Alibaba A.I. Labs, an artificial intelligence (AI) division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., announced today that it will launch service robots for the hospitality sector in the coming October to raise its stakes in the booming AI industry.
China Money Network, the leading source of intelligence and data on China’s venture capital and technology sector, announces groundbreaking research on China’s artificial intelligence industry in its unveiling of the new ranking: China AI Top 50.
China’s financial hub Shanghai is joining the global tide to promote artificial intelligence by introducing 22 key measures to boost industry’s talent, open data movement and fundraising, according to Shanghai government’s website.
Video++, a Shenzhen-based AI Start-up focused on maximizing the commercial potential of the online video industry, today announced that it had raised a C1 round of financing.
Chinese tech company SenseTime has joined with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("MIT") in an "alliance" to promote understanding and application of artificial intelligence.
China Money Network’s DealShot provides detailed information on venture capital and private equity deals in China on a daily basis. Here you can find out where Chinese investors have been investing their money in at around 5pm each workday.
Yao Song, founder of upstart Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeePhi Tech, has a nickname: "Boss Yao". The 25-year-old Tsinghua University graduate has been on a winning streak so far. After securing a victory at a national physics competition championship, Yao was admitted into China’s top university to study electrical engineering without having to take the university entrance exam. While at Tsinghua, he chaired a prominent student science association and organized innovation competitions on campus.
Beijing-based start-up Yi+, which uses computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide intelligent media and marketing solutions, has obtained US$15 million in a series B funding round, the firm announced.
Chinese venture capital firm GSR Ventures and Gobi Partners have joined a RMB35 million (US$5 million) series A round in DeepBrain, a four-month old business providing AI and blockchain-based SaaS solutions to Internet of Things (IoT) hardware manufacturers and app developers.
China Money Network successfully held an event in Shanghai on September 4 at the naked hub Shanghai Xintiandi with three prominent speakers to discuss the impact of the emerging artificial intelligence workforce.
Sequoia Capital China, the venture capital firm founded by renowned investor Neil Shen has stakes in 29 Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups. But while some other investors take a laser focused approach to the sector, Sequoia’s portfolio includes more broadly defined AI firms such as ride hailing giant Didi Chuxing that use AI as a key component of their business, along with pure AI tech research centered players like Mobvoi.
Chinese Internet giant Baidu Inc. has agreed to acquire KITT.AI, a Seattle-based natural language processing start-up founded by Chinese entrepreneurs Yao Xucheng and Chen Guoguo. The pair plan to jointly develop natural language understanding technology as part of Baidu’s intense push into AI.
Xuebajun, an education mobile app allowing students to upload questions and get answers from both AI robots and online teachers, has signed a strategic partnership with Wuhan city-based education group Dangdai Education to seek opportunities in the artificial intelligence space.
Baidu Inc., China’s leading search engine and a champion of artificial intelligence technology, has helped reunite one Chinese family by using its face recognition technology.
Robin Li, founder and chief executive officer of Baidu Inc., sent an internal letter to staff yesterday and stressed again the importance of Baidu’s artificial intelligence strategy. He predicted that AI will be the center of the company’s future. Below is a translation of the letter for your enjoyment: Dear Baidu students: Today is the May Fourth, Youth Day. I have one piece of bad news and one piece of good news to tell everyone. The bad news is that, …
The year 2016 has been called the dawn of the artificial intelligence (AI) age. In China alone, there were 202 investment deals worth RMB6.8 billion (US$1 billion) in AI start-ups during the 12 months ending June 30, 2016.
China’s Baidu Inc. has agreed to jointly develop new cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions aimed at Chinese automakers with Harman International, Samsung’s wholly-owned subsidiary focused on connected technologies for the automotive, consumer and enterprise markets.
China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. plans to invest US$1.2 billion in the research and development of artificial intelligence, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) technology in the next four years, said the company’s chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing during a media interview.
Tencent YouTu Lab, a machine learning-focused artificial intelligence research lab under Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd., has set a record by achieving an 83.29% recognition rate in the MegaFace challenge, an internationally recognized test known for its high level of difficulty. This is the second time YouTu Lab has achieved a world record, following its recent record in the Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) face database challenge in March 2017. With data training based on two million Western …
Chinese search engine giant Baidu, Inc. has acquired xPerception, a U.S. technology company that provides visual perception software and hardware solutions for a range of applications, including robotics, virtual reality (VR), and devices for people who are visually impaired. The acquisition further strengthens the use of Baidu’s visual perception technology in key projects like augmented reality (AR) and autonomous driving. It also accelerates the development of Baidu’s artificial intelligence-based products. Financial terms were not disclosed. California-based xPerception is a technology …
To say that Meng Xing, V.P. and entrepreneur-in-residence at Chinese venture firm Shunwei Capital, has been busy would be a gross understatement. Over the past ten years, the 31-year-old venture capitalist and entrepreneur has founded two artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups, selling one, an image recognition AI company, to Amazon and the other to a listed Chinese company. In between, he worked as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan Hong Kong and casino giant Caesars Entertainment, on top of getting an …
Matrix Partners China has led a series A financing round in Shanghai-based credit assessment and online lending platform Alading Bank, according to a company announcement.
Andrew Ng (pictured), a vice president and chief scientist at Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc., is leaving the company to seek new challenges in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) beyond the technology world.
FineArt, an AI Go-playing program developed by the AI Lab of Chinese Internet giant Tencent, is proving to be a prodigy, winning an annual world-wide AI Go tournament only a year after its creation and highlighting China’s rapid advance as it seeks to strengthen its AI capabilities.
The global talent war for top artificial intelligence (AI) talent just intensified, as Chinese ride share giant Didi Chuxing officially launched an AI lab in California to attract top engineering talents to advance transformation in the global transportation industry.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang mentioned artificial intelligence, the current buzz word in venture and tech circles, for the first time while making an annual speech on March 5 in Beijing, highlighting Beijing’s focus on the next technology frontier and its determination to support the industry’s future growth.
CloudMinds Inc., a Chinese start-up focused on the development of cloud-intelligence-based applications, and backed by SoftBank Group Corp., announced that it raised US$100 million in a series A funding round during a press conference held in Beijing yesterday. Founded in 2015 by Huang Xiaoqing, the former head of research at China Mobile, CloudMinds aims to build artificial intelligent "brains" on the cloud, instead of within humanoid robots. An average human brain weighs less than 1.5 kilograms, while the silicon alone …
Baidu Ventures, Baidu Inc’s US$200 million early-stage investment unit focused on artificial intelligence, has joined a US$27 million series B funding round in 8i, a New Zealand-based AI start-up, according to a company announcement
Microsoft Corporation has named Wang Yongdong (pictured), currently chief technology officer of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group, in the latest move of a series of senior management reshuffle among its Chinese executives.
Chinese tech companies are developing their own versions of AlphaGo, a computer program developed by Google DeepMind that beat 9-dan professional Go player Lee Sedol last year. But these Chinese programs have a long way to go before reaching AlphaGo’s perfect win record versus humans, Chinese state media reported.
China could become the most competitive country in the age of artificial intelligence, which gives the country an opportunity to lead the world economy in the future, according to Kai-fu Lee, founder of Sinovation Partners and former head of Google China.