AI News: July 1st issue (AI industry news from July 1 to July 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 July (July 1 to July 10).

July 10th

• Yao Qian, director of the Science and Technology Supervision Bureau of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, published an article in “China Finance” that, overall, there is no generational difference between mainstream large models at home and abroad at the algorithm level, but there is a gap in computing power and data. It is recommended to vigorously support domestic leading technology companies in the general field to develop independent and controllable domestic big models, and encourage the development of vertical industry models. (News source:Oriental Fortune Network）
• Xihu Xinchen officially launched a self-developed general model – “West Lake Big Model”, and once again obtained a strategic investment of over 100 million yuan from Tom Cat to accelerate the application of the big model. (News source:Xinchen Technology Public Account）
• Jinyu Medical announced on its official Weibo today that it and Huawei Cloud officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement on Pangu’s big model on July 8, and the two parties will work together to create an AI big model for the medical examination industry. (News source:Jinyu Medical Official Account）
• According to the Arxiv page, Google recently teamed up with Cornell University to release a paper to launch an experimental protocol for evaluating the comprehension of big model videos. (News source:Pin Wan）
• Unity CEO John Riccitiello predicts that generative artificial intelligence (AIGC) will significantly reduce game development time by about 5 to 10 times. (News source:Decrypt）
• Shanghai Renji Hospital has upgraded “Digital Intelligence Customer Service” 3.0, aiming to realize the personification of smart customer service in Internet hospitals, so that it has voice dialogue functions, and provide patients with more convenient and considerate “smart services”. (News source:IT Home）

July 9th

• ChatGPT opens Code Interpreter functionality to all Plus users, providing a better interactive programming experience and data visualization capabilities that even non-technical personnel can use to complete complex programming tasks. (Read more:The Heart of the Machine）
• Jordi Ribas, head of engineering and product at Microsoft, tweeted that it has improved image generation tools Bing Image Creator The server side reduces the image generation time by 30%. (News source:IT Home）
• Google has been reportedly testing in Mayo Clinic Research Hospital and others since AprilPaLM 2Med-PaLM 2, a variant of the large language model, an artificial intelligence model designed to answer questions about medical information. (News source:The Verge）

July 8th

• At today’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference, China Mobile announced the release of the Jiutian Artificial Intelligence Industry Model, which is divided into Jiutian Haishu Government Affairs Model and Jiutian Customer Service Model. (News source:Cailianshe）
• At the first Confidential Computing Summit held in San Francisco, Intel announced that it will work with Nvidia to provide confidential AI solutions to enhance AI security and privacy to meet customers’ higher security and compliance needs. (News source:Intel Blog）
• VEED, a well-known online video editing tool abroad, has launched AI digital demographic tool, providing 50 different virtual digital portraits and 75 languages ​​and dialects choices including Chinese, to help users easily create localized multilingual videos. (Website address:VEED AI Avatars）
• Recently, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Tencent Cloud announced its first use of AI to help the world’s largest radio astronomical telescope “China Sky Eye FAST” find two fast radio bursts. (Read more:Tencent Cloud Official Account）
• Recently, the well-known cloud hosting service provider DigitalOcean announced that it has acquired Paperspace, a New York-based cloud computing and artificial intelligence development startup, for US$111 million in cash, to help customers more conveniently test, develop and deploy artificial intelligence applications. (News source:Digitalocean blog）
• Startup SpeedyBrand announced it raised $2.5 million in a round of funding led by GV (Google’s venture capital division) and Y Combinator, with a post-investment valuation of $15 million. The company aims to leverage AIGC to create high-quality and cost-effective SEO content for small and medium-sized businesses. (News source:TechCrunch）
• YouTube is experimenting with AI-generated quizzes on mobile apps for iOS and Android devices to help viewers test their understanding of topics covered in recently watched educational knowledge videos. (News source:Android Authority）

July 7th

• OpenAI today announced that the GPT-4 API will be open to all paid OpenAI API customers from now on, and all paid OpenAI API customers now have access to the GPT-4 API with 8K tokens context. (Read more:IT Home）
• At Huawei Developer Conference 2023 (Cloud), Huawei Cloud Pangu Big Model 3.0 was officially released. Pangu Big Model 3.0 is divided into three-layer architectures: L0 basic big model, L1 industry big model, and L2 scene model, which will reshape thousands of industries. (News source:Cailianshe）
• At the Alibaba Cloud MaaS Forum of the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Alibaba Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren announced that AI painting creation modelAll kinds of meanings“Today, we will invite the test and use text description to generate images. (News source:Titanium Media）
• In addition to Tongyi Wanxiang, Alibaba Cloud also launched the first big model calling tool in ChinaModelScopeGPTcan receive user instructions, call other AI models of the Modai community with one click through the “center model”, and the large and small models can collaborate to complete complex tasks, and can talk to users, generate pictures, generate videos, dubbing voices, etc. (Read more:Qianjiang Evening News）
• Ant Group and Tsinghua University have jointly released the AI ​​security detection platform “Yi Jian 2.0”. Yi Jian 2.0 can use generative AI capabilities to detect generative AI models, which can identify hundreds of risks in three categories: data security, content security, and scientific and technological ethics, covering various data and task types such as tables, texts, and images. (News source:Pin Wan）
• The “Shangtang Daily New” big model system has been fully upgraded. The “Control” version of the 100 billion-level parameter natural language processing model “Control” 2.0 supports Arabic and Cantonese. Model versions of different parameter magnitudes such as small models are launched, which can be adapted to the application needs of different terminals and scenarios such as mobile terminals. (News source:The Paper）
• 360 Group, Baidu, Huawei, Alibaba and other companies were awarded the head unit of the “National Artificial Intelligence Standardization Overall Group Large Model Special Group” by the China Electronics Technology Standardization Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, actively promoting the construction of the national standard system for large models and helping the development of China’s large model industry. (News source:Tencent）
• Japanese Minister of Economics and Industry Yasin Nishimura said at a press conference that the Japanese government will provide SoftBank Group with 5.3 billion yen (about 270 million yuan) subsidies to develop generative artificial intelligence. (News source:Interface News）
• The next generation of the “fastest” supercomputer, El Capitan, begins installing components that will be fully operational next year, and a key component of the system will be AMD’s upcoming “industry-advanced” InstinctMI 300 artificial intelligence GPU. (Read more:IT Home）

July 6th

• The new generation of digital earth technology platform developed by Chinese scientific researchers – Star Map Earth Intelligent Brain Engine was released today. Through intensive “intelligent computing”, the system provides users with intelligent processing of earth data, intelligent perception of earth information, and intelligent reconstruction of earth scenes. (Read more:CCTV News）
• The 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2023) with the theme of “Linking the World, Generating the Future” opened at the Shanghai World Expo Center this morning. Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, Musk, AMD CEO Su Fengzi, and Midjourney founder David Holtz attended the event. (News source:The Paper）
• OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders, to invest 20% of its total power to develop ways to guide and control “super-smart” artificial intelligence systems. (Read more:Quantum bits）
• Recently, the top international academic journal Nature magazine is publishing the research results of Huawei Cloud Pangu’s big model research and development team – “Three-dimensional neural network for accurate medium-term global weather forecast”, which makes the weather forecast more accurate. (Read more:IT Home）
• Former Twitter vice president Richard Rabbat and former chief technology officer of GIF image library “Giphy”, Anthony Johnson, founded an AI company called Lighty AI, a personal assistant startup powered by artificial intelligence. (News source:The Information）
• Recently, two American writers filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI, claiming that OpenAI used their works to train its artificial intelligence without obtaining copyright authorization. (Read more:Cailianshe）
• Recently, the domestic L4 autonomous driving company “Wen Yuan Zhixing” obtained the first national autonomous driving license in the Middle East approved by the UAE. In the future, all kinds of unmanned vehicles by Wenyuan Zhixing, including Robotaxi, Robobus, and unmanned sanitation vehicles, can be tested and operated locally. (Read more:Quantum bits）

July 5th

• Midjourney announced on its official Twitter today that it has launched a new content expansion function Pan, where users can expand the image content in a fixed direction after generating a picture. (News source:Pin Wan）
• OpenAI announced that ChatGPT has suspended access to Bing’s network search function, because users can use this function to bypass the paywalls of some websites and directly obtain the full text of the article. In order to respect the rights and interests of content owners, OpenAI decided to suspend access to this feature. (News source:IT Home）
• Inflection AI recently announced that it is developing a supercomputer equipped with 22,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, which can meet the development needs of generative AI. (News source:WCCF Tech）
• Researchers from Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tencent AI Lab and Pengcheng Laboratory jointly published a DreamDiffusion research paper, which uses the powerful generation ability of pre-trained text-to-image models to generate high-quality images directly from EEG signals. (Read more:The Heart of the Machine）

July 4th

• Tencent Cloud releases the first AI-native vector database in China, supporting the industry-leading vector retrieval scale of 1 billion and controlling the delay to the millisecond level. Compared with traditional stand-alone plug-in database retrieval scale, it also has the peak capability of millions of query per second (QPS). (Read more:Tencent Cloud）
• Peking UniversityChatExcelThe team recently released the Chinese legal model ChatLaw to provide universal legal services to the public. The model supports file and voice output, and also supports legal document writing, legal advice, and legal aid recommendation. (Read more:Quantum bits）
• Japan and the EU held a ministerial meeting in the digital field in Tokyo yesterday, summarizing a joint statement saying it will cooperate on the formulation of international rules for generative artificial intelligence (AI). In order to formulate rules, the two sides will advance the “Hiroshima AI Process” proposed at the G7 summit in May. (News source:Interface News）
• According to reports, ByteDance is going to build robots. At present, its robot team has about 50 people. It plans to expand to hundreds by the end of the year, and produce some robots that serve ByteDance’s own e-commerce fulfillment needs and can sort and pack goods in the warehouse. (News source:LatePost）
• Recently, BMW Brilliance and Baidu held a signing ceremony for a strategic cooperation memorandum. The two parties will share advantageous resources, explore the integration and innovation of AI technology and the entire automotive manufacturing scenarios, and promote digital and intelligent technology cooperation. (News source:Baidu Smart Cloud）

July 3rd

• Baidu officially launched iOS versionWen Xin’s wordsThe app is now available on the Apple App Store, and users can download and install it for free. The app volume is 46.1MB. (App store address:A word on the App Store）
• The latest version of Mathematica Wolfram, officially introducing the Big Language Model (LLM), can perform scientific calculations by simply entering a text description. (News source:Quantum bits）
• Data from Similarweb, a website traffic monitoring service provider, shows that since the beginning of this year, ChatGPT visits grew by 131.6% month-on-month in January, and have declined month by month since then. In May, this figure had fallen to 2.8%, and it is expected that June will experience negative month-on-month growth. (News source:CCTV News）
• A “AI 2.0 company” led by Kai-Fu Lee, chairman and CEO of Innovation Works, made its debut for the first time, officially announced the new brand of “Zero One Thousand Things”, and the official website (01.AI) Go online simultaneously. (News source:Geek Network）
• The Alibaba Damo Academy multilingual NLP team released the first multilingual multimodal testing benchmark M3Exam, covering a total of 12,317 questions to promote the evaluation of large models. (News source:The Heart of the Machine）
• Kingsoft Office and Nvidia team work together to improve the inference efficiency of image document recognition and understanding through Nvidia Tensor Core GPU and TensorRT; with the deployment of Nvidia Triton inference server, GPU utilization is successfully optimized and high inference throughput is provided. (News source:IT Home）
• Tianyan Check and Huawei Cloud jointly released the world’s first business investigation model – “Tianyan Girl” Trusted Business Assistant. This product is aimed at users in anthropomorphic interactive form, providing them with accurate business information. It is the industry’s first controllable big model digital product for the personal side. The product has completed internal testing and is expected to open for invitation trials to users by the end of July. (News source:36Kr）
• Snap recently jointly announced a Magic123 big model product, which can convert 2D pictures into 3D modeling. (News source:Pin Wan）

July 2nd

• Elon Musk recently announced that in order to prevent AI companies from crawling large amounts of Twitter data and affecting the experience of real users, it has decided to limit the number of Twitter readings. Uncertified accounts can only read 600 tweets per day, while newly registered uncertified accounts can only read 300. (News source:IT Home）
• The 2023 Global Digital Economy Conference Artificial Intelligence Summit Forum was held in Beijing today. The forum is themed “Smart Emergence, Reshaping the Future”. More than 10 top experts, scholars and representatives of enterprises and institutions in the field of artificial intelligence shared profound insights and thoughts on the most popular topic of big model development at the moment. (News source:Tencent）
• Valve, the operator of the Steam platform, responded to reports that it refused to list games with AI-generated content, saying they are learning and adapting to the application of AI technology in game development and trying to incorporate it into existing review policies. (News source:IT Home）
• At the Artificial Intelligence Summit Forum held today, Zhang Xin, deputy general manager of China Telecom Group Digital Intelligence Technology Branch, announced the China Telecom version of the ChatGPT product TeleChat model, which supports output codes, writing speeches, etc. (News source:Titanium Media）

July 1st

• Humane, a popular AI company founded by former Apple employees, today revealed its first product, Humane Ai Pin, which officially calls it a “wearable wearable device based on clothing” that will be available later this year, equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform and use a series of sensors to enable “situation and environmental computing interaction.” (News source:The Verge）
• Industrial software service provider Aiponghua recently released the industrial software “Tianxuan” of the new generation of AI+MOM (manufacturing operation management), and also launched the MOM intelligent co-pilot “Aiwen” based on the fourth paradigm. (News source:36Kr）

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