AI Tools Collection uses a monthly 3-issue layout collection, updating the latest AI industry news daily. This issue is the AI industry news collection for April Issue 2 (April 11 to April 20).
April 20
- Well-known image generation modelStable DiffusionThe company behind it, Stability AI, announced the open-source ChatGPT-like large model StableLM. The model is currently in Alpha version, with parameter counts of 3 billion and 7 billion respectively, and models with 15 billion to 65 billion parameters will be launched subsequently. (Full news article:36Kr）
- iFLYTEK announced that the iFLYTEK Spark Cognitive Large Model achievement launch conference is scheduled to be held at 14:00 on May 6 at the Anhui Innovation Museum. iFLYTEK AI Learning Machine, iFLYTEK Hearing, iFLYTEK Smart Office Book, iFLYTEK Smart Cockpit, and iFLYTEK Open Platform will also be released simultaneously. (News source:Cailian Press）
- Shiyou Technology officially released a new-generation AI digital human phenomenal product - "Shiyou BOTA", which can be applied in various terminal scenarios such as PC, APP, mini-programs, VR\MR, meeting the diversified scenario needs and services of various industries. (Full news article:Machine Heart）
April 18
- According to The Information, Microsoft is researching its own AI chip to support large language models. The chip is codenamed Athena and was already put into development as early as 2019. (News source:PingWest）
- Major news! DingTalk integratesTongyi Qianwenlarge model, announcing that it will launch comprehensive intelligence. Users can invoke more than 10 AI capabilities in DingTalk by entering "/". (Full news article:Machine Heart）
- Kingsoft Office recently announced that it will soon launch WPS AI. At present, it will first apply its online collaborative document tool "Light Doc", similar toNotion AI, but it has not yet opened internal or public testing, and will subsequently be embedded across Kingsoft Office's full product line. (Full news article:36Kr）
- ByteDance's Volcano Engine released a series of self-developed cloud products including self-developed DPU, and launched a new version of its machine learning platform: supporting 10,000-card-level large model training and microsecond-level latency networks, making large model training more stable and faster. (Full news article:ZAKER News）
- Evernote announced that its "Evernote AI" is officially open for use. Users can experience it in applications such as the "Evernote" desktop client, "Verse", "Evernote Skitch", "Evernote Time", "Collector", and "Scanbot". (Official full text:Evernote AI launched）
- The head of Italy's data protection regulator said in an interview with Corriere della Sera that if ChatGPT developer OpenAI can take "useful measures" to address the agency's concerns, they will relaunch ChatGPT on April 30. (Read the full article:ITHome）
- ERNIE Bothas been fully applied within Baidu on the intelligent work platform "Ruliu", and has already been opened for use by all employees. "Ruliu Knowledge Base" is an enterprise-level knowledge management platform launched by Baidu, where all employees' document editing, collaborative creation, knowledge search, and other work are carried out. (Read the full article:ITHome）
April 17
- Adobe announced that it will introduce its AIGC model Adobe Firefly into its graphic design applications for video, audio, animation, and motion effects. Adobe Firefly for Video can create music and sound effects for videos, add subtitles and text effects, scripts, B-roll functions, and more. (Read the full article:Adobe Blog）
- Kunlun万维 officially released its hundred-billion-level large language model "Tiangong", and simultaneously announced that invitation testing will begin immediately. The model was jointly developed by Kunlun万维 and the leading domestic AI team "Singularity Intelligence Source", and is the first dual hundred-billion-level large language model in China to benchmark against ChatGPT. (Read the full article:机器之心）
- On April 17, in an interview with Fox News, Musk publicly revealed TruthGPT for the first time—a safer, more transparent ChatGPT-like application, aimed at correcting OpenAI's path and attempting to create a "third option" besides OpenAI and Google. (Read the full article:虎嗅网）
April 15
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke to refute rumors, saying that GPT-5 is not currently being trained and will not immediately begin training in the short term. (Read the full article:36氪）
- Musk founded the startup X.AI to compete with OpenAI. Documents show that Musk registered this company on March 9, 2023. (Read the full article:华尔街见闻）
- Meta open-sourced its AI-based animation tool Animated Drawings, allowing anyone to turn their own doodles, drawings, or photos into animations. (Read the full article:澎湃新闻）
April 14
- Amazon Web Services released multiple AIGC products, involving the AI large model service Amazon Bedrock, the AI computing instances Amazon EC2 Trn1n and Amazon EC2 Inf2, the self-developed "Titan" AI large model, and the AI programming toolAmazon CodeWhispereretc., and CodeWhisperer is open for free use to individual users. (Read the full article:36氪）
- The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) established a ChatGPT task force and will formulate general policies on regulating AI. (Read the full article:IT之家）
- Recently, the GitHub community launched a new open-source application project based on GPT-4Auto-GPT, in order to achieve autonomous artificial intelligence. Nearly 60,000 people have starred the project. (Read the full article:36氪）
April 13
- At the "2023 Zhihu Discovery Conference" held in Beijing, the well-known domestic Q&A community Zhihu announced that its Chinese large model "Zhihai Tu AI", developed in cooperation with ModelBest, has officially begun internal testing. At the same time, the AI-based "Hot List Summary" on the Zhihu platform has also begun internal testing. (Read the full article:华尔街见闻）
- OpenAI open-sourced Consistency Models, which are faster and perform better than diffusion models, and can quickly generate high-quality images without adversarial training. (Read the full article:36氪）
- The well-known big data platform Databricks open-sourced Dolly 2.0, a 12-billion-parameter ChatGPT-like LLM large language model, and it can be used for commercial purposes. (Read the full article:机器之心）
- The well-known public relations and advertising service provider BlueFocus announced that, to lay the foundation for fully embracing AIGC, it will completely stop outsourcing creative design and copywriting. (Read the full article:华尔街见闻）
April 12
- Microsoft open-sourcedDeepSpeed Chat —a system framework that can incorporate a complete RLHF process into model training, greatly saving the cost of developing ChatGPT-like models. (Read the full article:36氪）
- Google's ChatGPT-like chatbotBardwas updated, adding a "Google it" button, enhancing mathematical and logical capabilities, and releasing a brand-new feature update bulletin board. (Read the full article:Huxiu）
- According to Business Insider, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has launched an artificial intelligence project within Twitter, not only purchasing about 10,000 GPUs for it, but also recruiting talent from Google's artificial intelligence division DeepMind. (Read the full article:Huxiu）
- OpenAI announced the launch of a bug bounty program, where reporting ChatGPT vulnerabilities can earn up to $20,000 in cash rewards. (Read the full article:Huxiu）
- The well-known video player VLC Media Player has added support for NVIDIA's RTX Video Super Resolution technology in its latest version to achieve AI-enhanced video image quality.
April 11
- Major news! The Cyberspace Administration of China is publicly soliciting opinions on the "Administrative Measures for Generative Artificial Intelligence Services (Draft for Comment)". This is China's first regulatory policy issued for the currently booming generative AI industry. (Read the full article:Cyberspace Administration of China）
- Alibaba and Alibaba Cloud CEO Zhang Yong said at the Alibaba Cloud Summit that all Alibaba products will in the future be connected tothe "Tongyi Qianwen" large modelfor comprehensive transformation. Currently, products such as DingTalk and Tmall Genie have already been connected to Tongyi Qianwen for testing. (Read the full article:Zhidx）
- This afternoon, the WeChat official account of Feishu, ByteDance's collaborative office platform, announced that it will launch an intelligent assistant "My AI" to help users write report documents, analyze data, and summarize meetings, but did not disclose the specific release time. (Full official account article:No more hiding it, Feishu introduces a new AI friend to you）
- SenseTime released a ChatGPT-like product——SenseChat, based on its SenseNova large model. In addition, SenseTime also launched a series of AI drawing, AI video production, and generation tool platforms, including Miaohua, Ruying, Qiongyu, Gewu, etc. (Read the full article:36Kr）