The founder of artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek, touted as 2025's "biggest dark horse" in the open-source large language model (LLM) arena, emerged as the industry's new face in China at a symposium hosted by Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Monday.
TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model as a global race intensified to create AI models capable of tackling complex problems.
TikTok parent ByteDance has launched an updated version of Doubao, China's most popular consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) app, as the tech giant accelerates AI development despite US export restrictions on advanced chips.
Ding Xuexiang also tells Davos that Beijing isn’t pursuing a trade surplus and there are ‘no winners in a trade war’.
Thanks to widespread adoption of its artificial intelligence learning tools that are linked to its teaching platform, TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) realized a 62% gain in fiscal third quarter revenue that drove shares of the Beijing-based education platform to a six-week high and boosting shares in the sector higher in tandem.
BEIJING, Jan 23 (Reuters) - ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, has earmarked over 150 billion yuan ($20.64 billion) in capital expenditure for this year, much of which will be centred on artificial intelligence, two people briefed on the matter said.
The development comes as the Beijing-based company faces pressure from the US government to sell its social media app TikTok.
But the AI revolution has only just begun. Today’s most powerful AI models, often referred to as “frontier AI,” can handle and generate images, audio, video, and computer code, in addition to natural language.
At a shopping mall in Beijing, Zhang Yachun murmurs quietly to her closest confidant, a fluffy AI-powered robot whose soothing chirps remind her that she is not alone.
Beijing's half-marathon will see humans racing alongside humanoid robots as China pushes to dominate global robotics.
The new rules limit the sale of advanced U.S. AI technology to all nations except close U.S. allies, in an attempt to constrain China.
Held by Beijing Normal University and UNESCO arms, the seminar opened in Beijing on Jan 14, aiming to tackle the intersection between education policy, planning and the transformative role of artificial intelligence in shaping global education systems.