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A profile of Derek Li, founder of China's top adaptive learning edtech Squirrel AI, whose business is fueled by the country's relentless academic pressure

could it actually work? … Bluesky: @nouveaux-horizons : They're gonna hate him when they grow up. John Berry / @aniccia : He is in China, where by national law a human has to be ready to takeover and ...

Report: Alibaba splits the team developing apps for its AI chatbot Qianwen from the team that builds its LLM, following similar moves by ByteDance and Baidu

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post :

Report: Alibaba splits the team developing apps for its AI chatbot Qianwen from the team that builds its LLM, following similar moves by ByteDance and Baidu

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post :

Baidu's PR chief Qu Jing reportedly left the company after criticism over her Douyin videos demanding that workers must be available 24 hours a day

Nectar Gan / CNN :

Baidu VP Qu Jing posted several videos on Douyin demeaning staff, intended to promote Baidu, that reignited criticism of Chinese tech companies' work culture

Financial Times :

Amazon adds Andrew Ng to its board to boost its AI expertise, as longtime MTV executive Judith McGrath steps down; Ng founded Google Brain and worked at Baidu

ByteDance co-founder and CEO Liang Rubo urges staff to resist mediocrity after the company missed the initial wave of generative AI, in a company-wide meeting

- Co-founder said the company showed signs of complacency  — Chinese peer Baidu claims its model can rival OpenAI's ChatGPT

Current and former employees detail Baidu's difficulty incubating new businesses including CEO Robin Li's leadership style and most talented staff leaving

Financial Times :

An interview with a Baidu robotaxi safety operator, who sits in the passenger seat and monitors how self-driving cars cope with Beijing's streets

Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @hkanji , @baidu_inc , and @zeyiyang Tweets: Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : Robotaxi safety operator is an occupation that exists only in our time, the result o...

To address the talent shortage in autonomous vehicle research, Baidu and several Chinese startups have set up research and development centers in Silicon Valley

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