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Sunday, 12 February 2023

ChatGPT craze reaches China + January transfer window breaks records

Chinese tech giants riding the ChatGPT trend: Tech giants Alibaba and Baidu have both banked on the buzz around Microsoft’s OpenAI ChatGPT and made announcements last week about their own AI models, Reuters reports. OpenAI is not available to users in China, Hong Kong, Iran, Russia, and parts of Africa including Egypt — though some people are able to get around these restrictions with the help of virtual private networks and international phone numbers.

The tech behind ChatGPT is gaining traction in China: Several Chinese companies are using ChatGPT’s underlying technology to improve their users’ experiences in myriad ways. The Shenzhen-based Proximai — which provides AI capabilities to the Aerospace community — took advantage of ChatGPT’s tech to debut a virtual character into its social app, the newswire reports.

The English Premier League buys its way to the top: English football clubs spent a record-breaking EUR 830 mn during the January transfer window — nearly double the previous record — indicating the Premier League’s growing financial sway over the most watched sport in the world, the Financial Times reports. In fact, nine of the top 10 European-club spenders this season are from England. Chelsea, for example, spent more money than the top clubs in Italy, Spain, Germany, and France combined.

And the European leagues are not pleased. The large size of spending on seasonal transfers adds fuel to the fire that some European leagues have already started by saying that the top English clubs have gotten an unfair advantage from looser financial rules — especially after the Premier League accused the incumbent champion, Manchester City, of more than a hundred financial violations. The English Premier League’s overspending in the transfer markets is “dangerous” and “can jeopardize the sustainability of European football,” chief of Spain’s La Liga Javier Tebas told the FT. Smaller European leagues are also protesting the game’s “broader inequalities,” which are mostly caused by the Premier League's financial power making its clubs grow while other European clubs shrink.

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