Chinese AI company iFlytek said on Watch When the Camellia Blooms OnlineTuesday its iteration large language model Spark 3.0 outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in Chinese, while showing comparable ability in English contexts. However, the Hefei-based company, known for its voice recognition products, saw shares slump nearly 10% during its annual AI event on Tuesday, a slide believed to be linked to reports that the firm’s teenager-focused educational tablet was allegedly found to have criticized Mao Zedong in an article. iFlytek plans to train Spark 4.0, a further enhanced AI foundation model that it aims to benchmark against GPT-4, on an arithmetic platform built with Huawei and is expecting to launch the new iteration in the first half of 2024. [Jiemian, in Chinese]