios, it is likely to suffer malware attacks, according to Tencent’s Blade Team, the company’s security platform department.

Google Puts Female Scientists in Charge of New AI China Center in Beijing

Fei-fei Li, chief scientist of Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence and machine learning team, announced the Google AI China Center was established in Beijing at a Google Developer Day event in Shanghai. Li and her student Jia Li, head of research and development at Google Cloud, will lead the center and be responsible for its research, […]

JD.com to Invest 10 Billion Yuan in Changsha’s Driverless Car

China (Changsha) Intelligent Manufacturing Summit witnessed the signings of 14 major project contracts with a total investment of 34.3 billon yuan, on December 6. Among the investments was 10 billion yuan from JD.com for the Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone.

Robin Li: AI to Drive Growth as China’s Netizen Boom Hit Plateau

“The growth rate of Internet users in China exceeded more than 50 percent a decade ago, but today it’s down to 6 percent,” Robin Li, chairman and CEO of Baidu, said at the Wuzhen Summit. Over the past four years, China’s population of Internet users has grown at a slower pace than its GDP.

Jack Ma: Embrace Technology to Solve Problems Instead of Fearing Machines

Humans understood less than 10 percent of their own brains, and it will be a long time before machines can surpass man. That was Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma’s message at the opening of the 4th World Internet Conference on December 3.

Zhang Yiming: AI is at the Early Stages from Laboratory to Large-Scale Commercialization

On December 1, at the A.IDEAS Forum, Toutiao announced the establishment of the Bytedance Strategic Technology Committee. Its first members included professor John E. Hopcroft, a Turing Award winner, Gao Wen, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as well as Zhang Ba, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

AI Art on the Horizon as Computers Learn Culture, Tencent Forecasts

The Palace Museum and Tencent held a “Culture and Technology” International Forum at the Imperial Palace on November 28. Tencent COO Mark Ren spoke at the opening ceremony, saying that Tencent would focus on bridging science and culture to empower its partners and contribute to the rejuvenation of Chinese civilization.

Xiaomi Launches IoT Developer Program, Announced Cooperation with Baidu on AI

Xiaomi announced the launch of its IoT Developer Program and opened it on the morning of November 28. At the same time, Xiaomi reach cooperation with Baidu, and the two sides will jointly build the IoT+AI ecosystem.

Google Confirms Intent to Establish AI Team in China

Google is not sitting idle while China’s IT giants increase their investments in the AI sector. At the media event held in Tokyo, Jeff Dean, the director of Google Brain, said the company is establishing its AI team in China, and is mainly recruiting in Beijing and Shanghai.

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