AI News: August 1st issue (AI industry news from August 1 to August 10) | 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 first issue of August (August 1 to August 10).

August 10th

• Baidu Netdisk launches “Wenxin’s big model todayA cloud”——China’s first large-scale network disk intelligent assistant based on large models. Officially stated that users can use this intelligent assistant to complete the needs of quickly searching files and videos, summarizing knowledge, translating documents, content creation, etc. (News source:IT Home）
• Anthropic has released faster and cheaper version of Claude Instant 1.2, which is accessible to enterprises through the API. This version combines the advantages of its Claude 2 and makes significant progress in key areas such as mathematics, coding, reasoning and security. (News source:Anthropic）
• According to the Financial Times, citing two unnamed people close to Nvidia, Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba place orders $5 billion in chips from Nvidia, which are crucial to artificial intelligence systems. (News source:Interface News）
• The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to launch an AI cybersecurity challenge, working with AI companies Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft and Google, to require contestants to use artificial intelligence to identify and fix software vulnerabilities, especially code for critical infrastructures. (News source:The Verge）
• Tome A startup that uses artificial intelligence to make it easier to produce and design presentations, the company has discussed with investors about raising new funds, which could double its valuation to up to $600 million. According to a person familiar with the matter, the amount of new funding may be as high as $60 million. (News source:The Information）
• IBM says it will be based on its enterprise artificial intelligence platform watsonx Llama2, a large-language AI model hosting the Meta platform, provides customers with early access to the model to help businesses integrate AI into their workflows. (News source:IBM Newsroom）
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning development platform Weights & Biases announced a new round of financing of $50 million, bringing its valuation to $1.25 billion. The company’s machine learning platform helps developers build better models faster. (News source:TechCrunch）
• Deepset, a platform that builds enterprise applications powered by large language models similar to ChatGPT, announced today that it raised $30 million in a round of funding led by Balderton Capital, with GV and Harpoon Ventures. (News source:TechCrunch）
• John Lewis, the largest department store in London, UK, announced a new strategic partnership with Google Cloud, part of which will involve the expansion of artificial intelligence and machine learning, a deal worth £100 million over the next five years. (News source:The Grocer）

August 9th

• Stability AI announced the launch of a large code generation language model called StableCode, aiming to help users generate programming language code. StableCode offers three different versions: a base model for general use cases, a fine-tuning model for instruction, and a long context window model that can support up to 16,000 tokens. (News source:Stability AI Blog）
• Nvidia announces the launch of the new generation of GH2000 Grace Hopper super chip, which will be put into production in the second quarter of 2024. At the same time, a new server design built on GH200 was announced. (News source:Oriental Fortune Network）
• Nvidia partnered with Hugging Face to provide cloud-based AI training services, a service called Traning Cluster as a Service will be launched in the coming months to simplify the creation of customized AI models for enterprises. (News source:TechCrunch）
• Startup MindsDB announced a $5 million investment led by Nvidia’s NVentures. The company is a database platform for AI-centric applications that connect databases to popular AI frameworks. (News source:VentureBeat）
• Startup Dropzone AI announced it has raised $3.5 million in seed funding from a group of investors led by Decibel Partners, which launched an autonomous AI security agent designed to automate the tedious and time-consuming work of investigating security alerts. (News source:VentureBeat）

August 8th

• Microsoft’s AI chatbot Bing Chat now supports access in all mobile browsers, and is no longer limited to its own Edge browser. Previously, Bing Chat began to be open to Chrome and Safari desktop browsers at the end of July. (News source:The Verge）
• OpenAI has launched a new web crawler called GPTBot to collect public data from the Internet to train AI models. The goal of GPTBot is to identify itself more transparently and correctly so that the webmaster can allow or disable access to the crawler in the robots.txt file. (News source:Search Engine Land）
• According to Bloomberg, the well-known AI company OpenAI filed a lawsuit against a company called Open Artificial Intelligence and owns the domain name www.open.ai, claiming that the name infringes on the OpenAI trademark and causes confusion among consumers. (News source:IT Home）
• According to official news from GAC Research Institute, GAC officially launched GAC AI big model platform, which is the first big model platform technology in the automotive industry and will be equipped with the high-end smart coupe Haobo GT in the near future. (News source:GAC Research Institute Official Micro）
• Baichuan Intelligent officially released its first closed-source big model Baichuan-53B, with a parameter volume of 53 billion. According to reports, the 53B big model has more complete writing and text creation capabilities. Wang Xiaochuan, CEO of Baichuan Intelligent, said that the new model released this time is mainly aimed at the implementation of the B-end. (News source:36Kr）
• According to 36Kr, the big model middleware manufacturer “Lanma Technology” recently completed a round A financing of tens of millions of yuan, with IDG Capital, Lianxin Capital and Atom Capital participating in the investment. (News source:36Kr）
• According to foreign media 9To5Google, Google recently launched a function called “grammar checking”, which is similar to Grammarly and can provide users with syntax correction. After the user enters English sentences in the Google search box, Google will prompt the user for possible problems in spelling. (News source:IT Home）
• Researchers at MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute used machine learning to create a computational model called “OncoNPC” that can analyze sequences of about 400 genes and use this information to predict where a specific tumor occurs in the body. (News source:MIT News）
• Tractian, an industrial asset monitoring company that uses artificial intelligence to predict mechanical failures, announced a $45 million Series B financing led by venture capital firms General Catalyst and Next47. (News source:VentureBeat）
• HR startup One Model announced that it raised $41 million in a round of funding led by Riverwood Capital, which provides a platform to leverage artificial intelligence to help employers make hiring, hiring, promotions, layoffs and general workplace planning decisions. (News source:TechCrunch）
• Startup Multiplayer announced that it has raised $3 million in funding, led by Bowery Capital. The company provides a distributed AI-based collaboration and visualization tool for managing complex and multi-layered system architectures that support company operations. (News source:VentureBeat）

August 7th

• Research firm Aletheia reported that it is estimated that the AI ​​server market size will double in 2024 and reach US$135 billion in 2025, 4.5 times the scale in 2022. (News source:Cailianshe）
• Zhiyuan Research Institute has released the open source commercially available Chinese and English semantic vector model BGE (BAAI General Embedding), which has surpassed all similar models in the community, such as OpenAI’s text embedding 002, etc. In addition, BGE maintains the smallest vector dimension in the same parameter order model, which is less costly to use. (News source:Zhiyuan Research Institute）
• Lenovo Browser has been updated today, adding a beta version of Xiaole AI Assistant to the Wenxin Yiyan model to the sidebar. According to official news, the new version of Lenovo browser has added functions such as copywriting, summary and refinement, and email writing, and has AI search function and AI dialogue capabilities. (News source:Pin Wan）
• According to Twitter user @Leopeva64, a recent Edge Canary update introduced a feature to rewrite text with Bing AI. This feature allows the user to select a piece of text in the input box and rewrite it using the Alt + I shortcut keys. (News source:IT Home）
• Recently, at the Mengniu global partners’ thank-you meeting, Mengniu announced that it would join forces with many technology giants such as Zhipu AI and Tencent to jointly release the world’s first nutrition and health field model MENGNIU.GPT. (News source:China Daily Network）
• According to the latest news from game review media IGN, IGN is about to launch its own AI chatbot IGN Guides Chatbot Alpha, which is trained on game guides and guides written by dozens of IGN guide authors and contributors, and can answer users’ questions about the game. (News source:IGN）
• Yuanxiang XVERSE announced that it open source its high-performance universal model XVERSE-13B with 10 billion parameters, which is free to use for commercial use. According to reports, XVERSE-13B is a general big model, and the services generated based on it include text generation, automated writing, data analysis, knowledge question and answer, etc. (News source:36Kr）
• The National Enterprise Credit Information Disclosure System shows that Beijing Guangnianwai Technology Co., Ltd. has now completed industrial and commercial changes, founder Wang Huiwen withdraws the shares, and Tianjin Sankuai Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Meituan, has become the only shareholder. (News source:Pin Wan）

August 6th

• According to Tech Planet, the dialogue AI project of ByteDance’s internal testing has been started, codenamed Grace. At present, the website for testing has been initially built and can only be used after the relevant account that is invited or authorized to log in. (News source:Tech Planet）
• According to the official website of Chengdu Municipal Government, the city’s artificial intelligence industry scale in 2022 was 61.6 billion yuan, ranking 7th in the country, the industrial growth rate ranked 1st in the country, and the comprehensive strength ranked 6th in the country. In the first half of this year, the industry scale reached 42.4 billion yuan, an increase of 36.9% year-on-year. (News source:Pin Wan）
• According to the Financial Times, Apple is strengthening its expertise in generative artificial intelligence to apply it to iPhones and iPads, and has recruited dozens of positions working in large language models (LLM) in offices in California, Seattle, Paris and Beijing. (News source:Interface News）

August 5th

• Salesforce released “Einstein Studio”, a code-free, interface-based AI model training tool for data scientists and engineers, aiming to help enterprises connect their Salesforce data to any artificial intelligence or large language model. (News source:InfoWorld）
• Microsoft Research Institute recently demonstrated the Project Rumi project, combining text, audio and video data, and through multi-mode methods, it can improve the understanding of artificial intelligence systems, so as to better understand human intentions. (News source:IT Home）

August 4th

• OpenAI today announced that starting next week, a series of small updates will be launched to improve the ChatGPT experience, including adding prompt use cases, dialogue suggestions, Plus users use GPT-4 version by default, and support for uploading multiple files. (News source:Pin Wan）
• The Chengdu Economic and Information Bureau issued the “Several Measures to Accelerate the Innovation and Application of Large Models to Promote the High-Quality Development of the Artificial Intelligence Industry in Chengdu”, which mentioned that it should promote the construction of computing power infrastructure and accelerate the construction of a national new generation of artificial intelligence public computing power open innovation platform. (Read more:Shanghai Securities News）
• Apple CEO Tim Cook said in an interview that Apple has been studying various AI technologies including generative AI for many years. Cook said that Apple is looking for various entry points to integrate various AI technologies including generative AI into its products to further enrich users’ lives and work. (News source:9to5Mac）
• According to Huawei mobile phone news, through the support of the underlying capabilities of Pangu’s big model, HarmonyOS will bring more progressive AI. Xiaoyi will have the ability to use AI big model and continue to enhance in three directions: smart interaction, efficient productivity improvement and personalized services. (News source:36Kr）
• IBM and NASA recently announced launch on Hugging Face watsonx.ai The open source geospatial basic model, as the basis of new climate and geoscience artificial intelligence, can track deforestation, predict crop yields and record greenhouse gas emissions. (News source:Engadget）
• The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is working with Microsoft and several banks to develop customized generative AI models that allow customers to use LSEG’s extensive data in a secure and private way. (News source:Financial Times）
• The AI.com domain name has now been redirected to the official website of Musk’s artificial intelligence startup X.ai, and in February the domain name was redirected to the official website of ChatGPT. (News source:Mashable）
• Datadog, a cloud application monitoring and security platform, today announced the launch of Bits, an artificial intelligence generation assistant, which can learn based on customers’ observable data and help engineers solve application problems in real time. (News source:DevOps）
• CoreWeave, a cloud computing platform that provides cloud infrastructure for AI training, said it has raised $2.3 billion in debt financing after raising $221 million in April’s Series B financing and expanded $200 million in May. (News source:TechCrunch）
• Hon Hai subsidiary Icreate Investments has acquired shares in AI startup Kneron with an investment of approximately US$14 million. Naineng focuses on neural network processors and various image recognition functions. Naineng previously raised funds and developed the next generation of edge computing AI chips. (News source:Interface News）
• Architectural platform Acelab recently announced a new round of financing of $5.3 million. The platform’s machine learning search and recommendation engine can help architects explore, organize and collaborate in one-stop. (News source:VentureBeat）

August 3rd

• Alibaba Cloud opens sourceTongyi Qian Questions The 7 billion parameter model, including the general model Qwen-7B and the dialogue model Qwen-7B-Chat, both models have been launched under Alibaba. ModelScope Magic Communityopen source, free and commercial. (News source:Modai Community Official Micro）
• Meta releases new open sourceArtificial Intelligence Music Generator AudioCraft, users can generate music and sounds by entering text prompts. (News source:The Verge）
• According to 36Kr, Tencent’s self-developed “Tencent Hunyuan Big Model” has entered the application internal testing stage. Several Tencent employees told 36Kr that they have recently received an internal email invitation and can experience the Hunyuan Big Model through web pages or mini programs. Many internal businesses in Tencent have also been connected to the Hunyuan Big Model for testing. (News source:36Kr）
• Google’s Search Generative Experience has released new feature updates. If users enable AI-based SGE in the search lab, they can see more multimedia and better links in the search results. (News source:The Verge）
• Microsoft has released the latest Windows 11 preview, bringing several new features and improvements to internal beta workers, including the launch of Windows Copilot preview to internal beta workers on some beta channels. (News source:IT Home）
• A recent study published in the journal Lancet Oncology found that artificial intelligence can detect breast cancer more effectively than many years of training and experienced doctors, and reduces the workload of radiologists’ X-rays by nearly half. (News source:Tencent）
• According to Nature, research databases such as Scopus, Dimensions, and Web of Science are launching conversational artificial intelligence search capabilities similar to ChatGPT to help researchers quickly obtain abstracts of literature and research topics. (News source:Nature）
• According to the Hong Kong Radio website, the president-elect Qin Sizhao of Lingnan University in Hong Kong said today that Lingnan University in Hong Kong decided to accept the AI ​​wave and said that the school has purchased a license for ChatGPT 3.5 version for the whole school, and will provide corresponding technical training to teaching staff and students. (News source:IT Home）
• AI chip startup Tenstorrent announced that it has received $100 million in new financing from Hyundai, Kia, Samsung and other companies. The company’s CEO Jim Keller has developed chips for Apple, Tesla and Intel. (News source:Cailianshe）
• According to 36Kr, AI enterprise-level application service provider “Hongji Cyclone” completed a C+ round of financing of approximately US$40 million in July, with Huaxing Capital serving as the exclusive financial advisor. This round of financing will be mainly used for the research and development implementation, industry resource integration and market expansion of AIGA (AI Generated Automation), the large-scale related product. (News source:36Kr）
• Generative artificial intelligence platform Inworld Received over $30 million in investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners, with a latest valuation of over $500 million, the platform uses AI technology to help users create conversational roles and NPCs through natural language descriptions. (News source:TechCrunch）
• Robotics startup Orangewood recently raised $4.5 million in a round led by Y Combinator, which built cheaper robotic arms and developed RoboGPT to help users program robotic arms using text or voice. (News source:TechCrunch）

August 2nd

• According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, Baidu Smart Cloud Qianfan big model platform has completed a new round of upgrades, fully connecting to 33 big models including LLaMA2, ChatGLM2, RWKV, MPT, Dolly, OpenLLaMA, Falcon, etc., becoming the platform with the most large models in China. (News source:Pin Wan）
• Alibaba CloudTongyi Listening and EnlightenmentThree new functions have been launched, including the first domestic audio and video AI field to extract automatic videos, as well as browser plug-ins, DingTalk and WeChat mini-programs, to help users understand, understand and read various audio and video content anytime and anywhere on PC and mobile terminals, and improve the work and learning efficiency of professionals and students. (News source:36Kr）
• According to AndroidPolice, Google began testing video summary automatically generated by artificial intelligence on YouTube video platform, and a brief overview of the video content will be displayed on the viewing and search pages of some English videos. (News source:Android Police）
• According to Bloomberg, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an interview that Uber is developing AI-powered chatbots to integrate into its applications. (News source:Bloomberg）
• AI video generation platform HeyGen Announced a cooperation with online design platform Canva to introduce AI digital human virtual oral broadcast into Canva online design, where users can create speaking oral videos in minutes. (News source:Metaverse Post）
• Startup Steg.AI announced a $5 million seed round led by Paladin Capital Group, which aims to help creators use deep learning to embed nearly invisible watermarks into images that cannot be removed even if resized and resave. (News source:TechCrunch）
• Codeless platform Akkio announced a $15 million Series A funding round, which the company said it will use to accelerate the commercialization of its platform and provide an easy-to-use AI assistant to any user who processes data. (News source:VentureBeat）
• AI drug management platform FeelBetter announced a $5.9 million financing led by Firsttime Ventures and Shoni Health Ventures, which uses machine learning and patient data to provide personalized drug management related to compound medications. (News source:PRNewsWire）

August 1st

• According to official OpenAI news, the Android version of ChatGPT is now available in all countries and regions that support ChatGPT. The Android version of ChatGPT was launched on July 26 and will be launched in the United States, Brazil, Bangladesh and other regions, and will be expanded to 16 countries and regions including the United Kingdom and France in two days. Previously, the APP had been logged on to the iOS platform in May. (News source:Pin Wan）
• Meta (formerly Facebook) is preparing a series of AI-powered chatbots that will show different personalities to increase engagement on its social media platform, launching as early as next month, according to the Financial Times. (News source:Financial Times）
• Dell Technology Group officially announced that it will cooperate with NVIDIA to launch a generative artificial intelligence solution to help customers quickly and securely build generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models locally to accelerate improvements and drive new levels of intelligence. (News source:IT Home）
• According to trademark attorney Josh Gerben, OpenAI has applied to register the trademark “GPT-5” on July 18. It is not yet certain whether the trademark is a protective registration. Judging from trademark information, GPT-5 will provide functions such as text generation, natural language processing, speech transcription, and translation. (News source:Pin Wan）
• According to the latest report released by market research firm Gartner, Global Customer Service Center (CC) is vigorously embracing conversational AI and virtual assistants, and is expected to reach US$18.6 billion in 2023, an increase of 16.2% over 2022. (Full text of the report:Gartner）
• According to 9to5google, Google announced internally that it will update Google Assistant and introduce large language model technology. (News source:9to5Google）

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