AI News: July Issue 2 (AI industry news from July 11 to July 20) | AI toolset

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The AI tool set adopts a layout collection of three issues per month, and updates the latest news in the AI industry every day. This issue is the AI industry news collection in the second issue of July (July 11 to July 20).

July 20th

According to Bloomberg, Apple has developed an internal artificial intelligence robot similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Some engineers said the project is codenamed Apple GPT and is based on the self-developed “Ajax” large-scale language model framework. (News source:Bloomberg）
According to official news from OpenAI, OpenAI will relax the restrictions on the use of ChatGPT Plus users, allowing them to have more conversations with ChatGPT. Starting next week, ChatGPT Plus users can have 50 rounds of conversations with GPT-4 every three hours. (News source:Pinwan）
Google is testing a product that uses AI technology to produce news reports and is pitching it to news organizations such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp., the parent company of The Wall Street Journal. The tool, tentatively called Genesis internally, can take in information (such as details about current events) and generate news copy. (News source:The New York Times）
Microsoft recently announced that it will cooperate with Maybelline to introduce virtual makeup function Maybelline Beauty in Microsoft Teams. Maybelline has now introduced 12 different makeup looks in Teams for users to choose from. (News source:The Verge）
According to “Tech Planet”, an AI robot chat app called “Weiban” owned by Tencent Music has recently started testing. Weiban is an AI chat product that integrates AI companion chat, AI companion photo taking and other functions. Users can “select an AI companion that has been pre-made in the App, or create an AI companion according to the user’s own requirements.” (News source:IT Home）
Lagou Recruitment announced the launch of the AI intelligent recruitment assistant product “HRMind”, which is the first recruitment scenario product in the recruitment industry based on pre-trained large models to achieve widespread application. (News source:geek.com）
SAP, a well-known enterprise management software company, recently announced that it has invested in three popular generative artificial intelligence companies: Anthropic, Cohere and Aleph Alpha, as part of its Sapphire Ventures’ commitment to invest more than $1 billion in artificial intelligence. (News source:SAP News Center）
Language learning platform Preply has announced it has raised $70 million in funding, expanding its Series C funding round to $120 million. The company is planning to use the funding to double down on AI development, specifically using the technology to “scale” AI-based teaching. (News source:GlobeNewsWire）
Startup Unstructured, which provides a suite of tools to help clean, transform and stage enterprise data to connect large language models (LLMs), announced it has raised $25 million in Series A and previously undisclosed seed funding. (News source:TechCrunch）
Startup FedML announced that it raised US$11.5 million in seed funding at a valuation of US$56.5 million, led by Camford Capital, with participation from Road Capital and Finality Capital. The company provides MLOps tools and decentralized AI computing networks. (News source:TechCrunch）

July 19th

Microsoft officially announced the launch of Bing Chat Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing. Bing Chat Enterprise provides enterprises with AI chat capabilities and business data protection, and is launching in preview today. Microsoft 365 Copilot is priced at $30 per user per month for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium customers. (News source:Microsoft official blog）
Microsoft’s Bing Chat update launches (Visual Search) visual search, users can upload images or take photos, and then let the tool scan the photos, Bing Chat can interpret the content in the image and answer related questions. (News source:WindowsCentral）
At the Microsoft Inspire conference, Meta and Microsoft announced further cooperation to support the LLaMA 2 large language model (LLM) series on Azure and Windows. LLaMA 2 is designed to help developers and organizations build generative AI tools and experiences. (News source:Microsoft official blog）
In addition, Microsoft also released a series of important announcements at this year’s Inspire conference, including adding more features to Microsoft Sales Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales, enabling Power Automate process mining AI functions, expanding access to Azure OpenAI services, New Azure features and investments, expanded strategic cooperation with Epic, new Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Cloud Partner Program, etc. (News source:Microsoft official blog）
OpenAI is making a significant investment in local journalism through a new partnership with the American Journalism Project (AJP). The company announced today that it will provide $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in API credits to AJP to support the nonprofit’s efforts to rebuild local news in the United States. (News source:Maginative）
Cohere and McKinsey announced a collaboration to jointly deliver secure, enterprise-grade generative AI solutions tailored to McKinsey client needs, including cloud and on-premises AI software that protects client data. (News source:VentureBeat）
China Literature Group has released the “Yuewen Miaobi Big Model”, which serves China Literature’s creators and assists writers in their creation, including assisting with character design, worldview, and power system construction. (News source:Financial Associated Press）

July 18th

The General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government issued “Several Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Productive Internet Service Platforms in the City”. It is proposed to accelerate the integration and application of new technologies and focus on supporting innovative entities to develop large models with international competitiveness. (News source:Financial Associated Press）
Wix, a no-code website building platform, announced the launch of the AI Site Generator tool to help users input text descriptions to intelligently generate a website containing homepage, detail pages, text and images. (News source:Maginative）
Speaking about AI in a conference call with UBS analysts, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque said that artificial intelligence is a $1 trillion investment opportunity but will also be the “biggest bubble in history.” (News source:IT Home）
Mockplus, an online prototyping collaboration platform, recently launched “Xiao M AI”, which can intelligently generate prototype design, interface text, content translation, automatic filling of text and pictures, etc. It is currently in internal testing. (News source:Mock Design Cloud）
The first commercial launch conference of Pangu large model mining industry was held in Jinan, Shandong. At the meeting, Shandong Energy Group, Huawei, and Yunding Technology jointly released the world’s first AI large model commercially used in the energy industry – the Pangu Mine large model. (News source:36 krypton）
According to the official Windows blog, the preview version of Windows Copilot is now open to all Windows Insiders in the development channel. (News source:Pinwan）
Famed director Christopher Nolan expressed caution about artificial intelligence after a special screening of his latest film “Oppenheimer,” comparing the rapidly evolving technology to his new film about the creation of the atomic bomb. (News source:The Verge）
Thousands of writers, including Nora Roberts, Margaret Atwood, Thanh Viet Nguyen, and Michael Chabon, have signed a letter demanding that artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI and Meta operate without permission or compensation. Stop using their work. (News source:NPR）

July 17th

Baidu Netdisk recently announced the launch of an advanced image search function based on AI. It is said that it can use “nouns with adjectives” for more precise searches, as well as “place names”, “object names”, and “text contained in pictures” , find the picture you need. (Read the full article:IT Home）
Ctrip Group released the first large-scale vertical model of the tourism industry “Ctrip Wendao”. On the basis of the large model, “Ctrip Dao” screened 20 billion high-quality unstructured tourism data, and combined Ctrip’s existing accurate real-time data to conduct self-developed vertical model training. (News source:36 krypton）
NetEase Cloud Music has launched the “Private DJ” function in internal testing and will launch the first AI recommended music assistant. This function is based on an innovative upgrade of the song recommendation algorithm, realizing an intelligent explanation service for recommended songs. (News source:36 krypton）
The United Nations Security Council will meet in New York on Tuesday to formally discuss the risks of AI, the first time the body has held such a meeting. (News source:Sina Technology）
Recently, Palm Qu Technology announced its cooperation withWalker AIReached strategic cooperation and jointly committed to promoting the innovative application of AIGC technology in the game industry. (News source:perjing.com）
Recently, “Yunshuo IoT”, a company in the field of process intelligence, completed tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing. The lead investor was Qifu Capital, and old shareholders followed suit. This round of financing will be mainly used for various market-side investments such as building a partner system, as well as further strengthening technical barriers. (News source:36 krypton）

July 15th

Musk said during the xAI discussion on Twitter Space that the newly established artificial intelligence company xAI will be trained using public tweets from Twitter. In addition, xAI will also cooperate with Tesla in many aspects such as the development of artificial intelligence software. (News source:interface news）
According to Zhipu AI and Tsinghua KEG Laboratory, ChatGLM-6B and ChatGLM2-6B weights are fully open to academic research from now on, and free commercial use is allowed after completing corporate registration and obtaining authorization. (News source:GLM large model）
Meta recently released the multi-modal language model CM3leon, a retrieval-enhanced, tag-based, decoder-only multi-modal language model that can generate and fill text and images. (News source:Maginative）
Kenyan outsourced employees who help moderate the removal of harmful content on ChatGPT have filed a petition with the legislature calling for an investigation into big tech outsourced content moderation and artificial intelligence work in Kenya. (News source:TechCrunch）

July 14th

Stability AI announced Stable Doodlewhich can transform simple hand-drawn sketches into exquisite images, turning you from a soul painter to an art master. Currently, users can use the tool for free through Stability AI’s ClipDrop website. (News source:Stability AI Blog）
OpenAI has struck a deal with the Associated Press to use AP news reports to train its artificial intelligence models over the next two years and to access parts of the AP archive dating back to 1985. The AP will have first access to OpenAI’s Technology and product experience. (News source:The Verge）
The e-commerce platform Shopify recently said that it will soon launch the AI assistant “Sidekick” for merchants on its platform. As you can see from a video posted by its CEO on Twitter, Sidekick will be embedded as a button in Shopify to answer merchants’ inquiries. Include details about sales trends. (News source:BetaKit）
Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow, a Q&A platform for programmers, said in a recent interview with foreign media VentureBeat that the company is investing 10% of its employees in developing its AI tools, which are expected to be released later this summer. (News source:VentureBeat）
Recently, the well-known venture capital firm a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) released an open source tutorial and technology stack on GitHub to help individuals create and host their own AI chatbots/partners through a browser or sending text messages. The technologies used in the project are basically companies invested by a16z, such as Clerk login authorization, Pinecone vector database, and Fly.io online deployment. Interested friends can learn more. (Project address:GitHub）
A few days ago, the “Zhaoyan” large model launch conference of Chongqing Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University was held in the Western (Chongqing) Science City. At the conference, Chongqing’s first independently developed large language model – “Zhaoyan” was released. The large model It can present accurate and professional text output for academic research, business analysis, life consulting and other users. (News source:China Business News）
Huawei has released new AI storage products in the era of large models, OceanStor A310 deep learning data lake storage and FusionCube A3000 training/pushing hyper-converged all-in-one machine, which support basic model training, industry model training, and segmented scenario model training and inference. (News source:Securities Times·e Company）
Giant Network and Alibaba Cloud announced a comprehensive “game + AI” cooperation. The two parties formally signed a cooperation memorandum in Shanghai to jointly build a “game + AI” intelligent computing platform. (News source:36 krypton）
Xinye Technology launches the first generation LLM (Large Language Model) application development framework E-LADF. E-LADF is based on basic components such as ChatGPT large model engine and vector database, and aims to provide a series of functional interfaces to help developers build and deploy LLM-based applications. (News source:Xinye Technology）
Cyrus Hodes, one of the co-founders of Stability AI, sued and claimed that his 15% stake in the company was deceived by Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque into selling him for $100, and that these shares may be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. (News source:Traffic lights）
Drug discovery research startup Causaly has completed a $60 million Series B round of financing, led by ICONIQ Growth. The company has built an artificial intelligence platform to help researchers accelerate the development and testing of drugs, and the amount raised in this round will be used for research and development and to continue building its team. (News source:TechCrunch）
Tangibly, a Seattle-based security software startup, raised $6.5 million in a seed round led by Madrona Venture Group. Founded in 2021, the company helps clients protect and manage intellectual property assets such as trade secrets. (News source:GeekWire）

July 13th

The Cyberspace Administration of China, together with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, announced the “Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services”, which will be effective from August 15, 2023. (Read the full article:Cyberspace China）
Elon Musk officially announced his new artificial intelligence company xAI on Wednesday. The official website stated that its goal is to “understand the true nature of the universe.” Team members come from DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and the University of Toronto Musk and his team will share more information in a Twitter Spaces live chat on Friday. (Website address:x.AI）
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched a comprehensive investigation into OpenAI on the grounds that the company allegedly violated consumer protection laws and put personal reputations and data at risk. (News source:Financial Associated Press）
AI chatbot from Quora Poe A series of tool and feature updates have been launched recently, including support for the latest Claude 2 model, larger context windows, URL retrieval, document uploading, and continuing public conversations shared by other users. (News source: Poe Newsletter)
According to the update log of Google Bard, Bard has recently added more than 40 supported languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi, Spanish, etc. In addition, Google has also added text-to-speech functionality to Bard, which can be used to read text aloud. (News source:Pinwan）
At this morning’s 2023 JD Global Technology Explorer Conference and JD Cloud Summit, JD Yanxi’s large model was officially released, and the official also released the Yanxi AI development and computing platform. The platform has launched appointment registration and is expected to be officially launched in August. (News source:IT Home）
Adobe Firefly recently issued a press release stating that it will expand the service globally to support text prompts in more than 100 languages and will also be localized into 20 languages. In addition, Adobe said users have generated more than 1 billion visual assets on the Firefly website and Photoshop. (News source:BusinessWire）
Google announced the start of internal testing of NotebookLM, formerly known as the artificial intelligence note-taking experimental project (Project Tailwind) launched at this year’s Google I/O conference. Currently, it is still only accepting applications for IPs in the United States. (News source:The Verge）
Artificial Intelligence Language Cloning and Synthesis Platform They look like AI announced it raised $8 million in a Series A round led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Ubiquity Ventures, bringing the startup’s total funding to $12 million. (News source:CMSWire）
Google Arts & Culture Lab introduced its latest work, Viola the Bird, an AI-trained program that converts cursor movements into violin and cello notes, generating real-time music with gentle birds playing on the strings. (News source:Google Blog）
Recently, South Korean Internet giant Kakao announced major updates to its AI image generation tool Karlo and large language model KoGPT, and established a new fund to support AI image generation startups. (News source:TechCrunch）

July 12th

Anthropic officially released the new Claude 2 and launched a more convenient web beta version (only US and UK IPs). Compared with the previous version, Claude 2 has made epic improvements in coding, mathematics, and reasoning, and supports contexts of up to 100K tokens. In addition, it also supports talking to Claude 2 in Chinese, and it is completely free.(News source:Shin Jigen）
Recently, SemiAnalysis, a semiconductor analysis agency, released a GPT-4 internal technical decryption document, which disclosed key information such as GPT-4’s architecture, infrastructure, training data set, cost, vision and MoE. (Read translation:AppSo;English original:SemiAnalysis）
Bill Gates wrote in an article on his personal blog that “the risks of AI do exist, but they are controllable.” In the article, Gates listed the risks that AI may bring, such as deep forgery, misinformation, cyber attacks, job changes, hallucinations and biases. He also called on governments and enterprises to manage the risks of AI and encouraged everyone to pay attention to the development of AI. (Read the original text:GatesNotes）
Lingyang, an enterprise intelligence service company under Alibaba, announced the launch of Antelope One, a multi-platform, multi-channel one-stop DAAS product, and will soon be fully upgraded to access large models. Enterprises using Antelope One will be able to use large model technology. (News source:Sina Technology）
Microsoft Edge browser is about to launch a new feature that allows users to control the operation of the browser through the Bing chat panel on the right. Users only need to enter prompts, and the browser will perform corresponding operations based on the meaning of the words, such as opening a tab. page and download page, etc. (News source:IT Home）
Image gallery website Shutterstock announced the expansion of its partnership with OpenAI, allowing OpenAI to access more training data, including Shutterstock’s image, video and music libraries and related metadata. Shutterstock has also gained priority use of the latest OpenAI technology. (News source:Tencent News）
Musk will discuss artificial intelligence with Republican Representative Mike Gallagher and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna on Twitter Spaces on July 12, local time. The conversation will last about 45 minutes. (News source:interface news）
IBM is considering using its in-house designed artificial intelligence chip to lower the cost of cloud computing services as part of its new watsonx Part of the AI cloud service. (News source:IT Home）
Indian IT outsourcing giant Wipro said it plans to invest US$1 billion in the next three years to train its 250,000 employees in artificial intelligence technology and integrate the technology into its products. (News source:Sina Finance）
Vellum.ai, a prompt engineering startup that focuses on helping other companies improve generative AI prompts, announced the completion of a $5 million seed round of financing. Rebel Fund, Eastlink Capital, Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator and others participated in this round of financing. (News source:TechCrunch）
Venture capital firm Sapphire Ventures said it plans to invest more than $1 billion in artificial intelligence-related enterprise startups to accelerate the adoption of the technology by companies around the world. (News source:Reuters）
eBay announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Certilogo, a company that provides AI-driven digital ID and identity verification for clothing and fashion items. The acquisition will help eBay’s brand anti-counterfeiting certification of second-hand products. Specific financial details were not disclosed. (News source:PRNewsWire）
The OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) called on member states to prepare for the negative impacts of the large-scale adoption of AI technology, saying that high-skilled white-collar jobs in finance, medicine and law are at the highest risk of being impacted, accounting for about OECD 27% of employment in member economies. (News source:financial times）

July 11th

Meitu Xiuxiu officially announced today that the AI image expansion function is now available in Meitu Xiuxiu App and Wink App. This function uses AI algorithm intelligent recognition to predict and generate missing parts based on the context and texture of the image, making the image more beautiful. Get a larger frame and perspective. (News source:IT Home）
Baichuan Intelligent officially released the 13 billion parameter universal large language model (Baichuan-13B-Base), which is officially said to be the most powerful open source model with tens of billions of parameters in Chinese and English. (News source:qubit）
Tencent announced that its self-developed chess and card AI “LuckyJ” has topped the international mahjong platform and reached a stable rank of 10.68 on the Japanese Mahjong Tianfeng platform Teshangfang, setting a new record for the best results achieved by AI in the mahjong field. (News source:Tencent official account）
Pano AI, a startup that uses artificial intelligence for wildfire detection and early warning, has raised $17 million in a new round of funding, bringing its total raised to $45 million. This round of financing was led by Valor Equity Partners, and several strategic investors were added: T-Mobile Ventures and Salesforce. (News source:GlobeNewswire）
GenAI recently announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Pulse AI has been approved to join the NVIDIA Start-up Acceleration Program and has issued a purchase order to purchase hardware worth approximately US$1.8 million, which can provide more than 350,000 hours of artificial intelligence computing time per year. (News source:interface news）
Interface.ai, a startup that provides artificial intelligence solutions for the financial industry, announced the launch of Sphere AI assistant, which can help banks and credit unions automate nearly 95% of customer service inquiries to improve operational efficiency. (News source:PRNewsWire）