Weekly China AI News from Jan 9 to Jan 15 — In this week’s newsletter, I will compare Alibaba’s annual tech trends with those of Tencent and Baidu. China’s doubling down on AI computing centers and we will explore more. At new year’s eve galas, you might wonder which singer pretends to sing. Now, AI can help identify lip-syncing! A new…

Weekly China AI News from Jan.2 to Jan.8 — Happy new year, dear readers! This week’s newsletter will cover Baidu’s annual tech trends and Douyin’s popular AI anime effect. We will also discuss a recent controversy where a Chinese Go player was accused of cheating with AI. …

Weekly China AI News from Dec. 5 to Dec. 11 — Dear readers, this week’s newsletter centers around generative AI. Chinese superpower cyberspace regulator just released the final version of its deepfake regulation with additions on generative AI. We will discuss ChatGPT and its rippling effect in China. Tencent’s AI app Different Dimension Me, which was purposefully built for Chinese users…

Weekly China AI News from Oct 24 to Oct 30 — Dear readers, the text-to-image model party is joined by a new face: ERNIE-ViLG 2.0, which claims better zero-shot performance than DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion. Xpeng flexed its muscles in the advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) and revealed robotaxi plans in 2023. Would it pull the embattled EV maker out…

Weekly China AI News from Oct 10 to Oct 16. — Dear readers, we will dig deep into VW’s new joint venture with Horizon Robotics. WeChat’s AI team this week proposed a new language model that claims to match the performance of models up to 25 times larger. Plus, the maturity of the AI text-to-image art model has prompted the creation…

Weekly China AI News from Sep 19 to Sep 25 — Dear readers, sorry for skipping the last week’s issue due to my personal matters. This week, I talked about how Chinese cities are scrambling to lift regulatory restrictions on autonomous vehicles amid a state-wide push to commercialize self-driving tech. Plus, on the World Day of The Deaf, Tencent offered a…

Weekly China AI News from Sep 5 to Sep 11 — Dear readers, happy mid-autumn festival! Hope you all enjoyed the full moon with your beloved family and friends. Below is an AI-generated picture of “a bear is eating mooncakes on the moon”. This week, we will discuss Shenzhen’s new special regulation that aims to boost the AI development. …

Weekly China AI News from Aug 29 to Sep 4 — Dear readers, I hope you enjoyed labor day weekend! In this week’s issue, we will discuss the latest tension between U.S. and China on high-end AI chip export bans and which Chinese companies may take the place. The news came out two days after Alibaba unveiled the world’s largest AI…

Weekly China AI News from Aug 8 to Aug 14 — News of the Week Xiaomi Unveils Humanoid Robot CyberOne