Abstract: On September 13, Alibaba Cloud announced that the Tongyi Qianwen large model has passed the first batch of registration and is officially open to the public. Baidu released the Wenxinyiyan plug-in ecological platform "Lingjing Matrix", inviting developers to test it, and providing incentives such as tens of billions of traffic and 100 million yuan in funds to support the construction of the plug-in ecosystem.
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Baidu launches Wenxinyiyan plug-in ecological platform "Spiritual Realm Matrix"
It was reported on September 13 that He Junjie, senior vice president of Baidu Group and general manager of Baidu Mobile Ecosystem Group (MEG), released the Wenxinyiyan plug-in ecological platform "Lingjing Matrix" at the Baidu Alliance Conference, and opened invitations to developers. Test, and provide incentives such as tens of billions of traffic and 100 million yuan funds to support the construction of the plug-in ecosystem. According to reports, Baidu has become the first plug-in development platform in China to automate the entire process. Baidu Alliance also released an AI component store at the meeting and simultaneously launched the "AI-by-AI Plan".
Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen AI large model is officially open to the whole society
On September 13, Alibaba Cloud announced that the Tongyi Qianwen large model had passed the first batch of registration and was officially open to the public. Users can log in to Tongyi Qianwen's official website to experience it, and enterprise users can call Tongyi Qianwen's API through Alibaba Cloud.
APUS releases innovative application of large network information model
Recently, Zhengzhou Apas Data Cloud Information Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of APUS, signed a cooperation agreement with the Reporting Center of the Henan Provincial Party Committee Cyberspace Administration. It will use APUS's large model capabilities to carry out comprehensive development in rumor refuting platforms, reporting platforms, innovative artificial intelligence application scenarios, etc. In-depth cooperation and the release of the innovative application "Smart Network Information and Rumor Refuting Assistant" on a large model of smart network information.
According to reports, the "Smart Internet Information Rumor Refutation Assistant" public welfare service application is based on AIGC's intelligent learning and response capabilities, and provides online rumor refutation information with reliable sources, clear cases, and rich pictures and texts.
China's first medical examination artificial intelligence open innovation platform officially launched
The 2023 "Region Cup" Medical Examination is guided by the Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau and the Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, sponsored by Jinyu Medical and the Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, co-organized by the Guangzhou Artificial Intelligence Public Computing Center, and provided with technical support by Huawei Cloud Computing Technology Co., Ltd. The Artificial Intelligence Developer Competition has concluded. At the award ceremony, the artificial intelligence open innovation platform for clinical testing and pathological diagnosis built by KingMed Medical was officially launched. This is the first artificial intelligence open innovation platform in China's medical testing industry, which can meet the needs of developers from data management to application deployment. The one-stop AI research and development needs have the characteristics of full stack, full process and full scenario.
Several universities jointly launch AstroLLaMA, a large model for astronomy majors
According to reports on September 13, the HuggingFace page shows that researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Australian National University, Tsinghua University and other institutions have recently jointly launched AstroLLaMA, a large model for astronomy majors.
AstroLLaMA is a large model with 7 billion parameters. It is fine-tuned using LLaMA 2. The researchers used more than 300,000 astronomy abstracts from arXiv to train this model. AstroLLaMA is optimized for traditional causal language modeling, and its complexity is 30% lower than Llama-2, showing obvious domain adaptability. The research team said the public release of AstroLLaMA is intended to promote astronomy-focused research.
Coca-Cola launches new flavor "Y3000" and uses Stable Diffusion for marketing
According to reports on September 13, Coca-Cola announced the release of a "limited edition" drink - Coca-Cola Y3000 Zero Sugar, and used Stable Diffusion to develop Y3000's graphic brand. Additionally, the company provides an AI-enhanced QR code on its website. After scanning the QR code with their phone, users can enter the "Coca-Cola Creative Center", where they can take photos with their device cameras and modify the photos with Stable Diffusion to achieve a vaporwave-style futuristic look.
The game development platform Hiber3D introduces Google large models, and inputting text can generate 3D game scenes and functions.
It was reported on September 12 that Hiber3D, a 3D game development platform, has launched a new game development platform through fine-tuning Google's PaLM large language model, its own more than 500 template libraries, and millions of finished 3D scenes. On this platform, users can quickly create 3D game scenes and functions through text question and answer methods. Currently, Hiber3D's generative AI development platform is in the testing phase and will be open to users in the future, allowing people without professional programming backgrounds to develop games.
The White House: Nvidia and eight other companies have voluntarily committed to managing AI risks, including conducting security testing.
The White House issued a statement on September 12, saying that on that day, US Commerce Secretary Raimondo and other senior government officials will convene AI industry executives at the White House to announce eight companies: Adobe, Cohere, IBM, Nvidia, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI and Stability. Commit to taking voluntary regulatory measures to manage AI technology development risks, including conducting security testing before launch, building a system that puts security first, and adding digital watermarks to AI-generated content.
Microsoft partners with Project Gutenberg to use AI voice technology to produce 5,000 free audiobooks
It was reported on September 12 that the American IT giant Microsoft recently cooperated with Project Gutenberg (Project Gutenberg), using artificial intelligence technology to produce more than 5,000 high-quality audio books for the project's e-book library. In this project, researchers combined multiple AI technologies such as machine learning, automatic text selection, and natural speech synthesis to realize the entire process of automatically converting e-books into speech.
Investment and Financing
Silicon Valley AI chip startup Enfabrica completes US$125 million in financing, with Nvidia participating
It was reported on September 13 that Enfabrica, a Silicon Valley start-up company dedicated to artificial intelligence data center network chips, recently stated that it had raised US$125 million in venture capital, with Nvidia joining as a strategic investor. Enfabrica, founded by former Broadcom and Alphabet executives, has designed a network chip that aims to connect different parts of the data center together in new ways, allowing GPUs to pull data from many different places and improving GPU usage efficiency. .
Druid, an enterprise conversational artificial intelligence platform integrated with ChatGPT, received US$30 million in financing
On September 12, European artificial intelligence startup Druid announced that it had raised US$30 million in Series B financing, led by New York investment company TQ Ventures, with participation from European investors such as Smedvig Capital, GapMinder, Hoxton Ventures and Karma Ventures. Druid said the new funds will be used to expand its global footprint, with a particular focus on the U.S. market. It is reported that the US market currently accounts for about 60% of its revenue.
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