Dowson Tong, CEO of the cloud and smart industries group at Tencent, spoke with CNBC’s Emily Tan in an exclusive interview ahead of a big AI reveal.
India's consumer market set to become the world's third largest by 2027, behind the U.S. and China Baidu and several other Chinese companies received the green light in the last few weeks to release AI-powered chatbots to the public.
Similar to ChatGPT, the bots purport to respond to queries in a human-like, conversational fashion — but primarily in Chinese. Some, such asOpenAI's ChatGPT isn't officially available in China. The chatbot releases follow new Chinese regulation on generative AI that took effect Aug. 15. When asked about the rules, Tong pointed out that such artificial intelligence is so new that no one knows what impact it will have on society. "It's prudent to put in some guardrails in place," he said. That will help make sure the technology or the services being offered are of high enough quality so they don't create and distribute false information, he said. Chinese authorities said the"interim" rules that took effect last month would not apply to companies developing the AI tech as long as the product was not available to the mass public.Development constraints While Beijing has shown it is more supportive of generative AI than initially feared, Chinese companies also face. The most cutting edge versions of the high-tech chips, known as graphics processing units , allow companies to train AI models. "The constraint that we're facing will hinder the progress, the speed of development," Tong told CNBC in response to a question aboutHe noted demand for computing power overall far exceeds supply in China. To mitigate the shortage, he said companies are"focusing on specific use cases, building models of the appropriate size." "And we are hoping that the supply of the GPU compute will be larger in the coming months, and therefore the development of these technologies can get faster."Tencent is just one of many companies in China — ranging from startups to phone maker Huawei — that have rushed to announce AI products this year. In August,
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