China’s top internet regulator says its recent efforts to control AI misuse are already showing strong results. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced last week that more than 3,500 illegal AI-related apps have been removed from online platforms. Authorities ...
MiniMax, a Shanghai-based AI startup, has introduced its latest large language model, M1. The company says the model was trained at a fraction of the cost of top-tier models like OpenAI’s GPT-4. According to MiniMax, M1 was trained for just ...
Naver shares surged nearly 18 percent on Wednesday, hitting a 52-week high, as investors responded positively to South Korea’s new AI-focused government policies and favorable analysis from JP Morgan. The tech firm closed at 243,500 won ($177) on the Kospi, ...
Naver has announced a new partnership with NVIDIA, Nexus Core Systems, and Lloyd Capital to build an advanced AI data center in Morocco. The project aims to support AI computing needs across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The ...
NAVER officially launched its new AI-driven shopping app, NAVER Plus Store, on March 12, 2025. The app introduces a range of smart features designed to personalize online shopping experiences and support sellers with advanced targeting tools. AI Commerce at the ...
Yandex is pushing forward in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics. Central to this effort is YandexGPT, its proprietary generative AI platform, which now powers a range of services and supports business and research applications. The company has restructured ...
Naver has announced that it will introduce a new AI-powered search interface called the “AI Tab” in 2026. This new feature aims to shift search from keyword-based results to a more interactive and personalized experience. The announcement was made on ...
When expanding into China’s digital market, most global brands focus on Baidu, the country’s leading search engine. While Baidu’s advertising and SEO tools are well known, fewer marketers are aware of Baidu Zhidao (百度知道), its long-running community Q&A platform that ...
Yandex has introduced Alchemist, a supervised fine-tuning dataset aimed at improving the performance of text-to-image models. With just 3,350 high-quality image-text pairs, the dataset delivers significant performance gains across several benchmarks. It is available as an open-source release on Hugging ...
China’s convenience stores are seeing major growth in 2024. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, retail sales at these stores grew 9.1% year-over-year in the first four months. That’s nearly twice the overall market growth of 4.7%. In contrast, ...
