A decade after the debut of the original Google Glass — frame-only glasses with a small computer in the place of lenses — a new wave of next-generation smart glasses has emerged. Meta, Amazon, Snap, Samsung, Baidu, Xiaomi and Google, through its Android XR operating...
Chinese tech giant Alibaba is reportedly slashing prices on its AI large language models. Those markdowns are as high as 85%, CNBC reported Tuesday (Dec. 31), citing a WeChat post from the company’s cloud computing unit. The cuts involve Alibaba’s visual language model, Qwen-VL, created to perceive and...
Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence powerhouses staked their tech claims in 2024, rolling out AI models that solved increasingly complex problems. The latest systems from OpenAI, o3 and o3-mini, can reason through a task and validate themselves for accuracy — a change from earlier versions that...
Chinese tech giants are slashing prices on artificial intelligence (AI) models, and Silicon Valley is feeling the heat. The fierce competition, initially triggered by companies like Baidu in China, is reshaping the global AI landscape. As prices plummet, businesses worldwide could gain unprecedented access to...
December 31, 2024
Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence powerhouses staked their tech claims in 2024, rolling out AI models that solved increasingly complex problems. The latest systems from OpenAI, o3 and o3-mini, can reason through a task and validate themselves for accuracy — a change from earlier versions that were not as reliable. The company is testing the models […]
March 18, 2020
Every consumer has gone through at least one iteration in their commercial life of the clunky, junky product search. It starts with a basic idea of what one is looking...
August 24, 2017
In late July, PayPal and Baidu captured the world’s attention when they inked a strategic partnership that gives Baidu’s 100 million or so mobile wallet users access to PayPal’s 17...
December 31, 2024
Chinese tech giant Alibaba is reportedly slashing prices on its AI large language models. Those markdowns are as high as 85%, CNBC reported Tuesday (Dec. 31), citing a WeChat post from the company’s cloud computing unit. The cuts involve Alibaba’s visual language model, Qwen-VL, created to perceive and understand both texts and images. The report notes that the […]
May 20, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) firms have reportedly begun offering “AI-in-a-box” tools for companies to run in-house. It’s a trend that presents a threat to the AI cloud computing business of Chinese tech giants...
March 25, 2024
Apple’s Vision Pro headset is reportedly coming to the Chinese market later this year. CEO Tim Cook confirmed that the mixed reality device will launch in China this year during an interview with state media,...
March 22, 2024
Apple is reportedly in preliminary talks with Chinese tech giant Baidu, exploring a potential partnership to use Baidu’s generative artificial intelligence technology for Apple devices in China. The move is part of...
