Abstract: iFlytek's large models, 360 Intelligent Brain's large models, and WPS AI were announced today to be open to the public, and Baidu Intelligent Cloud announced the comprehensive upgrade and release of Qianfan's large model platform 2.0. Robin Li said that it makes no sense for entrepreneurs to roll out large models, and there are greater opportunities for rolling out applications.
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The iFlytek Spark model is now open to the public
On September 5, iFlytek officially announced that starting today, the iFlytek Spark Cognitive Model will be open to the public, and users can download it from major app stores and register to use it directly. It is reported that iFlytek Spark is a new generation of cognitive intelligence model launched by iFlytek. It has cross-domain knowledge and language understanding capabilities, and can understand and perform tasks based on natural dialogue. iFlytek Spark was released on May 6 this year and has been upgraded to V2.0.
360 brain model is open to the public today
According to a report from the Associated Press on September 5, the 360 Smart Brain model will be open to the public from now on. Open carriers include five major platforms, including the 360 Zhi Nao official website, App application store, or upgrade 360 Security Guard, 360 Secure Browser, and 360 Search to the latest version, and log in to experience the large model service.
Kingsoft Office: WPS AI is officially open to the public
Babbitt News, on September 5, Kingsoft Office officially announced that WPS AI is officially open to the public. AI capabilities are first applied to WPS smart documents, and more WPS AI capabilities will be opened in other components. Users can experience WPS smart documents in the latest version of WPS client/App, Kingsoft Document applet/official website.
Baidu Smart Cloud announces the comprehensive upgrade and release of Qianfan Large Model Platform 2.0
According to reports from Webmaster Home, at the 2023 Baidu Cloud Intelligence Conference held today, Baidu Smart Cloud announced the comprehensive upgrade and release of Qianfan Large Model Platform 2.0, providing the most complete tool chain, the best computing power performance, the most large models and Data sets and enterprise-grade security help enterprises bridge the gap from large models to productivity.
Shen Dou, president of Baidu Intelligent Cloud Business Group, said that the cumulative number of users of "Yun Yiduo" intelligent assistant has exceeded 6 million. Users can quickly search for files and videos, summarize knowledge points, translate documents, and even create content by talking to "Yun Yiduo".
Research by the Google team proves that AI annotation has reached human level
According to a report by Xinzhiyuan on September 5, the latest research by the Google team proposes to use large models to replace humans for preference annotation, which is AI feedback reinforcement learning (RLAIF). It was found that RLAIF can produce comparable improvements to RLHF without relying on human annotators, with a winning rate of 50%. At the same time, Google research once again proved that RLAIF and RLHF have a winning rate of more than 70% compared to supervised fine-tuning (SFT).
Indian IT company Tech Mahindra will launch an open source language model to support 40 Indian dialects
According to a report by Science and Technology Innovation Board on September 5, Indian IT company Tech Mahindra announced that it will launch an open source basic language model "Project Indus" for Indian languages. Tech Mahindra CEO Gulnani said the model will be the largest Indian large language model and may serve 25% of the global population. Tech Mahindra has not disclosed the project cost or estimated release date, but the goal is to first build a 7 billion parameter language model that will initially support 40 different Hindi dialects.
Robin Li: It makes no sense for entrepreneurs to roll up large models, but there are greater opportunities for roll-out applications.
According to 36Kr’s report on September 5, Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li said at the Baidu Cloud Intelligence Conference that currently more than 70 large models with more than 1 billion parameters in China have been released, but the models themselves are not Applications developed based on basic large models that directly generate value are the meaning of the existence of these large models. "So for entrepreneurs, it is meaningless to roll up large models, and there are greater opportunities to roll up applications, just like the operating system in the mobile Internet era only has Android and iOS, and there are many successful apps.”
iFLYTEK launches AI smart keyboard T8 Spark version: supports intelligent generation of PPT and other functions
According to IT House news on September 5, iFlytek has launched two AI smart keyboard T8 Spark versions, including red axis and yellow axis versions, with an initial price of 799 yuan. It is reported that these two keyboards are equipped with the iFlytek Spark cognitive large model, which can intelligently generate PPT by inputting a topic. They also support AI writing, AI Q&A, AI summary, voice typing, voice translation, audio transcription, intelligent error correction, Word translation, AI voice dialogue, supports 23 dialects and 66 foreign languages, and supports a series of functions such as smart screenshots, smart search, and smart recording.
Investment and Financing
After receiving a new round of financing, Feite Testing has been valued at 1 billion yuan and has formed a universal AI vision and big data analysis solution
According to a report by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on September 4, Fite Testing has recently completed a new round of financing. The investors are Yuzi Zhangquan Fund, Tianjin Binhai Bonded Private Equity Fund, and Haichuang Tiancheng, with a post-investment valuation of RMB 1 billion. Feite Intelligent Inspection is a visual intelligent inspection solution provider. In the early stage, it mainly provided professional quality services and supply chain management services for world-renowned brands in the automotive industry. In 2018, the company began its strategic transformation and entered the field of computer vision AI applications.
Meiyang Innovation Technology completed nearly 100 million yuan in Pre-A round of financing and is committed to introducing artificial intelligence and other technologies to improve the diagnosis and treatment experience
According to a report by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on September 5, Meiyang Innovation Technology recently completed a Pre-A round of financing of nearly 100 million yuan led by Boyuan Capital, with participation from Jinding Capital, Rehabilitation Capital Suzhou Fund, and Chuangdongfang Investment. Meiyang Innovation Technology is a high-end medical technology company in China. The company is committed to improving the existing diagnosis and treatment experience in the field of medical aesthetics, plastic surgery and anti-aging medicine by introducing artificial intelligence and deep learning technology.
“Bingji Technology” received an investment of 50 million yuan and established a joint venture, planning to provide artificial intelligence computing power leasing and other services
According to the Securities Times e Company report, on September 4, Sichuan Bingji Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Bingji Technology") announced that it had received a strategic investment of 50 million yuan from Huina Technology. "Bingji Technology" and Huina Technology will jointly invest in the establishment of Sichuan Huishan Intelligence Co., Ltd. The joint venture's planned business direction is to provide artificial intelligence computing power rental services, model training and inference services, data processing and analysis services, and computing power Center overall solution, etc.
Atomicwork raises $11 million to integrate AI into employee experience
According to a report by Forbes on September 5, San Francisco-based startup Atomicwork announced that it has received $11 million in seed round financing to seek to commercialize the software-as-a-service solution it developed.
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