Video of an AI streamer generated by Silicon Intelligence. SILICON INTELLIGENCE Once the avatar is generated, its mouth and body move in time with the scripted...
As I reported last week, Baidu became the first Chinese tech company to roll out its large language model—called Ernie Bot—to the general public, following a...
When Ernie Bot was released on March 16, the response was a mix of excitement and disappointment. Many people deemed its performance mediocre relative to the...
In August 1983, exactly 40 years ago, a Chinese engineer named Wang Yongmin developed the first popular way to input Chinese characters into a computer: Wubi....
Sounds quite bad, right? It turns out the reality is a tad more complicated. On the WHO website, the recent mpox data listed under China is...
3. The national number of cremations for 2022 was omitted from China’s quarterly routine data reports, obscuring information relevant to understanding the covid-19 wave that followed...
“It started as a normal way to defend intellectual-property rights,” says Ning Zhang, an attorney in the US who has represented Sun and other sellers in...
It’s hard to know the ultimate motive of these accounts, but the overnight transition shows that at least one goal of such content farming is to...
—Zeyi Yang When I recently visited China, for the first time since the pandemic, I traveled to Shenzhen in a bid to unlock my 15-year old...
I’m currently traveling in Turkey, and even though I’m just a few days from starting a vacation and could be spending my time outside petting the...