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...Google is developing its own powerful LaMDA foundation model, while Microsoft, which runs the Bing search engine, has invested heavily in OpenAI....
...Last month, China’s lead epidemiologist Liang Wannian said there was “no timeline” for an exit from zero-Covid rules....
...Perhaps this was because of their ancient predilection for eating hot food, cut into bite-sized pieces, from cauldrons of boiling liquid (a preference that chopsticks expert Q Edward Wang suggests may also...
...“The machine learning process that trained the AI model is looking for patterns in the data, so individual personal information was really not needed,” said Xu Liang, deputy chief engineer at Ping An Tech...
...Due to their focus on innovative drugs, Chinese biotechs “need talent from foreign companies,” said Zhao Bing, a pharmaceuticals analyst at UBS....
...The departure of Mr Liang has raised questions over the future investment strategy of the two remaining founders....
...It is easy to go to Yahoo or Bing. But this is where the argument becomes broader with complainants saying that they can never rival Google because its dominance gives it enormous data flows....
...Such themes — redundant labour; displacement — constantly recur in China’s independent documentary movement, stemming from that epic 2003 trilogy West of the Tracks, in which Wang Bing recorded the obliteration...
...Whitbread-owned Costa Coffee also plans to double its China stores, to 700 by 2018, according to Esteban Liang, Costa managing director for Asia....
...No, but four of the company’s top Chinese executives were arrested in July, and one, Liang Hong, made a television confession, as did Weng Jianyong, head of the Shanghai Linjiang travel agency used by GSK...
...A Q&A will immediately follow....
...The story goes back to 1993, when works by now-famous names such as Fang Lijun, Wang Guangyi, Zhang Peili, Xu Bing, Liu Ye, Feng Mengbo, Ding Yi as well as Li Shan and Sun Liang were shown at the first contemporary...
...In 1999, trekking in the Himalayas, the Chinese artist Xu Bing explained a particular sense of resonance: “Sitting on top of a mountain, facing another mountain, I sketched a mountain....
...A “short Q&A” will follow the prepared remarks from Steve Ballmer and Tony Bates....
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