The change in the tuyere is swift, unexpected, and emotionless. 2021 is the first year of the Metaverse, but within two years it has become "yesterday's yellow flower". Baidu, which once followed the pace of Meta and launched Metaverse "Xi Rang", turned around and replaced the target with OpenAI, and released a large model of Wenxin Yiyan. Local governments adjusted industrial policies in a timely manner, shifting from blockchain and Metaverse to AIGC. On May 19, Beijing released the "Beijing General Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Partnership Plan", becoming the first city in China to introduce policies to support the development of AIGC, and it is believed that other cities will follow suit.
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financing
AIGC platform Hippocratic AI received $50 million in financing, focusing on the field of medical teaching
According to the "Kechuang Board Daily" report, on May 17, Hippocratic AI, a generative AI platform, announced that it had received US$50 million (about 350 million yuan) in seed round financing, this time jointly led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz. The AI chat robot developed by Hippocratic AI based on the large language model mainly focuses on the field of medical teaching, providing ChatGPT-like question-and-answer services. Hippocratic AI can simulate various types of patients, tone, character and dialogue with doctors to help doctors improve medical knowledge.
"Luchen Technology" has completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series A financing, and its main business is to build a distributed AI development and deployment platform
According to 36 Krypton’s report on May 22, “Luchen Technology” announced the completion of a round A financing of several hundred million yuan. According to the company's introduction, this round of financing is the third round of financing completed within 18 months of the establishment of Luchen Technology. The financing funds will be mainly used for team expansion and business development. Luchen Technology was established in 2021. Its main business is to help enterprises reduce the cost of implementing large models and improve the efficiency of training and reasoning by building a distributed AI development and deployment platform.
AI chip developer Zhonghao Xinying completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Pre-B round of financing
According to Jiwei.com, recently, Hangzhou Zhonghao Xinying completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Pre-B round financing, led by Kede Education, Zhejiang University Insigma, Hupan Shannan, Saizhibole, Shenneng Chengyi, Yongsheng Capital and other institutions participated invest. This round of funds will be used by Zhonghao Xinying to further promote the development and application of AI training chips and computing clusters.
"Bangding Wisdom" received ten million yuan Pre-A round of financing
According to 36 Krypton’s report on May 18, Shanghai Bangding Wisdom Technology Co., Ltd. has completed the Pre-A round of financing of 10 million yuan, jointly invested by Luye Investment and Green Venture Partners. This round of financing will be mainly used for team expansion, investment in research and development of smart oilfield products and marketing of smart factory products. It is understood that, relying on the self-developed industrial AI modeling and simulation engine, Bonding Wisdom has built two cognitive AI solutions for companies in the oil and gas and fine chemical industries: "Petroleum AI mining brain" and factory energy optimization system "factory AI energy-saving brain" and products.
Web3 developer platform Airstack completes $7 million in financing, led by Superscrypt
According to CoinDesk, Airstack, a Web3 developer platform, completed $7 million in financing, led by Superscrypt, with participation from Polygon, Hashed Emergent, NGC, Primal Capital, UOB Ventures, and Signum Capital. The first half of this round of financing will be closed in the third quarter of 2022. Finish.
Generative AI startup Together raises $20 million led by Lux Capital
According to TechCrunch, on May 16, the generative artificial intelligence startup Together announced the completion of a $20 million seed round of financing, led by Lux Capital, Factory, SV Angel, First Round Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Robot Ventures, Definition Capital, Susa Ventures, Cadenza Ventures and SCB 10 x participated. In addition, several well-known angel investors also participated in the investment, including PayPal co-founder Scott Banister and Cloudera founding employee Jeff Hammerbacher.
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large model
The National Supercomputing Tianjin Center released the "Tianhe Tianyuan Large Model"
On May 19, at the World Intelligent Technology Innovation Cooperation Summit, the National Supercomputing Tianjin Center released the "Tianhe E-class Intelligent Computing Open Innovation Platform" and "Tianhe Tianyuan Large Model" based on domestic Tianhe super computing power and intelligent computing power , the total number of tokens in the training data set reaches 350 B.
The country's first large-scale pre-training model "ChatDNA" in the field of DNA storage was released
According to the Shanghai Securities News, on May 21, the 2023 Xiangfu Innovation Forum Transformational Medicine Industry Summit Forum was held in Jiashan, Zhejiang. Experts participating in the conference will focus on the latest developments in cutting-edge fields such as precision medicine and life sciences, diagnostic technology, gene sequencing, etc., share practical experience and innovative ideas, and promote the healthy development of the medical industry. At the same time, the forum also held a major release and alliance signing ceremony. Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Xiangfu Laboratory, and National Science Center for Translational Medicine (Shanghai) jointly released the country's first large pre-training model "ChatDNA" in the field of DNA storage.
Shanghai Computing Network Digital Medical Innovation Laboratory releases the medical computing network model "Uni-talk"
According to the Shanghai Economic and Information Commission quoted by the Securities Times, under the guidance of the Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission, Shanghai Unicom, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Supercomputing Center and Huawei jointly established the Shanghai Computing Network Digital Medical Innovation Laboratory. With the joint efforts of all member units, the "first answer sheet" handed over since the establishment of the laboratory - the "Uni-talk" medical computing network large-scale model was released. The release of "Uni-talk" marks the in-depth exploration and new breakthrough of the application of computing power network in the industry, and general artificial intelligence has taken a solid step towards artificial intelligence in the medical industry.
I Love My Home cooperates with artificial intelligence provider 4Paradigm to release the industry's first real estate brokerage model
According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on May 15, I Love My Home released a new digital strategy today, which will cooperate with artificial intelligence technology provider 4Paradigm to create the industry's first real estate brokerage model, thereby greatly improving knowledge, systems, The integration of human and human can improve the level of intelligent decision-making, and promote the two-wheel drive of intelligent decision-making AI + large-scale model generation AI in the real estate field.
Affected by the boom in the development of AI large models, the price of AI servers has risen nearly 20 times in less than a year
According to a report by the Securities Times on May 16, affected by the upsurge of AI (artificial intelligence) large-scale model development, the demand for computing power in the market has increased significantly, coupled with the continuous shortage of GPU (image processor, accelerator chip) chips, the core components of AI servers, and the continuous increase in GPU prices. The price of AI servers has risen sharply recently.
Some companies revealed that the price of the AI server they bought in June last year rose nearly 20 times in less than a year. During the same period, GPU prices also continued to rise. For example, the unit price of the A100 GPU market has reached 150,000 yuan, up from 100,000 yuan two months ago, an increase of 50%. It is about 89,000 yuan.
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application
Stability AI releases StableStudio, an open-source version of its design suite DreamStudio
Stability AI this week announced the release of StableStudio, an open-source version of its commercial AI-driven design suite DreamStudio, TechCrunch reported. Stability AI emphasized that going forward, DreamStudio will be its preferred hosting instance of StableStudio and will be "as far as possible" in sync with StableStudio.
ChatGPT was launched on the Apple App Store in the US, and its downloads directly rushed to the second place in the ranking list in one night
According to news from Jinshi, on May 18 local time, the artificial intelligence research company OpenAI announced on its official website that it launched the iPhone application of the chat robot ChatGPT in the United States, and promised to provide the same service for Android phones in the future. It is worth noting that, less than 12 hours after its launch, the ChatGPT app has already rushed to the second place among the free apps in the US Apple App Store.
The Financial Associated Press launched the "Whale Cloud AI-Large Model Application Alliance in the Financial Field" plan
According to the news from the Financial Associated Press, on May 19, the "New Era and New Business Format - Building a New Development Pattern for Wealth Management" forum jointly organized by the Financial Associated Press and China Asset Management was held in Ningbo. The Financial Association released the "Whale Cloud AI-Large Model Application Alliance in the Financial Field" plan at this forum. Convergence, professional collaboration, and jointly improve efficiency and service for financial institutions.
Tmall Genie smart glasses are testing large-scale model interaction, which can accompany sports, chat, give advice, etc.
According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on May 19, Alibaba's Tmall Genie's smart glasses are being tested to upgrade the large-scale model interaction system. According to the outflowing video, the audio glasses have the ability of intelligent voice interaction at any time, and can accompany users to exercise in real time, give dietary advice, and chat with character strategy while playing games, which is equivalent to an AIGC assistant. The video also shows that the large model plus mobile acoustic technology can also be used in wearable devices such as headphones and helmets.
Xiaoice company launched the "GPT clone project", the first batch is limited to 300 places
Babbitt News, on May 16, Xiaoice Company announced the launch of the "GPT Clone Project", which has now started registration in China and Japan, and the first batch of "clones" will be officially launched within a month. According to reports, "Human Clone" is based on the large model of the Xiaoice framework, neural network rendering and super natural voice technology, which can perform real-time emotional interaction and provide AIGC capabilities. The first batch is limited to 300 places, and you need to provide proof of ownership. Xiaoice Company said that it will gradually release restrictions on the number of people and places as the plan advances; it currently plans to expand the scale of GPT clones to 100,000 before the end of the year.
Unbounded AI and Sanweijia have reached a strategic cooperation to apply AIGC technology to the home decoration design industry
Babbitt News, on May 15th, Wujie AI announced that it has reached a strategic cooperation with Sanweijia to jointly apply AIGC technology to the home decoration design industry. Through the algorithm technology of Wujie AI, it will assist the current home decoration design process and create a new industry format.
This cooperation is an important part of Unbounded AI in the home design industry, and it is expected to bring actual value of cost reduction and efficiency increase to the home design industry. Through AIGC to open up the data integration of the manufacturing industry, the two parties will jointly explore and customize the model focusing on the home decoration design industry, which will be launched on the Unbounded AI platform one after another.
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policy
Three departments of Beijing: planning to build a national data training base
Babbitt News on May 20th, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economics and Information Technology issued a notice that in order to seize new opportunities for the development of the general artificial intelligence industry and promote the innovative application of large-scale model technology, three departments including the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economics and Information Technology plan to organize the implementation of the " Beijing General Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Partnership Program”. These include planning to build a national data training base. Plan to build a national-level data training base in the layout of the first demonstration area of the data infrastructure system, explore the copyright, security and incentive mechanism issues of high-value data sharing, and promote the formation of a contribution-based commercial cooperation model. Give full play to the advantages of Beijing's professional service providers engaged in artificial intelligence training data, provide data support and technical services for the data required for each stage of large-scale model pre-training, and develop high-quality data sets covering multiple modalities such as text, images, and videos. Contribute to the construction of a national data training base. Support the development of a new industry of synthetic data based on AIGC technology.
Italian government allocates $33 million to protect workers from AI replacement threat
According to FoxBusiness, the Italian government recently allocated 30 million euros (about 33 million U.S. dollars) to protect workers from the threat of AI replacement. Funding for digital training will be distributed in two ways, according to the Digital Republic Fund (FRD). About a third will be used to help people in high-risk alternative jobs improve their digital skills. The remaining funds will be allocated to help the unemployed and economically inactive population develop digital skills, which will improve their chances of entering the job market.
The Japanese government held a strategic group meeting to use generative AI for a limited time
According to news from Kyodo News on May 16, Japan's Digital Agency, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries held a meeting of the government's "AI Strategy Group" on the 15th, proposing that within the scope of not handling confidential information, the AI chat software "ChatGPT" should be used in business. ” and other generative AI ideas. Approved by the Strategy Group. It is reported that the relevant agencies will adopt a limited period of use for several months or until the end of the year. In the future, the strategy team will ask the above-mentioned three government departments to submit reports and confirm issues. Previously, the central government department has been required to report in advance when using generative AI.
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big company
Wall Street Journal: Apple restricts employees from using external AI tools such as ChatGPT
Apple has restricted the use of ChatGPT and other external AI tools within the company as it develops its own similar technology, according to a document reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and people familiar with the matter. Apple is concerned that employees using external programs "may reveal confidential data," the document states. The company is also known to have told employees not to use Microsoft's GitHub Copilot.
Executive Director of Microsoft Korea: Microsoft is preparing GPT-5, GPT-6 will come out
According to a United News report quoted by Whiplash, the executive of Microsoft Korea recently said that Microsoft is preparing for GPT-5, and GPT-6 will also come out. "The issue of copyright on AI is also important but I think we have reached an environment beyond that". As a presenter, he participated in the "AI Safety Day Symposium" held online and offline by the Ministry of Science and Technology Information and Communications and the Korea Internet Agency (KISA) on the same day, and said that "AI is getting smarter, and the time required will be shorter."
Ma Jie, vice president of Baidu and head of Metaverse business "Hee Rang", resigns
According to Jiemian News on May 19, Ma Jie, vice president of Baidu and head of Baidu's "Xi Rang" business, has recently resigned. Although the Xi Rang team has not been disbanded, the future is currently unclear, and some personnel have been transferred or resigned. According to internal sources, it is difficult to see a good business model for Metaverse business in the short term, and its profitability is poor, as well as Baidu’s shift to AIGC-related businesses and unwillingness to invest more resources in Metaverse business, which are the main reasons why Heeyang is marginalized . As of press time, Baidu has not responded to this news.
Zuckerberg: A generative AI coding assistant "CODECOMPOSE" has been developed, and the long-term goal is to build more AI tools
According to news from Jinshi on May 18, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that Meta designed the first generation of custom chips for the "Meta Training and Reasoning Accelerator" to power the AI recommendation system. In addition, Meta has developed a generative AI coding assistant called "CODECOMPOSE" to help engineers be more efficient when writing code. The company's long-term goal is to build more AI tools to support teams throughout the software development process. The company's long-term goals also include "hoping" to open source more generative AI coding tools.
Google Colaboratory will add new AI coding features to challenge Microsoft's GitHub Copilot
According to a report by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on May 18, Google announced that Google Colaboratory (Colab) will add a new AI coding function. The feature is powered by Codey, a new "vinson code" model that supports more than 20 coding languages, including Go, Google Standard SQL, Java, JavaScript, Python, Typescript, and more. This move is seen as Google's frontal battle against Microsoft's GitHub Copilot. Google revealed that these new features will be rolled out gradually over the next few months, with paying users first experiencing it, and then free users and users in other regions will also get access soon.
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View
Ma Huateng: AI is a rare opportunity similar to the industrial revolution that invented electricity
According to China Fund News, when asked about artificial intelligence, Ma Huateng said, "At first we thought this was a once-in-a-decade opportunity for the Internet, but the more we thought about it, the more we felt that this was an opportunity that was once in a few hundred years, similar to the industrial revolution that invented electricity. , so we think (AI) is very important. But this does require a lot of accumulation. Internet companies have a lot of accumulation and are doing it. We are also immersed in research and development, but we are not in a hurry to finish it early and take out semi-finished products. Demonstration.” Moreover, Tencent said, we are making good progress in terms of our base model. From the perspective of different components, these model constructions are in progress.
Opinion: The biggest threat AI poses to school teachers and students is "childishness"
According to the reference news network citing the British "Times" report, a group led by Anthony Selden, the dean of Epsom College, announced the establishment of a new agency to provide advice to schools and protect them from the risks posed by AI. Selden said the biggest threat to teachers and students was "infancy". He also said: "Learning is at its best and humans are at their best when they meet challenges and overcome them. AI will simplify life and take away opportunities to learn and teach unless we get in front of it .”
Private equity tycoon Zhuang Tao: AI hype disrupts the normal valuation system, patiently waiting for two "springs"
According to a report by Golden Ten Data on May 19, Zhuang Tao, a private equity tycoon, said that under normal circumstances, the performance of the stock market depends more on liquidity. This year, the market valuation system has been impacted and chaotic in the short term. At present, it is necessary to wait patiently for two springs: the first is that the theme hype gradually dies out, and everything is born when a whale falls, and the second is that the U.S. dollar index finally peaks. At that time, these extremely undervalued growth stocks will definitely have a wave of market, and the real growth stocks are the cornerstone of the A-share market. In addition, Zhuang Tao also believes that when the theme hype stage comes to an end, there will be truly excellent AI targets priced by performance in the future.
Zhou Hongyi: In the future, every city and every government department in China will have a proprietary large model
According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on May 18, at the 7th World Intelligence Conference, Zhou Hongyi showed two large-scale model products, 360 Smart Brain and AI drawing tool 360 Vision. Zhou Hongyi predicted that in the future China will not only have one large model, but each city and each government department will have a proprietary large model; and it will be integrated with the business system to become the "co-pilot" of each business sector and become the general dispatcher of the smart city room.
The chairman of the US Securities Regulatory Commission warns that the next financial crisis may be triggered by AI
According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on May 17, Gensler, the chairman of the US Securities Regulatory Commission, said that the next financial crisis may appear in the use of artificial intelligence by companies, and he warned of potential "systemic risks" posed by the spread of the technology. Even then, many government officials, like Gensler, are skeptical of the technology, given its promise to do more with fewer people, and many businesses across the U.S. economy have embraced it.
DeepMind co-founder: Traditional search engines will disappear within ten years, and everyone will have a personal AI in the future
According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report on May 16, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, said in an interview a few days ago that the Internet is about to undergo fundamental changes, traditional search engines will disappear within ten years, and conversational interactive products will trigger a new round of technology wave. In addition, it expects that in the next few years, everyone will have their own personal artificial intelligence, including commercial artificial intelligence, government artificial intelligence, non-profit artificial intelligence, political artificial intelligence, internet celebrity artificial intelligence and brand artificial intelligence. type.
Wang Xiaochuan said that in 10 years, the intelligence of machines will surpass that of humans
According to China Business News, Wang Xiaochuan said in an interview that it is expected that the singularity of artificial intelligence will come in 2033. The reason is that the iteration cycle of artificial intelligence technology will decrease exponentially: the expert system has gone through 40 years, and the learning system has gone through 20 years. , 10 years of deep learning, next, only need another 5 years, 2.5 years, 1.25 years, 0.625 years, the turning point will come. Wang Xiaochuan gave the model iteration plan: in the middle of this year (about one or two months later), he will release the first generation model against GPT-1; at the end of the year, the model against GPT-3.5 will be launched. As a comparison, it took OpenAI more than four years to go from GPT-1 to GPT-3.5.
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research report
CITIC Securities: AIGC ignites a productivity revolution, which may affect more than 80% of workers
According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on May 22, the CITIC Securities Research Report pointed out that with ChatGPT’s strong “out of the circle” on a global scale, the AI large-scale business model has successfully run through, and they believe that the era of AIGC is coming. In recent years, with the continuous optimization of AI large models and computing power costs, the continuous decline in training and reasoning costs has provided a prerequisite for the commercial application of AIGC. AIGC has derived a rich capability matrix, with the three core capabilities of twinning, editing and creation. In the long run, AIGC has the application prospect of subversive cost reduction and efficiency increase in the whole industry, or it may affect more than 80% of workers. At the same time, AIGC can also catalyze new industrial opportunities in frontier fields. AIGC will greatly accelerate the creation of digital content and the development of the digital human industry, and promote the accelerated landing of the Metaverse industry.
Zheshang Securities: Intelligent consultation is expected to become a breakthrough in the combination of medical AI and general large models
According to the "Kechuang Board Daily" report, the latest research report of Zheshang Securities pointed out that the AI products that domestic medical IT manufacturers will first develop and benefit from are intelligent consultation/medical assistance products that interact with patients' text. Currently, medical assistant AI products do not need to be adapted to a large number of in-hospital processes. They can use medical knowledge bases to train large models, greatly improving the accuracy and intelligence of medical consultation products, and realizing efficient medical guidance, triage and other medical assistance functions. And under the supervision of medical staff, the automatic reply to the basic consultation of patients will greatly improve the efficiency of hospital operation. AI products for Internet consultation or the fastest-promoted medical AI products have become a breakthrough for cooperation between AI general models and medical AI manufacturers.
Agency: The AI chip market is expected to grow to $257.6 billion by 2033
According to the "Kechuang Board Daily" report on May 16, the research institution IDTechEx recently released a report, looking forward to the trend of the AI chip market in 2023-2033. It predicts that by 2033, the AI chip market will grow to 257.6 billion US dollars. The three largest vertical industries for chips are ICT, banking, insurance and financial institutions, and consumer electronics.
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