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Thunder Software Tech and the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence teamed up to set up a joint
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lab to accelerate the application of AI in intelligent cars, robots, industries, and IoT, the Chinese smart-device software firm said today..

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I saw this today
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Cuda has over 4million developers and 40 million downloads. Given where Ascend started off, it's amazing that it has narrowed the gap this much with Cuda to the point where it has almost half the number of developers.

And in terms of the entire ecosystem with iFlyTek have 4.95 million developers, the number of devs involved in China's AI industry is huge.
 
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Interesting. Anyone got info about the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence?
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1650359007394291713
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Apparently, it's a big deal in the international AI scientific community.

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The BAAI held its 5th annual AI conference in Beijing. And the speakers lineup was a who’s who of the generative AI industry and scientific community. The fact that the conference took place on a Friday and Saturday deterred few from showing up. (In fact, hosting events on the weekends, from small meetups to large conferences, is a common occurrence and distinct cultural trait of the Chinese engineering and startup community – weekdays are for working on your company, not going to events that look like work.)
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The conference organizers proudly boasted the lineup:
  • Four Turing award winners (Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Joseph Sifakis, and Andrew Yao)
  • Max Tegmark (MIT professor and president of the Future of Life Institute, which called for
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    on AI development that Elon Musk signed)
  • Stuart Russell (famous Berkeley professor, whose seminal
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    every computer science student who studied AI has read or referenced at some point)
  • Co-founders of buzzy AI startups like Anthropic (Christopher Olah) and Midjourney (David Holz)
  • Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI, whose celebrity power drew media attention to the otherwise very technical and academic event from even the
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    )
  • Many other scientists, researchers, and practitioners from the likes of Nvidia, Meta, Google, etc.
What’s noteworthy is that every speaker either attended in-person (like Tegmark and Russell) or spoke live remotely (like Altman, LeCun), even when speakers were given the option to pre-record. The head of BAAI, professor Huang Tiejun of Peking University, could barely contain his (justifiably) proud smile when introducing Yann LeCun by sharing the fact that he was dialing-in live from France where the local time was 4am, even though he was given the choice to record his presentation. (This revelation was met with loud cheers and applauses from the audience.)
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Professor Huang introduces Yann LeCun and Max Tegmark. You can watch the session recording:
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The BAAI – a nonprofit research lab with the backing of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Beijing city government – is punching well above its weight. Huang shyly suggested during his remarks that there is probably no other AI conference in the world that can convene a speaker lineup of the same caliber and star power; he is probably right.
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