- Chinese tech giants ByteDance (TikTok), Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba simply can’t get enough of Nvidia’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) products. This news comes from Chinese media, which reports that TikTok creator, ByteDance, alone, has already caught up (in pure dollar terms) to what the entire Chinese market ordered from Nvidia in 2022.[1]
- Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the global rise of artificial intelligence with Bill Gates on Friday and said he welcomed U.S. firms including Microsoft bringing their AI tech to China.[2]
- Today, Meta has announced its latest generative AI model, following on the back of ImageBind is Voicebox, which is designed to help creators with its ability to perform speech generation tasks such as audio editing, sampling, and stylizing, even if it wasn’t specifically trained to do so through in-context learning.[3]
- AI-generated ‘Family Guy’ livestream banned after making a bomb threat.[4]
Sources:
[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinas-bytedance-has-gobbled-up-dollar1-billion-of-nvidia-gpus-for-ai-this-year
[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-xi-tells-bill-gates-he-welcomes-us-ai-tech-china-2023-06-16/
[3] https://www.neowin.net/news/meta-announces-voicebox-its-generative-ai-model-for-audio/
[4] https://www.nme.com/news/tv/ai-generated-family-guy-livestream-banned-after-making-a-bomb-threat-3457051
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