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...Official data showed retail sales rose 7.4 per cent in December, albeit against a low base in December 2022 when the pandemic swept across the country....
...The city on Thursday reported 4,338 new Covid cases for the previous day....
...In the first two months of this year, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations bloc was China’s biggest trading partner, with trade rising 4.8 per cent, followed by the EU, with which trade fell 4.1 per...
...The US electric-vehicle maker most recently offered incentives worth as much as Rmb34,600 ($4,800) to lure Chinese consumers to purchase Model 3 sedans and Model Y sport utility vehicles....
...But Alibaba’s accounts show that last year these revenues were 4 per cent below their 2021 peak....
...In Asia morning trading on Friday, Luxshare shares rose 4 per cent in Shenzhen while Pegatron’s shares dropped 4 per cent in Taipei....
...Since March, Baidu has released a series of upgrades, most recently unveiling Ernie 4.0, which Li claimed was comparable to OpenAI’s GPT-4. But the local competition is now rapidly catching up, too....
...Founder Robin Li said that when it came to understanding, generation, logic and memory, the company’s model is “in no way inferior to GPT-4”, referring to OpenAI’s latest software....
...Nomura raised its gross domestic product forecast for 2023 to 4.8 per cent from 4.6 per cent, but maintained a projection of 3.9 per cent for the following year and a “cautious growth outlook”....
...Jiang said Hunyuan was better than OpenAI’s GPT-4 LLM when it came to answering questions in Chinese about science and maths....
...Additional reporting by Nian Liu in Beijing...
...The apparent end to the crackdown on major tech groups has lifted the New York-listed shares of Ant sister company Alibaba 12 per cent in the past week, while the Hang Seng Tech index rose 4 per cent on...
...Just 2,777 US-themed titles were published that year, down from 4,213 in 2018. “At one point you couldn’t even publish Mark Twain’s works,” said Wu....
...Additional reporting by Wenjie Ding and Nian Liu...
...Users said the chatbot could create vivid pictures but it struggled with basic logic and was unable to write code like OpenAI’s GPT-4 could....
...Behind closed doors, consumers are logging on to the food delivery app Meituan and bargain shopping platform Pinduoduo to secure essentials, write the Financial Times’ Eleanor Olcott, Nian Liu and Ryan McMorrow...
...Chinese officials have not reported any Covid-related deaths nationwide since December 4....
...Additional reporting by Nian Liu...
...seen its implied valuation halved on private markets after the once high-flying internet group was forced to shelve its US initial public offering last year, write the Financial Times’ Eleanor Olcott and Nian...
...Shares in Hon Hai Precision Industry, Foxconn’s Taiwan-listed entity, fell 1.4 per cent on Monday....
...In April, the bank had predicted growth of between 4 and 5 per cent. Chinese economic data reveal the continued economic damage wrought by the implementation of lockdowns....
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