Amid the AI war, US and China teamed up to help businesses run AI apps
The collaboration between Microsoft and TikTok is an interesting one as the two originate from the world’s most competitive countries
At the Ray Summit in San Francisco, engineers from Microsoft and TikTok parent company ByteDance partnered to develop the KubeRay software. The US and China are engaged in an AI war, yet the partnership continues. As TikTok’s popularity has increased, ByteDance has been contributing to open source projects.
US legislators are getting more worried about the potential effects of losing the high-stakes competition between the US and China for leadership in artificial intelligence on national security, the economy, and American prosperity.
In fact, several AI scientists contend that international cooperation is essential for maximising the benefits of technological developments.
To further that idea, engineers from Microsoft and ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok in China, are contributing. They are working on the KubeRay software to help businesses run artificial intelligence apps.
Jiaxin Shan, a software engineer for ByteDance, and Ali Kanso, a lead software engineer at Microsoft, spoke about their advancements with data scientists, machine learning specialists and other developers.
The continued rivalry between the US and China over AI and intellectual property and concerns for surveillance is something kept on the side rails when looking at the Microsoft-ByteDance collaboration.
Amazon, Google parent Alphabet, Meta and Apple are all investing in AI as well as Microsoft which is taking great leaps investing in labs in China and trying to tap into the country’s leading academics.
On the other hand, TikTok continues to surge in popularity and usage, while ByteDance uses AI for open source projects including debuting its NeurST software tool kit for AI powered speech translation and the CloudWeGo open source software.
Open source projects are often used by Microsoft and Meta because of their influence in internal technological propaganda and supporting their own ideas to larger communities. In using open source projects they can attract recruits and market their own companies.
