One week at AIGC丨South Korea introduces AI into primary, middle and high school courses, Jiangning High-tech Zone releases a three-year action plan for metaverse industry

The Ministry of Education of South Korea stated that it will introduce artificial intelligence (AI) digital textbooks in primary and secondary schools from 2025; the Yokosuka City Government of Japan will officially use ChatGPT to improve work efficiency; Jiangning District High-tech Zone has released a three-year action plan to accelerate the development of metaverse industries; OpenAI CEO: The AGI era may happen soon, and within the next ten years, the industry may have a super AI system.

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Financing

London venture capital firm IQ Capital raised $400 million, which will be used to invest in "deep technology" fields such as AI and blockchain

According to Pymnt, London-based venture firm IQ Capital announced that it has raised $400 million, which will be used to increase investment in "deep technology" fields, including artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum computing. IQ Capital co-founder and managing partner Max Bautin said deep tech companies will have a "transformative impact" in the coming years.

AIGC's automated design service provider "Collov" completed nearly 10 million US dollars in Series A financing

According to 36 Krypton’s report on June 12, AIGC’s automated design service provider “Collov” has recently completed a round of financing of nearly 10 million US dollars. This round led the investment by Fang Detao Capital, the old shareholder Amoeba Capital, followed by Jiangmen Venture Capital, Taihill Venture, a Boston-based deep technology investment fund, and Xinghan Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. The financing amount will be mainly used for technology research and development and market expansion.

AI digital human service provider FOCO received tens of millions of angel round financing

According to the "Kechuang Board Daily" report on June 7, recently, FOCO, a provider of AI digital human solutions, completed tens of millions of yuan in angel round financing, which was exclusively led by Sinovation Ventures. The financing will be mainly used for the construction of the technical team and the research and development of the underlying technology.

Fengtai Technology received 120 million yuan in B+ round of financing

According to Jinshi's report on June 6, recently, Fengtai Technology completed a B+ round of financing of 120 million yuan, and the investors were Sinochem Fund and China Mobile Beijing Fund, a subsidiary of China Mobile. This round of financing will be mainly used to promote technological innovation, product development and market expansion around the company's strategic layout of "industrial security + industrial software + industrial AI".

Mushroom completed a new round of financing of tens of millions of yuan

According to a report from the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on June 12, Mushroom, a provider of intelligent social marketing solutions in the financial vertical sector, has recently completed a new round of financing of tens of millions of yuan, jointly invested by Dewu Capital and Fukun Ventures. Shenzhen Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor. This round of financing will be mainly used for the research and development of AI digital intelligent assistant products driven by large models, as well as the expansion of cross-financial market segments, and further extend from the securities industry to institutional customers such as funds, futures, and banks.

Zhuoshi Zhitong received tens of millions of yuan in Pre-B round of financing

According to a report from the "Kechuang Board Daily" on June 12, Zhuoshi Zhitong, a multi-modal artificial intelligence-based fusion perception and vehicle-road collaboration service provider, announced that it has completed tens of millions of yuan in the Pre-B round of financing. This round of financing is managed by Haoshuo. Ear Fund led the investment, followed by Yaotu Capital. The funds will be mainly used for product market expansion, new technology research and development such as AI large models, and the construction of AI training platforms.

Shanghai Film released the "Cultural Creation + Technological Innovation" accelerator, planning to invest 300 million in 3 years to incubate technology projects such as AIGC, VR/AR/MR

According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report, on June 8, at the Shanghai Film City SHO Future Sea Forum, Wang Jianer, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Shanghai Film Group, announced that the Shanghai Film Art Center and the "Shanghai Film New Vision Fund" Co-launched the "Cultural Creation + Technological Innovation" accelerator plan and will invest 300 million in the next 3 years to support the incubation and implementation of cutting-edge technology projects in the cultural industry. The 300 million funds will focus on innovative enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the cultural industry chain, including cutting-edge technologies such as AIGC, big data, web3.0, VR/AR/MR, and "Metaverse", as well as innovative experience scenarios integrating technology and IP.

big model

Qingbo Intelligent released the first real-time access to the whole network structured data large model "Ask first"

According to the Science and Technology Board Daily, on June 10, at the site of the 2023 Yuan Universe Industry Talent Summit Forum and AIGC Development Conference in Jiangning, China, Tsingbo Intelligent released the first large-scale model "First Ask" that accesses the structured data of the entire network in real time . It is understood that the large model is based on 200 billion open-source datasets and millions of professional artificial datasets. It has the characteristics of data traceability, real-time synchronization, visual analysis, multi-parameter version, and supports localized deployment.

National University of Singapore releases AI arithmetic model GOAT

According to news from IT House on June 7, recently, researchers at the National University of Singapore launched the Goat model, saying that the model is "specifically used for arithmetic problems." "After fine-tuning the LLaMA model, Goat achieved arithmetically higher accuracy and better performance than GPT-4," the researchers said.

SenseTime and Shanghai AI Lab released the "Scholar·Puyu" model

According to SenseTime, recently, SenseTime, Shanghai AI Lab, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fudan University, and Shanghai Jiaotong University released a language model with hundreds of billions of parameters, "Scholar·Puyu" (InternLM). "Scholar Puyu" has 104 billion parameters and is trained on a multilingual high-quality data set containing 1.6 trillion tokens. The comprehensive evaluation results show that "Scholar·Puyu" not only performed well in multiple test tasks such as knowledge mastery, reading comprehension, mathematical reasoning, and multilingual translation, but also has a strong comprehensive ability, so he performed outstandingly in the comprehensive test , which surpassed ChatGPT in many Chinese exams, including the data sets of various subjects in the Chinese college entrance examination.

Offcn Education and Xinhuanet launched a full 3D Digital Homo sapiens and a large model of the vocational education industry

According to Jinshi's report on June 12, Offcn Education and Xinhuanet jointly launched a 3D model of Sapiens and the vocational education industry. Offcn Education said that based on AI technology and natural language processing technology, the three-dimensional digital intelligent person, "one teacher can complete the work of 1,000 teachers", can effectively expand the teaching coverage of famous teachers, and greatly improve efficiency and reduce costs . At the peak of Offcn Education, there were more than 60,000 employees on the job. Artificial intelligence has a huge room for improving the profitability of Offcn Education.

Samsung is developing a large AI language model and has invested all the company's GPU resources

Babbitt News, June 9th, according to the Chosun Ilbo report, it has been confirmed that Samsung is fully developing its own AI large language model (LLM) for internal use. This product is similar to ChatGPT. It has been developed since June and is led by Samsung Research Institute. . Sources said that almost all of Samsung's GPU computing resources have been invested in large-scale model training. The company plans to complete the development of the first version of LLM within two months. At present, Samsung plans to use this large model for document summary, software development and language translation, and has not yet decided whether to provide the product to consumers.

application

Carrefour launched a chatbot based on ChatGPT for online shopping

According to the Wall Street Journal on June 8, French grocer Carrefour has deployed a chatbot based on OpenAI's ChatGPT technology, using cooperation with Microsoft, OpenAI and Bain & Company to introduce generative artificial intelligence into its online shopping platform.

Kanagawa Prefecture Government took the lead in using ChatGPT in administrative work

According to China Business News, Japanese media have reported that the government of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan took the lead in using ChatGPT in administrative work, thus becoming the first government department in Japan to use ChatGPT. In the previous trial operation, about 4,000 civil servants of the Yokosuka City Government tried to use ChatGPT for "meeting minutes" and "policy formulation" and other official duties to verify ChatGPT's ability in administrative work. Katsuaki Kamiji, Mayor of Yokosuka, said: "It is the first case in Japan to fully introduce ChatGPT into local government for public affairs... It is very important to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) in civilian work, which can effectively reduce labor costs. Now we Finally got this great tool."

Google launched a new AI tool Imagen Editor, which can recreate pictures

According to news from IT House on June 10, Google recently launched a generative AI tool called Imagen Editor, which can perform secondary creation on the basis of existing pictures according to the text requirements entered by users. Google said that as a responsible company, it is not yet fully prepared for security issues and will not release Imagen Editor to the public for the time being.

Adobe upgrades Express, a free graphic design tool, to integrate Firefly AI technology

Babbitt News, on June 9, Adobe announced that it has upgraded the free graphic design tool Adobe Express by integrating Firefly AI technology. Express users can enter text prompts and use AI to improve and generate image and text effects to create content such as posters, flyers and posts.

Meta showcases self-developed generative AI tools, which can edit pictures and chat emoticons in one sentence

According to Reuters, Meta yesterday showed employees a series of generative AI tools it is building, including the launch of ChatGPT-like chatbots for Messenger and WhatsApp that support multiple languages. Company executives who spoke at the plenary session also showcased new AI features coming to Instagram, including editing photos posted by users with text prompts and creating emoji stickers for the messaging service, according to a summary of the meeting provided by a Meta spokesperson.

Baidu may launch a new AI dialogue software "Wanhua"

According to Tech Planet, Baidu plans to launch a brand-new AI dialogue software, using one-to-one conversational chat scenes, called "Wanhua". "Company" has applied to register Wanhua software copyright. It is worth noting that Li Xiaowan, general manager of Baidu Information Distribution Platform, said at the Baidu Vientiane Conference held in May this year that a new AI product will appear in the future.

policy

Jiangning District High-tech Zone released the "Jiangning High-tech Zone to Accelerate the Three-Year Action Plan for the Development of Metaverse Industry (2023-2025)"

According to Dongfang.com, on June 10, at the China Jiangning 2023 Metaverse Industry Talent Summit Forum and AIGC Development Conference, the Jiangning District High-tech Zone released the "Jiangning High-tech Zone to Accelerate the Development of the Metaverse Industry Three-Year Action Plan (2023-2025)" 》, clarify development goals, focus on six key tasks, strengthen financial guarantees, and promote the in-depth development of the metaverse industry through a series of measures such as resource integration, policy empowerment, and talent leadership, and inject new momentum into the high-quality development of Jiangning High-tech Zone.

South Korea: Introduce AI into primary, middle and high school courses from 2025, and achieve full coverage by 2028

According to the Financial Associated Press, citing South Korea’s Asia Daily, the South Korean Ministry of Education stated that in order to meet the growing demand for diverse learning content, artificial intelligence (AI) digital textbooks will be introduced in primary and secondary schools from 2025.

Beginning in the spring of 2025, students in the third and fourth grades of primary schools in South Korea, as well as the first and first graders of junior high school will use Chinese, mathematics, English, and information technology AI textbooks, and plan to expand the application subjects and grades every year, and achieve full coverage by 2028.

South Korea plans to expand AI courses to subjects such as society, science, family economics, and science and technology in 2026; to include history courses in 2027; and to fully implement AI courses in addition to practical courses such as sports, music, and art in 2028.

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OpenAI CEO: There should be an agency similar to the United Nations nuclear watchdog to control AI

According to news from IT House on June 8, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (Sam Altman) warned during his visit to the United Arab Emirates that AI poses an "existential risk" to humans and suggested setting up an international nuclear organization similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency. International agency (IAEA) to oversee AI.

Hong Kong Stock Exchange CEO: Any AI company that wants to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will encourage them to apply

According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on June 8, Nicolas Aguzin, CEO of Hong Kong Exchange Group, said at the 14th Lujiazui Forum that AI is not your choice whether to use it or not. You have to keep up with the pace and keep pace with the times , research AI, to protect your market from the risks of misuse of technology. If any AI company, including OpenAI, wants to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, we will encourage them to apply, and we hope they can meet our listing requirements.

Singapore Deputy Prime Minister: AI will disrupt the labor market, but it will not cause jobs to disappear

According to a Netease Technology report on June 7, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Huang Xuncai said that new technologies, including artificial intelligence, will disrupt the labor market, but will not completely eliminate employment opportunities.

Science and technology can actually improve human productivity and create more jobs, he told the Tech Asia x Singapore summit on Tuesday. Regulators need to provide "comprehensive support" in matching people to jobs and skills training, he added. "This will require a coordinated and proactive approach from government, industry and skills training organisations," Mr Wong said.

OpenAI CEO: Super AI system may be born within ten years

According to Jinshi data news, on June 10, OpenAI co-founder and CEO, Sam Altman (Sam Altman) appeared in the 2023 Zhiyuan Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Beijing, China through a video connection. In an air-to-air dialogue with Zhang Hongjiang, chairman of Zhiyuan Research Institute, Altman said that the AGI era may happen soon. In the next ten years, the industry may have a super AI system. In this case, the global regulatory It is very urgent. AI security is the latest technology, not only the security of the AI model itself, but also the security of the entire system needs to be considered. Therefore, it is necessary to build secure classifiers and detectors to monitor compliance with user policies.

Musk: Nvidia will not monopolize the AI training and reasoning market forever

Babbitt News, on June 7, Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora, a social question-and-answer website, tweeted that one reason for the underestimation of the artificial intelligence boom is the shortage of GPU/TPU, which has led to product launches and model training. "What we're seeing is Nvidia's stock price soaring. Once the supply meets the demand, things will accelerate." In response, Musk responded: "Indeed. In addition, many other neural network accelerator chips are also in development. .Nvidia will not monopolize the large-scale training and inference market forever."

Shi Yuzhu, Chairman of Giant Network: Only the game field can see the economic benefits of AI in the short term

According to the Securities Times report on June 12, Shi Yuzhu, chairman of Giant Network, attended an event recently and talked about artificial intelligence. He said that there are many discussions about artificial intelligence at present, and artificial intelligence must be the trend and direction of the future. "In China, I think there are a lot of artificial intelligence, but the results can be seen within two or three years, especially in the game field, and many other fields cannot bear fruit in the short term. But games only need to spend If you put your mind to it and do it, it will surely blossom and bear fruit soon.”

Light Media Wang Changtian: AI may increase the efficiency of animation film production by 30%

According to China Securities Journal, on the morning of June 10, Wang Changtian, chairman of Enlight Media, said at the opening forum of the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival that technology will bring changes to two aspects of film. The first is that AI will drive changes in filmmaking, especially animated films. He predicted that AI may increase the efficiency of the entire production cycle of animated films by 30%. The second is that VR will change the way movies are shown in the future. "In the future, if you buy a movie ticket, you can choose to go to the cinema to watch it, or you can choose to watch it on your own VR, and you can see the effect comparable to the movie theater at home."

Research Report

Report: Over 100 million people will be working with generative AI by 2026

According to the "Kechuang Board Daily" report on June 5, UBS analyst Michael Briest recently quoted a report from Gartner that within the next few years, generative AI will have a significant impact on pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, media, architecture, interior design, Huge impact in engineering, automotive, aerospace, defense, medical, electronics and energy industries. According to a Gartner report, generative AI will further accelerate enterprise innovation between now and 2027. By 2025, more than 30% of new drugs and new materials will be discovered by generative AI; at the same time, the use of comprehensive data will reduce the total amount of real data required for machine learning by 70%; 30% of marketing information in large organizations will be generated by AI. By 2026, more than 100 million people will work with generative AI to perform their duties; by 2027, nearly 15% of new applications will be automatically generated by AI without human participation.

Analyst: Microsoft's embedded AI revenue growth of 100 billion US dollars

According to "Kechuangban Daily" citing Juheng.com, Evercore ISI analyst Kirk Materne wrote in a research report that by 2027, by adding AI capabilities to its product portfolio, Microsoft could generate $100 billion in revenue in the most optimistic scenario. revenue growth. Materne said AI will ultimately affect every industry and region, and that Microsoft is uniquely positioned as platforms shift to AI over the next few years.

Survey: The usage rate of AI chatbots is much lower than people think, in fact, not so many people are using ChatGPT

According to a report by IT House on June 12, according to a survey by Morgan Stanley, the usage rate of artificial intelligence chatbots is much lower than people think. The survey, which polled 2,000 people in April, focused on the use of artificial intelligence. It turned out that only 19 percent of respondents had used the ChatGPT chatbot, and an even lower 9 percent had used Google's Bard chatbot. And the vast majority of respondents who have not used chatbots say they are unlikely to use them in the next six months.

** Morgan Stanley: AI popularization speed may be faster than PC, AI-centered productivity revolution may be more global than PC revolution **

According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report, Morgan Stanley (Morgan Stanley) released a report on June 6 showing that AI has spawned many innovations, although there is no clear statistical data showing the impact of AI on productivity. But technology adoption is not linear. As time goes on, the adoption rate of new technologies will become faster and faster. New technologies such as AI may be adopted faster than the personal computer (PC) revolution, and the AI-centric productivity revolution may be faster than the PC revolution. global.