Babbitt | Metaverse Daily Must-Read: Tencent’s Hunyuan Large Model has started internal testing, covering a variety of scenarios, and multiple internal business lines have been tested

Abstract: According to 36 Krypton reports, Tencent’s self-developed “Tencent Hunyuan Large Model” has entered the application internal testing stage. Several Tencent employees told 36 Krypton that they have recently received an internal email invitation and can experience the Hunyuan Large Model through the webpage or small program. Model, multiple businesses within Tencent have also been connected to the Hunyuan model for testing.

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iQIYI’s VR company “Dream Bloom” business has stagnated, or more than 100 employees have been owed wages

According to a reporter from Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily from multiple independent sources, the business of Dream Blossom Technology Co., Ltd., a VR company under iQiyi, has stagnated, and a total of more than 100 current and former employees have been owed wages. A person familiar with the matter told the reporter that since March this year, the company has started to delay the payment of wages, most of them paid half, or 70%, and no wages were paid for the whole month in May and July. Another person familiar with the matter said that the company asked all employees to sign a salary delay notice in March, and the salaries of all employees were paid in proportion to their ranks. Wages have been owed for 3 months, and compensation for some laid-off employees has not been paid on time. Many people familiar with the matter said that the company is currently in a difficult situation. Basically, all employees are in arrears of wages. The business has basically stagnated in the past six months. The reporter contacted iQiyi, but has not yet received a response.

Tencent's Hunyuan large model has started to be tested internally, and multiple business lines have been connected to the test

According to 36 Krypton reports, Tencent's self-developed "Tencent Hunyuan Large Model" has entered the application internal testing stage. Many Tencent employees have recently received internal email invitations to experience the Hunyuan Large Model through web pages or small programs. The business has also been connected to the Hunyuan large model for testing.

Aliyun Tongyi Qianwen 7 billion parameter model open source

According to 36 Krypton reports, on August 3, Alibaba Cloud open sourced the 7 billion parameter model of Tongyi Qianwen, including the general model Qwen-7 B and the dialogue model Qwen-7 B-Chat. , free, and commercially available. This move makes Alibaba Cloud the first large-scale technology company in China to join the ranks of large-scale open source.

Meta releases AudioCraft, an open source AI tool that helps users create music and audio

On Wednesday, Eastern Time, Meta released AudioCraft, an open source artificial intelligence (AI) tool that helps users create music and audio based on text prompts. Meta said that this artificial intelligence tool combines AudioGen, EnCodec and MusicGen three models or technologies, and can generate high-quality, lifelike audio and music from text content.

Meta introduced on the official website that MusicGen has received Meta-owned and specially authorized music training to generate music from text prompts, while AudioGen has received public sound effects training and can generate audio from text prompts, such as simulating dog barking or footsteps; Together with an improved version of the EnCodec codec, users can generate higher quality music more efficiently.

Goldman Sachs: Global investment in artificial intelligence could reach $200 billion by 2025

Goldman Sachs said in a report published on Wednesday that artificial intelligence investment in the United States could reach $100 billion by 2025, while global investment in artificial intelligence could reach $200 billion, a rise that could boost boost the overall economy. "Generative AI has enormous economic potential and could boost global labor productivity by more than 1 percentage point per year within a decade of widespread use," the report said.

Qualcomm CEO: The AI model of mobile phone operation is an inflection point to promote the company's future growth

According to Juheng.com, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon emphasized the company's artificial intelligence strategy, saying that Qualcomm's ability to operate AI models on mobile phones rather than on the cloud is a major turning point for the company's future growth. Amon said Qualcomm is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the upcoming on-device generative AI business opportunity.

The world's first Tiangong Space Station metaverse interactive teaching platform is released

Recently, the world's first metaverse interactive teaching platform "Tiangong Space Station Metaverse" with the theme of China's Tiangong Space Station was released in Hong Kong Science Park. Liu Yankai, an associate professor at the School of Design of Jiangnan University, served as the chief designer of this product, allowing the design innovation under the metaverse trend to go from concept to implementation, and actively responding to the principles and policies of digitalization and intelligence in China's education industry. "Tiangong Space Station Metaverse" mainly includes eight course content sections, namely space cycling, space parabolic experiment, space buoyancy experiment, introduction of space plants, introduction of space food, space treadmill exercise, out-of-cabin/up-on robotic arm experience, in-cabin Introduction to the outer earth, and the corresponding experience interaction touchpoints.

Taiwan Economic Daily: Some AI server orders from Nvidia are transferred from Wistron to Fii

According to Taiwan's Economic Daily, Nvidia considered the lack of AI (artificial intelligence) server capacity of its foundry partner Wistron (Wistron Group) and canceled some orders originally scheduled to be given to Wistron, and transferred them to Fii, a subsidiary of Hon Hai Group. . Hon Hai did not comment on the rumors, but an unnamed supplier pointed out that Nvidia did transfer 10% of its orders from Wistron to Fii. The order is for NVIDIA A100 substrate.

The well-known blog site Medium prohibits content completely generated by AI, and needs to mark AI-generated parts

According to a report from the Webmaster's House on August 3, Medium.com, a well-known foreign blog portal, recently announced that they will ban the publication of 100% artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content, insisting that the platform is "the home of human writing."

Medium requires that all AI-generated text must be annotated on Medium, otherwise it will not be displayed. It is said that the current human-assisted filtering system has caught a large amount of artificial intelligence content, after which Medium will stop distributing this content, and other detection methods are being developed. Medium content director Scott Lamb (Scott Lamb) said that AI-assisted writing is "allowed" but no longer "welcome", and that text written entirely by AI is simply not suitable for Medium. "Even at the best of times, AI-generated text is tedious, lacks human intelligence, and is riddled with subtle flaws," he wrote.

Investment and Financing:

Ruoyu Technology has completed 30 million yuan in financing, and Nie Liqiang, Executive Dean of Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) Computer, serves as the chairman

According to AI Technology Review, recently, Ruoyu Technology, established in Shenzhen and positioned as China's leading multi-modal large-scale model developer, has completed 30 million RMB in financing. Sun Teng, Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, is the chief scientist. Zhang Min, the first outstanding young person in the direction of NLP in China, is the assistant principal of Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). The person in charge of investment and financing is Geng Shen, a well-known securities analyst. The scientific research background of Ruoyu mainly comes from the accumulation of large model team of Harbin Institute of Technology, supported by Ruoyu-Harbin Institute of Technology Joint Laboratory, high-level professionals and young talents, and has more than 300 A100 40G graphics card computing power reserve. Ruoyu Technology has released China's first autonomous and controllable multi-modal large-scale model Ruoyu-Jiutian, which performed quite well in many evaluation indicators.

AI chip company Tenstorrent has newly raised $100 million in financing from Hyundai Motor, Samsung, etc.

According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report on August 3, Tenstorrent, a Canadian AI chip start-up company, announced that it has received a new financing of US$100 million, of which US$30 million was raised from Hyundai Motor, US$20 million was raised from Kia Motors, and the remaining US$50 million came from Samsung Catalyst Fund and other investors including Fidelity Ventures, Eclipse Ventures, Epiq Capital and Maverick Capital. It is reported that Tenstorrent has raised $234.5 million before this round of financing, with a valuation of $1 billion. It is one of several upstarts seeking to challenge Nvidia. Company CEO Jim Keller has developed chips for Apple, Tesla and Intel.

AI enterprise-level application service provider Hongji completed a C + round of financing of about US$40 million

According to Jiemian News on August 3, according to the official WeChat account of Huaxing Capital, Hongji, an AI enterprise application service provider, completed a C + round of financing of about US$40 million in July, combined with the US$150 million C round completed by Hongji in 2021. Financing, with a total of nearly 200 million US dollars of financing, setting a record for the highest financing scale in the same industry. China Renaissance Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor for the C + round. Hongji’s current round of financing will be mainly used for the research and development of AIGA (AI Generated Automation) enterprise-level products, industry resource integration and market expansion.

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"200 dollars a month can carry out AI "fraud"? The hacker version of ChatGPT without technical threshold is sweeping the dark web"

On July 13th, WormGPT, a malicious AI tool, was born out of nowhere. With its help, it automatically generated a series of phishing emails, making everyone panic. Seeing that one wave is not flat, another wave rises again. According to security analysis platform Netenrich, an AI tool called FraudGPT has recently been circulating on the dark web and has been used by criminals to write phishing emails and develop malware.

"AI alchemy started from the dolls, surpassing ten provinces"

With the rise of generative AI, capital and talents are flocking in, and the importance of popularizing artificial intelligence-related courses has also been raised to a new height. Previously, driving, English, and computers were known as the three essential skills for young people in the 21st century. Now, knowing AI may be as famous as the above three abilities. Wisdom reported on August 2 that in the past month, many provinces and cities have issued frequent policies and actions for the popularization of artificial intelligence courses.