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TECH T@LK

Google introduces Android Alibaba showcases its

14 beta and new features ChatGPT-style service

oogle has introduced the first gle, is a “better” sharing experience libaba showed off its version Group CEO Daniel Zhang,
of four planned public beta compared to the current Android of the ChatGPT, demonstrat- who also oversees Alibaba’s
Gof Android 14 and these new share sheets, which always sort share Aing new software that it plans cloud division, presented the new
features focused on system naviga- targets (the app you’re sharing con- to roll out across all its platforms AI-powered service at a confer-
tion, privacy, performance, and user tent with) alphabetically. Although eventually. ence in Beijing, where the compa-
customization. According to a report it’s unclear what exactly those signals According to CNN, the Chinese ny demonstrated how it will allow
by The Verge, an American technol- are, the new share sheet makes use of tech giant unveiled Tongyi Qianwen, users to transcribe meeting notes,
ogy news website, a more noticeable, more app data to decide the ranking a large language model that will be craft business pitches and tell chil-
Material You-themed back arrow of the direct share targets that are dis- embedded in its Tmall Genie smart dren’s stories.
that adapts to match the device’s played near the top of the page. speakers and workplace messaging The company has opened up
theme or wallpaper has been added This resolves a couple problems. platform DingTalk. It was trained on Tongyi Qianwen -- which roughly
to the gesture navigation system. The App developers previously had to vast troves of data in order to gen- translates as “seeking truth by ask-
redesigned back arrow, which is un- either create their own share sheets, erate compelling responses to users’ ing a thousand questions” -- to en-
doubtedly more aesthetically beau- which lack visual coherence and hin- prompts. terprise customers for testing before
tiful, is meant to help users in un- der users from developing muscle making it available to more users.
derstanding Android 14’s predictive memory across applications, or add The technology will initially be in- “We are at a technological wa-
back gesture experience, which now custom share targets if they wanted tershed moment, driven by gen-
previews the screen users are travel- certain apps to appear higher within tegrated into those two products erative AI and cloud computing,”
ling to inside applications. The page the sharing menu. Esper.io reports and eventually added to all Alib- Zhang said.
that opens when you tap to share con- that Google discourages developers Alibaba, which has a large cloud
tent has been updated in Android 14 from using the feature since it limits aba (BABA) applications, from computing business, will also allow
to include a new system share sheet. the amount of share targets that the e-commerce to mapping ser- clients of that division to use the new
On the top of the share menu, devel- device system can advise. Only two technology to build their own cus-
opers can now add unique, app-spe- share targets might be set to appear vices, according to the company. tomized large language models, the
cific actions. This, according to Goo- higher in the share list. firm said in a statement.

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