Abstract: According to the investment practice report, the start-ups born in the AI era will also start small. They will start quickly and iterate using open source and cloud computing. But thanks to AI, they will remain smaller for a longer period of time, with the most successful of these achieving staggering scale with only a handful of employees. Stories like Instagram (13 employees, acquired for $1 billion) and WhatsApp (35 engineers to support 450 million users when acquired for $16 billion) will become more prevalent.
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Apple MR equipment has entered the final sprint and supply chain pull stage
The supply chain confirmed that Apple's new MR products have entered the final sprint and supply chain pull stage. In addition to the previously known Luxshare Precision and Yang Mingguang, the GIS of Hon Hai Group is also included in the supply chain. The Apple MR that GIS is responsible for The order item is the lens lamination business that is the closest to the final product shipment. Recently, GIS has been sprinting to catch up with the work. According to the industry's mobilization schedule from the GIS production line, the new MR products that Apple has been developing for many years will be announced at WWDC in June this year at the earliest, and will be distributed and sold one after another. (Financial Association)
Baidu Wenxin Yiyan Enterprise Service Internal Test Demo Exposure
According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report on April 24, the reporter learned from Baidu's email to customers that Baidu had previously launched an internal test of Wenxinyiyan's enterprise service. Judging from the exposed demos, Wenxinyiyan’s corporate services will be the first to cover corporate office, travel services, e-commerce services, government services, financial services and other scenarios in the future, enabling PPT production, document generation, and travel itinerary planning, booking and Adjustment, e-commerce delivery script generation, digital human live broadcast, financial information retrieval and investment proposal generation, etc.
President of Tmall Genie: AIGC interactive system and personalized large model will be open to industry use
According to a Jinshi report on April 24, Peng Chao, vice president of Alibaba (09988.HK) and president of Tmall Genie, revealed at an event of the National Federation of Industry and Commerce that the AIGC interactive system and personalized large models will be open to the industry. Previously, the personalized large model used by "Bird Bird Separation Bird" has achieved super-benchmark performance in terms of continuous dialogue, accurate facts, and breadth of knowledge through special fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. Enterprises in the AIoT field do not need to worry too much about the computational cost of reasoning calls. The big model of the future is the brain of AI, and the Internet of Things is the sense of AI. AIoT will really usher in an explosion.
State Intellectual Property Office: Strengthen research on intellectual property rules for new fields and new formats such as big data and artificial intelligence
According to the Securities Times, Shen Changyu, director of the State Intellectual Property Office, said at a press conference today that he will coordinate and promote the formulation and revision of various intellectual property laws, regulations and institutional rules. Among them, the regulations on the protection of integrated circuit layout designs have been revised and improved to meet the needs of the development of large-scale integrated circuits, help the chip industry to become bigger and stronger, and serve the better development of the digital economy. Strengthen the research on intellectual property rules in new fields and new formats such as big data, artificial intelligence, and gene technology, and help innovation and development in related fields. At the same time, actively participate in the formulation of international intellectual property rules, better connect with high-standard international economic and trade rules, and help high-level opening up.
Thousands of users report problems with Open AI
According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on April 24, according to data from the outage tracking website Downdetector, on the evening of April 23, US Eastern Time, more than a thousand users reported problems with Open AI.
Institutions: 13 unicorns were born from January to March, 4 of which are AI companies
According to the Nikkei News, according to data from the US research institute CB Insights, 13 unicorns (non-listed companies with an enterprise value of US$1 billion or more) were born between January and March, a decrease of 10% compared to the same period last year. one. Among them, artificial intelligence (AI)-related companies accounted for the largest proportion, with 4 companies.
Investment and Financing
NEAR invests in Cosmose AI, a $500 million artificial intelligence company
According to TechCrunch, artificial intelligence company Cosmose AI is working with NEAR to build a payment system that allows users to shop with cryptocurrencies at low transaction fees, saving both buyers and sellers money. As part of the partnership, the NEAR Foundation has made a strategic investment in Cosmose for an undisclosed amount, raising its valuation to $500 million from $100 million in 2020 when it completed a $15 million Series A round. Cosmose is a nine-year-old company that uses AI analytics to track in-store traffic and interact with online shoppers. Its suite of retail solutions includes the KaiKai app, which lets customers discover nearby retail stores, and an online location platform, both of which have been given a blockchain makeover with the help of NEAR.
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"Lu Qi's Latest Speech Record: My Big Model World View"
Even Lu Qi said that he couldn't keep up with the crazy speed of the big model era. He asked his subordinates to do "big model daily", on the one hand, it is convenient for him to keep up with the updates of papers and information, and on the other hand, it can be shared with Qiji ecological entrepreneurs. He uses three "real" to express this point. "I really can't do it anymore. I really can't keep up with the papers and the codes. Just too much." Lu Qi said at a recent sharing event.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6815030
"In the era of AI, a large number of listed companies with hundreds or dozens of employees will appear"
SocialCapital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya recently discussed the impact of AI on entrepreneurship, investment, and company formation in a podcast. He said that AI is iterating at an unprecedented speed, and innovation is taking place in days and weeks. This is going to change the way companies are started, and the teams that get to the MVP will be smaller and smaller 3-4 people instead of the usual 40 or 50 people before - which means VCs and their investment models need to keep up with these changes .
https://www.8btc.com/article/6815130
"Is anyone investing in AI? Sharing of the first-line practical exercise on the AI track》
In the past two months, most institutions have focused on large-scale models, which has caused a boom in the number of domestic large-scale model projects and financing. Then in the past two weeks, everyone began to look at the application layer projects (the middle layer is even worse in China, It seems to be ignored and skipped directly, there is no chance by default?). From the data we have learned, there are probably two or three institutions that have invested the most in the field of AI, and each of them has invested in four or five projects (including model-based ones). Others have actually invested in one or two projects. There are about 20 institutions, so there are actually very few real AI application layer projects that can get financing, at least it is completely inconsistent with the current popularity and consensus of the overall market.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6815096
"OpenAI Live Demonstration Official Version AutoGPT! Creating and tweeting one-stop, independently calling external applications to complete tasks》
OpenAI's official AutoGPT is coming! Just when the AutoGPT project broke 100,000 Stars, OpenAI also released a blockbuster. Co-founder Greg Brockman (Greg Brockman) personally demonstrated the upcoming new features of ChatGPT.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6815038
"A16Z, a well-known American investment institution: 10 core views on generative AI platforms"
Recently, A16Z, a well-known American investment institution, published an article entitled "Who Owns the GenerativeAIPlatform? Interview research and data analysis may be the most objective and detailed discussion on this topic recently.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6815084
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