Establishing an AI team in Silicon Valley
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Joo Jong-guk = Chinese technology giants such as Alibaba are trying to establish a foothold in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry in Silicon Valley, the cradle of technological innovation in the United States.
It is reported that the company is also trying to ‘siphon talent’ from competitors with the goal of somehow developing cutting-edge AI technology despite the US’s control of technology.
Citing anonymous sources, the Financial Times (FT) reported on the 19th (local time) that Chinese technology groups have been expanding their business base in Silicon Valley, California, USA over the past several months.
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Currently, Chinese companies are being hit by the U.S. government’s ban on exports to China of cutting-edge NVIDIA AI semiconductors, which are essential for AI model development.
However, U.S.-based companies, even if they are related to or owned by Chinese companies, can access cutting-edge AI chips through data centers located in the United States.
Chinese companies are taking advantage of this and are trying to expand their U.S. branches.
Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce company, is recruiting an AI team in Sunnyvale, near Silicon Valley.
It is known that engineers, product managers, and AI researchers who worked at major U.S. IT companies, including OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, were approached.
We are recruiting applied scientists, machine learning engineers, and product marketing managers by posting job postings on LinkedIn.
The AI team will focus on an AI-based search engine (Accio) being prepared by Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group, the source said.
A recruiter at Alibaba sent an email to technical personnel in the U.S. suggesting a job change and said that Alibaba plans to spin off its AI team in California as an independent startup.
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A researcher from OpenAI said he had received text messages asking for job changes from Chinese IT companies, including China’s food delivery platform Meituan and Alibaba. He asked in detail what kind of experience he had at the company and said he would provide employment opportunities.
Sources said Meituan executives have been building a team in Silicon Valley over the past few months after realizing they were lagging in the AI space.
Meituan CEO Wang Xing returned co-founder Wang Huiwen to the company to lead the next-generation AI team called GN06, which is exploring AI-related business directions such as menu translation functions and virtual assistants.
Some employees are said to be splitting their working hours between Silicon Valley and China.
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TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is believed to have already established a solid AI presence in Silicon Valley.
Several teams are working on various projects, and one research team is focusing on integrating AI features into TikTok. There is also a group of employees in China and Singapore working on the Doubao chatbot model.
Baidu, which operates China’s largest search engine, also operated an AI research center in Silicon Valley, hiring scientists and engineers researching fields such as voice recognition and autonomous driving.
At its peak in 2017, the number of employees reached several hundred, but the research center has since shrunk significantly as key personnel have left due to internal conflicts within the company and deteriorating relations between the United States and China.
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2024/11/19 10:09 Sent
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