Baidu Inc., China's leading search engine and a champion of artificial intelligence technology, has helped reunite one Chinese family by …
Baidu CEO Robin Li Lays Out Mission To Turn Search Engine Firm Into AI Leader
Robin Li, founder and chief executive officer of Baidu Inc., sent an internal letter to staff yesterday and stressed again …
Is There A Bubble In China's AI Sector? Investors Disagree
The year 2016 has been called the dawn of the artificial intelligence (AI) age. In China alone, there were 202 …
Baidu, Samsung Unit To Jointly Develop AI Solutions For Chinese Car-Makers
China's Baidu Inc. has agreed to jointly develop new cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions aimed at Chinese automakers with Harman …
China's Lenovo To Invest $1.2B In AI, Big Data And IoT In Next Four Years
China's Lenovo Group Ltd. plans to invest US$1.2 billion in the research and development of artificial intelligence, big data, and …
Tencent's AI Research Lab Sets Record At Facial Recognition Contest
Tencent YouTu Lab, a machine learning-focused artificial intelligence research lab under Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd., has set a …
China's Baidu Acquires US Computer Vision Firm xPerception
Chinese search engine giant Baidu, Inc. has acquired xPerception, a U.S. technology company that provides visual perception software and hardware …
Shunwei's Meng Xing Says Chinese AI Startups Need Niche Products To Survive And Thrive
To say that Meng Xing, V.P. and entrepreneur-in-residence at Chinese venture firm Shunwei Capital, has been busy would be a …
Matrix Partners Leads Series A Round in Chinese Online Lending Firm Alading Bank
Matrix Partners China has led a series A financing round in Shanghai-based credit assessment and online lending platform Alading Bank, …
Baidu's Chief Scientist Andrew Ng Resigns In Search Of New AI Challenge
Andrew Ng (pictured), a vice president and chief scientist at Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc., is leaving the company …
Inside Tencent's AI Lab: How It Created China's Own AlphaGo In A Year
FineArt, an AI Go-playing program developed by the AI Lab of Chinese Internet giant Tencent, is proving to be a …
China's Didi Launches AI Lab In Silicon Valley, Aims To Lead On Intelligent Driving Tech
The global talent war for top artificial intelligence (AI) talent just intensified, as Chinese ride share giant Didi Chuxing officially …
China Includes Artificial Intelligence In Government Work Report For First Time
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang mentioned artificial intelligence, the current buzz word in venture and tech circles, for the first time …
Chinese Cloud AI Start-Up CloudMinds Raises $100M
CloudMinds Inc., a Chinese start-up focused on the development of cloud-intelligence-based applications, and backed by SoftBank Group Corp., announced that …
Baidu Ventures Joins $27M Round In New Zealand AI Firm 8i
Baidu Ventures, Baidu Inc's US$200 million early-stage investment unit focused on artificial intelligence, has joined a US$27 million series B …
Microsoft Names Wang Yongdong As Global Senior Vice President
Microsoft Corporation has named Wang Yongdong (pictured), currently chief technology officer of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group, in the latest move …
China Develops Own AlphaGo, But Humans Can Still Beat It
Chinese tech companies are developing their own versions of AlphaGo, a computer program developed by Google DeepMind that beat 9-dan …
Sinovation's Kai-Fu Lee Says China Could Lead Artificial Intelligence Innovation
China could become the most competitive country in the age of artificial intelligence, which gives the country an opportunity to …
Baidu Hires Ex-Microsoft Executive Lu Qi To Lead Push Into AI
Chinese search engine giant Baidu, Inc. has appointed Lu Qi, formerly global executive vice president at Microsoft, and noted expert …
Qiming Venture's JP Gan: Meitu Could Be China's Next Tencent
The closing months of 2016 have been kind to Qiming Venture Partners. The US$2.7 billion-under-management Chinese venture capital firm saw three …
China Merchants Unit Commits $13M To Artificial Intelligence Fund
China Merchants China Direct Investments (CMCDI), a Hong Kong-listed investment entity managed by China Merchants Group and First Eastern Investment …
Taiwan-Based Artificial Intelligence Firm Appier Raises $42.5M In Series B Round
A member of Temasek Holdings, WI Harper Group, FirstFloor Capital and Qualgro have invested US$19.5 million as part of a …
Baidu's Robin Li Says There Won't Be New Unicorns Emerging In Mobile Internet Sector
The era of mobile Internet is ending and future opportunities in technology exist in artificial intelligence, Robin Li, the CEO …
Ten Chinese Angel Firms Jointly Launch AI-Big Data Accelerator
Ten Chinese angel and venture firms, including the Zhen Fund, Innovation Angel Funds and CAS Star, have jointly launched an …
Baidu Cuts Drone Project To Focus On Artificial Intelligence
Chinese Internet search engine giant Baidu Inc. has decided to end a food-delivering drone project to focus on artificial intelligence, …