Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the tech industry, and China's most popular Netflix-like video streaming service iQiyi is sparing no effort to secure its leading position in the industry by applying AI technology to its service. Tang Xing, iQiyi's chief technology officer, announced last week at the iQiyi Technology & Entertainment World Conference in Beijing that the entertainment company is setting up an innovation lab to develop AI technology. He stressed that the company's AI strategies include improving user experience and optimizing commercialization. "A massive amount of content, large user base, and strong cloud computing power have made the online video industry enter the AI entertainment era at a faster pace," said Tang. He said that iQiyi has developed multiple AI-driven applications based on technologies such as natural language processing (NLP), and pattern and image recognition.

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has become a buzzword around the world. Just this Tuesday, Google's AI program AlphaGo defeated current Go world champion Ke Jie in the first out of three games in China. As AI technology emerges and AI-powered products become part of our lives, it makes people wonder its impact and to what extent people actually know about AI. With about 700 million users, China's news aggregator giant Toutiao conducted a survey in China with 3,088 valid samples, and released a report on how its users perceive AI. In short, the report shows that people in China have a vague understanding of AI products.

When you have a robot named Pudding, you know that you are in for a cute overload. Pudding was created by Roobo to be your child's best friend – it tells stories, plays music, teaches facts and vocabulary, and even reminds them to brush their teeth. Roobo also has a robotic dog named Dogmy that is a lot smarter than real dogs, but unfortunately not fluffy enough. Dogmy uses face recognition technology to warn if there is an intruder in the house and has a number of other intelligent features.

Do you know that two thirds of Chinese outbound travelers prefer individual travel? Data from the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) shows that Chinese outbound travelers reached 120 million in 2014, among whom 80 million chose self-guided tours. While we can appreciate the various options available in transportation, accommodation, and attractions, it can also become perplexing and even frustrating to dig through a sea of information just for a travel plan. "The abundance of choice allows everyone to personalize a journey, yet filtering out useless and repeated information can be time-consuming and not cost-effective," said Zhang Fan, founder and CEO of the itinerary planner Mioji. Moji means "brilliant idea" in Chinese.

At the strategy conference of Baidu cloud computing on Wednesday, Baidu launched three intelligent cloud platforms. They will integrate with pre-existing cloud services for its open cloud platforms to help enterprises increase working efficiency. Baidu founder and CEO Robin Li said that Baidu has been a de facto search engine company from the very beginning, but that the company was bound to move into cloud technology, as efficient web searching is made possible via the cloud. Li said that Baidu used to consider cloud computing as too simple a technology and would rather focus on building its web search engine, but then some recent changes happened: On the one hand, the days are gone when economic development is accelerated by a cheap labor force, and companies today must survive using technological innovations and higher efficiency. On the other hand, cloud technology has been making breakthroughs, and it is no longer merely about storage and computing.

With a photo of Zuckerberg and his bodyguards jogging past Tian'anmen Square in Beijing on a heavily polluted day Friday, Zuckerberg announced his arrival and sparked heated online discussion in the process. He continued to grab public attention as he met and had a dialogue with Chinese tech mogul Jack Ma, the chairman of the Chinese tech mammoth Alibaba Group, at the China Development Forum, a state-sponsored forum. What did the two discuss? Have a look with AllChinaTech. On innovation When asked about his opinion of China's next five-year development plan, which highlights innovation, Zuckerberg talked about innovation being dedicated to solving long-term problems.