Asian tech roundup: China has a ChatGPT rival

Plus: New sci-tech focus in China, and India's renewed importance at Apple

Tom Allen
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Asian tech roundup: China has a ChatGPT rival

Welcome to Computing's fortnightly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at China's data plans, Indian data breaches and Indonesian layoffs.

China Baidu has launched ERNIEbot, its ChatGPT rival. Executives admitted that the bot is still imperfect, but felt compelled to release it due to high demand. Source China is overhauling its...

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