The Chinese New Year's Eve Gala was surprising as Chinese AI made an spectacular debut for 40 seconds.
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XPENG announced the start of its B round financing of 2.2 billion yuan in Hong Kong on January 29. The financing was led by Alibaba, Foxconn and IDG. XPENG will raise more than 5 billion yuan from the capital market.
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.
On September 28, JD showed its latest products—driverless trucks. It is reported that this was the first time that Chinese E-commerce as well as logistics industries launched intelligent truck products, which were tested in the fixed road designated by the transport department. It is understood that JD’s two trucks, the new energy driverless truck EV80…
Chinese search engine company Baidu announced their autonomous car software will be free for download, with the aim to collect data and attract more users to their open-source AI platform. The announcement was made on July 5 during their "Baidu AI Developers Conference" (Baidu Create 2017). Baidu Founder Robin Li had made quite a stir…