Abstract: According to The Paper, on April 12, a number of iBox users reported to the Pengpai Quality View Complaint Platform that they were defrauded when they purchased digital collections on the iBox platform of Hainan Chain Box Technology. In response to multiple users reporting that they were defrauded by Lianhe Technology, on April 13, the Public Security Bureau of Chengmai County, Hainan Province officially accepted the case. Prior to this, the police in many places in China filed cases on suspicion of fraud.
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Zhejiang: Develop new formats and new models such as digital human virtual anchors and new consumption scenarios in Metaverse
According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on April 20, the General Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Government recently issued "Several Measures on Further Expanding Consumption and Promoting High-quality Development" to support the development of e-commerce live broadcasting. Seize the rapid development opportunities of e-commerce live broadcasting, and develop new formats and new models such as digital human virtual anchors and metaverse new consumption scenarios. Develop the "cross-border e-commerce + live broadcast" model, build a cross-border bonded warehouse live broadcast headquarters base, and hold bonded warehouse live broadcast and other activities. Organize the province's e-commerce live broadcast competition, and carry out the live broadcast activity of "Beautiful Life Zhejiang Broadcasting Season". Promote the development of e-commerce live broadcast bases and public live broadcast rooms. In 2023, 300 new e-commerce live broadcast "Gongfu workshops" will be added.
Zuckerberg: The possibility of further layoffs at Meta is not ruled out. In the future, an annual growth rate of 1%-2% will be the standard
According to the Financial Times, Meta plans to lay off more than 10% of its UK staff and abandon Instagram's new center in London. An internal document shows that Meta will abolish at least 687 jobs, mainly in London, and in the UK, among a total of about 5,000 employees, many more people are at risk of future layoffs.
In addition, Meta CEO Zuckerberg told employees that he did not rule out future layoffs, saying he did not expect the pace of hiring to be as rapid as it was before layoffs began late last year. He also said that future employee growth of 1%-2% a year would be the norm.
Google will merge "Google Brain" and DeepMind to form a new department
According to the Financial Associated Press, on April 20 local time, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of technology giant Google, announced on the official website that the company will merge "Google Brain" and DeepMind to form a division "Google DeepMind". ". According to the company, the new Google DeepMind division will be led by DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis, and Jeff Dean, head of the Brain team, will transfer to Google's chief scientist. "Combining all of this talent into one team, and backed by Google's computing resources, has the potential to significantly accelerate our progress in artificial intelligence," Pichai said.
Programmer Q&A site Stack Overflow will charge AI giants for training data
According to Wired, Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow, a well-known programmer question-and-answer website, said that it plans to start charging large-scale artificial intelligence developers who obtain 50 million questions and answers in its service as soon as the middle of this year. It is reported that the site has more than 20 million registered users. “The community platforms that power LLM should absolutely be compensated for their contributions so that companies like ours can reinvest back into our communities and continue to allow them to thrive,” said Chandrasekar. “We are very supportive of what Reddit is doing. It was previously reported that Reddit will charge companies such as OpenAI to use data from its API.
Zhou Hongyi sent an internal letter: browsers and AI image generation tools combined with GPT capabilities will be open for B-side testing
According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report, on April 21, Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360 Group, issued an internal letter with the theme of "360 Artificial Intelligence General Mobilization", requiring every employee, every product and business of 360 to fully embrace it. Artificial intelligence, adapting to human-machine collaboration, and embarking on product remodeling. Zhou Hongyi said in an internal letter that the big language model is a new industrial revolution, and any app, software, website, or application is worth reshaping. The in-depth integration of GPT and thousands of industries will directly change the industry's competitive landscape, and companies that fail to catch this train will be eliminated. Zhou Hongyi also revealed that the smart browser combined with GPT capabilities, AI image generation tools and enterprise smart marketing cloud will soon be open to B-end users for testing.
In addition, the 360 Group will implement the system of "revealing the list and taking command" to recruit more employees to join the core research and development of the big language model. "360 employees who are curious and able to work with GPT will not be eliminated by GPT." Zhou Hongyi said, and encouraged all employees to embrace GPT and use GPT to achieve better performance.
Investment and Financing
Hitachi Ventures launches new $300 million fund to invest in Web3 and generative AI
According to HPCWire, on April 20, Hitachi announced that its global venture capital institution, Hitachi Ventures (HV), has set up a third fund to accelerate innovation in the digital field. The initial size of the fund is US$300 million, twice the size of the first and second funds previously established, and it intends to focus on strategic investments in startups in the field of Web3 and generative AI.
Metaverse infrastructure provider MetaGravity completes $9.5 million in financing, with participation from Spartan Group and others
According to a TechFundingnews report on April 21, metaverse infrastructure provider MetaGravity completed a $9.5 million seed round of financing. Sino Global, Spartan Group LLC, Market One Capital, etc. participated in this round of financing. Funds from this round of financing will be used to expand its Engineering and product teams to develop the infrastructure layers needed to support future large-scale virtual universe experiences.
E-commerce metaverse platform Playbux completes $2 million in financing
According to Foresight News, Playbux, a blockchain-based e-commerce metaverse platform, has completed a $2 million seed round of financing, led by Binance Labs. Participating investors include Gate.io, Tron, CertiK, Ankr, IMO Ventures, LIF, Math Wallet and OFR. It is reported that Playbux is a metaverse platform with a Shop & Earn system that allows users to shop at more than 20,000 merchants around the world and earn cash back. Playbux said that more Earn mechanisms will be introduced in the future.
Industrial digitalization company CIC obtained exclusive strategic investment from Mumeng Group
According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" report on April 21, China Industrial Internet (Beijing) Technology Group Co., Ltd. has recently officially completed tens of millions of yuan in financing. This round of financing is the exclusive strategic investment of Mumeng Group. It is reported that this is the first time that CIC has opened up external financing since its establishment many years ago. As the first company in China to launch a ChatGPT multi-modal large-scale model solution in the industrial field, it innovatively proposes to lead the digital transformation of industrial enterprises with large-scale model thinking. Through multi-modal The large-scale model platform + scene generation AI capability forms a key support, and is committed to realizing the reconstruction of the entire value chain of production enterprises.
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"iBox, the leading platform for digital collections, was accused of fraud, and the police in many places filed a case"
On April 12, a number of iBox users reported to the Pengpai quality complaint platform that they were defrauded when they purchased digital collections on the iBox platform of Hainan Lianhe Technology. In response to multiple users reporting that they were defrauded by Lianhe Technology, on April 13, the Public Security Bureau of Chengmai County, Hainan Province officially accepted the case. Prior to this, the police in many places in China filed cases on suspicion of fraud.
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_22793099
"The bragging of the Yuan Universe back then, all of them were rotten"
After all, the threshold of the metaverse is too high. With the current scientific and technological capabilities of human beings, it is far from being able to cross the sky. In the end, the metaverse became an unattainable dream, and was finally simplified and divided into small projects one after another. Web3, NFT, virtual humans, VR/AR, metaverse games, and metaverse social interactions have emerged one after another. Countless entrepreneurs have continued to add firewood and salary to the "virtual fire" of Yuan Universe, but in the end they got nothing, leaving one "unfinished" project after another empty.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6814676
"Dingding Feishu, because AI is fighting"
Last week, the industry’s focus was still on the large language model technology itself of leading manufacturers. This week, the focus shifted to the application of large model capabilities. Among them, the office scene has become one of the first scenes where large models are implemented due to its ability to adapt to large language models, a large number of users covered, and a high user payment rate. Manufacturers are vying to be the "leader" of the large-scale AI model in the office scene, and they are also eyeing the commercialization prospects behind it. Since 2022, players in the collaborative office field, especially Dingding, Enterprise WeChat, and Feishu, which are backed by major Internet companies and have risen rapidly since the epidemic, have spent a lot of effort on "making money". Nowadays, various companies regard AI capabilities as a new element of stimulating payment.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6814690
Advanced ChatGPT "Magic Phrases": Tips for Writers, Content Marketers, and SEO Experts
Hint engineering has been called "the most important job skill of the century", also known as "prose programming", which I (the author of this article) find poetic. Personally, I think this is a fundamental skill that both individuals and businesses need to master, and it will be highly relevant for the foreseeable future.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6814760
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