AI News: July 2 (AI Industry News from July 11 to July 20) | AI Tools Collection

The AI ​​tool set uses a collection of three issues per month to update the latest news of the AI ​​industry every day. This issue is the collection of AI industry news for the second issue of July (July 11 to July 20).

July 20th

• According to Bloomberg, Apple has developed an internal artificial intelligence robot similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Some engineers say the project is code-named Apple GPT and is based on a large language model framework of self-developed “Ajax”. (News source:Bloomberg）
• According to official OpenAI news, OpenAI will relax restrictions on ChatGPT Plus users, allowing them to have more conversations with ChatGPT. From next week, ChatGPT Plus users can have 50 rounds of conversations with GPT-4 every 3 hours. (News source:Pin Wan）
• Google is testing a product that uses AI technology to produce news coverage and markets it to news organizations such as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal parent company News Corp. The tool has a tentative internal name of Genesis, which can receive information (such as details of current events) and generate news copy. (News source:The New York Times）
• Microsoft recently announced that it will cooperate with Maybelline to introduce the virtual makeup feature Maybelline Beauty in Microsoft Teams. Maybelline has now introduced 12 different makeup looks in Teams for users to choose from. (News source:The Verge）
• According to “Tech Planet”, a Tencent Music AI robot chat app called “Uncompanied” has been launched recently. Weibao is an AI chat product that integrates multiple functions such as AI chat and AI companion photo. Users can “select the AI ​​companion that has been prefabricated on the App, or create an AI companion according to the user’s own requirements.” (News source:IT Home）
• Lagou Recruitment announced the launch of the AI ​​intelligent recruitment assistant product “HRMind”, which is the first recruitment scenario product in the recruitment industry that is widely used based on pre-training big models. (News source:Geek Network）
• SAP, a well-known enterprise management software company, recently announced that it has invested in three popular generative artificial intelligence companies: Anthropic, Cohere and Aleph Alpha as part of its Sapphire Ventures’ commitment to invest more than $1 billion in artificial intelligence. (News source:SAP News Center）
• Language learning platform Preply announced that it has raised $70 million in funding to expand its Series C funding to $120 million. The company is planning to use the funding to double down on the development of AI, especially using the technology to “scalate” AI teaching. (News source:GlobeNewsWire）
• Startup Unstructured announced $25 million raised through Series A and previously undisclosed seed rounds, which provides a range of tools to help clean, convert and staging enterprise data to connect to Big Language Models (LLMs). (News source:TechCrunch）
• Startup FedML announced that it has raised $11.5 million in seed funding at a valuation of $56.5 million, led by Camford Capital, with Road Capital and Finality Capital, which provides MLOps tools and decentralized AI computing networks. (News source:TechCrunch）

July 19th

• Microsoft officially announced the launch of Bing Chat Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing. Bing Chat Enterprise provides AI chat capabilities and commercial data protection for enterprises, and is launching a preview version today. For Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium customers, Microsoft 365 Copilot is priced at $30 per user per month. (News source:Microsoft Official Blog）
• Microsoft’s Bing Chat update launches Visual Search, where users can upload images or take photos, and then let the tool scan photos. Bing Chat can explain the content in the images and answer related questions. (News source:WindowsCentral）
• At the Microsoft Inspire Conference, Meta and Microsoft announced further collaboration to support the LLaMA 2 Big Language Model (LLM) series on Azure and Windows. LLaMA 2 is designed to help developers and organizations build generative artificial intelligence tools and experiences. (News source:Microsoft Official Blog）
• In addition, Microsoft also released a series of important announcements at this year’s Inspire conference, including adding more features to Microsoft Sales Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales, enabling Power Automate process mining AI capabilities, expanding access to Azure OpenAI services, new Azure capabilities and investments, expanding strategic cooperation with Epic, the new Microsoft AI cloud partner program, and more. (News source:Microsoft Official Blog）
• OpenAI has made significant investments in local journalism through a new partnership with the American News Project (AJP). The company announced today that it will provide AJP with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in API points to support the nonprofit’s efforts to rebuild local news in the U.S. (News source:Maginative）
• Cohere The company announced a partnership with McKinsey to jointly provide secure, enterprise-level generative AI solutions tailored to McKinsey’s customer needs, including cloud and on-premises artificial intelligence software that protects customer data. (News source:VentureBeat）
• China Literature Group has released the “Yuanwen Wonderful Bi Movie Model”, which serves China Literature’s creators and assists writers in creating, including assisting character design, world outlook, and building a power system. (News source:Cailianshe）

July 18th

• The General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government issued the “Several Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Productive Internet Service Platforms in the City”. It proposes to accelerate the integration and application of new technologies and focus on supporting innovative entities to develop large models with international competitiveness. (News source:Cailianshe）
• Wix, a website building platform for codeless websites, announced the launch of AI Site Generator tool to help users enter text descriptions to intelligently generate a website containing homepage, details page, text and images. (News source:Maginative）
• Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque said about AI during a conference call with UBS analysts that AI is a $1 trillion investment opportunity, but it will also be “the biggest bubble ever.” (News source:IT Home）
• The online prototype design collaboration platform Mockplus recently launched “Xiaomiao AI”, which can intelligently generate prototype design, interface text, content translation, automatic text and pictures, and internal testing has been started. (News source:Coke Design Cloud）
• The first commercial launch conference of Pangu’s large-scale mining field was held in Jinan, Shandong. At the meeting, Shandong Energy Group, Huawei and Yunding Technology jointly released the world’s first AI model for the energy industry – Pangu Mine Model. (News source:36Kr）
• According to the official Windows blog, the Windows Copilot preview is now open to all Windows Insiders in the development channel. (News source:Pin Wan）
• Famous director Christopher Nolan expressed caution about artificial intelligence after his latest directed film Oppenheimer’s special screening and compared this rapidly developing technology with his new film work about the creation of the atomic bomb. (News source:The Verge）
• Thousands of writers including Nora Roberts, Margaret Atwood, Nguyen Tsing-Yue and Michael Shabon signed a joint letter asking artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI and Meta to stop using their works without permission or compensation. (News source:NPR）

July 17th

• Baidu Netdisk recently announced the launch of advanced image search function based on AI. It is said that “nouns with adjectives” can be used for more accurate searches, or you can find the required pictures through “place names”, “object names”, and “texts contained in pictures”. (Read more:IT Home）
• Ctrip Group released its first vertical model for the tourism industry, “Ctrip Asks”. Based on the big model, “Ctrip Questioning” screened 20 billion high-quality non-structural tourism data, and combined with Ctrip’s existing accurate real-time data, it conducted self-developed vertical models. (News source:36Kr）
• NetEase Cloud Music has launched the “Private DJ” function in the internal test, and will launch the first AI recommended music assistant. This function is based on the innovative upgrade of the song recommendation algorithm, realizing the intelligent explanation service for recommended songs. (News source:36Kr）
• The UN Security Council will meet in New York on Tuesday to formally discuss AI risks, the agency’s first similar meeting. (News source:Sina Technology）
• Recently, Zhangqu Technology announced that it will beWalker AIAchieve strategic cooperation and jointly strive to promote the innovative application of AIGC technology in the gaming industry. (News source:Meike.com）
• Recently, the technology intelligence company “Yunshuo IoT” completed a round A financing of tens of millions of yuan. The leading investor was Qifu Capital, and the old shareholders followed up to increase their investment. This round of financing will be mainly used for various market-side investments such as the construction of a partner system, and further consolidate technical barriers. (News source:36Kr）

July 15th

• Musk said at an xAI discussion on Twitter Space that the newly formed artificial intelligence company xAI will use public tweet training from Twitter. In addition, xAI will also cooperate with Tesla in various aspects such as the development of artificial intelligence software. (News source:Interface News）
• According to Zhipu AI and Tsinghua KEG Laboratory, ChatGLM-6B and ChatGLM2-6B weights are fully open to academic research from now on, and are allowed to use free commercially after completing the enterprise registration. (News source:GLM big model）
• Meta recently released the multimodal language model CM3leon, a search-enhanced, tag-based, decoder-only multimodal language model that can generate and fill text and images. (News source:Maginative）
• Kenyan outsourcing employees who helped review and remove harmful content on ChatGPT have filed a petition to the legislature calling for an investigation into large-scale tech outsourcing content review and artificial intelligence efforts in Kenya. (News source:TechCrunch）

July 14th

• Stability AI announced Stable Doodlecan transform simple hand-painted sketches into exquisite images, allowing you to transform from soul-painting hands into art masters. Currently users can use the tool for free through the ClipDrop website owned by Stability AI. (News source:Stability AI Blog）
• OpenAI has reached a deal with the Associated Press to train its AI models over the next two years using Associated Press news coverage and access some of the Associated Press archives as early as 1985, which will prioritize OpenAI’s technology and product experience. (News source:The Verge）
• E-commerce platform Shopify recently said that it will soon launch the AI ​​assistant “Sidekick” for merchants on its platform. Through a video posted by its CEO on Twitter, Sidekick will be embedded in Shopify as a button to answer merchants’ inquiries, including detailed information about sales trends. (News source:Betakit）
• Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of programmer question-and-answer platform Stack Overflow, said in an interview with foreign media VentureBeat a few days ago, that the company is investing 10% of its employees in developing its AI tools, which is expected to be released later this summer. (News source:VentureBeat）
• Recently, the well-known venture capital company a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) released an open source tutorial and technology stack on GitHub to help individuals create and host their own AI chatbots/partners through their browsers or send text messages. The technologies used in the project are basically companies invested by a16z, such as Clerk login authorization, Pinecone vector database, and Fly.io online deployment. Interested friends can learn about it. (Project address:Girub）
• Recently, the “Zhaoyan” big model launch conference of the Chongqing Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University was held at the Western (Chongqing) Science City. At the meeting, Chongqing’s first independently developed large language model – “Zhaoyan”, is released. This big model can present accurate and professional text output to users such as academic research, business analysis, and life consultation. (News source:First Financial）
• Huawei released the new AI storage product in the era of big model, OceanStor A310 deep learning data lake storage and FusionCube A3000 training/promotion hyper-converged all-in-one machine, supporting basic model training, industry model training, and segmented scenario model training inference. (News source:Securities Times e-company）
• Giant Network and Alibaba Cloud announced that they have reached a comprehensive cooperation “game + AI”. The two parties officially signed a memorandum of cooperation in Shanghai and will jointly build a “game + AI” smart computing platform. (News source:36Kr）
• Xinye Technology launches the first generation of LLM (large language model) application development framework E-LADF. E-LADF is based on basic components such as ChatGPT big model engine and vector database. It aims to provide a series of functional interfaces to help developers build and deploy LLM-based applications. (News source:Xinye Technology）
• Cyrus Hodes, one of the co-founders of Stability AI, sued that his 15% stake in the company was deceived by Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque to sell him for $100, which could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. (News source:Traffic lights）
• Drug Discovery Research Startup Causaly completed a $60 million Series B round led by ICONIQ Growth. The company has built an artificial intelligence platform to help researchers accelerate drug development and testing, and the amount raised in this round will be spent on research and development and continue to build its team. (News source:TechCrunch）
• Seattle-based security software startup Tangibly raised $6.5 million in seed round, led by Madrona Venture Group. The company was founded in 2021 to help customers protect and manage intellectual property assets such as trade secrets. (News source:GeekWire）

July 13th

• The Cyberspace Administration of China, in conjunction with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, announced the “Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services”, which will come into effect on August 15, 2023. (Read more:Internet Information China）
• Elon Musk officially announced its newly established artificial intelligence company xAI on Wednesday, saying its goal is to “understand the true nature of the universe.” The team members come from companies and research institutions such as DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, University of Toronto and other companies and research institutions. Musk and his team will share more information on a Twitter Spaces live chat on Friday. (Website address:x.AI）
• The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched a comprehensive investigation into OpenAI, citing alleged violations of consumer protection laws and put personal reputation and data at risk. (News source:Cailianshe）
• Quora’s AI chatbot Poe A series of tool and feature updates have been launched recently, including support for the latest Claude 2 model, larger context windows, URL retrieval, document uploads and continuing public conversations shared by other users. (Newsletter: Poe Newsletter)
• According to Google Bard’s update log, Bard recently added more than 40 new support languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi and Spanish. In addition, Google has added text to voice function to Bard, which can be used to read text aloud. (News source:Pin Wan）
• At the 2023 JD Global Technology Explorer Conference and JD Cloud Summit this morning, the JD Yanxi big model was officially released, and the official also released the Yanxi AI development computing platform. The platform has launched reservation registration and is expected to be officially launched in August. (News source:IT Home）
• Adobe Firefly recently issued a press release saying it will expand the service globally to support text prompts in more than 100 languages ​​and will also be localized to 20 languages. In addition, Adobe also said that users have generated more than 1 billion visual assets in Firefly websites and Photoshop. (News source:BusinessWire）
• Google announced that it will start internal testing of NotebookLM – the original name is Project Tailwind, which was launched at this year’s Google I/O Conference. It is still only accepting applications for IP in the United States. (News source:The Verge）
• Artificial Intelligence Language Cloning and Synthesis Platform Reble ai It announced that it raised $8 million in a Series A round led by Javelin Venture Partners, with Craft Ventures and Ubiquity Ventures, bringing the startup’s total financing to $12 million. (News source:CMSWire）
• Google Arts and Culture Lab introduces its latest work, Viola the Bird, an AI-trained program that converts cursor movement into violin and cello notes, generating real-time music with a gentle bird playing on the strings. (News source:Google Blog）
• Recently, South Korean Internet giant Kakao announced a major update to its AI image generation tool Karlo and the big language model KoGPT, and set up a new fund to support AI image generation startups. (News source:TechCrunch）

July 12th

• Anthropic officially released the new Claude 2 and launched a more convenient web beta version (IPs in the United States and the United Kingdom only). Compared with the previous version, Claude 2 has epic improvements in code, mathematics, and reasoning, supporting contexts up to 100K tokens. In addition, it also supports dialogue with Claude 2 in Chinese, and it is completely free.(News source:Shinchi Gen）
• Recently, semiconductor analysis agency SemiAnalysis released a GPT-4 internal technical decryption document, which disclosed key information such as GPT-4’s architecture, infrastructure, training data sets, cost, vision and MoE. (Read the translation:AppSo;Original English:SemiAnalysis）
• Bill Gates published an article on his personal blog website saying, “The risks of AI do exist, but they are controllable.” In the article, Gates listed the risks that AI may bring such as deep forgery, misinformation, cyber attacks, work transitions, hallucinations and biases, and also called on governments and enterprises to manage the risks of artificial intelligence well and encourage everyone to pay attention to the development of AI. (Read original text:GatesNotes）
• Alibaba’s enterprise intelligent service company Lingyang announced the launch of antelope One multi-platform and multi-channel one-stop DAAS products, and will be connected to the big model for a comprehensive upgrade. Companies using the big model will be able to use big model technology. (News source:Sina Technology）
• Microsoft Edge browser is about to launch a new feature, allowing users to control the browser’s operations through the Bing chat panel on the right. Users only need to enter a prompt, and the browser will perform corresponding operations based on the meaning of the words, such as opening a tab page and downloading page. (News source:IT Home）
• Gallery website Shutterstock announced an expansion of its partnership with OpenAI to allow OpenAI to access more training data, including Shutterstock’s image, video and music libraries and related metadata. Shutterstock has also obtained priority use of the latest OpenAI technology. (News source:Tencent News）
• Musk will discuss artificial intelligence with Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna on Twitter Spaces on July 12 local time, and the conversation will last about 45 minutes. (News source:Interface News）
• IBM is considering using its in-house designed AI chip to reduce the cost of cloud computing services and to make the chip its new launch watsonx Part of AI cloud service. (News source:IT Home）
• Indian IT outsourcing giant Wipro said it plans to invest $1 billion in the next three years to train its 250,000 employees and integrate the technology into its products. (News source:Sina Finance）
• Prompt Engineering startup Vellum.ai announced a $5 million seed round of funding, which focuses on helping other companies improve generative AI tips. Rebel Fund, Eastlink Capital, Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator and others participated in this round of financing. (News source:TechCrunch）
• Venture capital firm Sapphire Ventures said it plans to invest more than $1 billion in AI-related startups to accelerate the adoption of the technology among companies around the world. (News source:Reuters）
• eBay today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Certilogo, a company that provides AI-powered digital ID and identity verification for clothing and fashion merchandise. The acquisition will help eBay’s brand anti-counterfeiting certification of used products, with specific financial details not disclosed. (News source:PRNewsWire）
• The OECD (Organization for Economic and Cooperational Development) calls on member states to prepare for the negative impact of large-scale adoption of AI technology, saying high-skilled white-collar jobs in finance, medicine and law are at the highest risk of impact, accounting for about 27% of employment in the economies of OECD member states. (News source:Financial Times）

July 11th

• Meitu Xiuxiu officially announced today that the AI ​​image expansion function has been launched on Meitu Xiuxiu App and Wink App. This function uses AI algorithms to intelligently recognize, which can predict and generate missing parts based on the context and texture of the image, allowing the image to obtain a larger format and perspective. (News source:IT Home）
• Baichuan Intelligent officially released the 13 billion parameter universal large language model (Baichuan-13B-Base), which is officially said to be the strongest performance of Chinese and English open source model with 10 billion parameter volume. (News source:Quantum bits）
• Tencent announced that the self-developed chess and card AI “Jueyi LuckyJ” has topped the international mahjong platform, reaching a stable rank of 10.68 on the Japanese mahjong Tianfeng platform, refreshing the best results achieved by AI in the mahjong field. (News source:Tencent official account）
• Pano AI, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to conduct wildfire detection and warning, raised $17 million in a new round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. The round of financing was led by Valor Equity Partners and added several strategic investors: T-Mobile Ventures and Salesforce. (News source:GlobeNewswire）
• GenAI recently announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Pulse AI has been approved to join NVIDIA’s startup acceleration program and has issued purchase orders to purchase hardware worth about $1.8 million, which can provide more than 350,000 hours of artificial intelligence computing time per year. (News source:Interface News）
• Interface.ai, a startup that provides artificial intelligence solutions for the financial industry, announced its withdrawal from the Sphere AI Assistant, which can help banks and credit unions automate customer service support nearly 95% of consulting to improve operational efficiency. (News source:PRNewsWire）

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