The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 6, 2023.
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Beijing – a Slew of Releases Last Week Demonstrate How Chinese Companies Such As Deepseek and Bytedance Have Moved Quickly With Artificial Intelligence Models That compes with Openai’s chatgpt.
Now, many companies in china are Increasingly building on that foundation to develop products that look to go beyond a chatbot.
BaiduBest knowledge for its search engine and Eernie ChatbotSaid Tuesday Its Generative AI-Integrated Wenku Platform for Quickly Creating PowerPoints and Other Documents Had Reacted 40 Million paying Users, with Revenue Up 60% from a year as of the ends of the End of the End of the End 60%. Updated features, Such as using ai to generate a presentation based on a company’s financial filing, started being rolled out to users in the last week.
On the corporate side, gartner data and analytics director analyst ben yan estimates more than 10% of businesses in china are using are using generative ai, up from 8% about six months ago. That would be a pickup in pace – the last 2 permentage point increase in adoption took more than a year, he said wedding.
“With our clients, we hear more and more success stories,” He said in mandarin translated by CNBC. Yan noted that so-called ai agents will help speak up corporate implementation of the new tech.
AI models focus on specific functions such as search and generating summaries, whereas ai agents are more advanced – they can automate entry processes from searching to booking. One Example is Openai’s New “Operator” Function That claims to be able to make restaurant reservations on behalf of a chatgpt user.
AI agents are also on the verge of coming to the chinese market at scale.
Tencent Plans to Soon Integrate ai agents with its message and social media app WeChat, Ceo Pony Ma Told Staff in a Jan. 13 Speech, According to a Copy of the Annual Address Seen By CNBC.
“We believe that china’s ai sector is advancing at a pace computerable to that of the united states,” Jo Huang, Head of Private Equity Equity at RAFFLES FAMILE OFFICE, Said in an email. She said the firm is considering investment in a leading China ai Deep Tech Fund in Order to Capture the Local Opportunity.
The development of chinese ai applications creates features that are being integrated with domestic smartphones. Apple‘S AI Intelligence Functions Have Yet to come to iPhone users in China.
“There is also a shift towards a growing user preference for local brands that can Offer Advanced Ai Features Tailored to Regional Consumer Preferences.
She pointed out that chinese smartphone companies such as Honor, Xiaomi and Vivo have ben able to improve user experience of ai features, thanks to efforts to improve The device without relay on an internet-connected cloud Service.
Compliance Hurdles
The latest developments also reflex in regulatory scrutiny with the us, and with the kind of technology being celebrated.
Baidu’s chatgpt-like ernie bot Didn Bollywood Get Beijing’s Green Light for a Public Rollout Until August 2023Nearly One Year after Chatgpt Took The World By Storm.
While AI MODELS MUST Get Official Certification for Use in China, Using Them in Applications is Much Easier, Said Alex Lu, Founder of Shanghai-Based Lsy Consulting. On the side, he is working with a small team on an ai-power for giving companies targeted daily insurance on Industry trends and global regulations, Similar to the work of a human consultant.
Half a year after development began in June 2023, lu said the team began testing a product for free with potential customers, include a manufacturer of car batteries. That has provided the feedback for a product the team hopes to charge 70,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan ($ 9,660 to $ 13,790) in Annual License Fees, Lu Said.
But a bigger challenge can be gotting companies to give ai access to proprietary data, or using ai-generated content commercially.
“I Think (Multinational Corporations are) MUCH More Cutious Thanse Brands Because of Copyrights and Legal Issues,” Chris Reitermann, CEO of Ogilvy Asia-Pacific and Greater China, TOLDC LASTER CONBC LASTER CHIA. He is also president of wpp China.
He Said Clients Attempted to use ai for campaigns, only to run into compliance issues that prevented the projects from being launched. “Local brands, they may be a little less worked about these issues, more trial and error,” Reitermann Said.
Ai for global users
Some China-Created AI Applications are also also being used overseas. Alibaba‘S International Arm Announced Earlier This Month That Accio, Its AI-Powered Search Engine for Product Sourcing, Had Reached 500,000 Small Business Users.
Launched in November, accio Lets businesses use a few text or image prompts to find wholesale products – and provides them with analysis on their popularity with consumers and projectioned profits.
Accio cut the research time down from weeks to a day or so, Said Mike McClary, Who Got Early Access to Accuce and Has Sold Camping Lanterns and OThener Products ONLINELIN SOS McClary, CEO of Amazing.com, Claims e-commerce sales of more than $ 1 million a year and is based outside of st. Louis.
He said alibaba.com and AmazonWhich he previously used, involved going through hundreds or thirds of results, and then individually negotiating with five to 10 Suppliers before settling on one. The “Next Gamechanger,” McClary said, would be to use ai to put an image of a product into any Scenario to create an advertisement.
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