AI News: August Issue 1 (AI industry news from August 1 to August 10) | AI toolset

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The AI toolset adopts a layout collection of three issues per month, and updates the latest news in the AI industry every day. This issue is the first issue of August (August 1 to August 10), a collection of AI industry news.

August 10th

Baidu Netdisk today launched the “Wenxin Large Model” based onYun Yiduo”——China’s first large-scale model-based network disk intelligent assistant. Officially stated that users can use this intelligent assistant to quickly search for files and videos, summarize knowledge, translate documents, and create content. (News source:IT Home）
Anthropic has released a faster, cheaper version of Claude Instant 1.2, which enterprises can access via an API. This version combines the strengths of Claude 2 with significant improvements in key areas such as math, coding, reasoning, and security. (News source:Anthropic）
Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba have placed orders for $5 billion in chips from Nvidia that are critical to artificial intelligence systems, the Financial Times reported, citing two unnamed people close to Nvidia. . (News source:interface news）
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to launch an Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Challenge, partnering with AI companies Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft and Google, requiring participants to use artificial intelligence to identify and fix software vulnerabilities, especially in critical infrastructure. code. (News source:The Verge）
Tome a startup that uses artificial intelligence to make it easier to create and design presentations, has talked with investors about raising new funding that could double its valuation to as much as $600 million. According to a person familiar with the matter, the new financing amount may be as high as $60 million. (News source:The Information）
IBM says it will build on its enterprise artificial intelligence platform watsonx Llama2, the artificial intelligence large language model hosted on the Meta platform, provides customers with early access to the model to help enterprises integrate artificial intelligence into their workflows. (News source:IBM Newsroom）
Weights & Biases, an artificial intelligence and machine learning development platform, announced it has raised $50 million in a new round of funding, bringing its valuation to $1.25 billion. The company’s machine learning platform helps developers build better models faster. (News source:TechCrunch）
Deepset, a platform for building enterprise applications powered by large-scale language models similar to ChatGPT, today announced it has raised $30 million in a funding round led by Balderton Capital with participation from GV and Harpoon Ventures. (News source:TechCrunch）
John Lewis, London’s largest department store, announced that it has signed a new strategic partnership with Google Cloud, part of which will involve the expansion of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The deal is worth £100 million over the next five years. (News source:The Grocer）

August 9th

Stability AI announced the launch of a large language model for code generation called StableCode, designed to help users generate programming language code. StableCode is available in three different versions: a base model for general use cases, a fine-tuned instruction model, and a long context window model that supports up to 16,000 tokens. (News source:Stability AI Blog）
NVIDIA announced the launch of a new generation of GH2000 Grace Hopper super chip. The new chip will be put into production in the second quarter of 2024. Also announced is a new server design built on the GH200. (News source:Oriental Fortune Network）
Nvidia has partnered with Hugging Face to provide a cloud AI training service, called Training Cluster as a Service, which will be launched in the next few months to simplify the creation of custom-generated AI models for enterprises. (News source:TechCrunch）
Startup MindsDB announced it has received $5 million in investment led by Nvidia’s NVentures. The company is a database platform for AI-centric applications that connects databases to popular AI frameworks. (News source:VentureBeat）
Startup Dropzone AI has announced it has raised $3.5 million in seed funding from a group of investors led by Decibel Partners as it launches an autonomous artificial intelligence security agent designed to automate the tedious and time-consuming task of investigating security alerts. (News source:VentureBeat）

August 8th

Microsoft’s AI chatbot Bing Chat now supports access in all mobile browsers, and is no longer limited to its own Edge browser. Bing Chat previously opened to Chrome and Safari desktop browsers at the end of July. (News source:The Verge）
OpenAI has launched a new web crawler called GPTBot that collects public data from the Internet to train artificial intelligence models. The goal of GPTBot is to be more transparent and correctly identify itself so that website administrators can allow or disable access to the crawler in the robots.txt file. (News source:Search Engine Land）
According to Bloomberg news, the well-known AI company OpenAI filed a lawsuit against a company called Open Artificial Intelligence (Open Artificial Intelligence) and owns the domain name www.open.ai, claiming that the name infringes on the OpenAI trademark and causes consumer confusion. (News source:IT Home）
According to official news from the GAC Research Institute, GAC has officially launched the GAC AI large model platform, which is the first large model platform technology in the automotive industry and will be installed on the high-end smart coupe Haopin GT in the near future. (News source:Official WeChat account of GAC Research Institute）
Baichuan Intelligent officially released the first closed-source large model Baichuan-53B, with a parameter volume of 53 billion. According to reports, the 53B large model has more complete writing and text creation capabilities. Wang Xiaochuan, CEO of Baichuan Intelligence, said that the new model released this time is planned to be mainly targeted at the B-end. (News source:36 krypton）
According to 36Kr, large model middleware manufacturer “Lanma Technology” recently completed tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing. This round was invested by IDG Capital, Lianxin Capital, and Atom Capital. (News source:36 krypton）
According to foreign media 9To5Google, Google recently launched a function called “Grammar Check”, which is similar to Grammarly and can provide users with grammatical error correction. After the user enters an English sentence in the Google search box, Google will prompt the user with possible spelling problems. (News source:IT Home）
Researchers at MIT and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute used machine learning to create a computational model called “OncoNPC” that can analyze the sequences of about 400 genes and use that information to predict the occurrence of specific tumors in the body. Location. (News source:MIT News）
Tractian, an industrial asset monitoring company that uses artificial intelligence to predict mechanical failures, announced the completion of a $45 million Series B round of financing, led by venture capital firms General Catalyst and Next47. (News source:VentureBeat）
HR startup One Model, which provides a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help employers make recruiting, hiring, promotions, layoffs and general workplace planning decisions, announced it has raised $41 million in a funding round led by Riverwood Capital. (News source:TechCrunch）
Startup Multiplayer announced it has raised $3 million in funding, led by Bowery Capital. The company provides an AI-based distributed collaboration and visualization tool for managing complex and multi-layered system architectures that support company operations. (News source:VentureBeat）

August 7th

Research firm Aletheia reports that the AI server market is expected to double in 2024 and reach US$135 billion in 2025, which is 4.5 times the size in 2022. (News source:Financial Associated Press）
Zhiyuan Research Institute released the open source commercially available Chinese and English semantic vector model BGE (BAAI General Embedding). Its Chinese and English semantic retrieval accuracy and overall semantic representation capabilities surpass all similar models in the community, such as OpenAI’s text embedding 002, etc. In addition, BGE maintains the smallest vector dimension among models with the same parameter magnitude and is less expensive to use. (News source:Zhiyuan Research Institute）
Lenovo’s browser was updated today, adding a beta version of Xiaole AI Assistant connected to Wen Xin Yiyan’s large model in the sidebar. According to official news, the new version of Lenovo browser has added copywriting polishing, summary refining, email writing and other functions, as well as AI search function and AI conversation capability. (News source:Pinwan）
As spotted by Twitter user @Leopeva64, a recent Edge Canary update introduced a feature to rewrite text with Bing AI. This feature allows users to select a piece of text in the input box and rewrite it using the Alt + I shortcut key. (News source:IT Home）
Recently, at the Mengniu Global Partner Appreciation Meeting, Mengniu announced that it had joined forces with many technology giants such as Zhipu AI and Tencent to jointly release the world’s first model in the field of nutrition and health, MENGNIU.GPT. (News source:China Daily Network）
According to the latest news from game review media IGN, IGN is about to launch its own AI chatbot IGN Guides Chatbot Alpha. The robot is trained based on game guides and strategy content written by dozens of IGN guide authors and contributors and can answer users’ questions. Game issues. (News source:IGN）
Yuanxiang XVERSE Company announced that its high-performance universal large-scale model XVERSE-13B with tens of billions of parameters is open source and can be used for free commercial use. According to reports, XVERSE-13B is a general large model, and the services generated based on it include text generation, automated writing, data analysis, knowledge Q&A, etc. (News source:36 krypton）
The National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System shows that Beijing Lightyear Technology Co., Ltd. has completed industrial and commercial changes. Founder Wang Huiwen has withdrawn from the shares, and Tianjin Sankuai Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Meituan, has become the sole shareholder. (News source:Pinwan）

August 6th

According to Tech Planet, ByteDance’s internal conversational AI project has started testing, code-named Grace. At present, the website for testing has been initially built and needs to be invited or authorized to log in with a relevant account before it can be used. (News source:Tech Planet）
According to the official website of the Chengdu Municipal Government, the scale of the city’s artificial intelligence industry in 2022 will be 61.6 billion yuan, ranking 7th in the country, the industry growth rate will rank 1st in the country, and the comprehensive strength will rank 6th in the country. In the first half of this year, the industry scale reached 42.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 36.9%. (News source:Pinwan）
Apple is beefing up its expertise in generative artificial intelligence to bring it to iPhones and iPads, hiring dozens of people to work on large-scale language models at offices in California, Seattle, Paris and Beijing, the Financial Times reported. (LLM) jobs. (News source:interface news）

August 5th

Salesforce released “Einstein Studio”, a code-free, interface-based AI model training tool for data scientists and engineers, designed to help enterprises connect their Salesforce data to any artificial intelligence or large language model. (News source:InfoWorld）
Microsoft Research recently demonstrated Project Rumi, which combines text, audio and video data to improve the understanding of artificial intelligence systems through a multi-modal approach, so that it can better understand human intentions. (News source:IT Home）

August 4th

OpenAI announced today that starting next week, it will launch a series of small updates to improve the ChatGPT experience, including adding prompt use cases, dialogue suggestions, using the GPT-4 version by default for Plus users, and supporting uploading multiple files. (News source:Pinwan）
The Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology issued “Several Measures for Chengdu to Accelerate the Innovative Application of Large Models to Promote the High-Quality Development of the Artificial Intelligence Industry”, which mentioned that the construction of computing power infrastructure should be promoted and the construction of a new generation of national artificial intelligence public computing power open innovation platform should be accelerated. . (Read the full article:Shanghai Securities News）
Apple CEO Tim Cook said in an interview that Apple has been researching various AI technologies including generative AI for many years. Cook said that Apple is looking for various entry points to integrate various AI technologies, including generative AI, into its products to further enrich users’ lives and work. (News source:9to5Mac）
According to Huawei mobile phone news, through the blessing of the underlying capabilities of the Pangu large model, HarmonyOS will bring more advanced AI. Xiaoyi will have AI large model capabilities and continue to enhance in the three directions of smart interaction, efficient productivity improvement, and personalized services. (News source:36 krypton）
IBM and NASA recently jointly announced the launch of Hugging Face watsonx.ai An open-source geospatial foundation model that serves as the basis for new climate and earth science artificial intelligence that can track deforestation, predict crop yields and record greenhouse gas emissions. (News source:Engadget）
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is working with Microsoft and a number of banks to develop bespoke generative AI models that will allow customers to combine LSEG’s extensive data with their own data in a secure and private way. (News source:financial times）
The AI.com domain name is now redirected to the official website of Musk’s artificial intelligence startup X.ai, which was redirected to the official website of ChatGPT in February. (News source:Mashable）
Cloud application monitoring and security platform Datadog today announced the launch of an artificial intelligence generation assistant – Bits, which can learn based on customers’ observable data and help engineers solve application problems in real time. (News source:DevOps）
CoreWeave, a cloud computing platform that provides cloud infrastructure for AI training, said it has secured $2.3 billion in funding after raising $221 million in a Series B round in April and expanding that round by $200 million in May. Debt financing. (News source:TechCrunch）
Icreate Investments, a subsidiary of Hon Hai, acquired shares in the AI start-up company Kneron, with an investment amount of approximately US$14 million. Kneron focuses on neural network processors and various image recognition functions. Kneron previously raised funds to develop next-generation edge computing AI chips. (News source:interface news）
Acelab, an architectural platform, recently announced a new round of financing of US$5.3 million. The platform’s machine learning search and recommendation engine can help architects explore, organize and collaborate on products in one stop. (News source:VentureBeat）

August 3rd

Alibaba Cloud Open SourceTongyi Qianwen 7 billion parameter models, including the general model Qwen-7B and the conversation model Qwen-7B-Chat, both models have been launched on Alibaba’s ModelScope magic communityopen source, free, and commercially available. (News source:Moda Community Official WeChat）
Meta releases new open sourceArtificial Intelligence Music Generator AudioCraft allows users to generate music and sounds by entering text prompts. (News source:The Verge）
According to 36 Krypton, Tencent’s self-developed “Tencent Hunyuan Model” has entered the application internal testing stage. Many Tencent employees told 36 Krypton that they have recently received internal email invitations and can experience the Hunyuan Model through web pages or small programs. Multiple internal businesses within Tencent have also been connected to the Hunyuan large model for testing. (News source:36 krypton）
Google’s AI Search Generative Experience has released a new feature update. If users enable the AI-based SGE feature in Search Lab, they can see more multimedia and better links in search results. (News source:The Verge）
Microsoft has released the latest preview version of Windows 11, which brings a number of new features and improvements to internal testers, including launching a preview version of Windows Copilot to some internal testers in the Beta channel. (News source:IT Home）
A recent study published in The Lancet Oncology found that artificial intelligence can detect breast cancer more effectively than doctors with years of training and experience, and reduces the X-ray workload of radiologists by nearly 20%. half. (News source:tencent.com）
According to Nature reports, scientific research databases such as Scopus, Dimensions, and Web of Science are launching conversational artificial intelligence search functions similar to ChatGPT to help researchers quickly obtain abstracts of literature and research topics. (News source:Nature）
According to the Radio Television Hong Kong website, Qin Sizhao, the president-elect of Lingnan University in Hong Kong, said today that Lingnan University in Hong Kong has decided to embrace the AI wave and said that the school has purchased ChatGPT version 3.5 licenses for the entire school and will provide corresponding technical training to teaching staff and students. . (News source:IT Home）
AI chip startup Tenstorrent announced that it has received $100 million in new financing from Hyundai, Kia, Samsung and other companies. The company’s CEO Jim Keller has developed chips for Apple, Tesla and Intel. (News source:Financial Associated Press）
According to 36Kr, AI enterprise-level application service provider “Hongji Cyclone” completed a C+ round of financing of approximately US$40 million in July, with China Renaissance as the exclusive financial advisor. This round of financing will be mainly used for the research and development, industry resource integration and market expansion of AIGA (AI Generated Automation), a large model-related product. (News source:36 krypton）
Generative Artificial Intelligence Platform Inworld With more than $30 million in investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners and a latest valuation of over $500 million, the platform uses AI technology to help users create conversational characters and NPCs through natural language descriptions. (News source:TechCrunch）
Robotics startup Orangewood, which recently raised $4.5 million in a round of funding led by Y Combinator, makes cheaper robotic arms and has developed RoboGPT to help users program the robotic arms using text or voice. (News source:TechCrunch）

August 2nd

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, the Baidu Intelligent Cloud Qianfan large model platform has completed a new round of upgrades and has fully accessed 33 large models including the full series of LLaMA2, ChatGLM2, RWKV, MPT, Dolly, OpenLLaMA, and Falcon, becoming the largest large model platform in China. Most platforms. (News source:Pinwan）
Alibaba CloudComprehensive listening comprehensionThree major new functions have been launched, including the first automatic video extraction PPT in the domestic audio and video AI field, as well as browser plug-ins, DingTalk and WeChat applets to help users listen, understand and read all kinds of audio anytime and anywhere on PC and mobile terminals. Video content improves the work and study efficiency of professionals and students. (News source:36 krypton）
According to AndroidPolice reports, Google has begun testing artificial intelligence automatically generated video summaries on the YouTube video platform. A brief summary of the video content will be displayed on the viewing and search pages of some English videos. (News source:Android Police）
According to Bloomberg, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an interview that Uber is developing AI-powered chatbots to be integrated into its applications. (News source:Bloomberg）
AI video generation platform HeyGen Announced a cooperation with the online design platform Canva to introduce AI digital human virtual oral broadcasting into Canva online design. Users can create talking oral broadcast videos in a few minutes. (News source:Metaverse Post）
Steg.AI, a startup that aims to help creators use deep learning to embed nearly invisible watermarks into images that cannot be removed even if they are resized and resaved, announced it has received $5 million in seed funding led by Paladin Capital Group. . (News source:TechCrunch）
No-code platform Akkio announced it has received $15 million in Series A funding, which the company said it will use to accelerate the commercialization of its platform and provide easy-to-use artificial intelligence assistants to anyone working with data. (News source:VentureBeat）
FeelBetter, an AI medication management platform that uses machine learning and patient data to provide personalized medication management related to polypharmacy, announced it has raised $5.9 million in funding led by Firstime Ventures and Shoni Health Ventures. (News source:PRNewsWire）

August 1st

According to official news from OpenAI, the Android version of ChatGPT is now available in all countries and regions that support ChatGPT. The Android version of ChatGPT was launched on July 26, first launched in the United States, Brazil, Bangladesh and other regions, and expanded to 16 countries and regions including the United Kingdom and France two days later. The APP had previously been launched on the iOS platform in May. (News source:Pinwan）
Meta (formerly Facebook) is preparing a series of artificial intelligence-driven chatbots that will take on different personalities to boost engagement on its social media platform, with the launch as early as next month, the Financial Times reported. (News source:Financial Times）
Dell Technologies officially announced that it will cooperate with NVIDIA to launch a generative artificial intelligence solution to help customers quickly and safely build generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models locally to accelerate improvement results and drive new levels of intelligence. (News source:IT Home）
According to trademark lawyer Josh Gerben, OpenAI has applied to register the “GPT-5” trademark on July 18. It is not yet certain whether the trademark is a protective registration. Judging from trademark information, GPT-5 will provide text generation, natural language processing, speech transcription, translation and other functions. (News source:Pinwan）
According to the latest report released by market research firm Gartner, global customer service centers (CC) are vigorously embracing conversational AI and virtual assistants. It is estimated that CC spending will reach US$18.6 billion in 2023, an increase of 16.2% from 2022. (Full text of the report:Gartner）
According to 9to5google, Google announced internally that it will update Google Assistant and introduce large language model technology. (News source:9to5Google）