Chimera monkeys, export controls, benchmark cheating, black markets, and job interviews via LLM
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- China has unveiled the world's first 1.2T ultra-high-speed next-generation Internet backbone, connecting Beijing, Wuhan, and Guangzhou. (S&T Daily, 11/13/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2590
- A Chinese AI company founder reflects on the challenges that U.S. semiconductor export controls pose for China's AI industry and prospects for circumvention and substitution. (Leiphone, 11/13/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2591
- A new carbon capture & storage project, which would be China's largest, was approved for construction at a coal-fired power plant under development in Xinjiang. (S&T Daily, 11/11/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2589
- For the first time, Chinese researchers have successfully developed chimera monkeys using a high proportion of embryonic stem cells. (S&T Daily, 11/10/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2579
- China's "digital human" marketing industry is brutally competitive and increasingly industrialized, posing challenges for the operators of these virtual marketers and the businesses that sell through them. (Leiphone, 11/09/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2580
- China's tunnel boring machine (TBM) sector has advanced tremendously over the past 20 years and now accounts for 70% of the global market. (S&T Daily, 11/09/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2568
- Colorful anecdotes, anonymous quotes, and sky-high prices illustrate how China's online black market for NVIDIA chips is booming as U.S. export controls tighten. (36kr, 11/09/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2570
- Chinese financial institutions are experimenting with AI interviews in which potential hires answer questions from, and are scored by, AI programs. (36kr, 11/07/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2569
- Simou Technology released IndustryGPT V1.0, the world's first large language model made specifically for manufacturing (Zhidx, 11/07/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2552
- A skeptical take on the technical capabilities and financial prospects of leading Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI and its peers. (36kr, 11/06/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2550
- 01.ai, founded by Kai-Fu Lee, open-sourced two new Chinese and English large models with the world's longest context windows - a record-breaking 200,000 tokens. (36kr, 11/06/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2551
- "Dolphin 1," a Chinese ship that uses high-tech monitoring, data analysis, and digital simulations to enhance navigation made its maiden voyage. (S&T Daily, 11/02/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2527
- 46 Chinese scientists have been chosen for the second iteration of the New Cornerstone Research Project, a Tencent-sponsored funding program for basic and exploratory research. (Leiphone, 11/01/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2525
- A critique of the widely discussed SuperCLUE benchmark and the Chinese LLM-based voice assistants it is often used to evaluate, which may be less capable and useful than advertised. (36kr, 11/01/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2526
- A detailed profile of Zhipu AI's ChatGLM3 model, highlighting comparisons between the GLM and GPT architectures, the benefits of open-sourcing models, and Zhipu's use of domestic chips. (Leiphone, 10/30/23) https://scout.eto.tech?id=2510