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The underlined reading function of the WeChat official account was complained about, and Tencent customer service responded that it was conducting a grayscale test
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Zhejiang University published TableGPT, which can manipulate tables
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Meituan Applies for Meituan Light Year Trademark
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Huawei announced the first commercial use of the Pangea large model in the mining scene
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Liang Jianzhang, chairman of Ctrip's board of directors, proposed to implement a three-day weekend or weekend system
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WeChat will launch a "version for civil servants"? Tencent: This is a big joke
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Meta releases a new generation of open source, free and commercially available large language model Llama 2
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Microsoft Office AI tool charges $30/month per user, stock hits record high
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Google chatbot Bard is about to introduce plugins like Google Maps
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Stability AI CEO: AI will be the biggest bubble in history
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Microsoft announced the auxiliary model ICAE, which can compress the context of large language models
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Google's antivirus platform VirusTotal leaked data, covering FBI, Secret Service, NSA
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Trump's social app engineering director leaves
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Dragon Architecture Arch Linux distribution officially released
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Electron 25.3.0 released
domestic news
The underlined reading function of the WeChat official account was complained about, and Tencent customer service responded that it was conducting a grayscale test
Recently, a netizen cashed back that WeChat has added a line reading function for the official account. This function is similar to the line reading function in the WeChat reading app. Users can long press the selected text and select "line" in the floating menu. Netizens have mixed opinions about this function. Some people think that the underlined reading function reduces the desire to read and affects the reading experience. It is worth mentioning that this feature cannot currently be turned off. In response, Tencent customer service responded that this function is currently undergoing grayscale testing, and it is recommended to pay attention to follow-up related functions. In fact, WeChat has started the underline function test at the end of 2022 and in February this year. (Jiupai Finance)
Zhejiang University published TableGPT, which can manipulate tables
According to the Huggingface page, the research team of Zhejiang University launched TableGPT, a large-scale model product for table manipulation. The paper shows that TableGPT is a unified fine-tuning framework that enables models to understand and manipulate tables using external functional commands. TableGPT introduces the ability to interact with tables, enabling functions such as question answering, data manipulation, and visual generation of analysis reports. (Pin Wan)
Meituan Applies for Meituan Light Year Trademark
Affiliated companies of Meituan have applied to register multiple trademarks of "Meituan Light Year" and "Meituan Light Image", which are classified internationally into education and entertainment, advertising sales, scientific instruments, etc. In addition, Meituan has completed the acquisition of 100% of the domestic equity of the large-scale startup company Light Years Away. Light Years Beyond was founded by Wang Huiwen, the "old partner" of Meituan founder Wang Xing, who once expressed his intention to create a Chinese version of "Open AI".
Huawei announced the first commercial use of the Pangea large model in the mining scene
The first commercial conference of the Pangu large-scale model mine field was held in Jinan, Shandong. At the meeting, Shandong Energy Group, Huawei, and Yunding Technology jointly released the world's first large-scale AI model commercially used in the energy industry - the Pangu Mine large-scale model. As the world's first commercial use of AI large-scale models in the energy field, Shandong Energy, Yunding Technology, and Huawei are developing and implementing the first batch of scenario applications based on the preliminary pilot verification of AI large-scale model empowerment in the field of industrial production, covering coal mining, excavation, main transportation, auxiliary transportation, lifting, safety supervision, anti-washing, washing and coking, and 21 scenarios in 9 majors. (First Finance and Economics)
Liang Jianzhang, chairman of Ctrip's board of directors, proposed to implement a three-day weekend or weekend system
On July 17, Ctrip Group released the first large-scale vertical model of the travel industry "Ctrip Ask". At the press conference, Liang Jianzhang, chairman of the board of directors of Ctrip Group, said when talking about "leisure time" that the society has more leisure time, but it is far from enough, and there is still a lot of room for improvement. He proposed to implement a three-day weekend system or Weekend system. (Daily Economic News)
WeChat will launch a "version for civil servants"? Tencent: This is a big joke
Recently, there are rumors that the time for WeChat to withdraw messages will be extended to 2 hours, which has aroused public attention. Rumors have mentioned that WeChat will launch a "public servants-only version", which will break WeChat's previous withdrawal time limit, extending from the original 2 minutes to 2 hours, and the withdrawal time of some leaders can be extended to 2 days. On July 18, Zhang Jun, director of Tencent's public relations, denied the authenticity of this rumor in Moments, and said: "This is a big joke."
international news
Meta releases a new generation of open source, free and commercially available large language model Llama 2
Meta has finally released Llama 2, the long-awaited free and commercially available version. Compared with Llama 1 released in February this year, the token used for training has doubled to 2 trillion. At the same time, Llama 2 has also doubled the most important context length limit for using large models. Llama 2 contains three versions of the model with 7 billion, 13 billion and 70 billion parameters. Its fine-tuned model is trained on over 1 million human annotations. On Benchmarks benchmarks, Llama 2 outperforms other open source models. Meta also announced on Tuesday that it will cooperate with Microsoft's cloud service Azure to launch a cloud service based on the Llama 2 model to developers around the world. In addition, Meta also announced with Qualcomm that Llama 2 will be able to run on Qualcomm chips, breaking the monopoly of Nvidia and AMD processors on the AI industry in the market.
Model download address: https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/llama-downloads/
Microsoft Office AI tool charges $30/month per user, stock hits record high
Microsoft disclosed at its Global Partner Conference on Tuesday that Microsoft 365 Copilot will be priced at $30 per user per month for subscribers to Office 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Advanced. For registered users, the new features will increase the average monthly cost of the enterprise-level version of Microsoft 365 services by 53% to 83%. The Microsoft 365 suite, also known as Office 365, is currently used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Affected by this, Microsoft's share price rose 3.98% on Tuesday to close at $359.49, and hit a record high of $366.78 during the session. Based on Tuesday's closing price, Microsoft's market capitalization has reached $2.67 trillion. (Tencent Technology)
Google chatbot Bard is about to introduce plugins like Google Maps
Google chatbot Bard is about to introduce plug-ins such as Google Maps to compete with OpenAI. The initial expansion list includes services such as Google Flights, Google Hotels, Google Maps, Instacart, Kayak, OpenTable, Redfin, YouTube and Zillow. In addition, Google also plans to introduce Google Workspace services such as Docs, Drive and Gmail.
Stability AI CEO: AI will be the biggest bubble in history
Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability AI, shared his views on artificial intelligence in a conference call with UBS analysts last week. Mostaque thinks AI will be the biggest bubble ever, though he says it could end before it even started. But Mostaque also pointed out the value of the artificial intelligence industry, "which will be one of the biggest investment themes in the next few years." He believes that artificial intelligence is a $1 trillion investment opportunity "because AI is more important to knowledge-based infrastructure than 5G." He also recommends that banks such as UBS "actively explore the possibility of artificial intelligence" because it is still a "huge market."
Microsoft announced the auxiliary model ICAE, which can compress the context of large language models
According to Arxiv, Microsoft recently released a paper introducing a model called In-context Autoencoder (ICAE), which can be used for context compression in large language models. The paper shows that there are two modules in ICAE, a learnable encoder adapted by adopting LoRA from LLM to compress long context into a limited number of memory slots. There is also a fixed decoder that can be conditionally selected for various purposes depending on the memory slot. Experimental results show that ICAE is able to efficiently generate memory slots with 4x context compression, which can be well conditionalized by a fixed decoder to help the model respond. (Pin Wan)
Google's antivirus platform VirusTotal leaked data, covering FBI, Secret Service, NSA
According to foreign media spiegel, Google's online virus analysis and killing platform VirusTotal has suffered a serious data breach. A 313 KB document appeared on the Internet at the end of June, a list of 5,600 names, including employees of the US Secret Service, NSA and German intelligence. It is understood that VirusTotal is similar to a huge malware database, and users can upload personal files or links to suspicious websites that they find suspicious. These submissions are compared against a database of 70 antivirus software makers to see if they contain suspicious program lines. It is reported that the leaked data contains many confidential users, and only 20 accounts can lead to the US Cyber Command, including the US Department of Justice, FBI, Secret Service, and NSA. The official agencies of the Netherlands and the UK are also on VirusTotal.
Trump's social app engineering director leaves
The engineering director of Trump's social app Truth Social (Truth Social) resigned. Alex Gleason is the founder of Soapbox Technology, which provides decentralized open source technology to social media platforms, runs on independent servers, and can replace Twitter and Facebook. Gleason recently stated that he is leaving the Trump Media and Technology Group to work full-time at Soapbox, developing new technologies that can connect multiple decentralized platforms. Gleason was hired by the Trump Organization in January 2022. (Sina Technology)
Programmer Zone
Dragon Architecture Arch Linux distribution officially released
Since the 2022.09 beta2 version, three quarters have passed since Loong Arch Linux adopted the "rolling upgrade" strategy, and no major problems occurred during the rolling upgrade. Last month, we established an official website and officially launched it. The software warehouse transplants many desktop environments including Gnome, KDE, Mate, XFCE, LXDE, Cinnamon, DDE, UKUI and a large number of open source software, and supports users to directly install AUR software, which can meet the different needs of various users. We are proud to announce that Loong Arch Linux has ended the Beta state and officially supports the Dragon architecture. 2023.07 is the first official version of iso. For details, please check: https://loongarchlinux.org/posts/official-support-loongarch/
Electron 25.3.0 released
The front-end cross-platform desktop application Electron 25.3.0 is released. This version mainly adds the function of sending HTTP headers using session.downloadURL(), fixes the crash when using PipeWire to list desktop capture sources on Wayland, fixes the problem that protocol.handle() never calls its callback function to handle the "file" scheme, and fixes the problem that some Electron classes have wrong prototype class names, etc. For details, please refer to the release notes: https://github.com/ electron/electron/releases/tag/v25.3.0