OpenAI launched the "GPTs" service at the first developer conference, allowing users to create their own version of "ChatGPT" according to specific needs. GF Securities stated that with the launch of GPTs & GPT Store, AI applications may accelerate and the ecosystem is expected to further prosper. Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming stated at the 2023 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen that we are at a turning point from traditional computing to AI computing, and AI computing will eventually take over all computing resources. Wu Yongming revealed that Alibaba is about to open source a 72 billion parameter large model. This will be the largest open source large model in China.
Financing
OpenAI plans to obtain new funding from Microsoft, having already received $10 billion in investment this year
According to the Financial Times, on November 13, OpenAI plans to seek new funding from Microsoft to realize its CEO Sam Altman's vision of creating computer software "as intelligent as humans." Sam Altman stated in an interview that the partnership between his company and Microsoft is "working very well." He expects that over time, OpenAI will raise more funds from the tech giant and other investors to keep up with Microsoft's development pace and create more complex artificial intelligence models.
Zhipu AI seeks new financing with a valuation of 20 billion RMB
According to Titanium Media on November 10, the AI unicorn company Zhipu AI is seeking new financing with a valuation of 20 billion RMB. Zhipu AI responded that they have no comment on this news. It is reported that on October 20, Zhipu AI announced that it has raised over 2.5 billion RMB in cumulative financing this year, with investors including Meituan, Ant Group, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, Kingsoft, Shunwei, Sequoia Capital, and Hillhouse Capital. At that time, Caixin reported that the company's valuation had exceeded 10 billion RMB.
German AI startup Aleph Alpha receives over $500 million investment from Schwarz Group
According to the Financial Times on November 6, the German artificial intelligence startup Aleph Alpha has received over $500 million in investment from Schwarz Group, the owner of Lidl supermarket. According to the statement, other investors include the venture capital department of Bosch, Europe's largest automotive parts supplier. People familiar with the transaction said that about a quarter of the funds came from equity investment, with the rest composed of research grants and commitments for joint business development, which will not dilute shareholder rights.
"Yangtu Education" secures 230 million RMB in strategic financing, funds will be used to advance the company's comprehensive AI strategy
According to 36Kr on November 7, "Yangtu Education" recently announced that it has secured a strategic financing of $31 million, approximately 230 million RMB, with investment from Hunan Incremental Capital. This round of financing will be used to advance the company's comprehensive AI strategy, further iterate the company's vertical models, intelligent customer service, digital human teachers, and other research and development. Among them, the company's vertical model is a professional language learning model developed by Yangtu Education for the language training industry; intelligent customer service is an intelligent Q&A system created by Yangtu Education using AI technology, which can quickly and accurately answer students' questions; digital human teachers are virtual teachers created by Yangtu Education using virtual reality and AI technology, providing students with a more vivid and visual teaching experience.
Lenovo invests in Haina AI affiliate company, holding an 8.77% stake
According to Securities Times・e Company, the Enterprise Check App shows that recently, there has been a change in the business of Beijing Qunxing Shanyao Technology Co., Ltd., an affiliate company of Haina AI, with the addition of Lenovo (Tianjin) Partnership Enterprise, a small and medium-sized enterprise development fund, holding 8.7719%, and the registered capital increasing from approximately 4.9084 million RMB to approximately 5.3804 million RMB. According to its official website, Haina AI is committed to empowering the human resources industry with AI technology and has launched AI interview services.
AI startup Agaxi completes nearly 100 million RMB Pre-A+ round of financing
According to 36Kr on November 8, Chengdu Agaxi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. announced that it has completed a Pre-A+ round of financing of nearly 100 million RMB, with this round of financing led by Shenneng Chengyi and followed by the Sichuan Development Academy Fund.
Agaxi is an AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) platform and product service provider focusing on the field of artificial intelligence. This round of financing will drive and explore AI solutions in the fields of energy, photovoltaics, lithium batteries, new materials, 3C, and other areas.
Stability AI completes nearly $50 million financing, with investment from Intel
According to Bloomberg on November 10, sources revealed that Stability AI raised nearly $50 million in a transaction with Intel in the form of convertible notes, which was completed in October.
Precision zero-component AI manufacturer "Liangjiang" completes tens of millions of RMB angel round financing
According to 36Kr on November 13, the end-to-end AI autonomous manufacturing factory "Liangjiang" has recently completed tens of millions of RMB in angel round financing, with this round of financing led by Jihe Chuangtou and followed by related industry individual angel investors. This round of financing will be used for core technology research and development, promoting industry intelligence transformation, team building and operations, and business expansion.
AI company "Monte Carlo" completes angel round financing, with investment from Youzu Capital
According to DoNews on November 12, Monte Carlo has completed angel round financing with investment from Youzu Capital (Youzu Network). Monte Carlo is a high-tech internet company focusing on artificial intelligence, dedicated to providing vertical industry AI solutions, offering users high-fidelity intelligent bodies, intelligent credit data products, and helping users solve problems in game development and financial risk control.
Cloud-based AI collaborative video editor manufacturer Ozone secures $7.1 million seed round financing, with participation from YC
According to TechCrunch, cloud-based AI collaborative video editor manufacturer Ozone announced the completion of a $7.1 million seed round financing and will launch an open beta version. The investors in this round of financing include Y Combinator, NEA, General Catalyst, LGVP, Bluewatch Ventures, Polymath Capital Partners, Pioneer Fund, SOMA Capital, and Olive Tree Capital, as well as the founders of Dropbox, Tinder, and Lightricks. The new funds will be used to build the platform and add more features, including additional AI features expected to be launched in the coming months.
Large Models
MediaTek releases Tianji 9300 AI chip, supporting the operation of large models with up to 330 billion parameters on terminals
According to Babite on November 6, MediaTek has released the flagship 5G generative AI chip Tianji 9300, which supports the operation of AI large language models with 10 billion, 70 billion, 130 billion, and up to 330 billion parameters on terminals.
Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming: About to open source the largest 72 billion parameter model in China
According to 36Kr on November 9, the "Internet Entrepreneur Forum" of the 2023 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen was held on the morning of the 9th. Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming delivered a keynote speech. Wu Yongming stated that we are at a turning point from traditional computing to AI computing, and AI computing will eventually take over all computing resources. Digital infrastructure that supports AI must be an infrastructure that integrates AI capabilities. The deep integration of AI and cloud computing will become an important driving force for the iteration of cloud computing. Wu Yongming revealed that Alibaba is about to open source a 72 billion parameter large model. This will be the largest open source large model in China.
vivo open sources the BlueLM-7B series of large models
According to the webmaster's home on November 9, vivo AI officially open sourced the BlueLM-7B base model and 7B chat model, and also open sourced the base model and chat model supporting 32K long texts. Vivo stated that it will subsequently open source the 13B model and the 7B-vl model supporting multimodal capabilities.
Adobe research team develops new AI model capable of converting a single 2D image into a high-quality 3D model in 5 seconds
According to VentureBeat on November 10, a group of researchers from Adobe Research and the Australian National University have developed a groundbreaking AI model that can convert a single 2D image into a high-quality 3D model in just 5 seconds. Their research paper "LRM: Large Reconstructive Model from Single Image to 3D" provides detailed information about this breakthrough, stating that the model will bring revolutionary changes to industries such as gaming, animation, industrial design, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR).
China Telecom to open source a hundred billion parameter model next April, with the first batch of 12 large models for trial commercial use in various industries
According to Titanium Media's report on November 11th, the China Telecom AI team announced an open source schedule, planning to open source a hundred billion parameter model before the end of this year, and a trillion parameter model in April next year, with all underlying code being open source. In addition, based on the basic large models, China Telecom further demonstrated its layout of industry large models. Pan Tianshu, General Manager of China Telecom's Enterprise Information Service Business Group, stated that China Telecom's first batch of 12 large models for trial commercial use include the Star Education Large Model, Governance Large Model, Government Service Large Model, Emergency Large Model, Medical Insurance Large Model, Transportation Large Model, Construction Large Model, Financial Large Model, Shen Nong No. 1 Large Model, Travel Large Model, Tour Guide Large Model, and Mining Large Model. According to a report from Wall Street News on November 10th, Amazon is training its second large language model, internally codenamed "Olympus," which is likely to go live in December this year. The Olympus large language model has a scale of 2 trillion (2000B) parameters, surpassing the parameter scale of GPT-4 (GPT-4 has approximately 1 trillion parameters). Amazon plans to integrate "Olympus" into the Alexa voice assistant on online retail stores, Echo devices, and provide new features for the AWS platform. **Applications** OpenAI has launched a user-customized version of ChatGPT and introduced a preview version of GPT-4 Turbo. According to IT Home's report on November 7th, OpenAI held its first developer conference today and introduced a service called "GPTs" for its ChatGPT, allowing users to create their own version of ChatGPT according to specific needs. OpenAI stated that they introduced these features to give users "some control" over ChatGPT, such as allowing businesses to create a special assistant accessible only to employees, and parents to create a tool specifically for teaching children how to solve tricky math problems. OpenAI also introduced a preview version of GPT-4 Turbo, a model that supports 128k contexts, with input prices three times cheaper than GPT-4, doubled rate limits, and a knowledge base updated to April 2023. In addition, it added a JSON Mode and updated multiple function call capabilities. Compared to GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo offers stronger performance, lower prices, and lower development costs. OpenAI also introduced a new feature called JSON Mode, which ensures that developers can more easily make the model call JSON and XML content, making the model return consistent output results more easily, thus achieving repeatable output and playing a role in controlling model behavior and writing model unit test content. OpenAI has also launched the Assistants API, allowing developers to customize AI assistants for their own applications. According to IT Home's report on November 7th, at today's first OpenAI developer conference, OpenAI introduced the "specially built AI tool" Assistants API, which can help developers build AI assistants in their own applications using "additional knowledge." The Assistants API provides three functions: "Code interpreter," "Retrieval," and "Function calling" to help users handle "heavy work." The Assistants API is now in open beta, and users can experience it on the Assistants Playground homepage without writing any code. In addition, OpenAI also introduced the "Copyright Shield" feature to alleviate concerns about potential copyright infringement from generative AI. OpenAI stated that if users are required to claim legal compensation due to copyright infringement caused by AI-generated content, OpenAI will intervene and defend the client, and will fully reimburse the expenses incurred during the process. The related feature applies to ChatGPT Enterprise and all API users, but the disclaimer is that the related users "do not have an intention to infringe" and cite sources responsibly in the responsible use of AI. **Other Applications** - Meituan's first AI chat product "Wow" has been launched, allowing users to converse with AI characters with different personalities. - Alipay has launched an AI portrait feature, allowing users to generate personal portrait collections from selfies. - During the Tmall Double 11 period, merchants called AI over 1.5 billion times. - Tencent's "Seeking Shadow" smart medical imaging platform has opened more than 20 medical AI engines. - Samsung has announced the launch of Galaxy AI, bringing edge AI capabilities to the new Galaxy flagship phones. - CodeGPT, an AI code generation tool, has become popular among developers for efficiently generating compliant code. - Netease expects to provide 100,000 new digital economy positions by the end of the year, including AI painters. - Douyin is testing the first AIGC tool "Dreamina" for text and image creation, which may be used for content creation on the platform. - Runway has introduced the Motion Brush feature, which can set specific areas of an image to a motion state.
Bitpush, November 11th - Generative AI video startup Runway announced the launch of the Motion Brush feature, allowing users to select specific areas of an image and set them in motion. The feature is set to be applied to the Gen-2 model.
Daily Interaction Releases AITA Smart Audience Selection Tool for Large Models
According to Titanium Media on November 10th, at the 2023 World Internet Conference, data intelligence service provider Daily Interaction (Getui) released the AITA Smart Audience Selection Tool for large models, integrating large model capabilities and company data intelligence to achieve AI intelligent targeted TA. Through simple natural language dialogue, the tool can generate target audience groups that meet the needs of brand advertisers, helping brand advertisers connect with consumers.
Policy
Shanghai Releases 11 Measures to Promote Innovative Development of AI Large Models: Will Create Benchmark Large Model Products and Services
Bitpush, Shanghai's Economic and Information Commission and other departments recently issued a notice on the issuance of "Shanghai's Measures for Promoting the Innovative Development of Artificial Intelligence Large Models (2023-2025)," introducing 11 measures to promote the innovative development of large-scale pre-training models, accelerate the creation of a world-class industrial cluster for artificial intelligence, and establish measures such as: 1. Implementing large model innovation support plans; 2. Establishing a large model testing and evaluation center; 3. Implementing a large model intelligent computing power acceleration plan; 4. Building an intelligent chip hardware and software collaborative ecosystem; 5. Co-building and sharing corpus data resources; 6. Implementing a large model demonstration application promotion plan; 7. Promoting scientific intelligent large model applications; 8. Creating a large model innovation highland for enterprise and talent aggregation; 9. Promoting the construction of a large model application ecosystem; 10. Establishing a normalized service mechanism; 11. Increasing investment.
Guangdong: Building a Complete Self-Controllable AI Software and Hardware Ecosystem, Developing General AI Large Models with Trillion-Level Parameters
AI New Intelligence News, November 13th, the People's Government of Guangdong Province issued the Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of an Innovative Leading Area for General Artificial Intelligence Industry. It mentioned that by 2025, the scale of intelligent computing power will achieve first place in the country and lead globally, the general artificial intelligence technology innovation system will be relatively complete, high-level application scenarios of artificial intelligence will be further expanded, the core industry scale will exceed 300 billion RMB, and the number of enterprises will exceed 2,000. It will develop high-end training and inference chips with generality and programmability, chips for multimodal and multi-precision computing, and explore the research of a new system architecture that is reconfigurable and integrates computing and storage. It will develop efficient and easy-to-use open-source AI chip compilers and toolchains and support the adaptation of self-developed AI chips and domestic general-purpose servers, building a complete self-controllable AI software and hardware ecosystem.
Big Companies
Reuters: Baidu has placed an AI chip order with Huawei for a total price of about 450 million RMB, expected to be delivered before the end of the year
According to Reuters on November 7th, two people familiar with the matter said that Baidu has ordered AI chips from Huawei this year to cope with the U.S. export restrictions on AI chips to China. The sources said that Baidu has ordered 1,600 Huawei Technologies' 910B Ascend AI chips for 200 servers, with a total order value of about 450 million RMB (61.83 million USD), and Huawei will deliver all the chips before the end of this year.
Sources: Apple is using large models to transform Siri, planning to make it a standard feature for iPhone 16 and subsequent models
Bitpush, November 9th, Twitter user "Revegnus" revealed that Apple is using large language models (LLM) to completely transform Siri into the "ultimate virtual assistant" and is preparing to develop it into the "most powerful killer-level artificial intelligence application." He stated that Apple is actively engaged in this comprehensive development work, and the first product is expected to be unveiled at WWDC 2024 and is planned to become a standard feature for iPhone 16 and subsequent models.
NVIDIA Confirms: Will "Customize" Three Chips for China, Officially Launching on November 16th
According to Yinshe Finance on November 10th, in response to previous news about NVIDIA launching three latest improved AI chips for the Chinese market, an internal source at NVIDIA confirmed that the news is true and will be officially launched on November 16th this month. In addition, NVIDIA's U.S. headquarters replied, "Thank you for contacting us, we have no comments on this news at the moment."
Opinions
Robin Li: Only with millions of AI applications can large models be considered successful
According to The Paper, on November 9th, Baidu's founder, chairman, and CEO Robin Li stated at the 2023 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen that the ultimate goal of technological innovation is application. The sign of humanity entering the AI era is the emergence of a large number of native AI applications, not the emergence of a large number of large models. Large models can support the development of countless native AI applications, but only with millions of AI applications can large models be considered successful.
Hou Xiaonan, CEO of Yuewen: AIGC Promotes the Large-Scale Internationalization of Online Literature, Reducing Translation Costs by an Average of 90%
According to Guangzhou Daily on November 9th, Hou Xiaonan, CEO and President of Yuewen Group, stated at the 2023 World Internet Conference Cross-Strait and Hong Kong-Macao Internet Development Forum that AI translation is breaking through the limitations of capacity and cost, performing well in both quality and efficiency. By establishing a dedicated terminology database and human-machine collaboration, the average translation cost of Yuewen's online literature has been reduced by 90%, while efficiency has greatly improved. In Hou Xiaonan's view, AIGC makes the large-scale internationalization of Chinese online literature truly possible, seamlessly connecting with the global market, which is a very promising new blue ocean.
C3.ai CEO: Artificial Intelligence Will Give Birth to New Tech Giants
According to Jinshi on November 9th, Tom Siebel, CEO of application software company C3.ai, stated today that the emergence of artificial intelligence does not mean that today's AI leaders will dominate the next generation of the tech industry. "It is generally believed that OpenAI, Microsoft, Facebook, or Google will win this battle, and I think there is no reason to believe that," he said.
Research Reports
IDC: China's AI Market IT Total Investment Scale Expected to Exceed 38 Billion USD by 2027
According to Cailian News on November 9th, AMD and IDC jointly released the white paper "AI Notebook Sparks Scene Change - Terminal AI." The white paper shows that China's AI market IT total investment scale is expected to exceed 38 billion USD by 2027. IDC predicts that the landing of AI applications will drive stable growth in the notebook market in the coming years, with shipments in the commercial and consumer markets expected to exceed 10 million and 20 million respectively in 2025. The total market volume is expected to exceed 34 million in 2027, with AI notebooks accounting for 86%.
Research: By 2032, Generative AI in the Healthcare Market Will Reach 30.4 Billion USD
According to Zhanzhangzhi Jia on November 7th, a report titled "Global Opportunities Analysis and Industry Forecast for Generative AI in the Medical Field, 2023-2032" was recently released by a joint market research firm. The report shows that generative AI in the medical field is a revolutionary technology that uses artificial intelligence to create, generate, or simulate data, images, or text in the medical field. This innovative AI application has the potential to completely change the medical industry from diagnosis and treatment planning to medical research and education in multiple aspects. According to the report, the global market value of generative AI in the medical field reached 1.6 billion USD in 2022 and is expected to reach 30.4 billion USD by 2032, with a high compound annual growth rate of 34.9%. This strong growth is mainly driven by the widespread adoption of generative AI in medical image analysis for medical diagnosis, the efficiency of generative AI in workflow and administrative tasks, and the application of generative AI in personalized medicine.
Guangfa Securities: After the Launch of GPT Store, AI Applications May Accelerate Emergence
According to Jinshi on November 10th, Guangfa Securities stated that after the launch of GPTs & GPT Store, AI applications may accelerate emergence, and the ecosystem is expected to further prosper. The application side may see several trends: on the one hand, diverse applications based on GPT may emerge rapidly, and the landing of scenario applications is expected to accelerate; on the other hand, the significant reduction in development thresholds will also lead to intensified competition between homogeneous products, especially for some tool-type application products with simple functions and no moats. Companies with certain capabilities and experience accumulated in various scenario applications, closer to the user side, are expected to launch mature, high-quality AI application products more quickly. Focus on the application landing pace of AI technology in the office, gaming, education, film and television, and marketing sectors at home and abroad.
Survey: 44% of Companies Say AI May Replace Some Employees Next Year
According to Zhanzhangzhi Jia, a survey report conducted by ResumeBuilder.com recently showed that an increasing number of companies believe that artificial intelligence (AI) may begin to replace some employees next year. The report surveyed 750 business leaders representing multiple industries. According to the survey results, 44% of companies said they expect AI to lead to employee displacement in 2024. In addition, the survey also found that among companies currently using AI technology, 37% said they have reduced their workforce this year because they no longer need employees.
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