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China’s Baidu Touts World’s First Autonomous Car Rentals

July 09, 2025
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AI Models and Tools: OpenAI to Release an Open-Source AI Model
Artificial Intelligence // April 04, 2025

This week, OpenAI said it is planning to release an open-source language model for the first time in years. The creator of ChatGPT disclosed the news through a form requesting feedback for this strategy, saying it wants to hear from developers, researchers and the public...

AI is Driving a Smart Glasses Boom. Will It Last?
Wearables // February 05, 2025

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...

Alibaba Plans Major Discounts on AI Large Language Models
Artificial Intelligence // 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...

AI’s Leap Year: Smarter, Sharper and Ready to Reshape Everything
Artificial Intelligence // 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...

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AI’s Leap Year: Smarter, Sharper and Ready to Reshape Everything

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 […]

Baidu: AI Exceeds Human Natural Language Comprehension And Open Source Could Make It Even Better

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...

The Chinese Consumer On The International Commerce Stage

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...

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China’s Baidu Touts World’s First Autonomous Car Rentals

July 09, 2025
China’s Baidu has launched what it calls the world’s first autonomous car rental service. The launch was announced Tuesday (July 8) by the tech company’s autonomous driving division Apollo in collaboration with CAR Inc., a Chinese car rental service. “Built on Baidu Apollo’s Level 4 autonomous driving platform, the service is closely integrated with CAR Inc.’s nationwide rental network and […]

Alibaba Plans Major Discounts on AI Large Language Models

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...

Chinese Tech Giants Threatened by Smaller AI Products

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...

Apple CEO Says Vision Pro Coming to China This Year

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,...