Chinese Computer News Today

The successor to GPT-4 is on the horizon

Before QWERTY, engineers had a wealth of idea for how to input Chinese characters into computers, including huge keyboard, medium keyboards, cylindrical keyboards, and more.

For decades Westerners ridiculed the notion of a Chinese typewriter, and the phrase itself became shorthand for an impossibly complex machine. Now a Stanford professor celebrates the accomplishment.

"Return them to their home countries!" flashed my iPhone home screen, accompanied by a red, scowling, furious emoji. The notification bubble came in reference to a 60-second TikTok video in which I had leaked word that my employer, Stanford University, had just acquired the single largest historical collection of modern Chinese information technology - largest not just in the United States, but the world. Containing more than 2,500 archival...