AI News: July Issue 3 (AI industry news from July 21 to July 31) | 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 collection of AI industry news in the third issue of July (July 21st to July 31st).

July 31st

According to the Financial Times, Blackstone Group’s $68 billion flagship real estate fund has gone from being one of the world’s largest real estate buyers to a major seller. The fund is raising liquidity to deal with redemptions and investing billions of dollars in multiple AI data centers. (News source:interface news）
According to Windows Latest, Microsoft is about to launch third-party AI plug-in functionality for Windows 11 Copilot and is soliciting feedback from developers to help shape the future of “third-party AI plug-ins” for the operating system. (News source:Windows Latest）
Alibaba’s Damo Academy recently cooperated with Dalian University of Technology to launch an AI framework called HQTrack. The framework mainly consists of a Video Multi-Object Segmentator (VMOS) and a Mask Optimizer (MR), aiming to “enable high-quality tracking of any object in a video.” (News source: IT House)
“Lingao Technology”, a startup company dedicated to building data pipelines and large model middleware, recently officially announced the completion of its seed round of financing. According to reports, the amount of this round of financing is in the millions of dollars, and the investors are Jingya Capital and Plug and Play. (News source:36 krypton）

July 28th

OpenAI officially announced that the ChatGPT app for Android is now available for users in Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, the United Kingdom, and South Korea. (News source:Pinwan）
The startup Beyond Work announced that it has raised US$2.5 million in a pre-seed round of financing, led by Moonfire Ventures and participated by the MIT E14 Fund. The company is committed to making the use of enterprise tools more humane and seamless through large-scale language models. Sewing. (News source:VentureBeat）
StackOverflow, a programmer Q&A community, announced that it will launch Overflow AI to make up for the shortcomings of community Q&A and help developers develop code, allowing developers to adjust their code relatively more freely according to specific problems. It will be released as an Alpha version in August. (News source:IT Home）
According to official news from Google deepmind, Google has launched a new AI model Robotics Transformer2 (RT-2) that can help robots train. (News source:Pinwan）

July 27th

Stability AI officially released its latest image generation model, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0. From now on, the model can be accessed and used through the Stability AI API, Stability AI’s Github page, and its Clipdrop and DreamStudio websites. (News source:TechCrunch）
South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said on Thursday it had fined OpenAI, the operator of the artificial intelligence chat tool ChatGPT, 3.6 million won (approximately $2,829) for leaking the personal information of 687 South Korean users. (News source:Sina Finance）
Jordi Ribas, Microsoft’s Bing engineering and product lead, recently tweeted that dark mode will be available to all Bing Chat and Bing Search users “in the next few days.” (News source:Pinwan）
Kingsoft announced today that the WPS AI assistant built into the overseas version of WPS Office has officially started public testing. Unlike the domestic version, its large model support is provided by OpenAI and PaLM2. (News source:IT Home）
Adobe has launched an artificial intelligence feature called “Generative Expand” that is available to Photoshop beta users. This feature allows users to easily expand images to create seamless scene effects. (News source:IT Home）
According to official news from Microsoft, Microsoft has launched a speech model called NaturalSpeech2, which can bring high-quality speech synthesis products. Microsoft said that NaturalSpeech2 can generate human voices with different identities, with different rhythms and styles, and also has the ability to sing. (News source:Pinwan）
Lingdong AI released the commercially available AIGC product “Lingdong AI Product Map” and cooperated with JD.com’s intelligent new product incubation platform to provide AIGC “marketing + design” services to merchants and industry customers. It also announced that it had received angel investment from Xiaomi co-founder Li Wanqiang. (News source:36 krypton）
Sogou’s former CMO Hong Tao announced on Moments that he will soon join Baichuan Intelligence, a large AI model company co-founded by former Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan and former Sogou COO Ru Liyun, to be responsible for commercialization work. (News source:Financial Associated Press）
Startup Thymia, which uses AI to assess and track patients’ mental health conditions, has announced $2.7 million in funding. (News source:Business Insider）
Startup AutoGenAI announced it has received $22.3 million in funding from Blossom Capital. The company has developed a tool based on generative AI that it claims can help companies write more convincing business plan proposals to increase success rates. (News source:TechCrunch）
Startup Graft announced it has received $10 million in seed round investment, led by Radical Ventures, with participation from GV. The company aims to build a platform that enables every company to use and develop artificial intelligence, not just large enterprises with massive engineering resources. (News source:TechCrunch）
HumanFirst, a startup that provides an intelligent platform to help enterprises leverage internal conversation data (i.e., records of conversations between customers and support staff) to create new enterprise applications and processes in a code-free manner, announced a $5 million seed investment. . (News source:VentureBeat）

July 26th

Microsoft, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI announced the formation of the Frontier Model Forum, an industry body focused on ensuring the safe and responsible development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence models. (News source:Microsoft Blog）
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Android app is now available on the Google Play Store, launching first in countries such as the United States, India, Bangladesh and Brazil, with other countries to follow. (News source:The Verge）
Popular AI Startups Cohere Introducing Coral, a generative AI assistant for enterprises that provides a natural language interface where employees can ask questions and get useful and relevant answers. (News source:Maginative）
According to The Information, OpenAI is currently developing a new open source model codenamed “G3PO” internally in order to compete with the open source model Llama 2 developed by Microsoft and Meta. It is unclear when it will be released. (News source:IT Home）
NetEase Youdao launched “Ziyue”, China’s first vertical large-scale model in the education field, and released six innovative applications developed based on the “Ziyue” large-scale model – “LLM Translation”, “Virtual Spoken Language Coach”, and “AI Composition” “Guidance”, “Grammar Essentials”, “AI Box” and “Document Q&A”. (News source:36 krypton）
Huawei disclosed today that it has officially launched a joint innovation project on AI storage base with iFlytek to jointly create the best data storage solution for AI large model scenarios. (News source:Pinwan）
Wayfair, the largest home furnishing e-commerce platform in the United States, has launched a free virtual room designer called Decorify. After users upload pictures, the tool can use generative AI to display the renovated room and recommend related furnishings. (News source:The Verge）
Protect AI, a startup building tools to harden the security of artificial intelligence systems, today announced it has raised $35 million in Series A funding led by Evolution Equity Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Acrew Capital, boldstart Ventures, Knollwood Capital and Pelion Ventures participated in the investment. (News source:TechCrunch）
Startup Akooda recently announced it has raised $11 million in seed funding. The company’s operational intelligence platform uses artificial intelligence to effectively locate, access and analyze critical data scattered across organizations and help solve business challenges in real time. (News source:To gasoline）
Stay Ai, an e-commerce company that uses predictive analytics and machine learning models to help Shopify brands and merchants attract customers to make secondary purchases, announced it has raised $15.1 million in Series A funding. (News source:TechCrunch）

July 25th

Microsoft’s artificial intelligence chatbot Bing Chat (Bing Chat) is now supported for use on Google Chrome and Apple Safari browsers. Users only need to visit the Bing.com website to communicate with the chatbot, and it has also introduced Dark mode. (News source:Windows Latest）
Xiaohongshu launched a new feature called “At this moment” in the release column. Through this function, users can directly enter text, and the algorithm will generate a picture for the user based on the entered text content and complete the publishing. (News source:interface news）
According to Decrypt, OpenAI quietly shut down the AI content detection tool AI Classifier launched in January last week due to poor accuracy. The tool will no longer be available from July 20. (News source:Decrpyt）
DingTalk announced its product progress after being connected to the big model. Knowledge base, Teambition, whiteboard, etc. have been added with AI capabilities. Currently, 12 product lines and more than 40 scenarios of DingTalk have been connected to the big model. Users can generate PPT, mind maps, data analysis charts, project boards, etc. by inputting natural language through the slash “/”. (News source:china daily）
Alibaba Cloud has launched training and deployment solutions for the full series of Llama2 versions in China, making it easier for developers to retrain and build exclusive large models. Alibaba Cloud PAI’s preset environment supports developers to fine-tune models on the cloud and deploy Llama2 through Web UI and API. (News source:TechWeb）
Intel today announced a partnership with Accenture to launch 34 open source AI reference kits, aiming to simplify and accelerate the process of deploying AI for data scientists and developers. (News source:Intel Press Releases）
Quench.ai, a London-based artificial intelligence education technology platform founded by the co-founders of unicorn Onfido, which uses artificial intelligence to search the most relevant educational video content for its users, has raised $5 million in pre-seed funding. . (News source:Tech.eu）
South Korea’s telecommunications giant KT Group recently announced an investment of 15 billion won (US$11.6 million) in Moreh, a Seoul-based artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure software company, to accelerate its full-stack artificial intelligence operations. (News source:KED Global）
Beijing Zhiwei Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. recently released the Zhiwei Intelligent KDF large model in Shanghai, as well as a series of products developed based on the model, including “KDF Zhixun”, “KDF Juewei”, “KDF Zhongshu” and other financial industries tool. (News source:IT Home）

July 24th

Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman said on the “Power On” program that Apple is using the internal AppleGPT chatbot to help its employees “design prototypes of future features, summarize text and answer questions based on trained data.” It also said that Apple is looking for ways to expand the use of generative artificial intelligence within its organization, and one possibility is to provide the tool to AppleCare support staff to better help customers deal with issues. (News source:The Verge）
According to Tech Planet, Taobao APP has launched an AI creation assistant. Currently, the AI creation assistant supports users to create different styles of self-portraits through AI, which can be used as Taobao account avatars. (News source:Pinwan）
360’s large model products”360 Intelligent Brain“The APP has been officially launched on the Apple App Store. The 360 Intelligent Brain APP has the capabilities of generation and creation, multi-round dialogue, coding capabilities, text classification, text rewriting, reading comprehension, logic and reasoning, knowledge Q&A, multi-modality, translation, etc. You can also create your own digital person (News source:Tech Planet）
Microsoft and XiaoIce jointly announced that XiaoIce will launch a new generation of AI digital employee solutions based on Microsoft’s international version of Azure for corporate customers in Asia. The two parties will jointly promote the market popularization of the solution. (News source:IT Home）
Anders Hejlsberg, the father of C# and TypeScript, recently announced a new open source project – TypeChat, an experimental tool library that can easily use types to build natural language interfaces. (News source:Introducing TypeChat）
Video editing software DaVinci Resolve recently ushered in the official version 18.5 update. Officially, this is a major update that adds new AI tools and more than 100 new features, including audio in transcribed clips and automatic speech-to-text generation. Subtitles, automatic classification of audio clips, and more. (News source:BlackmagicDesign）

July 22nd

OpenAI officially announced on Twitter that it will release the Android version of the ChatGPT application next week, which can be pre-ordered and downloaded from the Google Store from now on. (News source:IT Home）
Stability AI and CarperAI Labs have released two new large-scale language models, FreeWilly1 and FreeWilly2. Both FreeWilly models are based on Meta’s Llama model, of which FreeWilly2 has used the newer Llama-2 model with 70 billion parameters. (News source:Stability AI Blog）
According to foreign media reports, JPMorgan Chase’s cross-asset reporting product, Cross Asset Spotlight, has begun to use generative AI to write summaries for human analyst reports, and at the same time, these AI summaries are followed by links to the original reports. (News source:36 krypton）
PlusMusic.ai, a game soundtrack platform, recently announced that it has received US$2.5 million in seed round financing. The company aims to provide cost-effective and rapid solutions to simplify the process of music creation and music integration into game content. (News source:Digital Music News）

July 21st

OpenAI announced the launch of the custom instruction function, which will be the first to provide a beta version in the PLUS plan and will be pushed to all users in the next few weeks. This feature will customize some instructions for the chatbot at the system level, making the robot more personalized and better suited to the user’s needs, and the user does not need to repeat preferences or information in each conversation. (News source:IT Home）
GitHub has announced that its new Copilot Chat feature (similar to ChatGPT, but designed to help developers code) is now available as a limited public beta to enterprise companies and organizations, and the beta will be available through Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code The program is open to “all enterprise users.” (News source:The Verge）
The U.S. government announced today that it has obtained voluntary commitments from a number of leading artificial intelligence companies to add watermarks to content generated by artificial intelligence and other measures to help improve the security of the technology. Seven companies – Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI – have agreed to improve the security and transparency of their systems, including allowing third-party experts to review their models. (News source:IT Home）
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been visiting the company’s offices three to four days a week in recent months, actively working with researchers to develop Gemini, Google DeepMind’s next-generation basic model. (News source:9to5Google）
Top early-stage venture capital firm Mayfield today announced the creation of a $250 million AI Start Fund, its first-ever seed fund that will partner with AI-first founders. (News source:Forbes）
According to Reuters, Cerebras Systems said on Thursday it had signed an agreement worth about $100 million to cooperate with United Arab Emirates-based technology group G42 to deliver the first artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer, with a total number of Possibly as many as 9 units. (News source:Reuters）
Cleanlab, a startup that provides data management solutions for large language models (LLMs) used in enterprise artificial intelligence, recently announced that it has received $5 million in seed funding, led by Bain Capital Ventures . (News source:VentureBeat）
Gushwork.ai, a global platform designed to leverage artificial intelligence and human expertise to advance business process outsourcing (BPO), has raised US$2.1 million in pre-seed financing. This round of financing was led by Lightspeed, B Capital, Sparrow Capital, Seaborne Capital and Beenext also participated. (News source:TechCrunch）