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Tencent Cloud Cuts Prices of Core Products, with Highest Reduction Reaching 40%

A new round of price wars in the cloud service market is underway. Following Alibaba Cloud's announcement of a comprehensive price reduction for its core products, Tencent Cloud also announced on May 16 that it will reduce prices for multiple core cloud products.

Alibaba Cloud Founder Wang Jian to Return to Company with New Title

Wang Jian, the founder of Alibaba Cloud, will return to the cloud computing division of Chinese internet giant Alibaba. His return to the company after a decade and how he will regain prominence in the spotlight are currently under scrutiny.

ByteDance’s Volcano Engine Releases Large Model Training Cloud Platform

On April 18th, ByteDance's subsidiary, the Volcano Engine, released a series of self-developed cloud products including DPU and launched a new version of its machine learning platform.

Baidu AI Cloud Releases “Wenxin Qianfan” Large-Scale Model Platform

Baidu AI Cloud released an all-in-one enterprise-level large-scale model platform called "Wenxin Qianfan", which will provide customers with language model services.

NVIDIA Offers AI Supercomputing Capabilities through Chinese Cloud Service Providers

On March 21st, local time, Huang Renxun, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, disclosed new artificial intelligence and chip technologies at GTC, an annual technology summit for software developers. The most impressive announcement was that the company will rent powerful and expensive supercomputers that were used to develop artificial intelligence technologies such as ChatGPT to almost all enterprises.

Baidu’s Ernie Bot-Integrated Cloud Service to Launch on March 27

Baidu, a Chinese technology company that recently launched its ChatGPT-like platform called Ernie Bot, is preparing to introduce a cloud service on March 27 that will integrate the large language model (LLM) and generative AI product.

Alibaba Cloud Experiences System Failure Surpassing 12 Hours

Alibaba's cloud computing unit suffered a system shutdown on December 19 that caused services to be interrupted for more than 12 hours. The anomaly was triggered by the failure of refrigeration equipment at a data center site operated by PCCW.

Alibaba’s Self-Developed CPU Yitian 710 Sees Large-Scale Commercial Use

On November 3, Zhang Jianfeng, President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, announced that the self-developed Cloud-native processor "Yitian 710" has now been put into large scale use in several commercial fields.

Real-time Interactive Service Provider Agora to Lay Off 30% of Employees

Agora, a Nasdaq-listed real-time voice and video engagement service provider, is carrying out a business adjustment with the "optimized" proportion of personnel positions to be about 30%.

Dissecting Tencent’s Operations in the Automotive Field

Tencent Intelligent Mobility has built a rich auto service ecology with more than 40 car companies such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi, with more than 150 models. Its auto business is actually progressing quite well.

Latency of TCL and Tencent’s 4K Cloud Games as Low as 83ms

Chinese electronics company TCL announced on September 7 that its cooperation with Tencent START has achieved further progress, including bringing players a higher-definition and extremely low delay gaming experience.

Baidu AI Cloud Releases New Generation Cloud Strategy

Baidu AI Cloud, an intelligent cloud computing brand under Chinese technology giant Baidu, released a new strategy consisting of the "Integration of Cloud and Intelligence, Deepening the Industry" and "Integration of Cloud and Intelligence 3.0".

Chip Design Firm Vastai Technologies Demonstrates 7nm Cloud GPU

Vastai Technologies, a Chinese high-end chip design company, released a series of new products on September 3 at the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), and unveiled the SG100, a 7nm cloud GPU chip.

Baidu Netdisk Denies Manually Reviewing User Photos

Baidu Netdisk, a cloud storage product owned by Chinese tech giant Baidu, issued a statement on the evening of August 18, denying rumors currently circulating on social media that the company was manually reviewing end users' photos hosted on their platforms.

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