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Baijiayun launches Baiwen large model
On August 31, AI video technology service provider Baijiayun released the AIGC scenario-based platform - Baiwen Big Model. Ma Yi, President of Baijiayun, said at the press conference that the large-scale model of Baijiayun has been in-depth training in many fields such as finance, government affairs, automobiles, and education. intention.
"Zhipu Qingyan" is officially launched, with all self-developed models to create a generative AI assistant
On August 31, Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhipu AI") officially launched the first generative AI assistant - Zhipu Qingyan. As a generative AI assistant developed based on the Chinese-English bilingual dialogue model ChatGLM2, Zhipu Qingyan has passed trillion-character text and code pre-training, combined with supervised fine-tuning technology, and has become an intelligence that understands users better in the form of a general-purpose dialogue product. assistant.
China Car Rental and SAIC Volkswagen reach comprehensive strategic cooperation
Recently, China Car Rental and SAIC Volkswagen signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement. This strategic cooperation expands the scope of cooperation between the two parties from new car procurement to marketing, car owner services, second-hand car circulation and other business links. The two parties will jointly explore new business scenarios such as joint marketing of new cars, in-depth test drive experiences, exchange of user rights, and repair and maintenance of mobility scooters.
Alibaba Cloud and APUS cooperate on large model computing power
It was reported on September 1 that at the Henan special session of the Alibaba Cloud Summit, Zhengzhou Apas Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of APUS, signed a contract with Alibaba Cloud to cooperate with each other, combining the advantages of both parties to strengthen the efficiency of "Zhiyun".
According to APUS, in this cooperation, the two parties have invested hundreds of millions of funds to build their own enterprise intelligent computing center and continue to expand its capacity. The current peak computing power has reached 360PFlops and is expected to reach more than 500PFlops within the year. On the other hand, the cooperation with Alibaba Cloud will integrate massive computing power. After Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing power support to APUS, it further improves the reasoning capabilities of APUS's self-developed multi-modal Tianyan large model (i.e. AiLMe large model), which previously required The effect that can only be achieved with five times the computing power can still be achieved with an 80% cost reduction.
GDS and the Indonesian Investment Authority will establish a joint venture to build a world-class hyperscale data center park in the region
According to news on September 1, GDS has reached a cooperation with Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund Indonesia Investment Authority. The two parties will jointly invest in and build data center platforms in Indonesia to promote digital infrastructure upgrades and industrial scale growth. The two parties plan to establish a joint venture and launch the first cooperation project in Nongsa Digital Park, Batam Island, a special economic zone established by the Indonesian government, to jointly invest in the construction of a world-class ultra-large data center park in the region.
Baidu Wenxinyiyan responded to 33.42 million questions on the first day of opening
According to news on September 1, from 0:00 to 24:00 on August 31, Baidu official platform data showed that within 24 hours, Wen Xinyiyan responded to more than 33.42 million questions from netizens, with an average of 23,000 questions per minute.
Foxit Software: The company has no plans to charge separately for the AIGC function.
According to news on August 31, Foxit Software stated in a survey that the AIGC function is currently only integrated in the overseas version of PDF Editor Cloud for customers to use. The company has no plans to charge separately for AIGC functions for the time being, but hopes to increase customer stickiness and use the company's products more through the empowerment of AIGC. The company's renewal rate in 2023Q2 is 93%. If it can rise to 95%, it means that the customer lifetime value will increase by 40%.
Google launches generative AI search feature in India and Japan
According to news on August 31, Google said that it has introduced generative artificial intelligence functions in search tools for users in India and Japan, which can display text or visual results, including summaries, based on prompts. Initially only available in the US, the feature rolled out this week in both countries as an option for users. Users in Japan will be able to use the feature in their local language, while users in India will be able to use the feature in English and Hindi.
Cambrian Chairman Chen Tianshi responded to business line adjustments and staff reductions: The current R&D team can support the company’s technological innovation and product research and development.
According to news on August 31, Chen Tianshi, chairman and general manager of Cambricon, responded publicly for the first time to the adjustment of business lines and staff reduction in the first half of the year at the company's performance meeting today. Chen Tianshi said that the company has fully evaluated the development of the industry and market, and has made adjustments to each business line based on historical and estimated input-output data. The current R&D team has a reasonable structure and comprehensive skills, which can effectively support the company's technological innovation and product research and development. As of the end of the first half of the year, the number of Cambrian R&D personnel was 980, a significant decrease from 1,207 in the same period last year, and R&D investment decreased by 23.32% year-on-year.
Microsoft AI backpack design appears: automatically recognizes surrounding environment in real time
On August 31, according to a list published by the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office, Microsoft earlier submitted a patent for a smart backpack. According to patent information, the backpack integrates AI technology to automatically recognize the environment around the wearer, and can automatically respond to user chat requests, access cloud-based information, and interact with other devices. In terms of application scenarios, according to Microsoft, when wearing an AI backpack to ski, it can scan the surrounding environment to inform the user whether it has crossed the line. Stand in front of a music poster and calendar entries can be automatically created based on user prompts to remind you to buy tickets and attend concerts. Even in supermarkets, you can automatically detect prices in the past two weeks and compare prices with other supermarkets.
Lenovo Group releases new naked-eye 3D display
According to news on September 1, at the 2023 IFA Consumer Electronics Show in Germany, Lenovo Group launched a series of new products including Legion Go, Legion 9i, ThinkVision 27 3D displays and more. Among them, the ThinkVision 27 3D display is a groundbreaking 27-inch screen that provides 2D/3D compatibility with the naked eye and is equipped with real-time eye tracking to achieve seamless 3D effects, designed for more immersive creation, connection and Designed for collaboration.
NSFOCUS Technology releases "Fengyun Guard", a large model in the vertical field of the security industry
According to news on September 1, NSFOCUS Technology released NSFOCUS “Wind Cloud Guard”, a large-scale model in the vertical field of the security industry. This model is based on massive security professional knowledge training, and builds a set of network security operation auxiliary decision-making systems covering various scenarios such as security operation, detection response, attack and defense confrontation, and knowledge question answering. At present, related products have been launched for trial use.
Chuangxinqizhi released a large industrial model with more than 15 billion parameters
On September 1st, Chuangxin released a matrix of industrial large-scale model products, including an industrial large-scale model (AInno-15B) with 15 billion+ parameters, a large-scale model service engine, and three generative AI application products based on large-scale models The generative industrial robot task arrangement application ChatRobot, the generative enterprise private domain data analysis application ChatBI, and the generative enterprise private domain knowledge question answering application ChatDoc. Innovation Qizhi CTO Zhang Faen explained to TMTPost that taking into account his own technical experience, data accumulation, customers and accuracy evaluation of application scenarios such as ChatBI, ChatDoc, etc., after final iteration, he believed that building a parameter volume of 15 billion is the best comparison at this stage. suitable.
financial report
Gome’s revenue in the first half of the year fell by about 97% year-on-year
On August 31, Gome Retail ("Gome") announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ending June 30, 2023. Data show that Gome's revenue in the first half of the year was 415 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 96.57%; the loss attributable to the owners of the parent company was 3.539 billion yuan, compared with 2.966 billion yuan in the same period last year.
As of June 30, 2023, Gome’s cash and cash equivalents were 147 million yuan. As of June 30 this year, Gome’s current liabilities totaled 36.106 billion yuan.
IPO
Arm plans to raise $5 billion to $7 billion through IPO
On September 1, Arm, a chip design company under Softbank, will hold a U.S. IPO roadshow after the U.S. "Labor Day"; the IPO stock issue price will be determined on September 13, and it plans to raise 5 billion to 7 billion U.S. dollars through the IPO. The value could be between $50 billion and $70 billion.
Policies/Reports
In the first half of 2023, U.S. artificial intelligence startups accounted for a quarter of investment share
On August 31, according to statistics from Crunchbase, in the first half of 2023, in the US venture capital market, more than a quarter of the funds flowed into start-ups in the field of artificial intelligence, more than doubling from the previous month. This shows that in addition to traditional categories such as software services and financial technology that dominate the venture capital field, artificial intelligence is becoming the new favorite of capital.
ASML: It has applied for a license from the Dutch government and has been approved. It can still export some high-end immersion lithography systems to China within this year.
According to news on September 1, the latest chip export control measures in the Netherlands came into effect today. ASML confirmed that ASML has submitted an export license application to the Dutch government for TWINSCAN NXT:2000i and subsequent immersion lithography systems. "The Dutch government has also issued the licenses we need as of September 1, allowing ASML to continue shipping TWINSCAN NXT:2000i and subsequent immersion lithography systems this year." ASML said that under the new export control regulations, ASML will still be able to fulfill its contracts with customers and ship these lithography equipment before the end of this year. As previously stated, we do not expect the export control regulations to have a material impact on ASML's 2023 financial outlook or long-term outlook. ASML said: Our customers are also aware of the restrictions imposed by the export control regulations, that is, starting from January 1, 2024, ASML will basically not obtain export licenses to ship these devices to Chinese customers.
Investment and Financing
Israeli startup AI21 Labs announces new round of funding
On the afternoon of August 31, AI21 Labs, an Israeli artificial intelligence start-up company, announced that it had raised US$155 million in Series C financing, with the participation of technology giants Alphabet and Nvidia. AI21 Labs said that after the latest round of financing, the company has raised a total of US$283 million in total capital and is valued at US$1.4 billion.
Tage Zhixing completed C2 round financing of 400 million yuan
According to news on September 1, Tage Zhixing, the leader of unmanned driving in the mining area, completed the C2 round of financing of 400 million yuan. Luxin Venture Capital, Tsingshi Asset Management Group, Beijing Beihang Asset Management Co., Ltd., Hefei Xincheng, etc. joined the investment, which is the largest amount of financing for the unmanned driving track in the mining area this year.
other
The list of additional academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2023 was announced, and executives from China Mobile, Baidu, and Huawei were selected
On August 31, announcements on the official websites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering showed that there were 583 valid candidates for the 2023 academician election of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and 655 valid candidates for the 2023 academician election of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Among them, 62 people were shortlisted for the list of valid candidates for the Department of Information Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and 78 people were shortlisted for the list of valid candidates for the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Including Baidu Chief Technology Officer Wang Haifeng, China Mobile Technology General Manager Wang Xiaoyun, and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Director Xu Wenwei have all been selected for the 2023 list of additional academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Three business executives belong to the Information and Electronic Engineering Department. Wang Haifeng’s nominee is Academician Gao Wen, Wang Xiaoyun’s nominee is Academician Yu Shaohua, and Xu Wenwei’s nominee is Academician Yang Shanlin. Wang Haifeng was shortlisted for the list of valid candidates for the 2019 and 2021 academician election of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Xu Wenwei was shortlisted for the 2021 academician election.
