Microsoft Azure OpenAI will stop providing services to individual developers in mainland China, but enterprise users can still continue using the service.
On May 15, Microsoft responded to reporters, stating that only a small number of employees currently have the opportunity to choose international rotation.
Alibaba recently launched a new AI image-audio-video model technology EMO, officially referred to as "an expressive audio-driven portrait video generation framework".
ByteDance's Boximator, a video model product launched quietly before OpenAI's Sora release in early February, is still in a research phase with notable gaps compared to Sora.
A domestic self-media referred to the young genius Xie Saining, who graduated from SJTU, as the inventor of Sora. Xie Saining himself has officially denied this, saying that he has "no relationship at all" with Sora.
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.
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.
Since the global surge in use of ChatGPT, a prototype chatbot developed by San Francisco-based artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, many related mini-programs have appeared on Tencent's WeChat app popular in China, although they now appear to have been restricted.
