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China Telecom releases "Qiming" network model
According to news on September 27, China Telecom released Qiming, the first large-scale network model in the field of information and communications. Xia Bing, deputy general manager of China Telecom, said that large models are an important trend in artificial intelligence technology. Domestic large models have shown a development trend of blooming. China Telecom will focus on promoting the in-depth evolution of basic general large models to vertical industry large models.
SAP releases natural language generative AI intelligent co-pilot Joule
According to news on September 27, SAP officially released the natural language-generated AI intelligent co-pilot Joule on the 26th local time. Joule will be built into SAP applications covering HR, finance, supply chain, procurement and customer experience, as well as the SAP Business Technology Cloud Platform. Joule will be available first in SAP HR cloud solutions and SAP Start later this year, and on SAP S/4HANA public cloud version early next year.
OpenAI reportedly seeking stake sale, targeting valuation of up to $90 billion
According to media reports on September 27, citing sources, U.S. technology company OpenAI is discussing possible stock sales with investors. The artificial intelligence startup seeks to sell shares at a valuation of US$80 billion to US$90 billion. Valuations have nearly tripled from earlier this year. OpenAI's stock sale is expected to be conducted by employees selling their shares, rather than the company issuing new shares to raise additional capital, people familiar with the matter said. It is reported that representatives of OpenAI have begun promoting the deal to investors, but the terms of the transaction may change.
Lighthouse releases AI intelligent publicity assistant
According to news on September 27, Lighthouse Professional Edition released a new version 8.0.0, officially launching the internal test of the intelligent publicity assistant function. This is the first intelligent publicity and distribution data product in the entertainment industry. It is based on large AI models and explores innovative AI interactive application scenarios for the film and television industry.
Samsung SDI: Will invest nearly US$2 billion in the second U.S. factory in joint venture with Stellantis
According to news on September 27, regulatory documents submitted today showed that the board of directors of Samsung SDI decided to invest nearly 2.66 trillion won (approximately US$2 billion) in the second U.S. factory jointly established by it and Stellantis. The plant is scheduled to be put into operation in 2027 with an initial production capacity of 34 GWh.
The power industry artificial intelligence innovation platform and the first independent controllable power large model are released
According to news on September 27, the power industry artificial intelligence innovation platform and independent controllable power model conference hosted by China Southern Power Grid Company was held in Guangzhou on the 26th. The power industry artificial intelligence innovation platform independently developed by China Southern Power Grid Company was released to the public. The first product of the artificial intelligence platform was simultaneously released - the power industry's first large-scale independent controllable power model, which was first applied to the China Southern Power Grid system. Among them, the artificial intelligence platform released this time not only provides model-as-a-service (MaaS) solutions, but also supports rapid iterative development of models and is open to the whole society for sharing. The platform is built with a computing center, a sample center, and a model center, all integrated It can flexibly schedule computing resources from Huawei, Baidu, SenseTime, etc., fully supports a variety of mainstream deep learning frameworks, and can realize on-demand access to computing resources and rapid fine-tuning.
Microsoft is developing cheaper artificial intelligence to mimic OpenAI models
According to news on September 27, according to people familiar with the matter, Microsoft is developing lower-cost artificial intelligence aimed at imitating the quality of the OpenAI model. Microsoft product teams are testing smaller, cheaper models the company has built using open source artificial intelligence models. The company is considering whether to offer these cheaper models to its Azure cloud customers.
TSMC AI chips will increase in price
According to news on September 26, as TSMC’s supply chain expands CoWoS advanced packaging production capacity, the increase in the price of these interlayer films will eventually push up the cost of AI chips produced by the company. Due to strong demand for AI products, TSMC is investing billions of dollars to upgrade its packaging capacity. Industry insiders revealed that after adding additional equipment to the factory, TSMC's monthly production capacity can reach more than 25,000 pieces, or even closer to 30,000 pieces, which will increase TSMC's ability to undertake AI-related orders. Due to related production capacity upgrades, TSMC's AI chips will also welcome to raise prices. In addition, Taiwanese media pointed out that NVIDIA is currently TSMC's largest CoWoS advanced packaging customer, with orders accounting for 60% of production capacity. Recently, NVIDIA has expanded its orders in response to strong demand for AI computing, and urgent orders from other customers have also begun to emerge.
Alibaba Future Elf AI Company was established with a registered capital of 100 million
According to news on September 27, Tianyancha showed that Zhejiang Future Elf Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. was established. The legal representative, executive director and general manager is Peng Chao, with a registered capital of 100 million yuan, and its business scope includes online cultural operations (music only) , performance brokerage, Internet of Things technology services, artificial intelligence public data platform, supply chain management services, digital content production services, software development, etc. Shareholder information shows that the company is wholly owned by XGenie Holding Limited. According to reports, recently, Alibaba’s artificial intelligence company launched a new brand “Future Elf”. Future Elf President Peng Chao said that the Tmall Elf APP will be upgraded to the Future Elf APP.
ZTE completed technical verification of 5G cellular positioning laboratory of IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group
According to news on September 27, according to the WeChat public account of the "5G Promotion Group", in September 2023, under the organization of the IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group, ZTE successfully completed the key points in the two architecture modes of 5G cellular positioning. Technical verification includes core network control plane positioning architecture, functional verification of local positioning architecture, and positioning accuracy testing based on 5G UTDOA in LOS/NLOS scenarios. According to reports, this is another important milestone in accelerating the commercialization of 5G cellular positioning technology.
Policies/Reports
TrendForce estimates that 240 million automotive screens will be shipped in 2026
On September 27, according to the "Automotive Screen Market Development Analysis Report" released by TrendForce, with the gradual recovery of the automobile market and the promotion of smart interiors, the demand for automotive screens is expected to gradually stabilize and begin to There is an upward trend. It is learned from the report that the overall supply of global automotive display panels is expected to maintain a growth trend this year, with shipments expected to exceed 240 million units in 2026, of which OLED panels are expected to account for 8.9%.
Shanghai: By 2025, a new generation of open permission chain technology system and standards will be formed that can support the development of innovative applications of Web 3.0
According to news on September 27, the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission issued the "Shanghai Blockchain Key Technology Research Special Action Plan (2023-2025)" on the 26th. The document points out that by 2025, innovative breakthroughs will be accelerated to form the basis of basic theories such as blockchain system security and cryptographic algorithms, as well as blockchain-specific processors, smart contracts, cross-chain, new storage, privacy computing, supervision and other technical fields. A new generation of open permission chain technology systems and standards that can support the development of Web3.0 innovative applications, are manageable and controllable, and are open source and open, building a trustworthy and secure technology base for the digital economy and cultivating a new generation of blockchain innovation with global influence. Ecology lays the foundation.
Investment and Financing
Xingyi Lianxin completed tens of millions of pre-A rounds of financing
On September 27, commercial aerospace company Xingyi Lianxin announced that it had completed tens of millions of yuan in pre-A round financing. The financing was led by Orient Securities Innovation, with participation from Yuanhang Capital, Gaomai Capital, and Aote Feilong. This round of financing is valuable. Xingyi Lianxin has received investment from Chuangxiang Investment, Meihua Venture Capital and Qiji Chuangtan.
It is reported that Xingyi Lianxin was established in 2021. Xingyi Lianxin is a commercial company focusing on low-orbit broadband communication payload system products and related services. According to GSMA data, by 2025, the scale of the low-orbit satellite communications industry will reach 180 billion yuan, and global satellite communications revenue will reach tens of billions of dollars. At present, our country has applied for 12,992 low-orbit frequency slots, and commercial aerospace companies are becoming an important force in the satellite Internet.
Completed tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing
Recently, Baiyunjianri completed two rounds of financing. The pre-A round and the A-round financing were both tens of millions of yuan. The pre-A round was jointly invested by Paradigm Fund and Xunjing Technology, and the A-round investor was iFlytek. Financing funds will be used for market expansion, team building, and product iteration.
Puyunjianri was established in 2021. The company provides one-stop solutions for intelligent chemical plants. It develops its own mobile robot body, core components and supporting software. It uses TOC-LEAN-6SIGMA as the core concept to construct integrated software and hardware products, covering all factories. On-site production flow, process flow, logistics and warehousing.
Huimei Technology completed over 300 million yuan in Series D financing
According to news on September 26, Beijing Huimei Cloud Technology Co., Ltd., a provider of medical artificial intelligence solutions, announced the completion of Series D financing of over 300 million yuan, led by Bell Ding Capital. It is worth noting that Huimei Technology and Intel jointly developed CPU-based large model inference technology, and recently officially demonstrated the real application scenarios and usage data of the first batch of hospitals.
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Data Element Industry Service Platform (DISP) released
According to news on September 27, it was learned from the 2023 Data Element Development Conference that the Data Element Industry Service Platform (DISP) led by the Cloud Computing and Big Data Institute of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology was officially released. In terms of data content, the platform brings together more than ten key information items from more than 300 representative data element companies, as well as over 10,000 data product information. At the same time, the platform also covers data elements from 31 domestic provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities. Relevant information such as competent authorities, data groups, public data operating agencies, public data operating models, etc.
Economic Daily: Artificial intelligence large-scale models are deployed in various industries
According to news on September 27, a front-page article in the Economic Daily pointed out that since the beginning of this year, domestic and foreign technology companies have been competing to expand their business territory around large models. According to statistics, as of the end of July this year, a total of 130 large models have been released in my country, of which 64 were released in the first seven months of this year alone. Domestic large-scale models have entered a period of rapid development, accelerating the digital and intelligent transformation of thousands of industries.
Li Ka-shing donates RMB 60 million to develop AI medical teaching
According to reports on September 26, Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing donated a total of HK$60 million to two major medical schools to develop artificial intelligence for medical teaching and research. Li Ka-shing said that AI is changing the world, and it is indispensable to vigorously promote the effective application of AI in medical research, courses and services. Li Ka-shing said: "We are deeply encouraged to be able to support the two medical schools in Hong Kong at this critical moment to strengthen integrated projects." Both Hong Kong's two major medical schools said they would work with matching funds to promote the development of AI medical education.
Chinese scientists achieve fully passive quantum key distribution
According to news from the University of Science and Technology of China on September 26, Han Zhengfu, Wang Shuang and others from the team of academician Guo Guangcan of the school and their collaborators proposed a new quantum key distribution implementation scheme that does not require active modulation and completed experimental verification. In order to achieve high real-world security The quantum key distribution system provides new ideas. This system solution overcomes the previous contradiction of being unable to achieve "passive" light intensity modulation and quantum state encoding at the same time, and provides a strict security key rate that takes into account the "finite length effect". Relevant results have been published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering: Autonomous transportation systems will trigger major changes in transportation patterns in the past century
According to news on September 26, Huang Wei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said during the Global Sustainable Transportation Summit Forum (2023) on the 26th that the in-depth application and cross-border integration of the new generation of information technology are promoting revolutionary changes in the transportation development model. Jiwang A new generation of intelligent traffic management systems and pedestrian-vehicle-road collaborative systems that integrate connectivity, intelligence, and collaboration have become important cutting-edge technologies in the transportation field, thereby promoting the evolution of the entire transportation system toward autonomous transportation. He emphasized that from a longer-term perspective, the autonomous transportation system is a more advanced stage in the development of smart transportation systems. It is a brand-new intelligent mobile Internet transportation system that will trigger major changes in transportation forms and modes in the past century.
GitHub CEO: AI cannot replace programmers
According to news on September 26, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke recently shared his views on the relationship between artificial intelligence and software development in public. Thomas Dohmke insists that the snowballing artificial intelligence revolution will not sound the death knell for the software development industry. Industry demand for software developers will continue to exceed supply, Dohmke said. In fact, Doohmke, like many other technology leaders, has long insisted that AI tools such as Copilot are only used to improve developer productivity, not replace it.
