AI Tool Collection adopts a three-issue-per-month format, updating the latest AI industry news daily. This issue is the collection of AI industry news for May Issue 3 (May 21 to May 31).
May 31
- Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li announced during the JPMorgan Global China Summit that Baidu will establish a 1 billion yuan Baidu Wenxin Investment Fund, aimed at promoting the prosperity of the large model ecosystem, and at the same time launch the "Wenxin Cup" startup competition, with the top prize being an early-stage investment worth 10 million yuan. (Read the full article:ITHome）
- Researchers from DeepMind, Princeton University and Stanford University recently proposed an innovative framework called LATM (LLMs As Tool Makers), which can transform large language models like GPT-4 such aslarge language modelsinto tool makers (that is, letting the model generate software tools itself to handle new tasks). (Read the full article:ITHome）
- DingTalk slash "/"Tongyi large modelconnected to Alibaba CloudDingTalk slash "/", today invited enterprise users in a targeted way to experience it, officially starting small-scale invitation testing. (Read the full article:DingTalk Official Account）
- "Instant AI" launched by Instant Design now supports generating Web pages and one-click publishing and launch of design drafts. All modifications to the design draft can be synchronized and updated to the webpage. Everyone can easily get started, and even without code, making webpages is easy. (Read the full article:Instant Design Official Account）
May 30
- Breaking! An important open letter has emerged in the AI field — reducing the risk of AI extinction should, like other society-scale risks (such as pandemics and nuclear war), become a global priority. Including "father of ChatGPT" Sam Altman, AI and deep learning expertsGeoffrey HintonandYoshua Bengio, 350 AI authorities have signed this joint open letter, and are concerned that AI technologies currently under development may pose an existential threat to humanity. (Read the full article:iFanr Official Account）
- Game studio Luden.io recently launched a new game called "Generated Adventure". The biggest highlight of this game is that the art style design, plot, characters, scenes and background music are completely created by AI tools such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and ChatGPT. (Read the full article:ITHome）
- Well-known product design collaboration platform "MockingBot" launched "MockingBot AI", which can help users generate prototype pages, generate basic prototype components, AI assistant conversations, intelligent text filling, etc. (Read the full article:MockingBot Official Account）
- BHP Group said on Tuesday that it has reached a cooperation with Microsoft to improve the copper recovery rate at its Escondida copper mine in Chile through the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This copper mine is also the largest copper mine in the world. (Read the full article:ITHome）
May 29
- Famous director James Cameron revealed that he is writing the script for the next "Terminator", and this time the inspiration comes from the rise of AI in the real world, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT. (Read the full article:36Kr）
- SenseTime and Tsinghua release the generalist agent "Ghost in the Minecraft" (GITM) to play Minecraft. In survival mode, it starts from scratch, obtains all items in the overworld, mining diamonds is no challenge, and it can even craft enchanted books! (Read the full article:Machine Heart）
- NVIDIA announced on its official website that it will provide a custom AI model foundry service — Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for Games, which can develop AI models running on the cloud and PC. Developers can use this service to build and deploy customized voice, dialogue, and animation AI models in their software and games. (Read the full article:ITHome）
- NVIDIA announced the launch of a new large-memory AI supercomputer — the NVIDIA DGX™ supercomputer powered by the NVIDIA® GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip and NVIDIA NVLink® Switch System, aimed at helping develop giant, next-generation models for generative AI language applications, recommender systems, and data analytics workloads. (Read the full article:The Paper）
May 28
- At today's 2023 Zhongguancun Forum, Sinovation Ventures Chairman Li Kaifu made predictions about the short- and medium-term of AI 2.0. He said that powerful large models will completely transform artificial intelligence, and more training data will bring greater power, but at the same time, high-quality data is very important. Future large models will have multimodal functions and the ability to execute tasks. But Li Kaifu also said that AI 2.0 may create false information, and this flaw cannot be completely eliminated. (Read the full article:ITHome）
- At Meituan's first-quarter earnings call, Meituan founder Wang Xing said he firmly believes AI will change every aspect of our lives, and the application of AI is by no means limited to the mobile phone or internet industry. Meituan's internal team is currently also committed to building its own foundational models and related applications. (Read the full article:ITHome）
May 27
- Zhihu, together with ModelBest, released the latest large language model results at the "2023 China International Big Data Industry Expo." Zhihu partner and Chief Technology Officer Li Dahai announced that Zhihu's model application "Search Aggregation" would begin beta testing that day, that the Chinese foundational large model CPM-Bee 10b developed by ModelBest would be fully open-sourced, and released the dialogue model product "ModelBest Luca." (Read the full article:ITHome）
- Google has begun rolling out a new feature called Magic Compose in its Messages app, which can use artificial intelligence to help users write text messages. (Read the full article:ITHome）
May 26
- In a press release published today, Google invited users to join the Search Labs program to test the new Search Generative Experience integrated with generative AI. At present, this new experience is only open to users registered for the Search Labs program. Interested netizens canclick here, to join the Search Labs waitlist. (Read the full article:ITHome）
- OpenAI announced that it has launched the official ChatGPT app for iPhone and iPad in more than 40 countries and regions. The official version of ChatGPT was first launched in the U.S. market last week, and OpenAI promised to continue expanding to more countries and regions in the coming weeks. (Read the full article:ITHome）
- According to news from app analytics firm Data.AI, ChatGPT surpassed 500,000 downloads within six days of launch, becoming one of the fastest-growing new apps in the U.S. in the past two years. (Read the full article:Machine Heart）
- It is reported that TikTok is testing an AI chatbot called "Tako." The tool can communicate with users about short video-related questions and help them discover content. (Read the full article:TechWeb）
May 25
- Wuhan University announced that the Wuhan University version of the ChatGPT large model "CheeseChat" has opened internal testing recruitment, but only current faculty and students of Wuhan University can apply. The service can provide daily consultations, entry introductions, intelligent translation, life tips, academic assistance, inspiration assistance, and other functions according to user instructions. (Read the full article:IT之家）
- OpenAI announced today that its official chatbot application ChatGPT App has launched in more countries. Last week, OpenAI launched this mobile app for the first time, when it could only be downloaded in the U.S. market. Now users in Europe, South Korea, New Zealand, and other places can also download this app on the App Store. (Read the full article:IT之家）
- During the conference call after Xiaomi's financial report was released, Xiaomi President Lu Weibing said that it will actively embrace large models, but will not make a general-purpose large model like OpenAI. Instead, it will deeply integrate and coordinate with its business and use AI technology to improve internal efficiency. In April of this year, Xiaomi officially formed an AI laboratory large model team. At present, Xiaomi has more than 1,200 R&D personnel in AI-related fields. (Read the full article:界面新闻）
- Intel will join hands with Argonne National Laboratory to use the Aurora supercomputer to develop a generative AI model, Aurora genAI, with as many as 1 trillion parameters, planned for completion in 2024. (Read the full article:ZAKER新闻）
May 24
- Today is Microsoft's show. At the 2023 Microsoft Build conference (May 23-May 25), Microsoft announced a series of AI product updates and feature integrations:
- Microsoft's AI-powered Copilot assistant is coming to the Edge browser. Copilot in Edge can help users complete tasks elsewhere using any website they are currently visiting as context—for example, in Office documents, Outlook email, and anywhere else Microsoft 365 Copilot can access. (Read the full article:The Verge）
- Microsoft announced Windows Copilot, which will add the AI assistant built into the Windows 11 system. Similar to the Copilot sidebar seen in Edge, Office applications, and even GitHub, Windows Copilot will be directly integrated into Windows 11, and all applications and programs can be opened and used from the taskbar. (Read the full article:The Verge）
- OpenAI will begin using Bing as the default search experience for ChatGPT. The new search feature will roll out to ChatGPT Plus users today and will soon be enabled for all free ChatGPT users through plugins in ChatGPT. (Read the full article:The Verge）
- Microsoft will introduce a plugin ecosystem for Microsoft 365 Copilot. A Microsoft executive vice president revealed that three types of Microsoft 365 Copilot plugins will be provided: plugins that leverage OpenAI's ChatGPT technology, Teams message extensions, and Power Platform connectors. (Read the full article:The Verge）
- Microsoft will bring Copilot into its Power Pages low-code website creation tool. Users only need to enter text prompts, and Copilot can generate text, tables, chatbots, and web page layouts, as well as create and edit images and website design themes. (Read the full article:TechCrunch）
- Microsoft is building a natural language AI chatbot into its Windows Terminal application. The upcoming GitHub Copilot Chat experience will be provided to Windows Terminal users. (Read the full article:The Verge）
- Microsoft is making a major AI-centric change to the Microsoft Store: AI-generated review summaries will begin appearing throughout the Microsoft Store, showing the main points of reviews in addition to the usual rating of up to five stars. (Read the full article:The Verge）
May 23
- Adobe Photoshop will introduce its generative AI Firefly, allowing users to quickly expand images and add or remove objects through text prompts. It is reported that the tool will be called Generative Fill, and Photoshop is also one of Adobe's first Creative Cloud apps to use the AI image generator Firefly. (Read the full article:ITHome）
- Meta has launched the Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) open-source project, providing advanced speech-to-text and text-to-speech services for more than 1,100 languages, and supporting nearly 4,000 unlabeled spoken languages. (GitHub project address:MMS: Scaling Speech Technology to 1000+ languages）
- Singer Stefanie Sun responded to the "AI Stefanie Sun" viral phenomenon, saying, "In this boundless sea of existence, anything is possible, anything does not matter. I think having pure thoughts and being yourself is already enough." (Read the full article:ITHome）
- At the 2023 Baidu AI Cloud Partner Conference held in Guangzhou recently, Baidu showcased the latest progress of the "ERNIE" large model in scenario applications and ecosystem development, saying that currently 150,000 enterprises have applied to participate in beta testing, among which more than 300 ecosystem partners have achieved test results in more than 400 specific scenarios. (Read the full article:ITHome）
- Baidu vice president and head of the metaverse product "XiRang," Ma Jie, recently announced his departure. According to the latest news from 36Kr, multiple independent sources say that Ma Jie has joined Innovation Works, founded by Kai-Fu Lee, as vice president, and has established the AIGC (generative AI) company "Beijing Lingyi Wanwu." (Read the full article:36Kr）
May 22
- Neeva, the world's first ad-free privacy-focused search engine, announced that it will shut down its consumer search engine business on June 2, in order to concentrate resources on developing artificial intelligence and large language models. In January of this year, the company launched NeevaAI, answering users' questions through generative AI technology. (Read the full article:ITHome）
- According to the Ping'an Baotou WeChat public account, Baotou police recently released a typical case of using artificial intelligence (AI) to carry out telecom fraud. Guo, the legal representative of a technology company in Fuzhou, was defrauded of 4.3 million yuan within 10 minutes by scammers using AI face-swapping to impersonate his friend. (Read the full article:Cover News）
May 21
- Recently, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, MIT CSAIL, and Google studied a new method for controlling GANs, DragGAN, which allows a lion in an image to open its mouth or an elephant to turn around simply by clicking and dragging the mouse. (Read the full article:QbitAI）
- According to TechCrunch, Apple will hire at least a dozen new generative artificial intelligence (AI) experts. Apple's job postings began appearing on April 27, and the latest postings were released earlier last week, recruiting a series of machine learning experts "passionate about building extraordinary autonomous systems." The positions currently being recruited are in integrated system experience, input experience NLP, machine learning research and development, and the technology development group. (Read the full article:TechWeb）
- According to ASUS official news, ASUS subsidiary Taiwan Web Service recently released the enterprise-level large language model "Formosa Foundation Model" at the AIHPCcon AI Supercomputing Annual Conference. (Read the full article:ITHome）
- According to a recent survey conducted by automation software company UiPath, most employees (about 60%) believe that using artificial intelligence (AI)-driven automation solutions can alleviate job burnout and significantly improve job satisfaction. (Read the full article:IT之家）