Zhipu AI Completes B-4 Round Financing with Investments from Tencent and Alibaba


Alibaba plans to purchase tens of thousands of AMD MI308 AI chips, designed for the Chinese market and compliant with U.S. export controls, to meet its AI needs. This highlights Alibaba's focus on AI, though the MI308 differs from Nvidia's H20 in cost-effectiveness and security.....
Alibaba's Qwen-Image-Layered model decomposes static photos into multiple RGBA layers with transparent backgrounds, enabling structured editing akin to Photoshop and overcoming traditional AI's limitations in whole-image redrawing.....
Tencent's AI assistant 'Yuanbao' faces user doubts over its high-quality responses, suspected of human intervention. The company denies this, stating it's fully AI-generated, highlighting its high EQ and quick, accurate replies.....
Tencent enhances its AI strategy by restructuring R&D, establishing new departments for AI infrastructure, data, and computing platforms to build full-stack capabilities. The strategy upgrades to a trinity of 'infrastructure + engineering + application scenarios', with former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu appointed as Chief AI Scientist.....
Tencent restructures its large model R&D, establishing AI Infra, AI Data, and Data Computing Platform departments to enhance full-chain competitiveness from computing power to data. Vincesyao appointed as Chief AI Scientist, reporting directly to President Liu Chi Ping.....