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Hong Kong<\/a>\u2019s first locally developed artificial intelligence<\/a> chatbot, HKChat, has raised expectations that it could compete with more popular and established AI apps<\/a>, as it racked up around 90,000 users in the city within a week of its low-key release.HKChat is focused on providing information on local services, including real-time bus arrivals, as well as the city\u2019s weather, laws and regulations. It was the top-ranked free app on Apple<\/a>\u2019s Hong Kong App Store on Sunday, according to data from app analyst firm Sensor Tower.\u201cOur goal is to provide Hong Kong residents with a good AI assistant,\u201d said Guo, who serves as provost at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology<\/a> (HKUST) and chair professor at its Department of Computer Science and Engineering. \u201cI think this might be the first such initiative anywhere in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The initiative reflected the Hong Kong government\u2019s efforts to reinvent the city as a technology hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s first locally developed artificial intelligence chatbot, HKChat, has raised expectations that it could compete with more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,90365,2078,218,219,44015,114,4067,90368,90357,15898,90364,90359,90363,90366,90361,240,90355,90367,9637,61,90358,60,15103,3682,90360,90362,90356,18272,80],"class_list":["post-161868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-apples-hong-kong-app-store","tag-apps","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-cantonese","tag-china","tag-deepseek","tag-deepseek-models","tag-department-of-computer-science-and-engineering","tag-english","tag-futu-holdings","tag-guo-yike","tag-hkchat","tag-hkgai","tag-hkgai-v1","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-generative-ai-research-and-development-centre","tag-hong-kong-government","tag-hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology","tag-ie","tag-innohk","tag-ireland","tag-john-lee-ka-chiu","tag-large-language-model","tag-mandarin","tag-nvidias-h800-ai-chips","tag-sensor-tower","tag-sun-dong","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}