According to reports, Alibaba's two core e-commerce businesses, Taotian Group and International Digital Business Group, are concentrating on AI. It is reported that Taotian Group has closed its AI business from about 20 teams to 4, and at the same time released Taotian's own large-scale model product "Turing" internally. In addition, the AI team of the International Digital Business Group has more than 100 people, and the model trainers are about 1 3.
On December 13, Meitu announced the launch of its mobile AI image creation tool WHEE, which provides one-stop AI visual creation services based on Meitu's MiracleVision large model.
According to the official WeChat message of the Beijing Internet Court, on December 12, the Beijing Internet Court formed a five-member collegial panel for the first time to openly hear the country's first "AI voice infringement case" in accordance with the law.
In this case, the plaintiff Yin Moumou took dubbing as his profession and recorded a number of audio works. Yin Moumou accidentally discovered that after his voice was AI, he used the name "Mo Xiaoxuan" on an app called "Magic Sound Workshop" to the public**. Therefore, on the grounds that the defendant's behavior infringed on his right to sound, Yin Moumou sued the five defendants, including Beijing Xiaowen Intelligent Technology, the operating entity of the "Magic Sound Workshop", to the Beijing Internet Court. At present, the case is still under further trial.
Google on Wednesday announced the launch of a new suite of healthcare-specific AI models, MediLM, designed to help clinicians and researchers conduct complex studies, summarize doctor-patient interactions, and more. The move marks Google's latest attempt to monetize AI tools in the healthcare industry. The MEDLM suite includes a large and medium-sized AI model, both built on MED-PALM 2. med-palm 2 is a large language model first announced by Google in March this year based on medical data training.
On the evening of December 13th, AI officially announced that the Wenxin Yiyan plug-in** has been officially launched, including plug-ins covering various use scenarios such as office efficiency improvement, multimodal content understanding and generation, and professional information query.
Users only need to use simple instructions to realize the needs of PPT generation, audio extraction, mind map production and other multi-scene and multi-modal needs. The plug-ins currently available include mind mapping tools, ppt generators, and "assistants" who can refine key information by input.
Mistral AI recently released the first open-source MOE model, Mixtral 8x7b, and announced that it will be launched in the Moda community.
Mictral-8x7B is a hybrid expert model (MiXeTrueof Experts), composed of 8 expert networks with 7 billion parameters, in terms of capabilities, Mictral-8x7B supports 32K token context length, supports English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, has excellent generation capabilities, and can be fine-tuned as a instruction-following model. The model achieves an MT-bench score of 83 points, with GPT35 quite.
OpenAI founder Sam Altman said today that OpenAI Startup** has launched the Converge 2 accelerator program. The program is open to outstanding engineers, designers, researchers, and product developers who are reimagining the world using artificial intelligence. Through technical talks, office hours, networking events, and conversations with leading practitioners, OpenAI will explore the most important opportunities and challenges in the construction of artificial intelligence frontiers. In addition, participants will receive a $1 million investment from OpenAI's startup** and join the creator community they founded.
It is reported that in May 2021, OpenAI and Microsoft and other investors established the OpenAI Startup Fund with a scale of 100 million US dollars, with the aim of promoting the sustainable development of dozens of AI startups in industries such as healthcare, education, and culture. In December 2022, OpenAI further launched its "Converge" program.
Tianyancha** shows that on December 13, Shenzhen NARI Technology was established with a registered capital of 20 million yuan, and its business scope includes: artificial intelligence application software development;Artificial intelligence theory and algorithm software development;Artificial intelligence industry application system integration services;R&D of intelligent robots;sales of intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles, etc. Shareholder information shows that the company is 100% owned by NARI.
On December 13, Google's Deepmind launched Imagen 2, an artificial intelligence image generator. According to the introduction, Imagen 2 can produce the highest-quality, most realistic images of any Google model to date, while strictly following user prompts.
Imagen 2 was initially made available to developers and cloud customers through Google Cloud's Vertex AI's Imagen API. Google plans to make Imagen 2 available to end users, but first wants to minimize potential risks and challenges. This includes security measures such as synthid, a toolkit for tagging and identifying AI-generated content, as well as technical safeguards to limit problematic output.
On December 14, Nature magazine announced the "Top 10 Scientific People of 2023", and Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist of OpenAI, was selected. In addition to the regular ten People of the Year, ChatGPT also made the list. According to Nature, the addition of ChatGPT is an endorsement of the role that artificial intelligence, which aims to mimic human language, in scientific development and advancement.
According to the official website of the "Nanjing Agricultural University Alumni Association", recently, the research team of Professor Wang Dongbo of the School of Information Management of Nanjing Agricultural University released the "Xunzi" ancient book large language model in Beijing.
According to reports, the "Xunzi" large model includes the vast majority of ancient books including the "Siku Quanshu", with a large corpus of more than 2 billion words, which is an intelligent tool for the processing and research of ancient books launched by the school's team in conjunction with the Gulian Company of Zhonghua Book Company with the support of the national social science major project "Construction and Application Research of Cross-language Knowledge Base of Ancient Chinese Classics". The model consists of two parts: the pedestal model xunziallm and the dialogue model xunzichat, and users can also use the local training corpus to fine-tune the pedestal model according to their own needs, so as to achieve better processing performance in the downstream processing of ancient books.