Today's news: Google releases the world's largest visual language model; Musk expects Twitter's cash flow to become positive in the next quarter; Wang Xing invests in Wang Huiwen's ChatGPT project; the United States plans to launch a manned flight around the moon in November next year; HPE announced the acquisition of Athonet
Google released the world's largest visual language model
Recently, a group of artificial intelligence researchers from Google and the Technical University of Berlin announced the largest visual language model in history, PaLM-E (full name Pathways Language Model with Embodied).
As a multimodal embodied visual-language model (VLM), PaLM-E enables the integration of vision and language into robot control. According to Google and the Technical University of Berlin, PaLM-E is the largest VLM developed by humans so far, and it can perform various tasks without retraining. In addition, through the combination of the PaLM-540B language model and the ViT-22B visual Transformer model, the final parameter volume of PaLM-E is as high as 562 billion (the parameter volume of GPT-3 is 175 billion), which is the largest visual language model known in the world .
In the past few months, the artificial intelligence boom triggered by ChatGPT among global technology giants has promoted the productivity of a large number of language models. According to the "Wall Street Journal", although Google made an artificial intelligence chat tool similar to ChatGPT two years ago, Google's cautious attitude towards AI made it lose the opportunity to generate AI.
Musk expects Twitter to turn cash flow positive next quarter
Twitter CEO Elon Musk reportedly said on Tuesday that the company "has a chance" to turn cash flow positive in the next quarter thanks to aggressive cost-cutting measures.
Musk made the remarks at a Morgan Stanley investor conference. Twitter's poor performance at monetizing its messaging service is "shocking," he said.
Musk said the company had cut its non-debt spending to $1.5 billion in 2023 from an expected $4.5 billion, largely thanks to a 40% reduction in spending on cloud services and the closure of a data center. In addition, Twitter has previously laid off thousands of people.
Musk, who also serves as CEO of electric car company Tesla, bought Twitter for $44 billion last October. He said the company would also be charged about $1.5 billion a year in interest due to the debt it took on in the going-private deal.
He added that Twitter has suffered a "massive decline in advertising." Musk believes some of this is due to the cyclical nature of ad spending, while others are "political."
Wang Xing invests in Wang Huiwen ChatGPT project
Wang Xing released Moments and revealed that he will personally participate in the A-round investment of Wang Huiwen's start-up company "Light Years Beyond" and serve as a director.
Previously, Wang Huiwen announced the establishment of Beijing Light Year Beyond Technology Co., Ltd. in February, with an investment of US$50 million and a valuation of US$200 million, with his own funds accounting for 25% of the shares. This is another venture of Wang Huiwen after Meituan.com.
Looking back at the entrepreneurial projects that Wang Huiwen has participated in, most of the teams have Wang Xing. The two used to be bunk beds when they were in college. During the startup period of Xiaonei.com, Wang Xing was responsible for the overall strategy of the product, and Wang Huiwen was responsible for the back-end code work.
The United States plans to launch a manned flight around the moon in November next year
Recently, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that the "Artemis 2" manned flight around the moon project is proceeding step by step and is expected to be implemented in November next year.
Jim Free, an official of NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, told the media on the same day: "Based on what we know from the implementation of the Artemis 1 (unmanned orbiting the moon) mission, there is nothing stopping us at this time (executing the Artemis 1 mission). Themis 2 manned mission around the moon).”
According to Agence France-Presse, NASA will announce later this year who will carry out the "Artemis 2" manned mission around the moon, and one of the astronauts will be Canadian.
"Artemis" is a new moon landing program announced by the US government in 2019. On November 16 last year, NASA's new generation of moon landing rocket "Space Launch System" sent an "Orion" spacecraft into orbit around the moon to perform the "Artemis 1" mission. After 25 and a half days, the spacecraft After the flight, it returned to Earth smoothly.
NASA plans to launch the "Artemis 3" mission to the moon about 12 months after the success of the "Artemis 2" mission, landing astronauts on the moon's south pole. The lander and spacesuits for the mission to the moon are still under development, Free said.
HPE Technologies Announces Acquisition of Athonet
March 9 news, Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently announced the acquisition of Athonet to expand its service capabilities connecting the edge to the cloud.
Athonet is a private cellular network technology provider that provides mobile core networks for enterprises and communication service providers. After this acquisition, Athonet will combine HPE Telecom Services with Aruba's existing network product portfolio, pushing HPE into the increasingly prosperous At the forefront of the private 5G network market, according to IDC forecasts, the market size will exceed $1.6 billion by 2026.
According to reports, Athonet is headquartered in Vicenza, Italy, and has more than 15 years of experience in providing 4G and 5G mobile core network solutions to global users and partners. Athonet has more than 450 successful customer deployments across a variety of industries, including leading mobile operators, hospitals, airports, ports, utilities, government and public safety organizations, and more.
"Telecom customers are looking for easier ways to deploy private 5G networks to meet customers' growing expectations for connectivity at the edge," said Tom Craig, global vice president and general manager of the Communications Technologies Group at HPE. The need to create a customized 5G network experience with low latency, non-interference, wide coverage, and strong security features across campus and industrial environments to complement its existing wireless network. Through the acquisition of Athonet, HPE has a communication-oriented service One of the most complete private 5G network and Wi-Fi product portfolios for commercial and enterprise customers, we will also provide customers with a new private 5G network experience in the form of network-as-a-service through HPE GreenLake."
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