Abstract: According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on August 10, the Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee and China Mobile officially released the "Asian Games Metaverse" platform. "Asian Games Metaverse" integrates digital technologies such as AI intelligence, digital twins, and VR. Smart terminal users can use the "Smart Asian Games One-Stop Link" to enter the three creative spaces of the "Asian Games Metaverse", namely the Asian Games venues, urban cultural tourism, and Asian Games personal collections, and experience Asian Games knowledge popularization and Q&A, virtual competition, metaverse viewing, and smart Interactive, Asian Games personal digital collection and other projects.
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University established the Metaverse Laboratory and received a donation of 10 million Hong Kong dollars
According to a report by Hong Kong Economic Journal on August 10, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Hong Kong-listed Gaosheng Group jointly established the "Metaverse + Joint Laboratory". Gaosheng Group intends to donate HK$10 million to PolyU in the next five years. The newly established laboratory will promote Metaverse technology to enterprise collaboration, industrial applications, environmental protection and smart cities, energy management and sustainable supply chain systems, etc. At present, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University has established a number of master's courses in blockchain technology, metaverse technology, artificial intelligence and big data computing, and has added artificial intelligence and data analysis to undergraduate courses.
The 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou officially released the "Asian Games Metaverse"
According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on August 10, the Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee and China Mobile officially released the "Asian Games Metaverse" platform. "Asian Games Metaverse" integrates digital technologies such as AI intelligence, digital twins, and VR. Smart terminal users can use the "Smart Asian Games One-Stop Link" to enter the three creative spaces of the "Asian Games Metaverse", namely the Asian Games venues, urban cultural tourism, and Asian Games personal collections, and experience Asian Games knowledge popularization and Q&A, virtual competition, metaverse viewing, and smart Interactive, Asian Games personal digital collection and other projects.
OpenAI applies to register "GPT-5" trademark in China
According to the news from IT House on August 10, according to the official website of the Trademark Office of the State Intellectual Property Office, OPENAI OPCO, LLC has applied for the registration of two "GPT-5" trademarks in late last month. The classifications are 9 classes and 42 classes (scientific instruments, design research), and the status of trademarks are all under application.
OpenAI stated at a conference hosted by India's "Economic Times" in early June this year that "it has not yet started training GPT-4's successor GPT-5." They still have a lot of work to do before they can train GPT-5. We are working on new ideas that we think we need, but we are certainly not ready to start yet.” In addition, OpenAI's GPT-4 large model also applied for the registration of the corresponding trademark in China in the first half of this year, as well as the "WHISPER" trademark that is internationally classified as a website service. As previously reported, OpenAI has filed a trademark application for “GPT-5” with the U.S. Patent Office.
Xiaomi App Store: Apps involving AI "deep synthesis" services need to provide qualifications
According to the news from IT House on August 10, Xiaomi Company today issued an announcement on "Deep Synthesis Service Increase Qualification Request Scenario", the announcement stated that "in order to promote the healthy development and standardized application of generative artificial intelligence, seven departments including the Internet Information Office jointly announced According to the "Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services", the Xiaomi App Store will add a qualification request scenario for deep synthesis services in the near future, and apps involving such AI services need to meet a series of qualification standards."
It is reported that this standard was released on August 10, 2023, with a publicity period of 5 days, and it will come into effect on August 15, 2023. During the publicity period, the original standard regulations will still be followed. The Mi App Store stated that all apps that meet this definition must meet all the testing items in the "Standards". If the app fails the test, it cannot be put on the Mi App Store. If the app passes the test and is put on the shelf, the Mi App Store will remove it if a problem is found later.
Station B applied for the bilibiliAI trademark
According to Jinshi's news on August 10, the Tianyancha App shows that recently, Shanghai Huandian Information Technology Co., Ltd., an affiliated company of Station B, applied for the registration of the "bilibiliAI" trademark. The international classification is website services, and the current trademark status is under application. Shanghai Magic Information Technology Co., Ltd. was established in May 2013. The legal representative is Xu Yi, with a registered capital of about 10.99 million RMB. Its business scope includes corporate image planning, animation game development, professional design services, information consulting services, ticket agency services, Retailing of computer hardware and software and auxiliary equipment, etc.
Kuaishou showcased full-modal and large-scale AIGC solutions and AIGC digital human products
According to 36 Krypton reports, on August 10, Wang Zhongyuan, head of Kuaishou AI and user growth business, demonstrated the full-modal, large-scale AIGC solution and AIGC digital human product Kuaishou Smart Broadcasting at the Guanghe Creators Conference, and officially announced the big data for the first time. Model progress. Wang Zhongyuan said that Kuaishou's "full-modal, large-scale model AIGC solution" is based on the self-developed base large model, providing technical capabilities such as text generation, image generation, 3D generation, music generation, and video generation, covering from inspiration to creative generation , The whole process of content creation from the provision of multiple materials to intelligent production.
HKUST Xunfei: Xunfei Spark Cognitive Model V2.0 will be released on August 15
According to a report from the Webmaster’s House on August 10, iFlytek officially announced that the Xunfei Spark Cognitive Model V2.0 upgrade conference will be held at 14:00 on August 15, 2023, with automatic code generation and continuation , Error correction and other capabilities. As previously reported, on May 6, HKUST Xunfei officially released the Spark Cognitive Model. "Xunfei Xinghuo Cognitive Big Model" has 7 core capabilities, namely, text generation, language understanding, knowledge question and answer, logical reasoning, mathematical ability, coding ability, and multimodal ability.
Amazon provides sellers with generative AI tools to generate product copy
According to Jinshi's report on August 10, the e-commerce giant Amazon is launching a generative AI tool for sellers on its platform, which will generate recommendation copy for products, the company's CEO Andy Jassy (Andy Jassy) ) also previously said it has multiple generative artificial intelligence projects underway across all of its businesses, including e-commerce.
Bing Chat for Business planned to be added to Microsoft 365 subscriptions in September
According to news from IT House on August 10, today Microsoft released Bing Chat (Bing Chat) Enterprise Edition, which is a version of Bing Chat designed for enterprises and organizations. This week the company revealed that it will add Bing Chat for Enterprise plans to its Microsoft 365 subscription service in early September.
Microsoft made the announcement via the private Microsoft 365 admin center, and the chatbot is currently in public preview, reports Petri.com. According to the news from the management center, Bing Chat Enterprise Edition will be enabled by default at the end of August, and administrators can choose not to enable Bing Chat Enterprise Edition by default. The public preview is currently available to subscribers of the Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium services, and the company also plans to offer each user access to Bing Chat Enterprise Edition separately for $5 per month.
TikTok rolls out AI-generated content disclosure feature to prevent content from being removed
According to news from IT House on August 10, the short video app TikTok seems to be working hard to make it easier for creators to disclose whether their content is generated by artificial intelligence. As shared by social media consultant Matt Navarra, before uploading a video, there is a new "AI Generated Content" toggle under the "More Options" section. TikTok said in the switch's description that the label will help "prevent content from being removed." TikTok updated its content policy in March, requiring users to disclose deepfakes and AI-generated content in video captions or use an identifying sticker.
Navarra shared a video about the feature with The Verge. In the video, toggling the switch causes TikTok to display a new popup about the feature. The pop-up reminds creators that they need to flag AI-generated content that represents a "realistic scene," again warning that content could be removed if flagged incorrectly.
Foreign media: Chinese Internet giants have placed a $5 billion AI order with Nvidia
According to Jinshi citing the British Financial Times, several people familiar with the matter said that Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba have placed orders worth US$1 billion and will purchase about 100,000 A800 processors from Nvidia (NVDA.O). , these processors will be delivered this year. The companies also bought $4 billion worth of GPU processors, to be delivered in 2024, two people close to Nvidia said. Alibaba Cloud has also received thousands of H800 chips from Nvidia, and many customers have contacted Alibaba seeking cloud services powered by those chips, according to two people close to Alibaba. At a time of high enthusiasm for artificial intelligence earlier this year, most internet giants had fewer than a few thousand chips in stock that could be used to train large language models, according to employees at several Chinese tech companies. Since then, prices for those chips have skyrocketed. "The price of the A800 in the hands of the dealer has increased by more than 50%," said an Nvidia reseller.
Investment and Financing
Xinxiangrong released AI large model training and reasoning integrated computing system, and completed the angel round financing of 100 million yuan
According to 36 Krypton’s report on August 10, Xin Xiangrong released an AI large model training and reasoning integrated computing system based on AMD, Lingxi and other heterogeneous chips. Cocopie, base flow technology and other AMD Chinese partners. The first batch of prototypes will be put on the Halo cloud computing platform in the near future to provide testing and services for 20+ vertical field model customers. At the same time, Xinxiangrong has completed an angel round of financing of 100 million yuan, and Ms. Ma Yiming, the co-founder of Sober Heterogeneity, will serve as CEO.
Generative AI infrastructure and application provider "Shengshu Technology" completed tens of millions of angel + rounds of financing
According to the "Science and Technology Board Daily" report on August 10, recently, Beijing Shengshu Technology Co., Ltd. ("Shengshu Technology") completed an angel+ round of financing of tens of millions of yuan. This round of financing was exclusively invested by Jinqiu Fund. This round of funds will be mainly used for algorithm research and development, product development and team expansion. Shengshu Technology is a provider of generative artificial intelligence infrastructure and applications. It is committed to creating a controllable multi-modal general-purpose large model. In June this year, Shengshu Technology just obtained nearly 100 million yuan from Ant Group, BV Baidu Ventures, and Zhuoyuan Capital Angel round financing. It was previously reported that Ant and Baidu jointly invested in the AIGC track, and Shengshu Technology completed the first round of financing of nearly 100 million yuan and was valued at 100 million U.S. dollars.
Metaverse recommended reading
"Gift shortened to 24 hours, Whale Tan's last self-rescue"
The gift transfer was shortened to 24 hours, and "Whale Detective" played the final hole card. On August 9, the domestic top digital collection platform "Whale Explorer" issued an announcement on the update of the user service agreement, announcing that the period for the donation of collections on the platform has been greatly shortened from the original 90 days to 24 hours. For the conservative "Whale Explorer" to suddenly drop such a radical blockbuster, the industry was in an uproar, and users in the circle applauded again and again, saying that the bull market is coming. But it can be concluded that the current problem of “Whale Explorer” is not caused by insufficient liquidity, so this move cannot help “Whale Explorer” get out of the predicament of slow sales.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6829146
"Fake AI is making money in app stores"
In the past two months, OpenAI has launched the iOS and Android versions of the mobile ChatGPT. After downloading, users can link to their existing ChatGPT accounts on the web and sync history between devices. The introduction of product features shows that this software supports instant question and answer, which can provide users with customized suggestions and inspire creative inspiration. However, if you want to experience these services, you have to avoid the counterfeit apps that are now flooding almost all mobile app stores, such as "AIChat", "ChatGTP" and "ChatAI".
https://www.8btc.com/article/6829198
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