China's 'AI-in-a-box' products threaten Big Tech's cloud growth strategies

Upgrade to get full access to all premium news on Yahoo Finance and get more great articles like this free preview. China's artificial intelligence groups are selling "AI-in-a-box" products for companies to run on their own premises, in a threat to the AI cloud computing services offered by the country's big tech groups such as Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent. Huawei has signed up more than a dozen AI start-ups to bundle and market their large language models with its AI processors and other hardware. Its partners include groups such as Beijing-based Zhipu AI and language specialist iFlytek. Chinese groups are…