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

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 July (July 1 to July 10), a collection of AI industry news.

July 10th

• Yao Qian, director of the Science and Technology Supervision Bureau of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, wrote in China Finance that overall, there is no generational difference in the algorithm level of mainstream large models at home and abroad, but there is a gap in computing power and data. It is recommended to strongly support domestic leading technology companies in the general field to develop independent and controllable domestic large-scale models, and at the same time encourage the development of vertical industry models. (News source:Oriental Fortune Network）
• Xihu Xinchen officially launched its self-developed general-purpose large model – “Xihu Large Model”, and once again received a strategic investment of over 100 million from Tom Cat to accelerate the application of large models. (News source:Xinchen Technology Public Account）
• KingMed Medical announced today on its official Weibo that it and Huawei Cloud officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement on the Pangu model on July 8. The two parties will work together to build an AI model for the medical examination industry. (News source:Jinyu Medical Official Account）
• According to the Arxiv page, Google recently teamed up with Cornell University to publish a paper and launch VideoGLUE, an experimental protocol for evaluating large model video understanding capabilities. (News source:Pinwan）
• Unity CEO John Riccitiello predicts that generative artificial intelligence (AIGC) will significantly reduce game development time by about 5 to 10 times. (News source:Decrypt）
• Shanghai Renji Hospital has upgraded its “Digital Intelligent Customer Service” 3.0, aiming to personalize the Internet hospital’s smart customer service and equip it with a voice dialogue function to provide patients with more convenient and considerate “smart services.” (News source:IT Home）

July 9th

• ChatGPT opens the Code Interpreter function to all Plus users, providing a better interactive programming experience and data visualization capabilities. Even non-technical personnel can use it to complete complex programming tasks. (Read the full article:Heart of the machine）
• Jordi Ribas, director of engineering and product for Bing at Microsoft, tweeted that the image generation tool has been improved. Bing Image Creator The server side shortens the image generation time by 30%. (News source:IT Home）
• Google has reportedly been conducting tests at Mayo Clinic Research Hospital and others since AprilPaLM 2A variant of the large language model, Med-PaLM 2, is an artificial intelligence model designed to answer questions about medical information. (News source:The Verge）

July 8th

• At today’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference, China Mobile announced the release of the Jiutian AI industry model, which is divided into the Jiutian Haishu government model and the Jiutian customer service model. (News source:Financial Associated Press）
• At the recent first-ever Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco, Intel announced that it will work with Nvidia to provide confidential artificial intelligence solutions that strengthen artificial intelligence security and privacy to meet customers’ higher security and compliance needs. sexual needs. (News source:Intel Blog）
• VEED, a well-known foreign online video editing tool, has launched an AI digital voice broadcast tool, which provides 50 different virtual digital portraits and 75 languages ​​and dialects including Chinese to choose from, helping users easily create localized multi-language videos. (Website address:VEED AI Avatars）
• Recently, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Tencent Cloud announced that it used AI for the first time to help the world’s largest radio astronomy telescope “China Sky Eye FAST” find two fast radio bursts. (Read the full article:Tencent Cloud Official Account）
• Recently, DigitalOcean, a well-known cloud hosting service provider, announced that it has acquired Paperspace, a New York-based cloud computing and artificial intelligence development startup, for US$111 million in cash to help customers test, develop and deploy artificial intelligence applications more conveniently. (News source:DigitalOcean Blog）
• Startup SpeedyBrand announced that it raised $2.5 million in a round of funding led by GV (Google’s venture capital arm) and Y Combinator, valuing it at a post-money valuation of $15 million. The company aims to leverage AIGC to create high-quality and cost-effective SEO content for small and medium-sized businesses. (News source:TechCrunch）
• YouTube is experimenting with AI-generated quizzes on its mobile app for iOS and Android devices, designed to help viewers test their understanding of topics covered in recently watched educational and informative videos. (News source:Android Authority）

July 7th

• OpenAI announced today that the GPT-4 API is open to all paying OpenAI API customers from now on. All paying OpenAI API customers can now access the GPT-4 API with 8K tokens context. (Read the full article:IT Home）
• At the Huawei Developer Conference 2023 (Cloud), Huawei Cloud Pangu Model 3.0 was officially released. Pangu Model 3.0 is divided into a three-layer architecture of L0 basic model, L1 industry model, and L2 scenario model, which will reshape thousands of industries. (News source:Financial Associated Press）
• At the Alibaba Cloud MaaS Forum at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Alibaba Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren announced that the AI ​​painting creation model “Tongyi Wanxiang“The invitation test starts today, and pictures can be generated through text descriptions. (News source:Titanium Media）
• In addition to Tongyi Wanxiang, Alibaba Cloud also launched China’s first large model calling toolModelScopeGPTcan receive user instructions and call other AI models in the Moda community with one click through the “hub model”. Large and small models can collaborate to complete complex tasks. They can talk to users, generate pictures, generate videos, voice dubbing, etc. (Read the full article:Qianjiang Evening News）
• Ant Group and Tsinghua University jointly released the AI ​​security detection platform “Antjian 2.0”. Antjian 2.0 can use generative AI capabilities to detect generative AI models, and can identify hundreds of risks in three categories: data security, content security, and technology ethics. , covering various data and task types such as tables, texts, images, etc. (News source:Pinwan）
• The large model system of “SenseTime Daily” has been fully upgraded. The 100-billion-level parameter natural language processing model “Discussion” version 2.0 supports Arabic and Cantonese. Model versions with different parameter levels such as small models have been launched, and can be adapted to mobile terminals, etc. Application requirements of different terminals and scenarios. (News source:The Paper）
• 360 Group, Baidu, Huawei, Alibaba and other companies were awarded the leadership unit of the “National Artificial Intelligence Standardization Overall Group Large Model Special Group” by the China Electronics Standardization Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, actively promoting the construction of a national standard system for large models and assisting the development of China’s large model industry . (News source:tencent.com）
• Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasumin Nishimura said at a press conference that the Japanese government will provide SoftBank Group with a subsidy of 5.3 billion yen (approximately 270 million yuan) for the development of generative artificial intelligence. (News source:interface news）
• El Capitan, the next-generation “world’s fastest” supercomputer, is beginning to install components that will be fully operational next year. A key component of the system will be AMD’s upcoming “industry’s most advanced” InstinctMI 300 artificial intelligence GPU. (Read the full article:IT Home）

July 6th

• A new generation of digital earth technology platform developed by Chinese researchers – Star Map Earth Intelligent Brain Engine was released today. The system provides users with intelligent processing of earth data, intelligent perception of earth information, and intelligent reconstruction of earth scenes through intensive “intelligent computing”. (Read the full article:CCTV News）
• The 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2023) with the theme of “Intelligent World, Generating the Future” opened this morning at the Shanghai World Expo Center. Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, Musk, AMD CEO Su Fengzi, and Midjourney founder David Ho Ertz and many other well-known figures in the industry attended. (News source:The Paper）
• OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders, and investing 20% ​​of its total computing power to develop methods to guide and control “super-intelligent” artificial intelligence systems. (Read the full article:qubit）
• Recently, the top international academic journal “Nature” published the research results of the Huawei Cloud Pangu large model research and development team – “3D Neural Network for Accurate Mid-term Global Weather Forecast”, which makes the weather forecast more accurate. (Read the full article:IT Home）
• Richard Rabbat, the former vice president of Twitter, and Anthony Johnson, the former chief technology officer of the GIF library “Giphy”, established an AI company called Lighty AI, a personal assistant startup powered by artificial intelligence. (News source:The Information）
• Recently, two American writers filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, claiming that OpenAI used their works to train its artificial intelligence without obtaining copyright authorization. (Read the full article:Financial Associated Press）
• Recently, the domestic L4 autonomous driving company “WeRide” obtained the Middle East’s first national autonomous driving license approved by the United Arab Emirates. WeRide’s various unmanned vehicles, including Robotaxi, Robobus, and unmanned sanitation vehicles, can all be tested and operated locally. (Read the full article:qubit）

July 5th

• Midjourney announced on its official Twitter today that it has launched a new content expansion function, Pan, which allows users to expand the image content in a fixed direction after generating a picture. (News source:Pinwan）
• OpenAI announced that ChatGPT will suspend access to the Bing Internet search function, because users can use this function to bypass the paywall of some websites and directly obtain the full text of the article. In order to respect the rights and interests of content owners, OpenAI decided to suspend access to this function. (News source:IT Home）
• Inflection AI recently announced that it is developing a supercomputer equipped with 22,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs to meet the development needs of generative AI. (News source:WCCF Tech）
• Researchers from Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tencent AI Lab and Pengcheng Laboratory jointly published a research paper on DreamDiffusion, which uses the powerful generation capabilities of pre-trained text-to-image models to generate data directly from EEG signals. High quality images. (Read the full article:Heart of the machine）

July 4th

• Tencent Cloud has released China’s first AI-native vector database, which supports up to an industry-leading 1 billion-level vector retrieval scale and controls latency at the millisecond level. Compared with the traditional stand-alone plug-in database, the search scale is increased by 10 times, and it also has a peak query capacity of one million per second (QPS). (Read the full article:Tencent Cloud）
• Peking UniversityChatExcelThe team recently released a large Chinese legal model, ChatLaw, to provide inclusive legal services to the public. The model supports file and voice output, as well as legal document writing, legal advice, and legal aid recommendations. (Read the full article:qubit）
• Japan and the European Union held a ministerial meeting in the digital field in Tokyo yesterday, and the joint statement stated that they will cooperate in the formulation of international rules for generative artificial intelligence (AI). In order to formulate rules, the two sides will promote the “Hiroshima AI Process” proposed at the G7 summit in May. (News source:interface news）
• According to reports, ByteDance wants to build robots. Currently, its robot team has about 50 people, and plans to expand to hundreds of people by the end of the year. It will also produce some robots that serve Byte’s own e-commerce fulfillment needs and can sort and pack goods in the warehouse. robot. (News source:LateLatePost）
• Recently, BMW Brilliance and Baidu held a strategic cooperation memorandum signing ceremony. The two parties will share superior resources, explore the integration and innovation of AI technology and all scenarios in the automotive manufacturing industry, and promote digital and intelligent technology cooperation. (News source:Baidu Smart Cloud）

July 3rd

• Baidu officially launches iOS versionWenxinyiyanThe App is now available on the Apple App Store. Users can download and install it for free. The App size is 46.1MB. (App store address:Wen Xin Yi Yan on the App Store）
• The latest version of Mathematica Wolfram officially introduces the large language model (LLM), which can perform scientific calculations by simply entering a text description. (News source:qubit）
• Data from Similarweb, a website traffic monitoring service provider, show that since the beginning of this year, the month-on-month growth rate of ChatGPT visits in January was 131.6%, and has declined month by month since then. In May, this number had fallen to 2.8%, and it is expected that there will be negative month-on-month growth in June. (News source:CCTV News）
• An “AI 2.0 company” incubated under the leadership of Sinovation Ventures chairman and CEO Kai-fu Lee made its first public appearance, officially announcing the new brand “Zero One Thing”, the official website (01.AI) goes online simultaneously. (News source:geek.com）
• The multilingual NLP team of Alibaba Damo Academy released the first multilingual and multimodal testing benchmark M3Exam, covering a total of 12,317 questions to promote the evaluation of large models. (News source:Heart of the machine）
• Kingsoft Office cooperated with the NVIDIA team to improve the inference efficiency of image document recognition and understanding through NVIDIA Tensor Core GPU and TensorRT; with the deployment of NVIDIA Triton inference server, it successfully optimized GPU utilization and provided high inference throughput. (News source:IT Home）
• Tianyancha and Huawei Cloud jointly released the world’s first large-scale business investigation model – “Tianyanmei” trusted business assistant. This product faces users in an anthropomorphic interactive form and provides them with accurate business information. It is the industry’s first controllable large-model digital product for individuals. The product has completed internal testing and is expected to be open to users for trial invitations at the end of July. (News source:36 krypton）
• Snap recently teamed up with researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and the University of Oxford to announce a large model product called Magic123, which can convert 2D images into 3D modeling. (News source:Pinwan）

July 2nd

• Elon Musk recently announced that in order to prevent AI companies from grabbing large amounts of Twitter data and affecting the experience of real users, he decided to limit Twitter readings. Unverified accounts can only read 600 tweets per day, and newly registered unverified accounts can only read 300 tweets. (News source:IT Home）
• The 2023 Global Digital Economy Conference Artificial Intelligence Summit Forum was held in Beijing today. The forum is themed “Intelligence Emerges, Reshaping the Future”. More than 10 top experts and scholars in the field of artificial intelligence and representatives of enterprises and institutions focused on the most popular big topics at the moment. The model development topic shared insights and reflections. (News source:tencent.com）
• Valve, the operator of the Steam platform, responded to reports of refusing to list games containing AI-generated content, saying that they are learning and adapting to the application of AI technology in game development and trying to incorporate it into existing review policies. (News source:IT Home）
• At the Artificial Intelligence Summit Forum of the 2023 Global Digital Economy Conference held today, Zhang Xin, deputy general manager of the Digital Intelligence Technology Branch of China Telecom Group, announced a large model of TeleChat, China Telecom’s version of ChatGPT product, which supports output code, writing speeches, etc. (News source:Titanium Media）

July 1st

• Humane, a popular AI company founded by former Apple employees, today revealed its first product, the Humane Ai Pin. Officially, it is a “clothing-based wearable device” that will be launched later this year and is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon platform and uses an array of sensors to achieve “situational and environmental computing interaction.” (News source:The Verge）
• Industrial software service provider Aiponghua recently released a new generation of AI+MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) industrial software “Tianxuan”, and also launched the MOM intelligent co-pilot “iAsk” based on the Fourth Paradigm model. (News source:36 krypton）

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