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Yao

1 American  
[you] / yaʊ /

noun

Wade-Giles, Pinyin.
  1. a legendary emperor of China who, with his successor Shun, was a paragon of good government.


Yao 2 American  
[you] / yaʊ /

noun

plural

Yaos,

plural

Yao
  1. a member of an Indigenous people of Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.

  2. the Bantu language spoken by the Yao.


Example Sentences

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“The primary bottleneck is chip-manufacturing capacity,” said Yao Shunyu of the Chinese internet company Tencent at the Beijing event.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yao recently left OpenAI to lead Tencent’s AI push.

From The Wall Street Journal

EngineAI founder Evan Yao told AFP that the Shenzhen-based company is working with tech titans such as Amazon and Meta to give its creations AI brains.

From Barron's

"We are trying to simulate humans, but the robots will never become human," Yao told AFP as one of his robots kicked in his direction.

From Barron's

The Venetian is owned by the Sands Corporation, whose president is Patrick Dumont, owner of the Mavericks, while the Rockets are the former club of Chinese star Yao Ming.

From Barron's