Chinese IT giants have begun opening offices in Silicon Valley to circumvent US sanctions and attract cutting-edge AI talent. The Financial Times writes about this.
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The United States previously banned the export to China of the latest Nvidia chips needed for AI development, but access to these technologies is not limited to American companies associated with or owned by Chinese technology giants, the newspaper notes.
- In this context Alibaba It posts jobs on LinkedIn seeking AI engineers, product managers and researchers with experience at OpenAI and big US tech companies. According to the FT, the computing giant is looking for specialists to join the team that is developing the search engine Accio, based on artificial intelligence, designed for small businesses.
- food delivery service meituan It has been aggressively expanding its California team in recent months as management fears falling behind in artificial intelligence, two people familiar with the matter told the Financial Times. According to them, Meituan has created a team that is exploring the use of generative AI, including translating menus into other languages and creating virtual assistants.
- You ByteDance In the USA there are several teams focused on different projects. According to the FT, one of them is introducing AI features to TikTok, the other is developing a large Doubao language model together with colleagues from China and Singapore.
- To the owner of China’s largest search engine Baidu He once owned a large research lab in Silicon Valley that worked on speech recognition and autonomous driving. In 2017 several hundred people worked there. Financial Times sources say that following internal conflict within the company and deteriorating relations between Beijing and Washington, Baidu has significantly reduced its presence in the United States.
US authorities are not happy that Chinese IT companies are extending their influence in Silicon Valley. Previously, the US Department of Commerce proposed forcing cloud providers to verify the identity of users who train AI models using US computing power and report their activities, writes FT.
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