Edited by Zhang Xin.
Meta launches audiobox, an audio generation model
Meta has reportedly launched an audio generation model, AudioBox, which can use a combination of voice input and natural language text prompts to generate speech and sound effects, making it easy to create custom audio for a variety of use cases. Meta claims that, to the best of its knowledge, the AudioBox is the first model to support dual input of voice and text for a free speech redesign. Meta will open up the audiobox-based app in the coming weeks, as well as interactive demos showcasing audiobox capabilities.
Microsoft will support the United Nations in building a new AI platform and a global climate data center
The United Nations and Microsoft have reportedly announced a partnership to support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in building a new artificial intelligence platform and global climate data hub to monitor and analyze progress in global emissions reductions. This collaboration will significantly simplify the validation and analysis of climate data submitted by the 196 Parties to the Paris Agreement.
The VR action game Swordsman VR updates the training ground map for free
Recently, developer Sinn Studio announced that its VR action game, Swordsman VR, has updated the training ground map for free on all supported platforms. It is understood that "Swordsman VR" is a story-based, physics-based VR fighting game developed by Sinn Studio, released in September 2020 at a price of 19$99. The game is set in the Middle Ages, and the warriors of the earth need to unite against the enemy, and the player can choose from knights, Vikings, Mongols, samurai, and other characters, and each character has different equipment and skills.
Shandong: Aiming at seven future industries such as AI, vigorously promoting AI+
According to reports, the Shandong Provincial New Industrialization Promotion Conference was held in Jinan. Lin Wu, secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, stressed that it is necessary to do a solid job in all aspects of new industrialization and comprehensively accelerate the process of new industrialization. Focusing on high-end development, we will continue to strengthen the layout of future industries, focusing on the seven future industries of metaverse, artificial intelligence (AI), life sciences, future networks, quantum technology, humanoid robots, and deep-sea aerospace space, strengthen the layout of forward-looking research, and build a pilot area for future industries. Focus on intelligent development and strive to promote the deep integration of data and reality. It is necessary to make greater efforts to promote the application of AI, coordinate the layout of general and vertical large models, enrich computing resources, cultivate a number of high-level intelligent technologies and products, and vigorously promote "AI+".
Lingang Group and others established a large-scale model ecological development company, including AI entrepreneurship and innovation platform business
According to reports, recently, the ecological development of Shanghai large model was established, the legal representative is Gan Jin, the registered capital is 100 million yuan, and the business scope includes entrepreneurial space services, artificial intelligence entrepreneurship and innovation service platform, social and economic consulting services, enterprise management consulting, information consulting services, etc. The equity panorama penetration map shows that the company is jointly held by Shanghai West Bund Development (Group)** and Shanghai Lingang Digital Economic Development***, a subsidiary of Lingang Group, and Shanghai Caohejing Emerging Technology Development Zone Development Corporation.
The "Advanced AI Conservation Report in the Financial Industry" was released: the implementation of large models needs to pay attention to the construction of storage capacity
It is learned that recently, iAnalytics and JD Cloud jointly released the "Advanced AI Conservation Report in the Financial Industry". The report makes an in-depth analysis of the storage power needs of financial institutions, and proposes that building a usable, credible and controllable advanced storage capacity is a must for the financial industry to implement the large model. JD Cloud started R&D in 2012, and after more than ten years of development, JD Cloud Cloud Cloud Hai based on the new generation of storage architecture was officially released in 2022. At present, JD Cloud Yunhai Distributed Storage has served the construction of large-scale computing power infrastructure of several commercial banks and ** companies.