{"id":164926,"date":"2023-06-01T10:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/baidus-145m-ai-fund-signals-chinas-push-for-ai-self-reliance"},"modified":"2023-06-01T10:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:25:50","slug":"baidus-145m-ai-fund-signals-chinas-push-for-ai-self-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/baidus-145m-ai-fund-signals-chinas-push-for-ai-self-reliance","title":{"rendered":"Baidu\u2019s $145M AI fund signals China\u2019s push for AI self-reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/baidus-145m-ai-fund-signals-chinas-push-for-ai-self-reliance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-China decoupling is giving rise to a divided tech landscape between the two major economies, shaping the development of the red-hot area of generative AI, which turns text into various forms of content like prose, images, and videos.<\/p>\n<p>China, in order to reduce dependence on the U.S. technological foundation, has been pursuing its own large language models that match OpenAI\u2019s GPT models. But unlike the U.S., some of its most advanced AI endeavors are happening at established internet juggernauts, such as Baidu.<\/p>\n<p>The search engine and autonomous driving giant rolled out its counterpart to ChatGPT<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/16\/baidu-chatgpt-launch-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> in March<\/a>. Now the 23-year-old firm wants to have a stake in other AI startups, too. The company aims to have a stake in other AI startups. During a JPMorgan summit in China this week, Baidu\u2019s co-founder and CEO Robin Li <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/05\/31\/as-part-of-ai-push-chinese-tech-giant-baidu-is-now-rolling-out-an-ai-venture-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> the launch of a billion yuan ($145 million) fund to back generative AI companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.-China decoupling is giving rise to a divided tech landscape between the two major economies, shaping the development of the red-hot area of generative AI, which turns text into various forms of content like prose, images, and videos. China, in order to reduce dependence on the U.S. technological foundation, has been pursuing its own [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}