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Japan's SoftBank reduces its investment losses with gains in Alibaba and other holdings

Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group has reported a smaller loss for the April-June quarter compared to a year earlier

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2024

Alibaba president can’t catch up to AI

Kuo Zhang is far more concerned about the rapid development of AI than geopolitics.

Fortune · Jul 31, 2024

Hundreds of China merchants join protest against Temu

Hundreds of merchants staged a rally at PDD Holdings Inc’s offices in southern China this week, protesting what they called unfair penalties that Temu’s owner is increasingly levying.

The Times of India · Jul 31, 2024

This 17 Y.O. Girl From China Stunned The Entire World With Her Achievement In Global Math Contest

While typically fashion has nothing to do with math, this 17 Y.O. fashion student from China showed quite the opposite by beating over 500 AI teams and her own teacher. The post This 17 Y.O. Girl From China Stunned The Entire World With Her Achievement In Global Math Contest first…

Bored Panda · Jul 1, 2024

Alibaba Cloud ditches Nvidia's interconnect in favor of Ethernet — tech giant uses own High Performance Network to connect 15,000 GPUs inside data center

Alibaba Cloud developed a High Performance Network (HPN) so the 15,000 GPUs inside each data center of the company could communicate using Ethernet.

Tom’s Hardware · Jun 29, 2024

China’s AI companies are reportedly rationing the use of their services because they don’t have enough chips

Blame the U.S. and its export controls blocking AI chip sales to China.

Fortune · Jun 28, 2024

SoftBank's billionaire CEO says he was put on Earth to create artificial superintelligence that's 10,000 times smarter than a human—'I am super serious about it'

"For what purpose was Masa Son born? It may sound strange, but I think I was born to realize ASI," SoftBank's CEO said.

Fortune · Jun 27, 2024

Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened

AI training and optimization leader Hugging Face has released its second LLM leaderboard, with a host of new and edited trials to put LLMs through their paces. Variants of Alibaba's Qwen LLM hold the 1st, 3rd, and 10th spots.

Tom’s Hardware · Jun 27, 2024

Alibaba unveils the network and datacenter design it uses for large language model training

This is what Alibaba uses for large language model training.

TechRadar · Jun 27, 2024

Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot

GeoGPT developed in Chinese-funded earth sciences programme aimed at researchers in global south

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2024