The AI Tool Collection uses a monthly format of 3 issues, updating daily with the latest AI industry news flashes. This issue is the collection of AI industry news for March Issue 3 (March 21 to March 31).
March 31
- The Italian Data Protection Authority recently issued a notice banning the use of the chatbot ChatGPT and restricting the OpenAI company that developed this platform from processing information of Italian users. (Full news article:Cailian Press）
- Jacob Devlin, an AI researcher who left Google (first author of the BERT model paper), revealed that Google Bard was trained using ChatGPT data. (Full news article:36Kr）
March 30
- Microsoft has begun testing ads in the chat interface of its new AI-powered Bing (Full news article:TheVerge）
- In response to pressure from OpenAI, Google's parent company Alphabet's two major AI teams, Deep Mind and Google Brain, have stopped internal friction and begun cooperating to jointly develop AI (Full news article:36Kr）
- The UK government released a white paper on the artificial intelligence industry, proposing 5 clear principles that regulators should consider for AI (Full news article:36Kr）
March 29
- Musk, Turing Award winnerYoshua Bengio, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and more than a thousand experts called for pausing AI development stronger than GPT-4 for at least 6 months (Full news article:36Kr）
- On March 29, at the 2023 Digital Security and Development Summit it hosted, 360 officially released its large language model 360 AI. As an Easter egg, Zhou Hongyi demonstrated the 360 version of ChatGPT on site (Full news article:36Kr）
March 28
- According to reports, Meituan co-founder Wang Huiwen's Light Year Beyond and the domestic AI framework Oneflow have reached an intention to merge, continuing to recruit talent to build a Chinese version of ChatGPT (News source:36Kr）
- Ma Yun returned to China and made his first public remarks on ChatGPT, emphasizing, "We must use artificial intelligence to solve problems, not be controlled by artificial intelligence. Although human physical strength and brainpower cannot match machines, machines only have a 'chip,' while people have a 'heart'" (News source:36Kr）
March 27
- According to Xinhua News Agency, in order to implement the national "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan," the Ministry of Science and Technology, together with the Natural Science Foundation of China, recently launched a special deployment for "AI for Science." (News source:Xinhua Net）
- The conferencing software Zoom introduced the Zoom IQ AI assistant to help participants with AI-generated meeting summaries, message drafts, generated whiteboards, meeting recaps, and more. (News source:zoom.us）
March 24
- OpenAI made a major update: ChatGPT can now access the internet, and OpenAI introduced a plugin mechanism for ChatGPT. At present, the first batch of plugins is provided by Expedia, FiscalNote, Instacart, KAYAK, Zapier, and others. Users and developers can join the waitlist, and access will be opened gradually (News source:openai.com）
March 23
- GitHub announced Copilot X, officially integrating its AI programming assistantCopilotwith GPT-4, adding the chat feature Copilot Chat for the first time (News source:github.blog）
- Mozilla (the company behind the Firefox browser) announced it will invest 30 million USD in Mozilla.ai to build a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem. (News source:mozilla.org）
- Kingsoft Office explicitly stated that WPS Office will integrate OpenAI's GPT-4 in the future
March 22
- Google opened testing for its chatbotBard, and currently the tool is not integrated with its search engine, but is a separate page; users in the United States and the United Kingdom can join a waitlist for access (news source:huxiu.com）
- NVIDIA's CEO announced at the GTC conference a GPU dedicated to AI and ChatGPT, with a leap in computing power and reducing the processing cost of large language models by an order of magnitude, saying "the iPhone moment of AI has arrived" (news source:huxiu.com）
- Microsoft's AI search engine Bing integrated OpenAI's image generation modelDALL·E, allowing users to enter text in the chat interface to generate images (news source:ithome.com）
March 21
- Adobe announcedFirefly, allowing users to generate images and 3D text through AI; the tool is currently in beta testing and can be accessed on its website, with plans to later introduce generative AI into the Adobe Creative Cloud suite (news source:adobe.com）
- Runwayreleased a new video generation model GEN-2, allowing users to generate videos from text, images, or text + images (news source:research.runwayml.com）