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South China Morning Post
2 days ago
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Baidu the latest to join open-source movement with Ernie 4.5 models publicly available
Chinese tech giant Baidu on Monday marked its entry into the highly competitive field of Chinese open-source artificial intelligence (AI) systems, by making its flagship Ernie 4.5 models available for download on AI site Hugging Face. Advertisement Baidu open-sourced 10 variants from its Ernie 4.5 multimodal model family, from the 0.3 billion parameter lightweight models to the heavyweight 424 billion parameter ones, according to a statement. Beijing-based Baidu, one of the earliest tech firms in China to develop large language models (LLMs) following the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, has made a U-turn by making its models open-source. A year ago, founder and CEO Robin Li Yanhong was publicly saying its Ernie series, like OpenAI's ChatGPT models, would be more powerful than open-source ones. However, the release of open-source models by Chinese start-up DeepSeek, which took the AI world by storm at the start of this year, triggered an accelerated shift to open-source by China's Big Tech firms. For example, the Qwen models developed by Alibaba Group Holding are the world's most popular open-source models among developers. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. The logo of Baidu's Ernie Bot is displayed near a screen showing the Baidu logo, in this illustration picture taken June 28, 2023. Photo: Reuters Citing a range of benchmark tests that value an AI system's general and domain knowledge, coding and maths skills, as well as reasoning capabilities, Baidu said that its 300B Ernie 4.5 model outperformed DeepSeek's V3, which was twice the size of the Ernie model. Advertisement The benchmark results showcase the progress Baidu has made in improving its models in recent months, after the company announced earlier this year it would shift to an open source approach. The move followed Hangzhou-based DeepSeek's emergence into the global spotlight with its open-source V3 and R1 models that were built cost-efficiently for high-performance tasks.
South China Morning Post
24-06-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
iFlytek unveils medical AI, smart classroom tech in Hong Kong amid global push
Chinese voice recognition giant iFlytek has launched a series of artificial intelligence (AI) products in Hong Kong, where its new international headquarters will support its global expansion, as the firm doubles down on a commitment to home-grown computing infrastructure amid tightened US chip restrictions. iFlytek is making an upgraded international version of its Spark medical large language model (LLM) V2.5 available to organisations in Hong Kong, aiming to assist medical professionals in diagnosis and treatment, with language support for Cantonese and English. It has also launched a Hong Kong version of its healthcare chatbot app Xiaoyi for consumers in the city, the company said on Tuesday. iFlytek also announced the Hong Kong roll-out of products including a smart blackboard for classrooms, and a meeting transcription and translation solution that lets users switch freely among Cantonese, Putonghua and English. Hong Kong would be a launch pad for the company's global expansion in the future, founder and chairman Liu Qingfeng said on Tuesday. 'Hong Kong is not merely a market for iFlytek,' Liu said. 'It is instead our base for innovation and internationalisation.' An aerial photo shows a view of Hong Kong island on May 19, 2025. Photo: AFP The city would play a major role in iFlytek's medical AI efforts, as it offered English-language medical data, and the overseas training of some local doctors could help improve the capabilities of its medical LLM, Tao Xiaodong, president of iFlytek Healthcare, said.
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
HKT 與 Perplexity 深度合作，所有 HKT 用戶可享一年免費 Perplexity Pro 服務
文章來源： 香港電訊宣佈將會和 Perplexity 達成深度合作，進一步推動人工智能在香港的普及應用，而個人客戶可以免費提供高級 AI 服務 Perplexity Pro。 本月18即日起，該項惠民計劃正式落實。香港電訊旗下多個品牌（包括1O1O、csl、Club Sim、網上行、Now TV及HKT家居電話服務）的特定客戶，就能免費獲得為期一年的 Perplexity Pro 訂閱服務，這項服務的市場價值高達 HK$1,488。林國誠表示，AI 普及計劃其實早就有在考慮的範疇，自2023年創立「AI Academy」以來，已向超過 12,000名市民提供免費 AI 培訓，教授 DeepSeek 等熱門工具的使用。erplexity 亞太區總經理 June Morita 也認為，這次能夠與香港電訊達成合作十分榮幸，香港人每日面臨海量決策，而 AI 提出的答案可以作為寶貴的參考建議。 Perplexity Pro 服務為用戶提供了強大的 AI 工具，這不僅能提供附帶清晰來源的準確搜尋結果，還具備深入的信息研究能力，Labs 功能還可以通過一次查詢完成複雜的項目。當然，服務還提供了進階功能，支援多步驟推理、文件圖像分析、圖像生成及 API 整合。Perplexity Pro 集合了多款先進 AI 模型，如 DeepSeek R1 1776、GPT-4.1、Grok 3、Gemini 及自研 Sonar 模型等尖端技術，用戶可以在不同環境下選擇最適合自己的方案。 目前，香港電訊近兩年已舉辦超 200場線上線下 AI 課程。目前全港 49間門店均配備專業 AI 顧問，為消費者提供工具選型建議與應用指導，讓每個市民都有機會接觸高科技 AI 技術。
Zawya
18-06-2025
- Business
- Zawya
China's Premier urges companies to use AI and clean energy
Chinese Premier Li Qiang called for companies to use artificial intelligence and clean energy to advance industrial transformation, state media reported on Wednesday. Li also urged businesses to use policies such as the consumer goods trade-in scheme to unleash demand potential, and vowed to create a good business environment for foreign companies to invest in China, according to state media. (Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
South China Morning Post
14-06-2025
- Science
- South China Morning Post
Chinese scientists find first evidence that AI could think like a human
Chinese researchers have confirmed for the first time that artificial intelligence large language models can spontaneously create a humanlike system to comprehend and sort natural objects, a process considered a pillar of human cognition. It provides new evidence in a debate over the cognitive capacity of AI models, suggesting that artificial systems that reflect key aspects of human thinking may be possible. 'Understanding how humans conceptualise and categorise natural objects offers critical insights into perception and cognition,' the team said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Machine Intelligence on Tuesday. 'With the advent of large language models (LLMs), a key question arises: can these models develop humanlike object representations from linguistic and multimodal data?' 13:28 How a shift toward Trump by tech giants like Meta could reshape Asia's digital future How a shift toward Trump by tech giants like Meta could reshape Asia's digital future LLMs are AI models trained on a vast amount of text data – along with visual and audio data in the case of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) – to process tasks.
