On March 8, Wang Xing, CEO of Meituan, revealed that he would participate in the A round financing of Wang Huiwen's AI startup and serve as a director. Wang Huiwen retired as senior vice-president of the Chinese food delivery company in 2020.
Li Yan, former head of multimedia understanding at Chinese short video platform Kuaishou, has gone on to establish Yuanshi Technology, an AI company which is mainly engaged in the research and development of multimodal large models.
Within the last ten days on two different occasions, the Chinese Minister of Science and Technology, Wang Zhigang, has twice mentioned the smart chat tool ChatGPT, confirming its importance.
A team from the School of Computer Science at Fudan University in China has released their own ChatGPT-like model, MOSS. They compared MOSS to a "smart child" that has shown the potential to become a framework of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Easou Technology, a digital reading business headquartered in Shenzhen, recently submitted an application for listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with BOC International as the exclusive sponsor.
Tencent has set up a project team named "HunyuanAide" for developing ChatGPT-like conversational products. At present, the team has at least 7 team leaders and 7 sponsors.
The call to develop the Chinese version of ChatGPT has resulted in urgent and fierce competition between Chinese tech giants for top AI talent. Zhou Bowen, former chairman of the JD.com's technical committee, lately published a post to recruit R&D and algorithm scientists.
Private tutoring businesses in China are exploring new growth avenues since the introduction of the "Double Reduction" policy. With the rising popularity of ChatGPT, they have started to incorporate AI into its training products.
Regulators in Beijing reportedly have pressured major Chinese tech companies to withhold ChatGPT services to the public. The disallowance of OpenAI's chatbot may propel the rise of China's own AI chatbots to the technological forefront in the country.
In the large language model R&D craze brought to the mainstream by ChatGPT, tech giants and entrepreneurs in China declared their intention. TikTok parent company ByteDance is also one of the players in the promising field.
Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, a Chinese tech giant that is planning to launch a new generation of its large language model Ernie Bot in March, issued an internal letter on February 22 to further introduce the ChatGPT-style chatbot and the development of AI technology.
Danny Lan, founder of West Lake Xinchen, an AI service enterprise in China, denied rumors that the company was considering acquisition by Wang Huiwen, one of the first entrepreneurs to aim at creating the Chinese version of OpenAI.
Xiaoice Company, Microsoft’s independent R&D team of AI products based in China, started the internal testing of its ChatGPT-like application "X-CoTA" on February 21.
On February 20, China's C9 League member Fudan University released MOSS, the first large-scale conversational language model from China. It shares its name with the computer that controls the space station in the popular Chinese sci-fi film The Wandering Earth 2.
After announcing its ChatGPT-style project Ernie Bot, Chinese tech giant Baidu united two departments for tackling key technical problems and applying ChatGPT-related technologies to search and content products.
A "press release" about the cancellation of the traffic restrictions based on the last digit of license plate numbers by a local government in China went viral on February 16. After tracking the actual publisher, it was determined to have been written by ChatGPT, generating wide concern about AI-generated fake news.
NetEase announced on February 15 that it will install the first game version of ChatGPT in China in its mobile game "Justice Online", so that smart non player characters (NPC) can freely conduct dialogue with players and give logical behavioral feedback based on that dialogue.
JIDU, a new energy smart vehicle company, announced on February 14 that it would integrate the capabilities of Baidu's ChatGPT-like project Ernie Bot to create the world's first large-scale artificial intelligence interactive experience for smart car users.
As the discussion caused by artificial intelligence chat robot ChatGPT continues to heat up, the science and technology circle is welcoming the new buzz. Many Chinese tech giants have made great efforts to seize the opportunity to create the first "Chinese version of ChatGPT".
