financing
Beilianzhuguan has completed an angel round of financing of 50 million yuan, and its business covers the AI-based computing power market. According to ChinaVenture.com, recently, cloud resource management service provider Zhejiang Beilianzhuguan announced that it has completed an angel round of financing of 50 million yuan, invested by Yuanjing Capital, Sequoia China Seed Fund and Zhouxuan Equity.
Chen Tianqiao, CEO of Shanda Network, invested another 1 billion yuan to support AI brain science. According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on July 6, at the Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in a forum on the theme of "Brain-Computer Intelligent Digital Life", Tianqiao Institute of Brain Science (TCCI) announced that it will invest another 1 billion yuan to support AI brain science, including the establishment of MindX laboratories, the construction of AI + sleep dreams, AI + anti-aging and other cutting-edge laboratories. Each start-up fund is 50 million yuan and will continue to invest.
AI start-up company "Fourth Paradigm" has been approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission for IPO in Hong Kong. According to the official website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the domestic AI start-up company Beijing Fourth Paradigm Technology Co., Ltd. has completed the relevant procedural work for the IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and has been approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission. It is expected to conduct listing hearings in the near future.
large model data
The number of domestic large-scale models has reached 93, and the proportion of Beijing has dropped to 45% for the first time. On July 4th, according to the statistics of the WeChat public account "Towards the Future", the number of domestic large-scale models has reached 93, and the number of large-scale models made in China has reached 93, and the proportion of Beijing has dropped to 45% for the first time. More than 30 large-scale models were unveiled at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference According to Times Finance, more than 30 large-scale models were unveiled at the 6th World Artificial Intelligence Conference just past, and more than 20 large-scale model forums were overwhelmed, and the relevant booths were crowded with visitors without exception. Among the more than 30 large-scale models exhibited at the venue, there are many general-purpose large-scale models of major manufacturers such as Baidu Wenxin Yiyan, Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen, Huawei Pangu Large Model, HKUST Xunfei Xinghuo Cognition, and SenseTime Sensenova. There are also vertical large-scale models launched by small and medium-sized manufacturers such as Lanzhou Technology, Lianyuan Technology, Mobvoi, Xinghuan Technology, Midu, and Daguan Data for segmented scenarios.
Gao Wen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering: will build a 200 billion parameter natural language large model base, performance benchmarking ChatGPT According to a report by IT House on July 6, Gao Wen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of Pengcheng Laboratory, said at the WAIC2023 Ascend Artificial Intelligence Industry Summit Forum that Pengcheng Laboratory has launched the brain large model plan, aiming to build the first completely independent innovation, open source and open natural language pre-training large model base in China, with a parameter level of 200 billion, and performance benchmarking ChatGPT.
The Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory released a general-purpose large-scale model system for scholars. According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report on July 6, the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory launched a general large-scale model system for scholars at the Science Frontiers Plenary Session of the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. Among them, the multi-modal large model has 20 billion parameters, supports 3.5 million semantic tags, and is world-leading in 80+ tasks; the Pu language large model is the first large model in China with 100 billion parameters officially released to support multiple languages; the sky large model is the world's first city-level NeRF model.
Huawei Cloud Pangu Large Model 3.0 Officially Released According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on July 7, at the Huawei Developer Conference 2023 (Cloud) held this afternoon, Huawei Executive Director and Huawei Cloud CEO Zhang Pingan announced that Huawei Cloud Pangu Large Model 3.0 was officially released. Zhang Pingan said that the Pangu Large Model 3.0 is divided into a three-layer structure of L0 basic model, L1 industry model, and L2 scene model, which will reshape thousands of industries. According to reports, this is a large model completely oriented to the industry. Among them, the Pangu L0 layer basic large model includes a natural language large model with hundreds of billions of parameters, Pangu multi-modal large model, visual large model, prediction large model, scientific computing large model, etc., and the L1 layer is a large industry model, including government affairs, finance, manufacturing, mining, etc. The L2 layer is the scene model. Tianrang releases three products including a general-purpose large language model and a semantic search engine
According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report on July 8, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Tiankang released the large-scale model product ecology "Tiankang Xiaobai", which includes three products, namely a large language model, a semantic search engine and a development platform. It is understood that Tianjie Xiaobai's large-scale universal language model provides ChatGPT-like capabilities through deep learning training with 186 billion parameters, and has the capabilities of multilingual dialogue interaction, knowledge question and answer, and logical reasoning. The semantic search engine enhances the generation ability of large models based on accurate facts, so that it can output based on accurate facts and avoid misleading information that large models may produce. China Mobile releases two artificial intelligence industry models
According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on July 8, China Mobile officially released the Jiutian Haisuan government affairs model and the Jiutian customer service model. It is reported that the Jiutian Haisuan government affairs model is an industry-oriented model for government affairs created by China Mobile based on the rich experience in digital government construction accumulated in recent years. Relying on the Jiutian Haisuan government affairs model, the government service system will have a strong ability to understand government affairs, multi-dimensional information correlation capabilities, and multiple interaction capabilities for complex issues and complex processes; The focus and key information of the dialogue, according to the content of the dialogue, prompts the artificial customer service agent to reply and suggest, so as to reduce the response time and form a three-way communication field of "big model-manual agent-user", which greatly improves the work efficiency of traditional artificial customer service.
China Telecom announced a large model of TeleChat, claiming that it will establish a "tens of billions AI service provider". According to reports, the model supports outputting codes, writing speeches, etc. The company's research and development goal is to become a "tens of billions AI service provider", and its products cover AI algorithms, platforms, applications, hardware, large models, etc. Other information has not been announced yet.
Yunhan artificial intelligence team launched the first large language model "TourGPT" for the cultural tourism industry in China
Sichuan Changhong: "Changhong Super Brain" is compatible with AI models such as HKUST Xunfei According to interface news reports, Sichuan Changhong recently stated on an interactive platform that at present, some Changhong TV products have been equipped with the "Changhong Super Brain" artificial intelligence system, which is officially open to users. "Changhong Super Brain" is compatible with AI large models such as HKUST Xunfei.
Ronglian Cloud released the "Chitu Model" and "Generative Intelligent Marketing Service Integrated Workspace".
Peking University team releases ChatLaw, a large legal model According to Jinshi's report on July 4, the Peking University team recently released a Chinese legal model ChatLaw. Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University – Tuzhan Intelligent AIGC Joint Laboratory developed the project on the basis of a general large model, using a large amount of structured text data in the legal field, and hired senior lawyers to assist manual annotation and conduct high-quality factual multi-round dialogues. At the same time, it also open sourced 3 models: ChatLaw-13 B, ChatLaw-33 B and ChatLaw-TextVec. The project is committed to providing inclusive legal services, and currently has more than 1k Stars on GitHub.
Daguan Data officially released the "Cao Zhi" large model and officially opened it to the public. According to Jinshi's report on July 7, during the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, AI company Daguan Data officially released the "Cao Zhi" large model and opened it to the public for public testing. It is understood that Cao Zhi's large model supports functions such as automatic writing of long texts in multiple languages and multilingual translation, and fully empowers scenarios such as long document writing, machine translation, semantic analysis and review, knowledge question and answer, and text-to-SQL.
Enterprise Chacha Publisher's Large Model "Knowing Enemy Alpha" On July 3, Enterprise Chacha Publisher's Large Model of Enterprise Chacha - Enterprise Chacha "Knowing Enemy Alpha". It is reported that this large model is based on the results of large-scale pre-training conducted by Enterprise Chacha after nearly ten years of credible data accumulation in the field of business queries. The innovative products that will be launched in the future will be jointly constructed through the large model + enterprise credit database, using AI technology to empower enterprise credit big data innovation, creating safe and credible artificial intelligence products, and providing users with more convenient and accurate business information query services.
Yuntian Lifei disclosed the large-scale model "Yuntian Book" for the first time. According to the report of "Kechuangban Daily" on July 6, at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Yuntian Lifei disclosed the large-scale model "Yuntian Book" for the first time. The large model consists of three levels: the general large model, the industry large model and the scene large model. In addition, Yuntian Lifei also demonstrated a new generation of edge computing chips Deep Edge10 series SoC chips. The chip will be successfully taped out at the end of 2022. It adopts domestic advanced technology and supports chiplet technology for multi-chip expansion.
application
"Second Generation Socks" in Zhuji, Zhejiang uses AI to personalize socks and sell them at double the price. Zhou Yurun, general manager of Zhejiang Sanite Socks Co., Ltd., said in an interview, "Originally, foreign customers may place an order for 5 million pairs of identical socks at one time. Now, a set may change from hundreds of thousands of sets to thousands of sets, but the styles may become hundreds of styles. Socks that used to cost two or three yuan can be sold for 6-8 yuan through personalized customization. Socks are mainly exported to Canada and the United States, and some are Mexico.
Netease Youdao Self-developed Educational Model "Ziyue" Demonstrated Virtual Speak Language Coach for the First Time According to Lieyun.com, on July 6, at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Netease Youdao self-developed the latest application of "Ziyue", the first domestic educational large-scale model "Ziyue", the virtual population language coach for the first time. During the conversation, this AI speaking coach demonstrated super strong reasoning ability, language ability and emotional ability, which attracted many audiences to stop.
Xueersi Online School launched the AIGC course "First Class of Artificial Intelligence" based on a self-developed large-scale model. According to the official statement of Xueersi, the course will "promote the upgrading of programming course products and help popularize AI education".
Tsinghua University, together with Tencent and other institutions, launched the EEG image generation model DreamDiffusion According to IT House news on July 5, researchers from Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tencent Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab) and Pengcheng Laboratory recently published a paper stating that the research team developed an image generation model called DreamDiffusion, which can generate high-quality images directly from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Relevant papers were published on arXiv, an online academic paper platform owned by Cornell University.
Alibaba Cloud launched a new AI painting product "Tongyi Wanxiang" According to 36 Krypton's report on July 7, at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Alibaba Cloud officially launched a new AI painting product "Tongyi Wanxiang". Tongyi Wanxiang is built on the basis of Alibaba Cloud's "Tongyi" large model capability. Users can input prompt words in Tongyi Wanxiang to output corresponding images. In addition to Wen Shengtu, Tongyi Wanxiang has also launched functions including style transfer and similarity diagram generation. At present, Tongyi Wanxiang has been officially launched to provide external services.
JD.com’s Yanxi Mockup has written 3 billion words of marketing copy and tens of thousands of live scripts. According to a report from IT House on July 6, at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference today, He Xiaodong, vice president of JD Group and director of the Exploration Research Institute, said that Mockup will reshape all business models. JD.com is at the forefront of artificial intelligence development and has industry-leading AI technology capabilities. At present, JD.com's Yanxi model has written 3 billion words of marketing copy and tens of thousands of live broadcast scripts.
Shanghai issued a large-scale model policy to create an AI "model" According to a report from China Business News, at the closing ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) held on the afternoon of July 8, Shanghai announced "Several Measures for Promoting the Innovation and Development of Artificial Intelligence Large-scale Models in Shanghai" and released the "Model" initiative, signed three batches of artificial intelligence projects, and established Shanghai's artificial intelligence open source ecological industry cluster. According to Zhang Ying, deputy director of the Shanghai Economic and Information Commission, the measures focus on the four major directions of innovation capability, innovation elements, innovation applications, and innovation environment, focusing on building three plans and five major platforms. There are three plans to break the development bottleneck. The first is the large model innovation support plan, which focuses on supporting Shanghai’s innovative entities to develop large models with international competitiveness, implements special rewards, and accelerates model iteration; the second is the intelligent computing power acceleration plan, strengthens the construction of large model intelligent computing power, and establishes green channels; Shanghai Xuhui released a new policy to support generative artificial intelligence, supporting independent innovation in key areas of large models
According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on July 7, at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) theme forum on "General Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Opportunities and Risks in the Era of Large-scale Models", "Several Measures of Xuhui District to Support the Development of Generative Artificial Intelligence" was officially released. Yu Linwei, member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Xuhui District Committee and deputy head of the district, pointed out that Xu Huihui first launched generative AI-oriented support policies, mainly focusing on strong technical support, supporting independent innovation in key areas such as general-purpose large-scale models and vertical large-scale models, and supporting the layout of cutting-edge fields such as embodied intelligence and autonomous agents; Strengthen key links such as talents and supervision, and strengthen the support of elements.