Tencent Robot X’s Jamoca Takes on Kung Fu Master Challenge to Walk on Quincunical Piles
Tencent Robotics X Lab announced new developments in mobile robot research – the four-legged mobile robot Jamoca.
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Tencent Debutes AR Navigation Platform for IoV and Announces New Smart Transportation Strategy
Tencent announced the TIME Ecological Partner Program at the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit.
Tencent Cloud Releases New 5g Products; To Build 300 Edge-Computing Centres by the End of 2020
Tencent Cloud announced the company’s latest efforts in the new 5G infrastructure.
Chinese Search Specialist Sogou Receives Tencent Buyout Offer
Chinese tech giant Tencent has proposed to acquire all of the Sogou’s outstanding ordinary shares for a cash price of US$9 per share.
Tencent Open-Sources High-Performance Graph Computing Framework ‘Plato’
Tencent Graph Computing (TGraph) officially announced the release of Plato, an open source high-performance graph computing framework that meets the ultra-large-scale graph computing requirement of billion-level nodes.
Tencent AI Trounces Pro Team in China’s #1 Mobile Game
China’s largest game-maker Tencent recently took a huge leap when its homegrown AI system Wukong AI (绝悟) trounced a human pro team in China’s most popular mobile game Honor of Kings (王者荣耀), aka Arena of Valor.
Landmark Assisted CycleGAN: Draw Me Like One of Your Cartoon Girls
A group of researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Harbin Institute of Technology and Tencent have proposed a method to create such cartoon faces from photos of human faces via a novel CycleGAN model informed by facial landmarks.
BatchNorm + Dropout = DNN Success!
A group of researchers from Tencent Technology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Nankai University recently combined two commonly used techniques — Batch Normalization (BatchNorm) and Dropout — into an Independent Component (IC) layer inserted before each weight layer to make inputs more independent*.
Tencent Open-Sourced Algorithm Betters Face Detection Benchmarks
Chinese technology giant Tencent has open-sourced its face detection algorithm DSFD (Dual Shot Face Detector). The related paper DSFD: Dual Shot Face Detector achieves state-of-the-art performance on WIDER FACE and FDDB dataset benchmarks, and has been accepted by top computer vision conference CVPR 2019.
Breaking Down the Tencent 2018 Cybersecurity Report
At the 2018 World AI Conference in Shanghai, Tencent Cybersecurity Group and the Cybersecurity Innovation Institute co-published their AI Empowers Cyberspace Security: Patterns and Practices report. The work was sponsored by the Shanghai government.
Tencent AI Lab Director Leaves
It did not take long to see the first major AI talent reshuffling of 2019. Multiple sources are now confirming that reputed AI researcher Dr. Tong Zhang left his position as Executive Director of Tencent AI Lab effective December 31. Rumours suggest Zhang might return to teaching.
Tencent AI Tops Human Players in “Arena of Valor”
In the latest of a string of bot versus human video game showdowns, Tencent AI Lab’s Strategical Collaborative AI “Juewu” has beat the world’s top human player in the mobile Real Time Strategy (RTS) game “Arena of Valor.” Tencent published the results in the paper Hierarchical Macro Strategy Model for MOBA Game AI.
Tencent AI Lab Produces Smart Microscope for Medical Diagnosis
Tencent AI Lab unveiled its new intelligent microscope for pathological analysis yesterday at the Tencent Global Partner Conference in Nanjing. The device represents a huge step in the company’s ongoing commitment to ramp up its R&D in AI + medicine.
Tencent Licensed for Self-Driving Vehicle Testing on Beijing Roads
The Beijing Traffic Management Bureau yesterday issued new licenses for self-driving vehicle testing in the Chinese capital, with tech giant Tencent receiving authorization to operate an autonomous vehicle on designated roads for the first time.
Tencent TStarBots Defeat StarCraft II’s Powerful Builtin AI in the Full Game
Deep Reinforcement Learning has shown impressive performance in a wide range of applications, including video games. StarCraft II, one of the most challenging Real Time Strategy (RTS) games, has however remained unsolved. Until now.
WAIC 2018 Day Two: Tencent Announces Open AI Platform AI.QQ.COM
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2018 in Shanghai today, Tencent Mobile Internet Group Vice President Hou Xiaonan announced the company’s new Open AI platform, “AI.QQ.COM.”
Tencent ML Team Trains ImageNet In Record Four Minutes
Since 2010, the annual ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge has been the most widely recognized benchmark for testing image recognition algorithms. Tencent Machine Learning picks up the challenge with its new paper Highly Scalable Deep Learning Training System with Mixed-Precision: Training ImageNet in Four Minutes.
Tencent Academic and Industrial Conference 2018 in Stockholm [Tencent X Synced]
The Tencent Academic and Industrial Conference (TAIC) will be held in Stockholm, Sweden on July 14th, gathering top AI researchers and young professionals from around the world. Synced is organizing the conference, where Tencent’s seven core business groups and invited academics and industry professionals will share insights on the current state of AI technologies.
UBTECH Robotics Gets US$820 Million Funding; Becomes the World’s Most Valuable AI Startup
Chinese AI and humanoid robotic company UBTECH Robotics today announced a staggering US$820 million in Series C funding. With its new estimated value of US$5 billion, Shenzhen City-based UBTECH becomes the world’s most valuable AI startup.
Pigs, Cows & Cockroaches on the AI Animal Farm
Farming is becoming a data-centric business powered by artificial intelligence. China’s big tech firms are using neural network-backed computer vision, wearable devices, and predictive analytics algorithms to reimagine pig, chicken, cow, goose, and cockroach farming.
Tencent’s Smart Speaker Tingting Brings WeChat to the Entire Family
Tencent today officially launched its first-ever smart speaker, Tencent Tingting (腾讯听听), which can send or receive voice messages via WeChat.
Alibaba Gears Up for Self-Driving Road Tests
China’s self-driving industry has just welcomed another major player: Alibaba Group is developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology and is ready to test its self-driving cars on public roads, Chinese media reported today.
Tracking the Transforming AI Chip Market
Embedded AI can transform a tabletop speaker into a personal assistant; give a robot brains and dexterity; and turn a smartphone into a smart camera, music player, or game console. Traditional processors, however, lack the computational power to support many of these intelligent features.
AI Adds Colour to Grandma’s Cherished Memories
Tencent Youtu — literally translated as “image optimization lab” — is the image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining research arm of Chinese tech giant Tencent Group.
Editor’s Picks: Tencent’s 2017 Internet Whitepaper
Last month, Chinese internet giant Tencent released its Internet Technology Innovation Whitepaper.
IJCAI 2017: Tencent X Synced Young Scholar Tech Night and Reception in Melbourne
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2017 will be held in Melbourne, Australia from August 19 to August 25, summoning top researchers from around the world.
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.
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.