Latest Trends in the AI Industry

The Wenxin Large Model 4.0 has been officially released, and Li Yanhong stated that its overall strength "is on par with GPT-4". This model has significant improvements in understanding, generation, logic, and memory.

Zhipu AI and Baichuan Intelligence have respectively completed massive financing. Zhipu AI raised over 2.5 billion yuan, while Baichuan Intelligence secured 300 million dollars in Series A1 funding, with participation from several technology giants.

Several AI companies have secured a new round of financing, including Mind Foundry, Riffusion, and Reality Defender. The funds are primarily used for technology research and development as well as business expansion.

The National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released the open-source astronomical model StarWhisper, which ranked second in a certain evaluation. South Korea's SK Telecom has collaborated with Deutsche Telekom to develop an AI large language model.

Stanford University released the AI foundational model "Transparency Index", with Meta's Llama 2 ranking first at 54% but still "failing".

Alibaba Damo Academy released the industry's first remote sensing AI large model. Peking University open-sourced a 7 billion parameter code large model CodeShell.

Tmall Genie, Baidu Baijiahao, and others have successively launched AI assistant features. Vivo's self-developed AI large model has been exposed and will be implemented in the OriginOS 4 system.

The EU plans to regulate AI models by categorizing them into three types, implementing stricter rules for the most powerful models.

Apple plans to invest $1 billion each year to develop generative AI. Intel has launched an AI PC acceleration program, aiming to provide AI features for over 1 million PCs before 2025.

Industry insiders have mixed attitudes towards the development of AI. Some believe that AI will eliminate a large number of jobs, while others think that AI has limited impact on fields such as education.