Abstract: According to reports from Wall Street, Meta announced its second-quarter financial results today. The financial report shows that its operating income in the second quarter was approximately US$32 billion, an increase of 11% year-on-year. In terms of business, Meta’s two major businesses continue to have mixed results. Revenue from Meta’s “family of apps,” which includes Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and other services, accelerated to double-digit growth in the second quarter. Including AR and VR-related hardware, software and content, the metaverse-related business “Reality Labs” (Reality Labs) experienced an unexpected decline in revenue, and its losses expanded more than expected.
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Chengdu provides special subsidies for blockchain and big data industries, with a maximum one-time grant of 2 million yuan
According to a report by Chengdu Daily on July 27, the “Chengdu City Construction of a National Blockchain Innovation Application Comprehensive Pilot Special Policy Implementation Rules” and “Chengdu City Special Policy Implementation Rules for Promoting the Development of Big Data Industry (Revised)” were released recently, supporting Related industry development.
In terms of deepening the application of blockchain scenarios, enterprises are encouraged to carry out application demonstrations around the key tasks of the “Chengdu National Comprehensive Pilot Program of Blockchain Innovation and Application”. A one-time subsidy of 1 million yuan; in terms of promoting high-quality industrial development, a one-time subsidy of up to 2 million yuan will be given according to 20% of the actual input cost for the construction of blockchain technology evaluation institutions that have obtained qualification certification at or above the provincial level and provide services to the outside world. subsidy. Support enterprises to develop foreign markets. For enterprises whose annual sales revenue of blockchain business exceeds 50 million yuan, 100 million yuan, 500 million yuan, and 1 billion yuan for the first time, they will be given 100,000 yuan, 300,000 yuan, 500,000 yuan, and 100,000 yuan respectively. A one-time reward of 1 million yuan; in terms of creating a good development ecology, 1 million yuan, 500,000 yuan, 300,000 yuan, and 100,000 yuan will be given to enterprises or institutions that lead the compilation of international, national, industry, and group blockchain standards. Yuan one-time reward.
UFIDA releases enterprise service model YonGPT
According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on July 27, UFIDA released YonGPT, a large model of enterprise services. According to the official introduction, YonGPT is an important component of Yonyou’s business innovation platform - Yonyou BIP. It can adapt to the industry’s mainstream general-purpose language model at the bottom layer, and realize business operations, human-computer interaction, and knowledge Generation and application of enterprise intelligence in four aspects.
The overseas version of WPS AI is open for public testing, with large model support provided by OpenAI and PaLM2
According to the “Kechuangban Daily” report on July 27, the overseas version of WPS Office’s intelligent office assistant WPS AI officially launched a public beta (wps.ai). It is understood that the overseas version of WPS AI is supported by large models provided by OpenAI and PaLM2. Currently, WPS AI is available on the text and PDF components of WPS Office on Windows and Android. In the future, it will also be embedded into the four major components of text, presentation, form and PDF.
Meta will charge for reselling Llama2 to large cloud service providers such as Microsoft, Amazon or Google
Meta plans to profit from the resale of Llama2 artificial intelligence large-scale language models from major cloud computing companies, according to a July 27 report from the Kechuangban Daily. Llama2 is open, but in addition to making the technology open source, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a quarterly earnings call that Meta included a clause that the largest cloud computing companies would not receive free licenses to use it. Instead, a commercial agreement must be reached with Meta. “Companies like Microsoft, Amazon or Google basically resell services, and I think we should get some revenue from that,” Zuckerberg said.
Japanese media: The Japanese government will use ChatGPT technology to handle administrative affairs
According to Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Microsoft will provide ChatGPT technology to the Japanese government for paperwork and analysis, including drafting responses to parliamentary inquiries. To process classified information, Microsoft recently installed high-processing capacity equipment for generative artificial intelligence in data centers in Tokyo and Osaka, the first deployment of the technology in Asia.
OpenAI founder launched “World Coin” caused controversy due to privacy issues
According to China Times, WorldCoin, a Web3 encryption project co-founded by OpenAI founder Sam Altman, was officially launched recently. It is reported that the Worldcoin team has designed a biometric authentication system called World ID, which uses the eye scanner Orb to verify identity by scanning the user’s iris. Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has warned about Worldcoin’s technology, saying its iris-scanning hardware and biometric data collection practices raise major privacy concerns. Since scan results are stored in the company’s database, iris scans can reveal even more information. In addition, Worldcoin also faces the contradictions of regulatory intervention and data processing. According to the EU GDPR regulations, any data that operates in the EU or involves EU residents is subject to EU supervision, and failure to adequately protect data will result in fines.
Stability AI announces the first official release of Stable Diffusion XL 1.0
According to a report from IT House on July 27, Stability AI has announced the launch of the first official version 1.0 of Stable Diffusion XL. Stability AI claims that Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 is the company’s “most advanced” AI tool to date.
It is reported that version 1.0 of Stable Diffusion XL is released as open source on GitHub. In addition, Stability AI has released consumer applications ClipDrop and DreamStudio. Images are “more vibrant” in color and “more accurate” in content, with better contrast, shadows, and lighting.
Version 1.0 of Stable Diffusion XL contains 3.5 billion parameters and can generate full images of multiple aspect ratios “in seconds,” Joe Penna, Stability AI’s director of applied machine learning, said in an interview. As previously reported, Stability AI tested the SDXL 1.0 version, and the image generation is more stable and efficient.
The Android version of ChatGPT has been downloaded 1 million times in one day
According to a report by Webmaster’s Home on July 27, data shows that the Android version of ChatGPT reached 1 million downloads in one day after it was launched, surpassing the 230,000 downloads when the iOS version was released at the time.
It was previously reported that ChatGPT’s popularity among users was declining, but these data show mixed results. It’s worth noting that the decline in ChatGPT’s web traffic coincides with the release of the iOS app and the arrival of the school summer holidays, and these figures do not include mobile app usage. This means that we may see more reports misinterpreting the data and thinking that ChatGPT’s popularity has declined. Demand for the app is clearly higher among Android users, and the late launch shows the app’s persistence. As previously reported, the ChatGPT Android version is now available for download in the United States, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil.
Perfect World Games CEO Lu Xiaoyin: Generative AI has increased the company’s work efficiency by about 50%
According to news from IT House on July 27, at the 2023 CDEC Summit Forum, the official concurrent conference of ChinaJoy held today, Lu Xiaoyin, co-CEO and president of Perfect World and CEO of Perfect World Games, said that generative AI has increased the company’s work efficiency by 50%. % about.
Lu Xiaoyin introduced that the game content of Perfect World can now realize the intelligence of NPCs. Through the training of NPC expressions, voices, dialogues, etc., dialogues with players in different emotions and environments can be realized, and the game experience can be improved. In addition, Lu Xiaoyin also said that in terms of production link optimization, AI can also speed up work efficiency in planning, programming, art, etc., shorten the development cycle, and reduce game production costs.
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AutogenAI, an AI generation tool for writing bids, gets $22.3 million in funding
According to a TechCrunch report on July 27, London-based AI startup AutogenAI received a $22.3 million investment from Blossom Capital. The new funding will be used to hire more talent, expand the platform and grow its customer base. The investment values AutogenAI at about “hundreds of millions of dollars,” the people said. The company had previously raised about $3.5 million. It is reported that the company has built a tool based on generative artificial intelligence, which it claims can help companies write stronger tenders, thereby improving the hit rate. As a measure of AutogenAI’s success, it has managed to land 28 clients since it opened less than a year ago.
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After catching up with the trend in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) to catch up with other Silicon Valley giants in the first quarter, Facebook’s parent company Meta continued to focus on AI, using AI technology to improve digital advertising positioning capabilities. In the second quarter, the company’s profit performance was stronger than Wall Street expectations, and its revenue was higher than expected. Fast growth.
“Netease Youdao has released a large educational model “Ziyue”, how many points can you get in the test”
On the afternoon of July 26, 2023, NetEase Youdao held a press conference on the application results of Youdao’s “Ziyue” educational large-scale model in Beijing. At the meeting, NetEase Youdao released a large-scale model “Ziyue” for the vertical education industry. CEO Zhou Feng and the R&D team shared the large-scale model’s multiple capabilities in translation, calculation, and question-and-answer, as well as its advantages compared with peers.
