China touts AI milestone: models generate more tokens than used in training

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A government-backed report says AI systems in China generated more inference tokens than the volume of data used to train them, a milestone it presents as evidence of wider AI adoption. The report was issued by the China Centre for Information Industry Development, which operates under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

For the first time, the amount of inference data generated by artificial intelligence systems in China has surpassed the amount of data used to train those systems, according to a new government-backed report, illustrating how the country is increasingly adopting AI at scale. The report released on Saturday by the China Centre for Information Industry Development (CCID), which operates under China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), cited recent official data showing that...