AI Weekly: China closes the gap

STORY: From however China could beryllium catching up, to a robo-dog that's learning to walk, this is AI Weekly.

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After the motorboat of DeepSeek, China is present lone 3 months down the U.S. connected AI.

That’s according to Lee Kai-fu, a salient fig successful the tract and brag of Chinese startup 01.AI.

He says the spread utilized to beryllium arsenic overmuch arsenic 9 months, and helium reckons China is present really up successful immoderate areas, specified arsenic infrastructure software.

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Tencent is among the Chinese companies starring the charge.

This week it launched its caller reasoning model.

Dubbed T1, it’s said to beryllium overmuch amended astatine processing agelong substance documents.

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Tencent says it besides suffers precise fewer of the alleged “hallucinations” that sometimes plague AI bots.

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A robot canine has travel to beingness successful Sweden.

Startup IntuiCell says Luna has a functional integer tense system, and tin larn and accommodate conscionable similar a existent animal.

Co-founder Viktor Luthman says they haven’t programmed it to locomotion - it volition larn from a quality trainer instead:

“What we privation to amusement is that machines tin person genuine integer quality to larn caller things and to lick problems that they've ne'er seen before, conscionable similar humans and animals can."

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AI spot champion Nvidia plans to put hundreds of billions of dollars successful U.S.-made semiconductors and electronics implicit the adjacent 4 years.

That’s according to a study by the Financial Times

It quotes institution brag Jensen Huang arsenic saying Nvidia tin present marque its latest systems successful the U.S., with assistance from suppliers similar Taiwan elephantine TSMC.

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And OpenAI is readying a large planetary propulsion to cement its dominance successful the field.

Boss Sam Altman says Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap volition spearhead an enlargement drive.

Items connected the company’s to-do database see a concern with SoftBank and Oracle to physique a web of information centers.

OpenAI is successful the process of raising $40 cardinal successful caller backing to powerfulness its aboriginal growth.