Baidu Research Adds Elite AI Talents, New Labs
Baidu Research announced talent acquisition of Dr. Kenneth W. Church, Dr. Jun Hua, and Dr. Hui Xiong, and launched two new research labs.
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Real-time updates of China’s machine intelligence research and industry.
After Creating 166 Million Super Cute Selfies, Meitu’s AI Sets its Sights on Skin
You may find AI Andy’s dreamy creations too cute for your taste, but numbers don’t lie: at time of writing a total of 166,743,348 users had employed the artbot’s “tech magic” to beautify their selfies.
Baidu at CES: Developing AI at “China Speed”
China is undergoing a revolutionary transformation as AI rapidly penetrates industries from transportation to communication — a growth rate phenomenon that Baidu Group President & COO Qi Lu calls “China speed.”
Editor’s Picks: Tencent’s 2017 Internet Whitepaper
Last month, Chinese internet giant Tencent released its Internet Technology Innovation Whitepaper.
Google Opens China AI Center
Google is opening an artificial intelligence research lab in Beijing, Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud Fei-fei Li announced today at the Google Developer Conference in Shanghai.
Shanghai’s Subway Smartens Up With AI
On December 5th Alibaba, Ant Financial, and Shanghai Shentong Metro Group jointly launched a new voice interaction system for purchasing subway tickets. Riders can now tell a machine their destination — for example, Zhongshan Park — and the system will use the AutoNavi cloud map to issue a ticket for the nearest station.
Using AI to Secure Ride-Sharing Platforms
Fallout from the Uber data breach scandal is being felt across the industry. In an effort to beef up cybersecurity, researchers are exploring AI solutions.
China’s Smart Speaker Market Heats Up
The lack of Mandarin interface in Echo and Google Home has prompted a number of Chinese companies to get in the game with their own smart speakers.
Computer Vision Startup CloudWalk Collects US$375 Million
Heavy investments in computer vision will energize the IoT revolution that is rapidly building smart city infrastructures all across Asia.
Will iFlytek Voice Input’s 98% Accuracy Kill the Keyboard?
Human-machine interaction is rapidly evolving. Today, 12% of Chinese users opt for voice input over typing. What does this signal for tomorrow?
11.11: Alibaba’s AI-Powered Shopping Extravaganza
With so many sales in so little time, it’s no surprise that artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in the largest online shopping event in human history.
DuerOS Project Prometheus & Baidu’s Big Data Pledge to Conversational AI
Datasets such as ImageNet have proved essential for image recognition. Chinese search giant Baidu now wants to bring the same power to conversational AI, the tech behind our rapidly-expanding voice-based human-machine interfaces.
AI Chip Explosion: Cambricon’s Billion-Device Ambition
On November 6 in Beijing, China’s rising semiconductor unicorn Cambricon released new state-of-art AI processors.
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2017-10-31
China’s AI Superstar Face++ Finishes Series C Funding Round With a Staggering US$460 Million
China’s computer vision company Megvii, a.k.a Face++ (旷视科技) has closed their Series C funding round at a staggering US$460 million.
Money is Chasing Chinese AI Startups
Beijing-based Horizon Robotics’ A-plus series funding round is expected to raise US$100 million by year’s end.
AI Phone Duel: $825 Mate 10 vs $999 iPhone X
This Monday in Munich, China’s largest domestic mobile phone maker Huawei unveiled Mate 10 — billed as the most powerful AI phone in the world.
Shi is Key to Ma’s NASA
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced on September 11 that the respected University of Michigan professor will lead fundamental research on quantum technology at its Seattle lab.
NVIDIA GTC China: TensorRT 3.0, AI Machine Processor Xavier, and China Partnerships
The annual NVIDIA GTA Conference opened in Beijing on September 26th.
Shenzhen Based RoboSense is the Next DJI for LIDAR
The global market for this versatile, high-precision, long-distance measuring “eye” will reach US$36 billion in 2030.
Baidu All in AI: DuerOS and Apollo Open Platforms
The “Baidu AI Developers Conference” (Baidu Create 2017) was held July 5 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing.Continue Reading
From Amazon to Alibaba: The Quest of Computer Vision Scientist Xiaofeng Ren
“I am tempted by Alibaba’s large pool of business scenarios and huge user base,” says Xiaofeng Ren.
Huawei Announces Kirin 970: AI In Your Phone
China’s biggest domestic mobile phone maker, Huawei, is now powering its phones with artificial intelligence (AI) engines. The Chinese techContinue Reading
30 Years of Devotion to Natural Language Processing Based on Concepts
We interviewed Mr. Qiang Dong, chief scientist of Beijing YuZhi Language Understanding Technology Co. Ltd. and learned more about their YuZhi NLU Platform that conducts its unique semantic analysis based on concepts rather than words.
Chinese Computer Vision Startup Turns Heads With ‘SensePose’
In contrast to traditional approaches that use infrared or structured light along with the aforementioned hardware, SensePose needs only ambient light and a regular RGB camera lens.
Gary Marcus: The Road to Artificial General Intelligence
Gary Marcus the Professor of Psychology at New York University, CEO and Founder of Geometric Intelligence, speaks at GMIS 2017.
AlphaGo: The Ultimate Go Master
For more than 2,500 years, humans have been playing and studying the incredibly complex game of Go. In a matter of months, AI learned how to do it better.
Syncing Silicon Valley’s Chinese Labs
Chinese tech companies with high revenue streams are pumping money into R&D and recruiting talents in the US with newly founded facilities.
Make AI Computing 100 Times Faster
“We want to be able to train a machine learning model, like Google Translate, in a few hours,” said Prof. Hwu. Best known for enabling the parallelism capability of the GPU to solve scientific problems like AI.
The Humans Behind Artificial Intelligence
AI companies require accurate data for specialized applications, and seemingly little things such as labelling and tagging demand accuracy. At present, only humans are up for the task.
Interview with Tencent Big Data Technology Team: Tencent Launched Open-source Computing Platform Named Angel (Part Ⅱ)
Jie Jiang, Tencent’s big data platform director and the chief data expert, gave a speech on Tencent’s third generation open-source computing platform Angel.
Interview with Tencent Big Data Technology Team: Tencent Launched Open-source Computing Platform Named Angel (Part Ⅰ)
Tecent launched their third-generation computing platform in machine learning named Angel, and they would make this platform open source in early 2017.
Interview with Tencent AI Lab- Four Core Research Fields:Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
Synced recently conducted a special interview with the Director of Tencent AI Lab Tong Zhang, to discuss about the strategic position and research focuses in Tencent.
Is Baidu the No. 1 Player on China’s National Team of Artificial Intelligence?
“The Internet is just an appetizer, whereas AI is the real entrée. The latter is not a part of the internet, not the second stage of the internet; it is technological revolution comparable to the industrial revolution.” – Robin Li, CEO of Baidu.
Mobvoi and Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Automation join forces and creates the Joint Laboratory of Language Intelligence and Human Machine Interaction
On March 29, The “Joint Laboratory of Language Intelligence and Human Machine Interaction” opened its doors in Beijing. This lab is the result of a collaboration between Chinese AI company Mobvoi and CASIA.
Alibaba Cloud Launches Machine Learning Platform “PAI 2.0”, Reducing AI’s Technical Threshold and Development Cost
On March 29, 2017, during the 2017 YunQi Computing Conference held in Shenzhen, Alibaba Cloud’s Chief Science Officer Dr Jingren Zhou officially launched the updated version of its machine learning platform “PAI 2.0”, intending to drastically reduce the technical threshold and development cost for AI.
US-China’s Innovation Arrived on UIUC Campus
A handful of Chinese scientists, investors and entrepreneurs were invited to talk at the UIUC U.S.-China Innovation & Development Forum last Saturday.
Tencent Cloud’s Huang Ming on its New DI-X Deep Learning Platform
On March 28, Tencent Cloud launched its machine learning platform DI-X, with a goal of providing a one stop shop for its machine learning and deep learning customers.