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South China Morning Post
a day ago
- Business
- South China Morning Post
More than 90% of Hong Kong's AI supercomputing capacity in use, Cyberport says
Hong Kong's ambition to create an artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem is bearing fruit, with more than 90 per cent of the city's flagship supercomputing centre at Cyberport now in use, according to officials. Advertisement The AI Supercomputing Centre, which began operations in December, is a cornerstone of the government's strategy to foster a vibrant local AI ecosystem. Authorities have earmarked HK$3 billion (US$418.6 million) in subsidies to support AI model development and applications. Cyberport said on Friday that it had received 20 applications for the subsidy programme, with 10 projects approved so far. Among the recipients is the Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Centre, which is developing a foundational audio model and a ChatGPT-style tool used by more than 70 per cent of government departments. The centre has also launched a multilingual transcription tool capable of detecting Cantonese, Mandarin and English. The government is seeking to boost computing resources for start-ups as part of its ambition to transform Hong Kong into a leading technology hub, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong said in June. Plans are under way for a new supercomputing centre at Sandy Ridge in the Northern Metropolis – a government project to transform a large swathe of land in the New Territories into an economic hub. At the Cyberport event, Yang Hongxia, one of China's top AI scientists and head of computing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, said access to the centre's resources helped her project achieve breakthroughs in medical applications. Advertisement 'By collaborating with the top cancer treatment hospitals in Hong Kong and mainland China, we have enhanced data analysis and localised applications in the specialised field of cancer treatment based on vertical large models and specialised models,' Yang said.
South China Morning Post
a day ago
- Business
- South China Morning Post
More than 90% of Hong Kong's AI supercomputing capacity in use, Cyberport says
Hong Kong's ambition to create an artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem is bearing fruit, with more than 90 per cent of the city's flagship supercomputing centre at Cyberport now in use, according to officials. The AI Supercomputing Centre, which began operations in December, is a cornerstone of the government's strategy to foster a vibrant local AI ecosystem. Authorities have earmarked HK$3 billion (US$418.6 million) in subsidies to support AI model development and applications. Cyberport said on Friday that it had received 20 applications for the subsidy programme, with 10 projects approved so far. Among the recipients is the Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Centre, which is developing a foundational audio model and a ChatGPT-style tool used by more than 70 per cent of government departments. The centre has also launched a multilingual transcription tool capable of detecting Cantonese, Mandarin and English. The government is seeking to boost computing resources for start-ups as part of its ambition to transform Hong Kong into a leading technology hub, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong said in June. Plans are under way for a new supercomputing centre at Sandy Ridge in the Northern Metropolis – a government project to transform a large swathe of land in the New Territories into an economic hub. At the Cyberport event, Yang Hongxia, one of China's top AI scientists and head of computing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, said access to the centre's resources helped her project achieve breakthroughs in medical applications. 'By collaborating with the top cancer treatment hospitals in Hong Kong and mainland China, we have enhanced data analysis and localised applications in the specialised field of cancer treatment based on vertical large models and specialised models,' Yang said.
South China Morning Post
25-02-2025
- Science
- South China Morning Post
AI's new frontier: affordable, domain-specific models are coming, says PolyU scientist
A renowned professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), and a former artificial intelligence (AI) scientist at Chinese tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba Group Holding , is trying to work with experts across different fields to develop 'affordable' domain-specific models. Advertisement Yang Hongxia, who joined PolyU's Department of Computing last year after decades in the technology industry, is at the forefront of an effort to use the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in specialised applications. Her efforts come as Chinese companies, spurred by the success of start-up DeepSeek , move to open-source their AI models, giving greater access to the tech. 'While current LLMs have made impressive strides in general intelligence, they still fall short in specific domains in fields such as manufacturing and biochemistry,' Yang said in an interview with the South China Morning Post. Alibaba owns the Post. 'This gap exists because much of the relevant data for these fields hasn't been incorporated into AI model development, because they cannot be crawled from the general web' she said. Yang added that general-purpose models require adjustments to fit specialised domains. Yang Hongxia is at the forefront of developing affordable specialised AI models. Photo: Sina Yang leads PolyU's newly established AI+ Academy, which aims to drive fundamental scientific breakthroughs. The team, primarily composed of students from domestic universities including PolyU, Zhejiang University and Harbin Institute of Technology, is working on 'democratising AI development'.
