Plus: humanoid robots, video generators and the road to AGI
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Scout is ETO's discovery tool for Chinese-language news and commentary on technology issues. See the latest editors’ picks, browse the feed by topic, or sign up for customized e-mail alerts at https://scout.eto.tech.- China's smart data center sector topped 246 exaflops in June, notwithstanding challenges related to energy consumption, uneven utilization, and fragmented hardware ecosystems. (S&T Daily, 10/01/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3843
- Snapchat's early engineering team included many young Chinese engineers, whose successes at the company and afterward are described in this lengthy profile. (AI Tech Talk, 09/29/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3844
- Corning Advanced Optics, a U.S. leader in glass substrates crucial for semiconductor packaging, is expanding its Chinese operations. (EE Times China, 09/27/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3836
- ByteDance launched beta versions of two impressive AI models for video generation, PixelDance and Seaweed. (Leiphone, 09/24/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3820
- A detailed overview of Beijing's nation-leading humanoid robot sector, which boasts significant R&D advances, rapid growth, and high investment in recent months. (Zhidx, 09/23/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3834
- The Chinese Academy of Sciences launched version 3 of a 10 billion parameter AI model designed specifically for processing remote sensing imagery. (S&T Daily, 09/22/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3814
- China's Kuaishou released a new version of its popular Kling AI video generation model, giving the public access to higher-definition, better-quality synthetic video tooling. (36kr, 09/22/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3835
- A detailed profile of China's experimental Innovation X research satellite, its development, and its achievements since launching in 2022. (S&T Daily, 09/21/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3815
- Alibaba's CEO delivers lofty thoughts on the future of AI, addressing the road to AGI, the massive investment he believes is needed to get there, and his vision of a future of ubiquitious reasoning capability. (Zhidx, 09/19/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3805
- China National Chemical Engineering Corporation is pursuing breakthroughs in manufacturing nylon, solar panels, and high-end production equipment to reduce dependence on imports. (S&T Daily, 09/18/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3802
- The Chinese Cyberspace Administration is seeking public feedback on regulations for identifying AI-generated content. (S&T Daily, 09/14/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3794
- Profiles of ten Chinese humanoid robot companies leading a rapidly growing, heavily funded domestic industry. (Zhidx, 09/14/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3793
- In a wide-ranging roundtable, Chinese professors and journalists discuss domestic attitudes towards liberal arts education in a high-tech era and the likely impacts of AI technology on different careers. (36kr, 09/09/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3787
- Even as China seeks to decouple from NVIDIA, multiple leading domestic GPU producers are facing challenges in funding and manufacturing, though one notable firm is making progress toward an IPO. (36kr, 09/05/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3779
- An industry official bemoaned China's ongoing dependence on foreign automotive chips at a recent forum, calling for more effort in areas like chiplets and RISC-V to help close the gap. (36kr, 09/02/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3759
- A group of Chinese scholars urges improving the open-source ecosystem around China's LLMs and describe significant challenges China faces in this domain. (Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 08/29/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3821
- In interviews, Chinese AI chip salesmen describe their struggles selling domestically produced AI chips and the continuing dominance of NVIDIA's GPU ecosystem. (CSET curation, 08/08/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3767
- A new Beijing municipal industrial policy describes how the city government plans to integrate AI into a wide variety of industries in the next two years, from education and healthcare to surveillance and propaganda. (CSET curation, 07/26/24) https://scout.eto.tech?id=3755