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The AI-RAN Alliance was established at MWC2024 and 11 companies including Samsung, Arm, and Microsoft joined.
Tesla updates Optimus Prime latest**: almost like a human walking.
Microsoft Releases AI Access Principles to Provide More Support for Developers Around the World Google Deepmind Launches Genie Model: 11B Parameters, which can generate interactive virtual worlds.
A new power rises
The first AIGC series of cartoons "Ode to a Thousand Autumns" was broadcast on CCTV.
Mistral AI officially released the large model Mistral Large, which is benchmarked against GPT-4 and is not open source.
Nanjing University has set up a core curriculum system for artificial intelligence general education, which is open to all undergraduate freshmen.
Investment and financing winds
Figure AI got 6$7.5 billion in financing, with capital injections from giants such as Bezos and Microsoft.
The AI-RAN Alliance was established at MWC2024 and 11 companies including Samsung, Arm, and Microsoft joined.
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On February 26, the AI-RAN Alliance was launched at MWC2024 in Barcelona, an organization that aims to combine artificial intelligence and wireless communication technologies and lead technological innovation by collaborating with related companies.
It is reported that the organization has a total of 11 initial members, including Samsung, Arm, Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, Nvidia, SoftBank and other semiconductor, telecommunications, software giants. This new alliance will collaborate on the development of innovative new technologies, as well as the application of these technologies into commercial products, in preparation for the upcoming 6G era.
Tesla updates Optimus Prime latest**: almost like a human walking.
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Recently, Tesla shared a video of the latest walking of the humanoid robot Optimus Prime**, in which Optimus Prime walks in the test field, and its steady gait during the walk is almost the same as that of a human walking - there is no mechanical sense when changing direction, and turning and moving are carried out at the same time.
Optimus Prime Chief Engineer Milan Kovac said, "This is the fastest gait we've ever had, with a speed of about 0."6 meters and seconds, a 30% increase in speed compared to the previous ** in December". Specifically, Optimus Prime's vestibular system, foot trajectory, and ground contact logic have been improved. At the same time, the stage motion planner was upgraded and the loop delay of the entire robot was shortened.
Microsoft releases AI access principles to provide more support for developers around the world
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At Mobile World Congress 2024, Microsoft President Brad Smith announced the company's new AI Access Principles, which will guide Microsoft's future expansion into AI. It is understood that Microsoft announced a total of 11 AI access principles this time, involving three major sectors: empowering developers, ensuring the choice and fairness of the AI economy, and safety and responsibility.
Microsoft said that AI, like other general-purpose technologies in the past, is creating new economic opportunities, and "these new principles will help us launch new investments and programs in Europe over the past two weeks, including a $5.6 billion investment in new AI data centers and a new AI skills program that will benefit more than 1 million people."
Google DeepMind launches Genie model: 11b parameters, which can generate interactive virtual worlds
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Recently, Google released a new paradigm for generative AI - generative interactive environments (GENIE). Genie is an 11 billion parameter base world model that can generate playable interactive environments from a single image prompt. The genie consists of three parts: a latent action model that is used to infer latent actions between each pair of frames; a tokenizer that converts the original frame into a discrete token; A dynamic model for the next frame given a potential action and a past frame token.
Google says that genie is a generic approach that can be applied to multiple domains without any additional domain knowledge. Although the data used is more of a 2D platformer game and a robot**, the method is versatile, applicable to any type of domain, and scalable to larger internet datasets. Google also proposes that the potential actions learned by Genie can be transferred to a real human-designed environment.
The first AIGC series of cartoons "Ode to a Thousand Autumns" was broadcast on CCTV.
A new power rises
On February 26, the first Chinese original Wensheng ** AI series animation "Ode to a Thousand Autumns" was broadcast on CCTV-1 comprehensive channel. "Ode to a Thousand Autumns" has a total of 26 episodes, each about 7 minutes, is the first AI cartoon broadcast on TV, empowered by a large model, AIGC assisted production, a collection of massive audio-visual data from the main station and the technical advantages of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the application of the laboratory's ** generation of large model scholars, dreams, Wensheng** framework Animatediff and a number of controllable image generation, image drive and other technologies, so that the ancient Chinese poems "live", showing a unique oriental aesthetics.
The launch of "Ode to a Thousand Autumns" is a two-way journey of Chinese poetry and artificial intelligence, and an attempt to once again ignite the innovation torch of "thought + art + technology" with new quality productivity.
Mistral AI officially released the large model Mistral Large, which is benchmarked against GPT-4 and is not open source.
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On February 26, Mistral AI officially released the large model Mistral Large. Different from a series of previous models, the version released by Mistral AI this time is more powerful and larger, directly benchmarking OpenAI's GPT-4, but it is not an open-source model.
Although it is inferior to GPT-4 in terms of the number of parameters, MISTRAL-LARGE is comparable to GPT-4 in terms of key performance, and can be said to be among the top three in the current industry. The inference accuracy of Mistral Large is better than that of Claude 2 and Gemini 10 pro、gpt-3.5. It supports a 32K token context window, supports precise instructions, and has its own function call ability, and its inference speed exceeds GPT-4 and Gemini Pro.
Nanjing University has set up a core curriculum system for artificial intelligence general education, which is open to all undergraduate freshmen.
A new power rises
On February 27, Nanjing University held a new semester work arrangement meeting and released the overall plan of the "Artificial Intelligence General Education Core Curriculum System", which will be taught to all undergraduate freshmen in September 2024. It is reported that the general education curriculum system with artificial intelligence technology as the main body is the first case in colleges and universities in the country.
At the press conference, Tan Tieniu, Secretary of the Party Committee of Nanjing University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced and explained the importance of the school's "Artificial Intelligence General Education Core Curriculum System". He said that the launch of the construction of the "Artificial Intelligence General Education Core Curriculum System" is an inevitable requirement to keep pace with the times and cultivate new talents of the times, and to educate people for the party and the country to meet the needs of the country.
Figure AI got 6$7.5 billion in financing, with capital injections from giants such as Bezos and Microsoft.
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On February 25, artificial intelligence startup Figure AI announced the completion of a new round of funding, amounting to 6$7.5 billion. The funding attracted participation from tech giants including NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI and Amazon founder Bezos. Prior to that, Figure AI was valued at about $2 billion.
It is reported that in this round of financing of Figure AI, Bezos's Explore Investments injected $100 million, Microsoft invested $95 million, NVIDIA and Amazon affiliates each injected $50 million, and OpenAI invested $5 million. Other investors include Intel Ventures**, LG Innotek, Samsung Investment Group, and others. Figure AI is dedicated to developing robots that look and move like humans to perform dangerous jobs and alleviate labor shortages.
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