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Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI plans to raise up to $1 billion through a stock offering, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company has raised nearly $135 million from four investors, according to the filing. xAI is a start-up AI company that Musk is...

Recently, Meta and IBM launched a consortium of more than 50 AI companies and research organizations to promote the AI open source model and support "open innovation and open science" in AI. This initiative signals a growing trend of open innovation and scientific research in AI. Since OpenAI...

According to Bloomberg, NVIDIA plans to build an ecosystem related to artificial intelligence technology in Japan to meet its demand for AI. In a meeting with Japanese Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura on Dec. 5, NVIDIA Chief Executive Officer Jen-Hsun Huang said that NVIDIA will seek to work with Japanese research institutes, companies and...

According to people familiar with the matter, Baidu has offered as much as 12 million U.S. dollars (about 84.86 million yuan) in annual salary to invite Geoffrey Hinton, who is known as the "godfather of AI", and his students to join the company, but was rejected. Hinton said, "We don't know how much we're worth." It is reported that Hinton consults ...

The U.S. Commerce Department needs more money to stop China from catching up in cutting-edge semiconductors, says Secretary Raimondo, claiming that any AI chips designed to circumvent restrictions on China will be banned from export. Speaking at the Reagan Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, Raimondo said, "We can't let China get these cores...

ByteDance is planning to launch a new AI open platform that will allow users to create their own personalized chatbots, according to the South China Morning Post. The innovative program, called "Bot Development Platform," is expected to launch in public beta by the end of this month. The launch of the platform is closely aligned with ByteDance's new strategic vision...

On December 4, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang held a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo. After the meeting, Jen-Hsun Huang revealed in an interview that NVIDIA plans to collaborate with Japanese companies, including SoftBank, to develop generative AI.The collaboration also includes cloud service provider Sakura Internet Limited...

After a series of changes, OpenAI founder Sam Altman has announced that he is officially returning to OpenAI, resuming his role as CEO. At the same time, Mira Murati will continue as Chief Technology Officer. This appointment marks a new phase in OpenAI's development. Under Altman's leadership, Open...

At today's Huawei Cloud Industry Summit 2023, Huawei Cloud reintroduced the industry's first big model capability based on hybrid cloud deployment, and released the Deep Cloud Outlook 2025 whitepaper and Deep Cloud Action Plan. The release of the Big Model Hybrid Cloud aims to provide the industry's most complete AI production chain to help government and enterprise customers...

Amazon recently launched an AI chatbot called Q. The product is aimed at enterprise customers and is designed to help them search for information, write code and review business metrics more effectively. Speaking at Amazon's annual cloud computing conference, Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Cloud Technologies, noted that while...

Walmart recently announced that it has partnered with Peacock, a streaming platform, to launch an AI service called "Buy Now," which compares items from TV shows to Walmart's catalog, identifying the items and providing a link to purchase them, allowing viewers to buy the items directly on TV. The "Buy Now" feature...

Amazon has launched its "AI Ready" program, which aims to provide free AI skills training to 2 million people worldwide by 2025. The program aims to promote AI technology as a tool for solving the world's most challenging problems. To do this, Amazon has launched a series of new initiatives and expanded existing free AI training programs to eliminate...

The Source 2.0 basic big model includes three parameter scales of 102.6 billion, 51.8 billion, and 2.1 billion, with English, mixed Chinese and English, and Chinese as the training languages respectively. Source 2.0 adopts a big model-based data production and filtering method, which ensures the diversity of data while also improving the...

According to a recent report from 36 Krypton, Flow, a new AI department within ByteDance, will focus on AI innovation business, with Hong Dingkun, vice president of technology at ByteDance, as the head of technology, and Zhu Wenjia, head of Byte's big modeling team, as the head of business.The Flow department has already launched two AI dialog products, Beanbag and Cic...

Recently, a group of research teams successfully developed the Sewformer AI system, which has the ability to recognize and reconstruct the character's costume in a picture after being trained on 1 million costume photos. This technological breakthrough is of great significance to the field of AI dressing. The Sewformer AI system operates...

This past Tuesday Stability AI released the latest version of its Stable Video Diffusion model, a powerful technology capable of converting images into video. With this update, Stability AI also added support for the ComfyUI tool, a graphical user interface designed to use the graph/node interface...

French billionaire Xavier Niel has announced that he will invest 200 million euros ($212 million) in the field of artificial intelligence, with key plans including the creation of a futuristic research lab in Paris, cloud supercomputing capabilities using hardware from Nvidia, and financial support for startups...

October 2, 2023 - Bain Consulting, one of the world's leading consulting firms, has announced a partnership -- they will work with OpenAI to build Sage, a generative AI assistant that will be based on OpenAI's powerful GPT-4 language model and combine Bain Consulting's wealth of specialized data , for its 18,500 employees...

Meta recently quietly released the Llama 2 Long AI model, a development that has garnered widespread attention in the AI field. The model demonstrated superior performance on a number of tasks, outperforming predecessors such as GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2. Meta researchers boosted this by improving the training methodology and coding techniques...

NVIDIA has announced that it will host a major AI summit in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 15-16, designed to explore all aspects of the artificial intelligence space. The summit will bring together developers, policymakers and business leaders to provide a unique opportunity for participants to enhance their skills, share their expertise and gain insight into...

As generative AI services such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Bing Chat, and Google Bard have grown in popularity in replacing traditional search engines, some individuals and businesses have begun to express concern about the use of their website data by these AI models, and they don't want their website content to be used in the training of AI models. ...

The rise of the big model era, Lei Jun and Wang Xiaochuan join hands and progress. The latest news reveals that Baichuan Intelligence, Wang Xiaochuan's startup, has become the focal point of Lei Jun's big model layout. In Baichuan Intelligence's two rounds of financing, Lei Jun played a key role in providing strong support for the company. However, Lei Jun's big model...

Recently, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the company's new plans in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which will see an expansion of hiring in the UK in the field of AI, as well as an increase in investment in AI technology. Cook re-emphasized Apple's active research into generating AI technology and said that it will increase its investment in the UK and in AI. He noted...

Apple has been committed to promoting the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and recently, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed the company's new trend in the field of generative AI in an interview. He said that Apple is actively recruiting talent to focus on the development of generative AI products to further enhance product features and user experience...

Windows 11 has gone through a round of major updates, officially turning into an "AI operating system"! The update not only adds AI technology to the classic drawing tools, but also introduces Copilot to the operating system, making it an AI assistant to the computer system, which is even better than the previous voice assistant Cortana. The update also covers screenshots...

OpenAI is in advanced talks with former Apple chief designer Jony Ive and SoftBank's Masayoshi Son to create a joint venture aimed at developing a smartphone for the AI era, which is expected to be the next generation of iPhones, according to people familiar with the matter. This joint venture is planned to bring together the three companies from...

According to a new analysis by Originality.ai, an AI content checker and plagiarism-checking service, at least 26 of the world's top 100 websites (and the number reaches 242 of the top 1,000) have now taken steps to block OpenAI's web crawler GPT, which was launched on Aug. 7 ...

Recently, the IDEA Institute's Seal of Approval team joined the open source trend of AI macromodeling with the release of its latest code macromodel, Ziya-Coding-34B-v1.0.This model achieved an excellent score of 75.5 on the HumanEval Pass@1 review, surpassing the GPT-4. Ziya-Coding-34B- ...

OPPO's AndesGPT has recently made its mark in SuperCLUE's September rankings, ranking first in the country behind GPT4 in "Knowledge and Encyclopedias" and in the top three in "Role-Playing Abilities". SuperCLUE was ranked first in "Knowledge and Encyclopedia" after GPT4, and in "Role-Playing Ability". SuperCLUE is an assessment base that focuses on Chinese general-purpose large models...

Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI is considering a stock sale that could value it at $80 billion to $90 billion, nearly triple what it was worth earlier this year, according to people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reported. The news notes that OpenAI told investors that it expects revenue to reach $1 billion this year and that by 20...

Nokia has announced that it will establish an open innovation lab in Dubai aimed at fostering technological innovation in the MEA region and accelerating the adoption of new technologies such as AI and machine learning in network automation and optimization, according to a report from foreign media outlet ET Telecom. This innovation lab will focus on three key areas for operators...

The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Inc. plans to introduce AI chatbots with distinct personalities to its social media apps next week in an effort to attract younger users. The chatbots will drive users to Meta's various social media apps, with some of the bots...

Baichuan Intelligence released a closed-source large model-Baichuan2-53B, which is fully upgraded on the basis of Baichuan-53B, including a significant improvement in mathematical and logical reasoning ability, and the illusion problem has been greatly reduced. In addition, Baichuan2-53B also opens the API interface, formally entering the To B field and opening the commercial...

360 recently announced that its Smart Brain Big Model is officially open to the public, and users can experience this new AI service through ai.360.com, the one-stop platform of 360 Family Bucket. This big model, developed by 360, has a hundred billion parameter scale and pre-training of over a trillion tokens, with the ability to generate creations, multiple rounds of...

Amazon recently announced a new voice assistant called Alexa, which will integrate generative AI technology to make the user experience of conversing with the assistant more natural. In addition, the new version of Alexa supports continuing conversations without having to wake up again, further enhancing the user experience. This new Al...

Huawei officially announced the new Atlas 900 SuperCluster, a new Rise AI computing cluster, at the recent AllConnect conference, which utilizes the new Huawei StarHub AI intelligent computing switch CloudEngine XH16800, and leverages its high-density 800GE port capability to achieve a super large-scale non-converged cluster. The cluster utilizes the new Huawei StarHub AI switch CloudEngine XH16800 and leverages its high-density 800GE port capacity to realize an ultra-large-scale non-converged cluster...

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2023, Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's Vice Chairman, Chairman-in-Office, and CFO, delivered a key speech on AI and Intelligent Strategy. She emphasized Huawei's commitment to building a solid arithmetic base in China, and put forward the goal of total intelligence,...

In some previous news we learned that Google is doing research on the use of AI in robotics. Google's robot in question, RT-2, can use the experience it has gained to infer how to do things. That said, AI-trained robots may eventually be able to perform some tasks without much instruction. ...

Huawei Vice Chairman and Chairman-in-Office Xu Zhijun delivered a speech at the 2023 World Computing Congress, revealing the latest progress of Huawei's computing strategy and its judgment on the direction of China's AI computing industry ecosystem. Xu Zhijun said that in the face of the current pressure that continues to intensify, China's computing industry needs to firmly...

At the recently held Kingsoft Office Technology Open Day 2023, Kingsoft Office officials announced a major breakthrough. WPS AI, their intelligent office assistant developed based on a large language model, has been successfully connected to the entire line of products, and users are invited to experience its full-component AI features. This news marks Kingsoft Office's first ...