Abstract: According to Jiazi Guangnian, on the 136th day after shouting "to be the Chinese version of OpenAI", Wang Huiwen sold Light Years Beyond to Meituan. From an overall business perspective, the acquisition of Meituan from light years away is only a common acquisition among enterprises. But for the domestic AI industry, this acquisition seems to indicate that the wave of AI large-scale entrepreneurship that has only been hot for half a year is cooling down. When the popularity of large models is gone, it is easy for people to think of a question: Is the large model a good opportunity to start a business?
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Canalys: It is estimated that the cumulative sales of Apple Vision Pro headset will exceed 20 million units in five years after its launch
According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report on June 30, according to the latest report released by the market research agency Canalys, Apple has broadened its hardware revenue channels, and on the basis of the existing iPhone, iPad and Mac, it has promoted the Vision Pro headset. Higher revenue and profits. The first-generation Vision Pro is Apple's test of the water. It mainly improves the product supply chain and collects consumers' suggestions for product improvement. It is booked by Apple's loyal fans and high-net-worth users in the United States, and it will rise rapidly. Apple may launch the second-generation Vision Pro headset in the second or third year, lowering the price of the product and increasing the number of users. It is estimated that the cumulative sales volume of the Vision Pro headset will exceed 20 million units in five years after its launch.
Nokia Bell launched the Industrial Metaverse Laboratory and released the "Industrial Metaverse White Paper"
According to Jiemian News on June 30, Nokia Bell launched the Industrial Metaverse Laboratory during the MWC Shanghai exhibition. Based on Nokia's industrial-grade 5G wireless private network solution and digital enablement platform NDAC (Nokia Digital Automation Cloud), it can create cluster communication, visual recognition, automation equipment, AR/VR, high-precision positioning, industrial connection and IoT equipment for customers and other industry applications.
The "Industrial Metaverse White Paper" released by Nokia Bell shows that the metaverse includes three scenarios: the consumer metaverse, the enterprise metaverse and the industrial metaverse, while the industrial metaverse maps the physical industrial environment in the virtual world, covering digital twins, industrial virtual reality Interactive and other applications, focusing on the empowerment of the virtual world to reality, realize the optimization and improvement of the entire industrial process, reduce costs and increase efficiency for commercial purposes, which is an advanced form of the Industrial Internet.
The Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions launched the world's first AI fully automatic design CPU chip "Enlightenment No. 1"
According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report on June 30, institutions such as the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences used AI technology to design the world's first fully automatic CPU chip without human intervention - Enlightenment No. 1. A related paper was published in June. This 32-bit RISC-V CPU designed entirely by AI is 4,000 times larger than the current GPT-4 can design, and its performance is comparable to that of the Intel 80486 SX CPU.
Entrepreneurial dark horse Niu Wenwen: The dark horse Tianqi science and technology innovation industry model has been used by more than 500 institutions
According to the Securities Times report, Niu Wenwen, chairman of the entrepreneurial dark horse, introduced that since its launch in May, the dark horse Tianqi technology innovation industry model has been used by more than 500 institutions and generated revenue. At present, Entrepreneurial Dark Horse is building the first domestic AIGC promotion and service platform for small and medium-sized enterprises. Niu Wenwen believes that every industry in China can be redone with an industry model. As long as there are accumulated service providers in the industry and the support of giants, small and medium-sized enterprises can train a unique industry with only an investment of one million RMB. Model. As previously reported, Entrepreneurial Dark Horse released a large model of Dark Horse Apocalypse Science and Technology Innovation.
Kingsoft Office cooperates with NVIDA team to accelerate the implementation of WPS AI
According to the Financial Associated Press, on June 30, Kingsoft Office cooperated with the NVIDIA team to accelerate the implementation of WPS AI, and improved the reasoning efficiency of image document recognition and understanding through NVIDIA Tensor Core GPU and TensorRT; with the deployment of NVIDIA Triton reasoning server, it successfully optimized GPU utilization for high inference throughput. Compared with the CPU, the pipleline time consumption is reduced by 84%; the deployment cost is saved by 23% by using NVIDIA Triton inference server deployment.
Baidu revealed the progress of the combination of large models and search engines: support videos and charts to answer questions
According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report on June 30, Xiao Yang, vice president of Baidu Group and head of the search platform, revealed the new search functions of "Extreme Satisfaction" and "AI Partner" that Baidu is testing internally: when entering search terms, Baidu’s homepage can display multiple answer explanations, and also supports direct video answers to users’ questions, and allows videos to automatically locate key paragraphs; books can also be used to directly answer questions; Baidu search also relies on DBQA (document-level QA) technology, using Charts are used to reply in an intuitive way, and directly generate trends, histograms, and line charts. The "AI partner" is presented in a dialogue interface, which can answer, generate application copy, summarize documents, etc.
Investment and Financing
Runway received $141 million in new financing, investors include Google, Nvidia, etc.
Babbitt News, on June 30, artificial intelligence startup Runway announced a new round of financing, with an increase of $141 million in Series C financing, with investors including Google, Nvidia and Salesforce Ventures. It is reported that the new funds will be used to further expand internal research efforts to continue to bring the most advanced multi-modal artificial intelligence system to the market, while building an intuitive product experience. Runway will continue to invest in and develop a world-class team, hiring in research, engineering and product.
AI startup Typeface raises $100 million from investors including Salesforce and Alphabet
Typeface Inc., an artificial intelligence startup focused on content creation for businesses, has raised $100 million from backers including the investment arms of Salesforce Inc. and Alphabet Inc., the Financial Associated Press reported on June 30. . The deal values Typeface at $1 billion, bringing its total funding to $165 million. The new funding is part of a surge in investor interest in artificial intelligence startups this year, with a particular focus on generative artificial intelligence. It is reported that Typeface's tools allow companies to train generative artificial intelligence models, use them for their own content, and assist in tasks such as creating marketing materials.
Artificial intelligence startup Inflection AI raises $1.3 billion, investors include Bill Gates and Nvidia
Babbitt News, on June 30, artificial intelligence startup Inflection AI announced that it had raised $1.3 billion in a new round of financing. Microsoft, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and new investor NVIDIA Lead the vote. To date, the company's total funding has reached $1.525 billion.
The new funding will support the company's continued work building and designing the Pi, Inflection's first product, which launched in May. Pi is an AI chatbot designed to be a gracious and supportive companion, offering text and voice conversations in a natural, fluid style. This follows Inflection AI’s $225 million Series A funding round in early 2022 from Greylock, Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Mike Schroepfer, Demis Hassabis, Will.i.am, Horizons Ventures, and Dragoneer.
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"Microsoft, Nvidia, Bill Gates and other investments, what AI startup Inflection AI relies on to attract more than 1.5 billion US dollars in financing"
On June 29, artificial intelligence startup Inflection AI announced that it had raised $1.3 billion in a new round of financing led by Microsoft, LinkedIn co-founder Red Hoffman, Bill Gates, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and new investor Nvidia. The new round of financing brings the company’s total funding to $1.525 billion, following earlier 2022 funding from top VCs Greylock, Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, former Meta CTO Mike Schroepf, DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis (father of AlphaGo), Horizons Ventures and investment firm Dragoneer raised $225 million. This long list of investors is full of the world's top investment institutions and technology company leaders. As an AI start-up company founded in 2022, where did Inflection AI attract these top investors?
https://www.8btc.com/article/6824286
"Five weeks "traveling" in 22 countries around the world, what did the "Father of ChatGPT" gain? "
In the short period of five weeks from May 15th to June 19th, perhaps no one in the world has a busier schedule than Altman, who is known as the "father of ChatGPT". It is not difficult to see from the itinerary of Altman below that during these five weeks, his trip covered six continents, and he has been on the plane for 22 days, and the accumulated flight hours have reached a terrifying 86 hours. For this intensive global trip, Anna Makanju, director of OpenAI’s public policy who accompanied Ultraman back to the United States, said that the company learned a lot from various conversations during Ultraman’s global trip, including the need to make OpenAI products better It is suitable for non-English speakers, and enables the outside world to distinguish whether content is generated by AI, etc.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6824322
"Large models have been crazy for half a year, and investors who have paid real money are a minority"
When the popularity of large models is gone, people can easily think of a question: Is large models a good opportunity to start a business? The pace of innovation cannot be stopped, and many issues have yet to be clarified: Can large-scale models be cast? How to cast? What are the problems with entering the big model? Will the future commercialization of large models repeat the mistakes of the previous AI industry? No matter how worried people are, it is almost a given that the industry embraces the big model - the question is, in what way.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6824336
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