{"id":172640,"date":"2023-09-23T14:29:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/chinas-ai-war-of-a-hundred-models-heads-for-a-shakeout"},"modified":"2023-09-23T14:29:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:29:32","slug":"chinas-ai-war-of-a-hundred-models-heads-for-a-shakeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/chinas-ai-war-of-a-hundred-models-heads-for-a-shakeout","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s AI \u2018war of a hundred models\u2019 heads for a shakeout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-ai-war-of-a-hundred-models-heads-for-a-shakeout2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG, Sept 22 (Reuters) \u2014 China\u2019s craze over generative artificial intelligence has triggered a flurry of product announcements from startups and tech giants on an almost daily basis, but investors are warning a shakeout is imminent as cost and profit pressures grow.<\/p>\n<p>The buzz in China, first ignited by the success of <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/chatgpt-traffic-slips-again-third-month-row-2023-09-07\/\" class=\"\">OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT<\/a> almost a year ago, has given rise to what a senior Tencent <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/0700.HK\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">(0700.HK)<\/a> executive described this month as \u201cwar of a <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/chinas-tencent-says-large-language-ai-model-hunyuan-available-enterprise-use-2023-09-07\/\" class=\"\">hundred models<\/a>\u201d, as it and rivals from Baidu <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/9888.HK\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">(9888.HK)<\/a> to Alibaba <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/9988.HK\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">(9988.HK)<\/a> to Huawei promote their offerings.<\/p>\n<p>China now has at least 130 large language models (LLMs), accounting for 40% of the global total and just behind the United States\u2019 50% share, according to brokerage CLSA. Additionally, companies have also announced dozens of \u201cindustry-specific LLMs\u201d that link to their core model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG, Sept 22 (Reuters) \u2014 China\u2019s craze over generative artificial intelligence has triggered a flurry of product announcements from startups and tech giants on an almost daily basis, but investors are warning a shakeout is imminent as cost and profit pressures grow. The buzz in China, first ignited by the success of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172640","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}