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HowNet was fined 50 million yuan by the Cyberspace Administration of China due to network security
On September 6, CNKI was fined 50 million yuan by the Cyberspace Administration of China due to network security issues. Based on the conclusions of the network security review, the problems discovered and the clues transferred, the Cyberspace Administration of China launched an investigation into the suspected illegal handling of personal information by CNKI in accordance with the law. After verification, the main operating entities of CNKI are Tongfang CNKI (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. (abbreviation: CNKI Beijing), Tongfang CNKI Digital Publishing Technology Co., Ltd. (abbreviation: CNKI Digital), "CNKI (CD version)" Three companies, Electronic Magazine Co., Ltd., operate 14 apps including CNKI Mobile and CNKI Reading, which collect personal information in violation of necessary principles, collect personal information without consent, and fail to disclose or express collection and use rules. , failing to provide the account cancellation function, failing to delete the user's personal information in a timely manner after the user cancels the account, and other illegal activities.
Tencent Hunyuan large model officially unveiled
On September 7, at the 2023 Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference, Tang Daosheng, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group and CEO of the Cloud and Smart Industry Group, announced that Tencent’s general large model Hunyuan was officially unveiled to the industry. The parameter scale of this large model is super dry. billion, the pre-training corpus exceeds 2 trillion tokens, and has been tested on Tencent Cloud, Tencent Advertising, WeChat Souyisou and other Tencent internal businesses and products. At the same time, it also serves industrial scenarios. Customers can call Hunyuan based on API, or build exclusive industry models based on Hunyuan.
Jing Xiandong of Ant Group: The progress of the large model will be released tomorrow
According to news on September 7, at the 2023 INCLUSIfON Bund Conference, Ant Group Chairman Jing Xiandong revealed that the latest progress of the self-developed large model will be released at the conference on September 8.
MediaTek's 3nm chips are expected to be mass-produced in 2024
According to news on September 7, MediaTek and TSMC jointly announced that MediaTek’s first Dimensity flagship chip produced using TSMC’s 3-nanometer process has been successfully taped out and is expected to be launched in the second half of 2024. It is reported that compared with the 5-nanometer process, the logic density of TSMC's 3-nanometer process technology is increased by about 60%, the speed is increased by 18% at the same power consumption, or the power consumption is reduced by 32% at the same speed.
OpenAI will hold its first developer conference on November 6
According to news on September 7, OpenAI will hold its first developer conference-OpenAI DevDay on November 6. The one-day event will feature live broadcasts of the speeches. In this regard, OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman said, "On November 6, we will show some very good progress. Don't get excited, it is neither ChatGPT-5, nor 4.5, or anything related to it, but I Still think people will be very happy then."
Market news: Apple increases spending to develop conversational artificial intelligence
September 7 news, market news: Apple is increasing spending to develop conversational artificial intelligence. Reports indicate that Apple has established a team called "Foundational Models". Although the team has only 16 people, Apple invests more than millions of dollars in research expenditures in the field of AI every day. According to the name of the team, it should be to build generative AI. infrastructure.
TSMC’s U.S. factory is rumored to start small-scale trial production in Q1 of 2024
According to MoneyDJ reports on September 7, the mass production schedule of TSMC’s U.S. factory has been postponed to 2025, which has attracted attention from the outside world. Recently, industry sources said that TSMC’s U.S. factory will change its previous strategy and build a mini line (small-volume trial production line) first, which is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2024.
Tencent Docs releases self-developed dual-core editing engine, smart assistant has been embedded in smart documents
According to news on September 7, at the 2023 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Conference, Tencent Documents released a self-developed dual-core editing engine, enabling cross-end and cross-device use of Office documents and cloud documents. In addition, the Smart series of innovative categories (smart documents, smart forms, etc.) are also released simultaneously, and smart assistants have also been embedded in smart documents. Data shows that Tencent Docs currently has more than 200 million monthly active users, users have created more than 4.5 billion documents, and it serves more than 1 million companies and organizations.
Qualcomm and Amazon Cloud Technology reach cooperation in automotive software field
According to news on September 6, Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon Cloud Technology (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, announced at the International Automotive and Smart Mobility Expo (IAA Mobility) in Germany that they will cooperate to provide comprehensive development infrastructure and tools and launch software that can simplify automobiles. Development process technology that integrates cloud technology into the development process.
Zhongbei Communications: Signed a 346 million yuan computing power service framework agreement with Qinghai Unicom
According to news on September 6, Zhongbei Communications announced that it has signed a computing power service framework agreement with Qinghai Unicom. The two parties will build a computing power service platform based on H800 equipment to provide 960P computing power services. The service fee is 120,000 yuan/P/ including tax. Calculated in years, the service period of the agreement is three years, and the total service fee is 346 million yuan including tax.
Baichuan Intelligent releases Baichuan 2 large model
On September 6th, Baichuan Intelligent announced that the fine-tuned Baichuan 2-7B, Baichuan 2-13B, Baichuan 2-13B-Chat and their 4-bit quantized versions are officially open source, and they are all free and commercially available. It is understood that the two models of Baichuan 2-7B-Base and Baichuan 2-13B-Base are trained based on 2.6 trillion high-quality multilingual data. Its capabilities have been improved, and it is ahead of competing models of the same size as LLaMA2 in evaluation benchmarks such as MMLU, CMMLU, and GSM8K.
Yuncong Technology Zhou Xi: The industry will implement the tens-billion model as the main body
According to news on September 6, at the performance communication meeting, Zhou Xi, chairman and general manager of Yuncong Technology, said that the Congrong large model has been updated to v1.5, and the plan for subsequent model versions is to take the tens of billions model as the main body and follow the direction of industry implementation. , is expected to be gradually implemented in various industries this year and the first half of next year. "At the current stage, continuous investment is required, because large models need to be invested first and then continue to produce good marginal effects. However, with the continuous improvement of productization and service-oriented capabilities, the marginal effects of large models will gradually emerge. Currently, in the next Products and solutions based on the model have been developed in half a year, and it is expected to bring pilot income." Zhou Xi said.
financial report
BlackBerry: Q2 revenue expected to be approximately US$132 million
According to news on September 7, Canadian communications company BlackBerry announced its preliminary second quarter results, with expected revenue of approximately US$132 million, compared with US$168 million in the same period last year. Among them, the cybersecurity segment’s revenue was approximately $80 million, down from $111 million last year. BlackBerry executive chairman and CEO John Chen said that given the product mix, delays in the completion of certain large deals are expected to impact revenue recognized in the quarter.
Policies/Reports
Hurun released a list of China's private energy companies, with CATL, BYD and Li Auto ranking the top three
According to news on September 7, Hurun Research Institute released the "2023 Hurun China Energy Private Enterprises Top 100". CATL, BYD, and Li Auto ranked among the top three. Among the top ten companies on the list, there are five photovoltaic companies, namely LONGi Green Energy, Sungrow, Tongwei, JinkoSolar, TCL Zhonghuan. This is the first time that Hurun Research Institute has released the above-mentioned list, listing the top 100 most valuable Chinese private enterprises in the traditional energy and new energy industries. The "Chinese private enterprises" referred to in the list are non-state-owned enterprises headquartered in China.
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Accelerate the formulation of supporting policies for the basic system of data element market
According to news on September 6, according to Gongxin WeChat News, the 2023 China International Digital Economy Expo opened in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Zhao Zhiguo, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Zhao Zhiguo said that adhere to the self-reliance and self-improvement of science and technology, strengthen the main position of enterprise innovation, promote the deep integration of innovation chain, industry chain, capital chain and talent chain, accelerate the application of digital technology and software and hardware innovation, and cultivate digital industrial clusters with international competitiveness. Consolidate the foundation of industrial development, accelerate the deep coverage of 5G networks and Gigabit optical networks, improve the network coverage of key scenarios and remote areas, accelerate the formulation of supporting policies for the basic system of the data element market, deepen the implementation of national standards for data management, and improve the quality of various entities. Data utilization capabilities.
my country's multi-level industrial Internet platform system has basically taken shape
According to news on September 6, the 2023 China International Digital Economy Expo opened in Zhengding, Shijiazhuang, Hebei. The "2022 National Industrial Internet Platform Application Level Evaluation Report" released at the meeting pointed out that at present, my country's comprehensive, characteristic, and professional multi-level industrial Internet platform system has basically formed. When interpreting the report, Jiang Yan, Secretary of the Party Committee of the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, said that my country’s industrial Internet platform development index has increased year after year, reaching 251 in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 17%. At the same time, my country's industrial Internet platform has moved from the popularization of concepts to deep practice, and has entered a critical stage of large-scale application and promotion. As platform technology continues to innovate, standards leadership continues to strengthen, and application scenarios rapidly expand, the innovative application potential of the industrial Internet platform will be fully unleashed.
Investment and Financing
Miri secures US$1.2 million in seed round financing
Recently, Miri, an artificial intelligence health and wellness platform provider headquartered in San Francisco, California, received $1.2 million in seed round financing. This round of financing was led by Sassafras Investments.
Miri is a latest-generation artificial intelligence health application that provides users with online access to today's most influential health experts (covering a variety of expertise), serving as a personal guide 24/7, led by various health experts A dedicated team of experts provide personalized plans, courses and other services to improve and help users maintain optimal health.
Yuequan Bionics received tens of millions of yuan in angel round financing
Recently, Yuequan Bionics, a humanoid robot company founded by the team of Academician Ren Luquan of the Key Laboratory of Engineering Bionics of the Ministry of Education of Jilin University, completed an angel round financing of tens of millions of RMB. The investor in this round is Zhongguancun Development Group Qihang Investment, and the funds raised are mainly used to promote the industrialization of bionic humanoid robot systems and core components.
Silicon Valley AI startup d-Matrix receives US$110 million investment from Temasek and Microsoft
According to news on September 6, Silicon Valley artificial intelligence chip startup d-Matrix announced today that the company has received US$110 million in investment in a new round of financing. This is also d-Matrix’s Series B round of financing, led by Singaporean investment company Temasek, with participation from California venture capital firm Playround Global and Microsoft.
Future Intelligence completed tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round financing, and the founding members are the former iFlytek headset team of HKUST
According to news on September 7, Anhui Aide Future Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as: Future Intelligence) announced the completion of tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round financing, led by Tianji Capital. It is understood that Future Intelligence is an AI technology hardware company in the smart office field. The founding member is the former iFlytek headset team of HKUST. In May this year, Future Intelligence independently developed the world's first AIGC generative conference headset Nano series. This round of financing funds It will be mainly used for AI innovative product development and market expansion.
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Ming-Chi Kuo: Qualcomm is most affected by the impact of Huawei’s Kirin chips and may cut prices
According to news on September 7, Tianfeng Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo once again shared an analysis report on Huawei’s self-developed Kirin processor today, believing that Qualcomm has been hardest hit. It is expected that Qualcomm's SoC shipments to Chinese mobile phone brands in 2024 will be at least 50-60 million units less than in 2023 due to Huawei's adoption of new Kirin processors, and are expected to decrease year by year. Ming-Chi Kuo said his latest survey shows that in order to maintain market share in the Chinese market, Qualcomm may start a price war as early as the fourth quarter of 2023, which will bring adverse profits. Qualcomm's other two potential risks are the expected proportion of Exynos 2400 in Samsung mobile phones and Apple's expected use of its own modem chips starting in 2025.
The first national public service platform for data elements is launched
On September 7, according to Science and Technology Daily, the first national public service platform for data elements created by People's Daily Online and People's Data was launched. People's Data Management Co., Ltd., China Telecom Group, Hubei Data Group (prepared by Hubei Provincial Data Exchange), Digital Anhui Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Big Data Exchange Center, Zhengzhou Data Exchange Center and other 10 units jointly initiated the Data Elements Alliance. At the same time, People's Data established a "Data Asset Expert Committee" to gather the intelligence of industry experts to jointly promote the development of data on-chain, certificate storage, confirmation of rights, and transactions.
For the first time in China, the NR-NTN low-orbit satellite laboratory simulation verification has been completed, supporting mobile phone satellite broadband services.
According to news on September 6, China Mobile, ZTE, and Keysight Technology jointly completed the first domestic operator NR-NTN low-orbit satellite laboratory simulation verification to support mobile phone satellite broadband services. This test verification adopted the 3GPP R17 NR-NTN international standard and successfully verified the technical feasibility of mobile phones directly connecting to low-orbit satellites in the two basic networking modes of NR-NTN transparent forwarding and on-board regeneration, achieving end-to-end comprehensive Link connectivity and data transmission verification. According to reports, NR-NTN, as a direct-connect broadband satellite technology system for mobile phones, is the future evolution direction of space, space and ground integration.
Nvidia predicts the AI market will reach $600 billion
News on September 6, Manuvel Das, vice president of enterprise computing at Nvidia, predicted at a technology conference held by Goldman Sachs that the artificial intelligence (AI) market will grow to $600 billion. Among them, chips and systems can get 300 billion U.S. dollars, generative AI software can get 150 billion U.S. dollars, and another 150 billion U.S. dollars will be earned by the "Almighty Universe" enterprise software released by Nvidia. According to Yahoo Finance, he did not specify a target time for reaching the above-mentioned market size.
Google will force U.S. election advertisers to disclose AI-generated content
On September 7th, Google said in a blog post that it will mandate that all US election-related advertisers add clear and eye-catching disclosure information when their ads contain AI-generated content starting in mid-November. This policy will apply to image, video and audio content on all its platforms.
UAE TII large model Falcon 180B open source released
On September 6, the AI community Hugging Face announced on its official website that Falcon 180B, an open source large model trained by the Technology Innovation Institute TII, was officially launched in the community. As the largest open source large model currently, it has 180 billion parameters and is trained on 3.5 trillion Tokens.
In terms of performance capabilities, Falcon 180B's performance on MMLU exceeds that of Llama 2 70B and OpenAI's GPT-3.5. Its performance on HellaSwag, LAMBADA, WebQuestions and other data sets is comparable to Google's PaLM 2-Large. In Hugging Face ranked first on the open source large model list with a score of 68.74, surpassing Meta's Llama 2.
OpenAI CEO: Humans may develop AGI by 2030
On September 7th, in the latest podcast released by Norges Bank Investment Management Company, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview with NBIM CEO Nicola Tangen that humans may develop AGI before 2030, That is GPT-10, and its IQ will exceed that of all humans combined. When Tangen asked how to define AGI, Altman replied: "If we can develop a system that can independently develop scientific knowledge that humans cannot develop, I will call this system AGI."
DeepMind Lianchuang: Everyone will have an AI assistant within five years
On September 6th, DeepMind co-founder and current Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicted in an interview with CNBC that as AI technology becomes cheaper and more popular, everyone will have their own AI assistant in the next five years. These AI assistants will be highly personalized, understand each user's history, and assist with daily tasks.
