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Microsoft plans to invest 3.2 billion euros in Germany over two years, focusing on AI technologies
Microsoft President Brad Smith announced at an event in Berlin that the company plans to invest up to €3.2 billion in Germany over the next two years to boost artificial intelligence (AI). According to TechNews, this is Microsoft's largest investment in Germany in 40 years. Smith emphasized that Microsoft wants to...
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Samsung wins first 2nm chip order ahead of TSMC
Recently, Samsung Electronics announced that it has successfully secured the first 2nm process AI chip production order from Japanese AI giant Preferred Networks Inc.(PFN), thus taking the lead over TSMC in the competition for 2nm advanced chips.PFN, as a leader in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), has been walking the path of developing cutting-edge AI chips and...
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Google Extends Gemini's Big Language Model Interface to Offer Developers More Functionality
Google is making a wider range of Gemini big language model interfaces available to developers through its Vertex AI platform. According to TechCrunch, Gemini 1.0 Pro is now officially available after a public preview, while the higher-level Gemini 1.0 Ultra, though currently only available through a whitelist, has already raised industry concerns about its performance...
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Byte jumping to increase AI research and development efforts, the formation of "executive team" and resources to full ALL IN
With the rapid development of science and technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gradually become the core force driving the progress of various industries. Recently, according to Tech Planet, ByteDance is actively mobilizing a number of executives to increase AI research and development efforts, showing strong confidence in AI technology and a deep layout. Among the multiple departments of Byte Jump...
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Google Releases New AI Big Model Gemini 1.5: Performance Approaches GPT-4, Setting Off a New Round of AI Tech Race
Recently, tech giant Google announced the launch of its new AI grand model - Gemini 1.5, a major breakthrough that once again pushes the boundaries of AI technology to new heights. As Google's latest masterpiece in the field of AI, Gemini 1.5 not only realizes an amazing improvement in performance, but also shows the functions and application scenarios...
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OpenAI founder seeks U.S. government support to advance chip manufacturing program
OpenAI founder Sam Altman is actively seeking support from the U.S. government to advance his chip manufacturing project, according to people familiar with the matter. This project aims to dramatically increase the global capacity to manufacture cutting-edge computing chips to ensure that large-scale deployment and continued development of artificial intelligence is not disrupted by shortages. In...
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Masayoshi Son plans new battle for AI chips, to compete with Nvidia in the market
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is planning a heavy investment in the tech sector. According to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg, Son is looking to raise as much as $100 billion to set up a new AI chip company, a move intended to compete directly with chip giant Nvidia. The project is reportedly...
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The era of universal AI phones has arrived?OPPO officially announces AI strategy to the public
OPPO officially held an AI strategy conference today. This much-anticipated event, with the theme of "opening the era of AI cell phones for all", heralds OPPO's new layout and far-reaching ambitions in the field of artificial intelligence. On the first day of the Spring Festival, OPPO Founder and CEO Chen Mingyong released an internal letter to all employees,...
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OpenAI Lifts GPT-4 Turbo Daily Call Limit, Boosts Rate Limit to Meet User Demand
Recently OpenAI, a leader in the field of artificial intelligence, announced on the social platform X that it has decided to remove the daily call limit of GPT-4 Turbo and double the rate limit of this API in order to better meet the needs of users. According to OpenAI's official website, the previous daily call limit for GPT-4 Turbo and the rate limit...
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Apple develops Xcode AI tool to help developers, points to GitHub Copilot competitor market
Bloomberg recently reported that tech giant Apple is secretly working on a new development tool called Xcode AI. The tool aims to streamline the app development process by integrating advanced AI features that help developers write, transform and debug code more efficiently. The core highlight of the Xcode AI tool is...
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Google Releases MusicRL, an Innovative Music Generation System: Combining Human Feedback and Reinforcement Learning to Improve Music Quality
Google recently released a music generation system called MusicRL, which significantly improves the quality of generated music by combining human feedback with reinforcement learning to make it more compatible with human tastes. This breakthrough technology is based on the pre-trained MusicLM model, which was originally capable of generating textual descriptions based on...
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IKEA Partners with ChatGPT to Launch Official Smart Body to Provide Personalized Home Improvement Advice
IKEA recently announced that it has officially launched a unique IKEA AI assistant on OpenAI's GPT Store platform. This intelligent body will provide users with professional home decorating advice to help them realize their ideal home design. It is reported that users can clearly express their home by interacting with the IKEA AI assistant...
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SoftBank and NVIDIA Join Forces to Form AI Industry Alliance to Promote AI Technology in Telecom Base Stations
According to Japan's NHK, officials familiar with the matter have revealed that Japan's SoftBank Group and global graphics processor giant NVIDIA plan to jointly establish a new industry association called the "AI-RAN Alliance". The alliance aims to promote the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) technology into telecom base stations in order to realize the practicality and global standardization of the technology. In addition to...
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Microsoft upgrades chatbot Copilot interface: more intuitive and easy-to-use interaction experience
Microsoft recently announced an interface update to its chatbot Copilot, aiming to provide a more concise and easy-to-understand user experience. The new version of Copilot not only presents a smoother interface on the web side, but also simultaneously optimizes the interaction design on the mobile side to ensure that users can enjoy a consistent...
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OPPO CEO Chen Mingyong foresees AI phones becoming a new stage in the industry, and the company is fully prepared for the next five years
OPPO CEO Chen Mingyong issued an internal letter to all employees on February 18, the first working day after the Chinese New Year holiday, announcing a major strategic decision: 2024 will be the "first year of AI cell phones", which signals that AI cell phones will become the third stage of the cell phone industry's development, following the feature phones and smartphones. He strongly...
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Say the word, AI generates the video for you: OpenAI relaunches Sora, a revolutionary and innovative AI system
Recently OpenAI, a leader in Artificial Intelligence, announced the launch of Sora, a revolutionary AI system that can quickly generate realistic video content based on textual prompts from users, marking a whole new stage in the development of generative video technology. In a blog post published on February 15, OpenA...
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Hangzhou News Broadcast first to introduce full AI hosting broadcasting, opening a new era of news broadcasting
Recently, a piece of news on Hangzhou TV's comprehensive channel drew widespread attention. According to the report, "Hangzhou News Broadcast" launched the first full AI host broadcast during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in the Year of the A-chen, innovatively using AI digital people for news broadcasting, opening up a new era of news broadcasting. The launch of the two AI anchors,...
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Musk Announces Positive Progress in Neuralink Human Experiments: Electronic Devices May Be Manipulated by Mind in the Future
In an interview with Fab TV, tech giant Elon Musk has revealed the latest progress on human trials for his brain-computer interface company Neuralink. He said that the company's ongoing experiments with its first human subject "look positive" and is expected to announce later this week that the subject successfully utilized mind control...
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Roblox Builds Multilingual Real-Time AI Chat Translator with Seamless Communication Support for 16 Languages
According to the latest tech news reports, leading multiplayer online gaming platform Roblox is working on a multi-language real-time AI chat translator that supports 16 languages including English, French, Japanese, Thai, Polish and Vietnamese. This innovative initiative aims to break down language barriers and allow Roblox around the globe to...
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FCC considers legislation to ban AI-generated voices for phone scams
According to a recent TechNews report, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is looking into whether it should legislate a ban on the use of AI-generated voices for automated phone scams.In a recent statement, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel noted that AI-generated voices carry a very high risk of fraud, and that spoofing between humans...
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Samsung's foundry division makes a major breakthrough: gets orders for 2nm AI chips, and plans to launch lower-priced processes
Recently, TechNews reported that Samsung's foundry division has successfully secured an order for a 2nm AI chip that also includes supporting HBM memory and advanced packaging services. This breakthrough marks Samsung's significant progress in chip manufacturing, further cementing its place in the global semiconductor market...
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Microsoft launches AI-assisted program to help innovate the newsroom industry
Microsoft recently announced a collaboration with a number of news organizations based on generative AI, aimed at promoting innovation in the newsroom. The partnership, which includes the development of a breaking news stream called "Signals," marks an important step for Microsoft in the news media industry. Microsoft will work with news organization Semaf...
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Tongyi Qianqian goes live with new app for Chinese New Year, offers free image generation service
AliCloud Tongyi Qianwen recently launched new apps for the Chinese New Year, covering a variety of new ways to generate images, such as family photos, New Year's greetings, and everything becoming a dragon. These apps provide more than 300 sets of photo templates, and users only need to upload their own photos to quickly generate family photos, reunion photos, New Year's greetings photos, and Thousand Miles of River and Mountain themed photos. ...
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Google rolls out new Bard update: support for text-to-graph, extended double-checking feature
Google has recently released a new update for its chatbot Bard, which will support text-generated images and extended double-checking functionality. The new image generation feature added to Bard will be available free of charge in supported regions around the world, powered by the Google Imagen 2 model, but will require the use of English commands. Users will be able to follow the...
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Google is considering renaming its AI product Bard to Gemini, sources say
A leaked document reveals that Google plans to rename its generative conversation bot Bard to Gemini, according to developer Dylan Rousse.The move is likely to better reflect the product's core values and features and provide a more intuitive user experience. In addition to the name change, the leaked document also points to Google...
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NVIDIA's "special offer" H20 chip to China: booking opens, market reaction is lukewarm
According to several recent distributor sources, NVIDIA's H20, an AI chip specially customized for the Chinese market, is now available for pre-order. The chip, created specifically for the Chinese market, marks a further deepening of NVIDIA's technological cooperation with China. The NVIDIA H20 chip is designed as a high-performance AI computing solution in a variety of...
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Lenovo will likely release a new AI OS operating system in 2024
Recently, Lenovo announced that it will release a new AI OS operating system in 2024, which is another important step for Lenovo in the field of artificial intelligence. This new AI OS operating system will provide more powerful intelligence support for Lenovo's multi-terminal products and further enhance user experience. Image source network Lenovo Group...
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Amazon researcher points out that training of big language models needs to be wary of data pitfalls
Researchers at Amazon warn of the need to be wary of data traps during the training process of large language models, Techradar reports. They point out that there is currently a large amount of content on the web that is generated by machine translation, and that this low-quality content can be a problem for the training process. The researchers found that a large number of web...
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Preventing artwork from being trained by AI, University of Chicago develops AI contamination tool Nightshade
A team of computer science researchers at the University of Chicago recently released a tool called Nightshade, which is designed to prevent AI systems from training and learning from works of art. The principle of this tool is to add data at the pixel level, making it impossible for either humans or AI systems to simply recognize it, but if it is used to train an AI model...
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To reduce costs and increase processing power, Meta plans to deploy new in-house AI inference chips this year
Meta plans to deploy Artemis, a new homegrown AI inference chip designed to run inference workloads, in its data centers this year, which will be used in platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, as well as in devices such as Ray-Ban smart glasses. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in this year's...
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Google releases AI music creation tool TextFX with lyric writing support
Google recently released TextFX, an AI music composition tool designed to help users with songwriting.TextFX is a modular set of tools that includes a module that looks for words in categories starting with a specific letter, and a module that looks for similarities between two unrelated things. The modules are designed to simplify lyrics...
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ByteDance Launches Coze Buckle, a One-Stop AI Development Platform: Accelerating AI Robot Development
Byte Jump recently launched its AI chatbot development platform Coze Buckle in China, which supports the generation of AI bots in 30 seconds without code. The launch of this platform will accelerate the development process of AI robots, lower the development threshold, and enable more people to participate in the development of AI robots. The Coze Buckle platform integrates...
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Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence opensource text generation AI models and training data
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) recently announced that it will open-source to the public its newly developed text-generating AI models, as well as the data used to train these models. This initiative aims to advance the field of artificial intelligence and promote communication and collaboration between academia and industry. It is reported that AI2 is open-sourcing this text generation...
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OpenAI Launches Vision Pro Version of ChatGPT: Reinventing the New Human-Computer Interaction Experience
On February 3, OpenAI, a leader in the field of artificial intelligence, announced the launch of Vision Pro version of ChatGPT, an innovative product that will bring users an unprecedented interaction experience. By combining ChatGPT and visionOS, OpenAI is committed to breaking the traditional human-computer interaction model, enabling users to interact more naturally and intuitively with...
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Unanimous support for EU's Artificial Intelligence Bill: a major step towards legislating AI regulation
Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Representatives of the European Union's 27 countries voted unanimously in favor of the text of the Artificial Intelligence Bill on Feb. 2, marking an important step in the EU's efforts to legislate and regulate artificial intelligence, Xinhua reported. The adoption of this bill will set clear standards and guidelines for the development and application of AI within the EU and add...
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NVIDIA launches "sky-high" AI chips for China, over $100,000 per chip
NVIDIA has begun accepting pre-orders from distributors for its China-specialized AI chip H20, according to sources familiar with the matter.Sources said the H20 does not perform as well as Huawei's Rise AI chip 910B in some key areas.In recent weeks, NVIDIA priced the Chinese H20 distributors at between $12,000 and $15,000 for a single chip. Some distribution...
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Google announces new AI features for Google Maps to meet users' personalization needs
Recently, Google Inc. announced a series of new feature updates for Google Maps, designed to better meet the personalized needs of users. These new features will utilize AI technology to provide more accurate and useful mapping services to further enhance the user experience. First, the real-time traffic information feature will provide users with the latest road...
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Ali launches new multimodal AI agent: can simulate human operation of cell phones
Alibaba and Beijing Jiaotong University have developed a multimodal AI agent called Mobile-Agent, an AI that can simulate human operation of a cell phone.Mobile-Agent utilizes AI techniques, especially large-scale language models such as GPT-4V, to enable autonomous decision-making and interaction on mobile devices. Mobile-Agen...
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Vivo announced to the public the top 10 product technology innovation inventory for 2023
Recently, Vivo released a list of the top 10 product technology innovations for the "2023 Technology Innovation", which signifies Vivo's strong strength in technology development and innovation. The technological innovations released cover a wide range of areas, including chip technology, imaging technology, battery life system, etc., to bring global consumers better quality...
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Samsung plans to roll out Galaxy AI to 100 million devices by 2024: committed to delivering powerful AI capabilities
Samsung Electronics, a globally recognized tech giant, recently announced its ambitious plan to roll out Galaxy AI technology to 100 million devices by 2024. This initiative signifies Samsung's deep commitment to AI technology and its strong belief in future technology trends. Samsung's MX business head TM Roh was interviewed...