AI News: July Issue 3 (AI Industry News from July 21 to July 31) | 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 third issue of July (July 21 to July 31).

July 31st

• According to the Financial Times, Blackstone’s $68 billion flagship real estate fund has gone from one of the world’s largest real estate buyers to big sellers. The fund is raising liquidity to cope with redemptions and investing billions of dollars in multiple AI data centers. (News source:Interface News）
• According to Windows Latest, Microsoft is about to launch third-party AI plug-in features for Windows 11 Copilot and is seeking feedback from developers to help shape the future of “third-party AI plug-ins” for the operating system. (News source:Windows Latest）
• Alibaba’s DAMO Academy recently cooperated with Dalian University of Technology to launch an AI framework called HQTrack. The framework consists primarily of a video multi-objective segmenter (VMOS) and a mask optimizer (MR) to “achiev high-quality tracking of any target in video”. (News source: IT Home)
• “Lingao Technology”, a startup company dedicated to building data pipelines and big model middleware, recently officially announced the completion of a seed round of financing. According to reports, the amount of funds raised in this round is in the millions of dollars, and the investors are Jingya Capital and Plug and Play. (News source:36Kr）

July 28th

• OpenAI officially announced that the Android version of ChatGPT application is now available for users in Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and South Korea. (News source:Pin Wan）
• Startup Beyond Work announced a $2.5 million pre-seed round led by Moonfire Ventures and participated by MIT E14 Fund, which is committed to making the use of enterprise tools more user-friendly and seamless through large language models. (News source:VentureBeat）
• The programmer’s Q&A community StackOverflow announced that it will launch Overflow AI to make up for the shortcomings in community Q&A and help developers develop code, allowing developers to adjust the code relatively more freely according to specific questions. It will be released as an Alpha version in August. (News source:IT Home）
• According to official Google deepmind news, Google has launched a new AI model, Robotics Transformer2 (RT-2), which can help robots train. (News source:Pin Wan）

July 27th

• Stability AI officially released its latest image generation model, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, which will be accessed and used through the Stability AI API, Stability AI’s Github page, and its Clipdrop and DreamStudio websites. (News source:TechCrunch）
• The South Korean Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said on Thursday that it imposed a fine of 3.6 million won (about $2,829) on OpenAI, an operator of artificial intelligence chat tool ChatGPT, for leaking personal information from 687 South Korean users. (News source:Sina Finance）
• Jordi Ribas, head of engineering and product at Microsoft, recently tweeted, saying that dark mode will be opened to all Bing Chat and Bing Search users “in the next few days.” (News source:Pin Wan）
• Kingsoft announced today that the WPS AI Assistant built in the overseas version of WPS Office has officially started public beta. Unlike the domestic version, its large model support is provided by OpenAI and PaLM2. (News source:IT Home）
• Adobe has launched an artificial intelligence feature called “Generated Expand” that has been provided to Photoshop beta users. This feature allows users to easily expand images and create seamless scene effects. (News source:IT Home）
• According to Microsoft’s official news, Microsoft has launched a voice model called NaturalSpeech2, which can bring high-quality voice synthesis products. Microsoft said NaturalSpeech2 can generate vocal voices with different identities, have different rhythms and styles, and also have the ability to sing. (News source:Pin Wan）
• Lingdong AI released the commercial AIGC product “Lingdong AI Product Map” and cooperated with JD Intelligent New Product Incubation Platform to provide AIGC “marketing + design” services to merchants and industrial belt customers, and announced that it has been invested by Xiaomi co-founder Li Wanqiang. (News source:36Kr）
• Sogou former CMO Hong Tao announced in his circle of friends that he will soon join Baichuan Intelligent, an AI big model company jointly founded by former Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan and former Sogou COO Ru Liyun, are responsible for commercialization. (News source:Cailianshe）
• Startup Thymia announced a $2.7 million financing, which uses AI to assess and track patients’ mental health. (News source:Business Insider）
• Startup AutoGenAI announced a $22.3 million funding funding from Blossom Capital, which has developed a tool based on generic AI that claims to help businesses write more convincing business plan proposals to improve success rates. (News source:TechCrunch）
• Startup Graft announced a $10 million seed round of investment led by Radical Ventures and participated by GV. The company aims to build a platform that allows every company to use and develop AI, not just large enterprises with a large number of engineering resources. (News source:TechCrunch）
• Startup HumanFirst has announced a $5 million seed round of investment, which provides a smart platform to help businesses create new enterprise applications and processes in a code-free way using internal conversation data, i.e. conversation records between customers and support staff. (News source:VentureBeat）

July 26th

• Microsoft, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have announced the establishment of the Frontier Model Forum, an industry organization focused on ensuring the security and responsible development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence models. (News source:Microsoft Blog）
• OpenAI’s ChatGPT Android app is now available in the Google Play Store, first launched in countries such as the United States, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with others following up. (News source:The Verge）
• Popular AI startups Cohere Launch Coral, a generative AI assistant for enterprises, provides a natural language interface where employees can ask questions and get useful and relevant answers. (News source:Maginative）
• According to The Information, OpenAI is currently developing a new open source model code-named “G3PO” in order to fight against the open source model Llama 2, a collaboration between Microsoft and Meta, and it is not clear when it will be released. (News source:IT Home）
• NetEase Youdao launched the first vertical big model in education in China, “Ziyu”, and released six innovative applications based on the “Ziyu” big model – “LLM Translation”, “Virtual Human Speaking Coach”, “AI Composition Guidance”, “Grammar Lecture”, “AI Box” and “Document Q&A”. (News source:36Kr）
• Huawei disclosed today that it has officially launched a joint innovation project with iFLYTEK to jointly create the best data storage solution for AI big model scenarios. (News source:Pin Wan）
• Wayfair, the largest home e-commerce platform in the United States, has launched a free virtual room designer called Decorify. After users upload pictures, the tool can use generative AI to display the redecorated look of the room and recommend related home furnishings. (News source:The Verge）
• Protect AI, a startup that builds tools to enhance the security of AI systems, announced today that it has raised $35 million in a Series A funding led by Evolution Equity Partners, followed by Salesforce Ventures, Acrew Capital, boldstart Ventures, Knollwood Capital and Pelion Ventures. (News source:TechCrunch）
• Startup Akooda recently announced the raising of $11 million in seed rounds of funding, the company’s operational intelligence platform leverages artificial intelligence to effectively locate, access and analyze critical data scattered across the organization and help solve business challenges in real time. (News source:To gasoline）
• E-commerce company Stay Ai announced a $15.1 million Series A funding round, which uses predictive analytics and machine learning models to help Shopify brands and merchants attract customers to make secondary purchases. (News source:TechCrunch）

July 25th

• Microsoft’s artificial intelligence chatbot Bing Chat is now supported on Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari browsers. Users can communicate with the chatbot by simply visiting the Bing.com website, and also introduces a dark mode. (News source:Windows Latest）
• Xiaohongshu has launched a new feature called “This Moment” in the release column. Through this function, users can directly enter text, and the algorithm will generate a picture for users based on the input text content and complete the release. (News source:Interface News）
• According to Decrypt, due to poor accuracy, OpenAI quietly closed the AI ​​Classifier, the AI ​​content detection tool launched in January last week, and the tool will no longer be available from July 20. (News source:Decrpyt）
• DingTalk has announced the product progress after accessing the big model, and AI capabilities have been added to the knowledge base, Teambition, whiteboard, etc. At present, DingTalk has 12 product lines and more than 40 scenarios have been connected to the big model. Users can generate PPT, mind maps, data analysis charts, project boards, etc. by entering natural language through the slash “/”. (News source:China Daily）
• Alibaba Cloud has launched training and deployment solutions for the full series of Llama2 versions in China, which facilitates developers to retrain and build exclusive large models. Alibaba Cloud PAI’s pre-set environment supports developers to fine-tune models on the cloud and deploy Llama2 through Web UI and API. (News source:Techweb）
• Intel today announced a partnership with Accenture to launch 34 open source AI reference suites designed to simplify and speed up the process of deploying AI by data scientists and developers. (News source:Intel Press Releases）
• Quench.ai, a London-based AI education technology platform, raised $5 million in a pre-seed round of funding, founded by the co-founder of unicorn Onfido, leveraging AI to search for the most relevant educational video content for its users. (News source:Tech.eu）
• South Korea’s telecom giant KT Group recently announced a 15 billion won (USD 11.6 million) investment in Moreh, a Seoul-based artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure software company, to accelerate its full-stack operation of its artificial intelligence. (News source:KED Global）
• Beijing Zhiwei Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. recently released Zhiwei Intelligent KDF big model in Shanghai, as well as a series of products developed based on this model, including financial industry tools such as “KDF Zhixun”, “KDF Absolutely Wei”, and “KDF Zhongshu”. (News source:IT Home）

July 24th

• Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman said on Power On that Apple is using its internal AppleGPT chatbot to help its employees “design prototypes of future features, summarize texts and answer questions based on trained data.” It also said Apple is looking for ways to expand the use of generative artificial intelligence within its organization, with one possibility being to provide the tool to AppleCare support staff to better help customers handle problems. (News source:The Verge）
• According to Tech Planet, Taobao APP has launched the AI ​​Creation Assistant. Currently, the AI ​​Creation Assistant supports users to create self-portraits of different styles through AI, which can be used as a Taobao account avatar. (News source:Pin Wan）
• 360’s big model product “360 Intelligent Brain“The APP has officially launched on the Apple App Store. The 360 ​​Intelligent Brain APP has the ability to generate and create, multi-round dialogue, code capabilities, text classification, text rewriting, reading comprehension, logic and reasoning, knowledge Q&A, multi-modal, translation, etc., and can also create your own digital person. (News source:Tech Planet）
• Microsoft and Xiaobing jointly announced that Xiaobing will launch a new generation of AI digital employee solution based on Microsoft’s international version of Azure for corporate customers in Asia, and the two parties will jointly promote the popularization of the solutions. (News source:IT Home）
• Anders Hejlsberg, the father of C# and TypeScript, recently announced a new open source project, TypeChat, an experimental library of tools that can easily build natural language interfaces using types. (News source:Introducing TypeChat）
• The video editing software DaVinci Resolve recently ushered in the 18.5 official version update. The official said this is a major update, adding new AI tools and more than 100 new functions, including audio in transcription clips, automatic voice to text generation of subtitles, automatic classification of audio clips, etc. (News source:BlackmagicDesign）

July 22nd

• OpenAI officially announced on Twitter that it will release the Android version of the ChatGPT app next week, and it can be downloaded on the Google Store from now on. (News source:IT Home）
• Stability AI, together with CarperAI Labs, released two new large language models, FreeWilly1 and FreeWilly2, both FreeWilly models based on Meta’s Llama model, where FreeWilly2 has used the newer Llama-2 model with 70 billion parameters. (News source:Stability AI Blog）
• According to foreign media reports, in JPMorgan’s cross-asset reporting product Cross Asset Spotlight, generative AI has begun to be used to write summary for human analyst reports, and these AI summary are accompanied by a link to the original report. (News source:36Kr）
• Game soundtrack platform PlusMusic.ai recently announced a $2.5 million seed round of financing, which aims to provide cost-effective and fast solutions that simplify the process of music creation and music integration into game content. (News source:Digital Music News）

July 21st

• OpenAI announced the launch of custom commands, which is the first to provide beta versions in the PLUS plan, and will be pushed to all users in the next few weeks. This function will customize some instructions for the chat robot at the system level, making the robot more personalized and better fit the needs of users, and users do not have to repeat preferences or information in each conversation. (News source:IT Home）
• GitHub announced that its new Copilot Chat feature (similar to ChatGPT but designed to help developers program) is now available to enterprise companies and organizations as a limited public beta, which will be open to “all enterprise users” through Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code applications. (News source:The Verge）
• The U.S. government announced today that it has received voluntary commitments from several leading AI companies to add watermarks and other measures to help improve the security of the technology. Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI all agreed to improve the security and transparency of their systems, including allowing third-party experts to review their models. (News source:IT Home）
• According to the Wall Street Journal, Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin has visited the company’s office three to four days a week in recent months, actively working with researchers to develop the next-generation basic model of Google DeepMind, Gemini. (News source:9to5Google）
• Top early stage venture capital firm Mayfield today announced the launch of the $250 million AI Start fund, the first seed fund in its history, which will work with AI-first founders. (News source:Forbes）
• Cerebras Systems said on Thursday that it had signed a deal worth about $100 million to work with the United Arab Emirates-based technology group G42 to deliver the first artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer, with a total of as many as nine. (News source:Reuters）
• Cleanlab, a startup that provides data management solutions for large language models (LLMs) used in enterprise artificial intelligence, recently announced it has received $5 million in seed funding, led by Bain Capital Ventures. (News source:VentureBeat）
• Gushwork.ai, a global platform aimed at promoting business process outsourcing (BPO) with artificial intelligence and human expertise, has recently raised $2.1 million in pre-seed financing, led by Lightspeed, with participation from B Capital, Sparrow Capital, Seaborne Capital and Beenext. (News source:TechCrunch）

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