Babbitt | Metaverse Daily Must-Read: More than 100 large-scale models have appeared in the country, and regional competitions have begun. Who is the "capital of large-scale models" in the north, Shenzhen and Hangzhou?

Abstract: According to the incomplete statistics of the reporter of Economic Observer, in the new round of generative AI upsurge, 106 large-scale models have appeared in the country, among which the number of large-scale model companies and the number of R&D companies in Beijing occupy the "C position", as many as 54; Shanghai has accumulated advantages in AI computing power; Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu and other cities also have many large-scale model companies. At present, the development of large-scale models is still at the beginning of chaos, and it remains to be observed who will win in the end and become the real "capital of large-scale models".

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The vice president of Xiaomi ToB resigned and joined iQiyi VR Company as CEO

According to 36 Krypton’s report on July 17, Bai Peng, vice president of Xiaomi’s ToB business, has recently left Xiaomi to join iQiyi’s VR company “Dream Bloom” as CEO. Xiong Wen, the company's former CEO, has left his post. With Bai Peng's airborne entry, "Dream Bloom" has also undergone a series of adjustments. According to the aforementioned person, the company will shift its development focus from ToC VR all-in-one machines back to ToB. In this regard, Xiaomi and Dream Blossom have no reply yet.

Some people familiar with the matter commented that Baipeng’s greatest strength lies in his sales ability, but he does not have a relevant working background in the VR industry. After assuming the new position, it is not a small challenge for him to save this precarious company in this new field.

Ctrip Group released the first large-scale vertical model of the tourism industry "Ctrip asked"

Babbitt News, on July 17, Ctrip Group released the first large-scale vertical model of the travel industry "Ctrip Ask". According to reports, on the basis of the large model, "Ctrip.com" screened 20 billion high-quality unstructured tourism data, combined with Ctrip's existing accurate real-time data to conduct self-developed vertical model training. Previously reported, Ctrip Liang Jianzhang: AI is unpredictable and unexplainable, and it is economically complementary to humans.

NetEase Cloud Music internal test launched "Private DJ", creating the first AI-recommended music assistant

According to 36 Krypton’s report on July 17, Netease Cloud Music has launched the “Private DJ” function in internal testing. This function is based on the innovative upgrade of the song recommendation algorithm, and realizes the intelligent explanation service of recommended songs. It is understood that "Private DJ" will be built as an intelligent assistant for users to explore the music world. Based on the traditional music column, it has upgraded its personalization capabilities. While recommending songs based on user preferences, it will also explain music to users. , the content of the explanation includes recommendation reasons, song interpretation, music encyclopedia, etc.

The United Nations warns of the dangers of brain-computer interfaces: AI may manipulate the human brain

The United Nations last week warned of the "potential harm" posed by rapid advances in neurotechnology, saying brain implants and brain scans could allow artificial intelligence to manipulate the human brain, Agence France-Presse reported. Invasion of the privacy of human thought. At an international conference held in Paris a few days ago, Mariagrazia Squicciarini, an economist specializing in AI at UNESCO, said that with the blessing of AI algorithms, neurotechnology has recently developed rapidly, and "neurotechnology has been greatly enhanced." Currently, AI algorithms are able to process and learn from data like never before.

Stability AI CEO: Artificial intelligence contains investment opportunities worth 1 trillion US dollars, which will be the biggest bubble in history

Emad Mostaque, CEO of Stability AI, the startup behind the image generation model Stable Diffusion, said on a conference call last week that artificial intelligence will be one of the biggest investment themes in the coming years , contains investment opportunities worth 1 trillion US dollars, and artificial intelligence will be the biggest bubble in history. AI is currently in the "early stages" of development and is not yet ready for large-scale deployment in industries such as banking, he added.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology launched the image segmentation AI model "Semantic-SAM", which can provide semantic labels for entities

According to IT House's report on July 17, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology team developed an image segmentation AI model called Semantic-SAM. Compared with the SAM model previously released by Meta, Semantic-SAM has stronger granularity and semantic functions. It can segment and recognize objects at different levels of granularity, and provide semantic labels for the segmented entities.

It is reported that Semantic-SAM is developed based on the Mask DINO framework, and its model structure is mainly improved in the decoder part, while supporting general segmentation and interactive segmentation. The research team realized the optimization of multi-granularity segmentation tasks and interactive segmentation tasks by adopting decoupled object classification and part classification methods to learn the semantic information of objects and parts. Experimental results show that Semantic-SAM outperforms Meta's SAM model in terms of segmentation quality and granularity controllability.

Investment and Financing:

AR glasses start-up company "Salute to the Unknown" completes 10 million US dollars in angel round financing, led by Ali

According to 36 Krypton’s report on July 17, the AR glasses start-up company “Salute to the Unknown” completed an angel round of financing of 10 million US dollars, led by Ali, followed by many well-known institutions such as Niou Capital and Taiya Investment. This round of financing will be mainly used for product development and company operations. It is reported that "Salute to the Unknown" was established in 2022 by Wu Dezhou, a former Smartisan partner and former general manager of Huawei's Honor product line. The main product direction is AR glasses for C-end users. With the completion of this round of financing, "Salute to the Unknown" will release its new consumer brand "ARknovv", as well as its first consumer-grade AR smart glasses.

Artificial intelligence industrial application service provider "Yunshuo IoT" completed tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing

According to a report from the "Kechuang Board Daily" on July 17, recently, Yunshuo IoT completed the A round of financing. The leading investor was Qifu Capital, and the old shareholders followed suit. Yunshuo IoT is an artificial intelligence industrial application service provider, starting from the production quality AI predictive monitoring decision-making, landing "industrial artificial intelligence" in this important field, helping industrial enterprises to improve quality, increase efficiency and reduce costs, and strive to change The mismatch between enterprise pain points and technical capabilities.

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"China's AI Industry Map: Who is the "Capital of Large Models""

According to incomplete statistics from the Economic Observer, in the new round of generative AI boom, 106 large-scale models have emerged across the country, of which the number of large-scale model companies and research and development companies in Beijing occupy the "C position", as many as 54; Shanghai has accumulated advantages in AI computing power; Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu and other cities also have many large-scale model companies.

"Human data will be used up by OpenAI, then what? "

When the "human" data runs out, AI training will inevitably use content produced by AI itself. However, such an "inner loop" will pose great challenges. Not long ago, researchers from Cambridge University, Oxford University, University of Toronto and other universities published papers pointing out that using AI-generated content as training AI will lead to the collapse of the new model. So, what is the reason for the crash caused by "generated data" for AI training? Is there any help?

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