Baidu launches ChatGPT service but no one likes it
Ernie Bot, the highly-anticipated AI-powered chatbot developed by Chinese tech company Baidu, was launched today. Nobody was impressed.
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This week on Sinica, Kendra Schaefer, a partner specializing in technology at China-focused consultancy Trivium, and Jeremy Daum, Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. discuss the new draft regulations published in April by the Cyberspace Administration of China that will, when passed, govern generative AI in China. Will it choke off innovation, or create conditions for the safe development of this world-changing technology?
ASPI research: China trumps U.S. in key technology research | The Signal with Lizzi Lee
Dr. Jamie Gaida is a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) specializing in statistics, research ethics, data science, computer algorithms, software development, and machine learning. He recently published a piece on The Critical Technology Tracker and how Western democracies are losing the global technological competition.
The rise and struggles of Tencent
This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Lulu Chen, journalist and author of Influence Empire: Inside the Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition, on her experience reporting on one of the most valuable internet companies in the world.
The Big Four auditors may lose state-owned business in China — would it actually hurt them?
Nearly a quarter of China’s 98 central state-owned enterprises were audited by KPMG, PwC, Deloitte, or Ernst & Young in 2021. They might lose these customers, which would be a bad look, but perhaps not terrible for their bottom lines.
Can China clean up its energy act, and can the U.S. go renewable without China? — Q&A with Michael Davidson
A conversation with Michael Davidson, a scholar and engineer with deep expertise in renewable energy in China, India, and the U.S.
Walmart is a China survivor thanks to its wholesale chain Sam’s Club
Big box retailer Carrefour is failing in China, and Walmart has not exactly been a resounding success either. But Walmart is still profitable thanks to its wholesale chain, which is enjoying a post-COVID spring.
A guide to China’s disappeared tycoons and financiers
In February, the chairman and CEO of investment bank China Renaissance disappeared. Ten days later, his firm disclosed that he was cooperating in an official investigation into a former colleague. Bao Fan was not the first and won’t be the last executive that mysteriously disappears in China. These are some of the recent high-profile cases of executives who have been detained incommunicado by security agents.