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TikTok opens data center in Ireland
TikTok issued a statement on September 5, announcing that its first data center in Dublin, Ireland is now operational and has begun migrating European user data to the center. TikTok said two additional data centers in Norway and Ireland are under construction. The statement said that the data of all European users will be stored locally and that UK-based cybersecurity company NCC Group will oversee its data security measures.
Qualcomm Introduces Snapdragon Digital Chassis Solution for Two-Wheelers and New Vehicles
On September 5, Qualcomm Technologies announced that in order to meet the rapidly growing demand for motorcycles, scooters, electric bicycles and a series of new vehicles around the world, Qualcomm Technologies announced the launch of new products for its Snapdragon digital chassis product portfolio. The world's leading two-wheeler manufacturers, first-tier suppliers, module manufacturers and other ecological partners are using the QWM2290 and QWS2290 platforms to build related models.
Alibaba Cloud launches large video generation model
According to news on September 6, Alibaba Cloud launched a new large-scale video generation model I2VGen-XL. The person in charge of R&D of the model said that the model can be applied to short video content production, movie production and other scenarios.
Tencent Hunyuan large model may be released tomorrow
On September 6, according to Tencent Cloud official Weibo news on September 6, Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference will be held on September 7-8. Jiang Jie, Vice President of Tencent Group, will deliver a speech on Tencent’s Hunyuan model.
SoftBank's Arm-Apple partnership extends beyond 2040
According to news on September 6, SoftBank’s chip design company Arm publicly submitted a registration statement in Form F-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for listing. According to the statement, the company has reached a new version of the long-term agreement with Apple that extends beyond 2040, continuing its long-term partnership with Apple and enabling Apple to use the Arm architecture.
Tesla sues Xiaomi's holding company Ice Zero Technology for infringement of technical secrets and unfair competition
According to news on September 5, Tianyancha showed that Tesla (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., as the plaintiff, sued Bingling Intelligent Technology (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. for infringement of technical secrets and unfair competition disputes. It will be held on October 10, 2023. The trial was held at the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court.
WPS AI is officially open to the public
On September 5, Kingsoft Office officially announced that WPS AI was officially open to the public. AI capabilities were first applied to WPS smart documents, and more WPS AI capabilities will be opened to other components. Users can experience WPS smart documents in the latest version of WPS client/APP, Kingsoft Document applet/official website. WPS smart document based on WPS AI is a new generation of online content collaborative editing product under Kingsoft Office, supporting functions such as content generation, expression optimization, document understanding and processing. Kingsoft Office CEO Zhang Qingyuan said, "With the support of large models such as Wen Xinyiyan, the disruptive transformation of office software has begun. In the future, we only need to tell WPS what we want to do, and the function will be realized directly."
Research by the Google team proves that AI annotation has reached human level
According to news on September 5, the latest research of the Google team proposes to use large models to replace humans for preference annotation, which is AI feedback reinforcement learning (RLAIF). It was found that RLAIF can produce comparable improvements to RLHF without relying on human annotators, with a winning rate of 50%. At the same time, Google research once again proved that RLAIF and RLHF have a winning rate of more than 70% compared to supervised fine-tuning (SFT).
Samsung officially applied for US chip subsidies, and the construction of the Taylor factory accelerated
According to news on September 6, Samsung Electronics has completed its application for a subsidy from the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act and is expected to receive subsidies as soon as 2023 to assist in the construction of the Taylor wafer fab.
Zero Points has released the "Zero Point Model" large model, which has five major functions including smart business analysis
According to news on September 6, Lingdian Youshu released the "Lingdian Model" large model, which has five major functions: intelligent consultation and question answering, intelligent summary extraction, intelligent operation assistant, intelligent strategy assistant, and intelligent business analysis. "Zero Point Model" covers Zhizheng Model and Shushang Model. The former mainly serves government customers and the latter mainly serves commercial customers. The two share technical foundations to a large extent, but each has its own characteristics.
Alimama releases AI commercialization strategy
According to news on September 6, Alimama m summit released the AI commercialization strategy, as well as two new products of Alimama Bailing and Wanxiangtai Unbounded Edition. New technological innovation brings three major inclusive capabilities: AI creativity, AI decision-making power, and AI delivery power, which meet the decision-making, delivery, production and other needs of merchants in the entire business process, and help merchants achieve simple operations. Also released simultaneously are the new business growth opportunities of "Taoxi's three centers (stores, live broadcasts, and content), which will explode frequently throughout the year."
Sugon releases integrated capacity storage plan
According to news on September 6, Sugon released an integrated storage solution that can provide users with multi-scenario support and support the free flow of data across regions and intelligent operation and maintenance management. In addition, Sugon Storage combines liquid cooling technology with storage facilities to build a storage and computing one-stack liquid cooling solution for data centers. It is understood that the integrated storage solution is based on the actual needs in the construction of the Western (Chongqing) Science City Advanced Data Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Advanced Data Center"). As a Chengdu-Chongqing hub node demonstration project of the Eastern Digital and Western Computing Project, the advanced data center is also a national integrated big data center collaborative innovation system demonstration project, with breakthroughs in localization rate, green energy saving and other aspects.
AntChain will release a new Web3 brand to provide technical solutions for Hong Kong, China and overseas markets
On September 6, at the upcoming Bund Conference, AntChain will release a new Web3 brand. The brand will provide Web3 technology solutions for Hong Kong, China and overseas markets, focusing on security and compliance technology products.
Microsoft will jointly launch AI and cloud services with G42 companies in the United Arab Emirates
According to news on September 5, Microsoft is increasing its cooperation with G42, a UAE technology company headquartered in Abu Dhabi, and plans to develop cross-sector artificial intelligence technology and provide cloud infrastructure with it in the UAE. The companies said the move would enable the public sector and a number of other industries in the UAE to use cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities on Microsoft Azure and help them comply with local privacy and regulatory requirements.
Previously, on August 30, Inception, a subsidiary of G42, had just released Jais, an open source Arabic large-scale language model developed in cooperation with Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and others. The model contains 13 billion parameters. It was trained on the Condor Galaxy, an AI supercomputer launched in partnership with the company Cerebras Systems.
WeChat launched the Tencent Hunyuan Assistant Mini Program, which is only available to invited users
According to news on September 6, Li Qiang, vice president of Tencent Group, said that Tencent’s self-developed Hunyuan large model will be officially released in the near future. Before the official release, WeChat has launched the Tencent Hunyuan Assistant applet. Official information shows that the applet is a multi-modal dialogue bot product of Tencent Hunyuan large model, which can answer various questions. At present, the Tencent Hunyuan Assistant applet is still in internal beta, and only invited users can experience it, but according to the interface, this is an assistant capable of intelligent conversation.
According to the introduction of the mini program, the functions of Tencent Hunyuan Assistant include AI Q&A and AI painting, which can answer various questions and handle a variety of tasks, such as acquiring knowledge, solving mathematical problems, translating, providing travel guides, work suggestions, etc.
It is reported that many members of the Meta LLaMA project have resigned due to internal computing power struggles
On September 6, according to The Information, sources stated that most of Meta’s personnel involved in the LLaMA project have resigned due to an internal struggle between another Meta research team and the LLaMA team’s computational resources.
Huawei will hold the Global Connection Conference on September 20, and Meng Wanzhou will give a keynote speech
According to news on September 6, the Huawei Full Connectivity Conference 2023 will be held in Shanghai from September 20 to 22. The conference will be themed "Accelerating Industry Intelligence" and invite thought leaders, business elites, technical experts, partners, developers, etc. Colleagues in the industry discussed how to accelerate industry intelligence from the aspects of business, industry, and ecology. The agenda of the meeting shows that Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's Vice Chairman, Rotating Chairman, and CFO, and Wang Tao, Huawei's Managing Director, Director of the ICT Infrastructure Management Committee, and President of Enterprise BG, will give keynote speeches.
IPO
ARM submits IPO application
According to news on September 5, ARM submitted an IPO application, priced at US$47-51 per ADS, and issued a total of 95.5 million ADSs. ARM said AMD, Apple, Cadence Design Systems, Google International, Intel and others have expressed interest in buying ADS.
TSMC's film-forming equipment supplier is about to go public, which will be Japan's largest IPO in five years
According to news on September 6, KOKUSAI ELECTRIC, a supplier of TSMC film forming equipment, is reported to be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October. The market value at the time of listing is estimated to exceed 400 billion yen, which will become the largest IPO in Japan in five years.
Policies/Reports
Shanghai launches implementation plan for digital transformation of manufacturing industry
On September 6, Shanghai's manufacturing digital transformation on-site exchange meeting and digital diagnosis kick-off meeting were held in the Shanghai Chemical Industry Zone. It is reported that the Shanghai Digitalization Office issued the "Shanghai Manufacturing Digital Transformation Implementation Plan", proposing to focus on the implementation of eight major special projects such as the gradient cultivation of "work chain masters".
The main goals are that by 2025, Shanghai’s manufacturing enterprises above designated size will be fully covered by digital diagnosis, and the digital transformation ratio will be no less than 80%; the scale of Shanghai’s industrial Internet core industry will reach 200 billion yuan; and 10 pilot demonstration parks, 20 Benchmark smart factories, 30 industrial Internet platforms, 40 "work chain owners", and 50 super scenarios lead the overall digital transformation of the manufacturing industry.
China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released the "White Paper on China's Comprehensive Computing Power Evaluation (2023)"
According to news on September 6, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released the "White Paper on China's Comprehensive Computing Power Evaluation (2023)". Most of the top 10 provinces in comprehensive computing power evaluation are located in the eight hubs of Eastern and Western computing. The provinces where the eastern computing power hub nodes are located are generally in the leading level. Hebei Province, Guangdong Province, Jiangsu Province, and Shanghai City are in the leading position in computing power evaluation, and the Top 10 provinces are distributed in echelons.
Investment and Financing
Xinsen Electronics raises tens of millions in Series A financing
Recently, sensor manufacturer Xinsen Electronics completed tens of millions in Series A financing, led by Tianying Capital and followed by Zhengling Holdings. This round of financing will be used for product research and development, production capacity expansion, market expansion, etc. Xinsen Electronics was established in 2021. Its core products are current and voltage sensors.
JiNengYi received nearly 100 million yuan in Series A financing
Recently, domestic power optimizer manufacturer Jiangsu Jinengyi New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Jinengyi") completed nearly 100 million yuan in Series A financing. This round of financing was led by Chaoxi Capital, with Jinding Capital and Suzhou Gaoxin Financial Holdings participating in the investment, and Huanghe Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. The funds raised will be used to build overseas sales channels, build R&D teams and platforms, and expand production capacity to further enhance the company's comprehensive competitiveness.
Founded in 2013, JiNengYi is a national high-tech enterprise that has long been focusing on power optimization conversion and intelligent monitoring of photovoltaic power generation systems. It has power optimizers, fast shutdown devices and supporting intelligent monitoring equipment.
Horist completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series B financing
Recently, Hollister, a provider of intelligent sorting equipment for all mineral types, completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series B financing. This round of financing was led by China State-owned Capital Venture Capital (Guo Venture Capital), with participation from Minmetals Venture Capital, Guotai Junan Zhengyu Investment and Infinite Fund (SeeFund) participated in the investment, and Yikai Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. Financing funds will be used for new equipment research and development, product and business expansion and market team building.
Zhuanxin Semiconductor completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series A1 financing
According to news on September 6, high-end switch chip Zhuanxin Semiconductor completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series A1 financing. The team comes from top domestic companies and universities such as H3C and Tsinghua University. This round of financing was funded by listed companies Ruijie Networks, Gimpo Investment, Xinxi Capital, Ningmeng Investment, Zhongbo Juli, Yiling Capital, Houxue Capital, Guohai Innovation Capital, Zhuoyuan Capital, Shunwei Capital, and Lihebo Capital , Huaye Tiancheng, China Merchants Capital, Taishi Horwath Capital, Boshen Industrial, Taiyou Fund, Shuimu Huaqing 17 investment institutions jointly invested.
Heavy industry intelligent robot Dierbog announced the completion of tens of millions of angel round financing, with exclusive investment from Lanchi Venture Capital
According to news on September 6, heavy industry intelligent robot Dierberg recently announced the completion of tens of millions of angel round financing, with Lanchi Venture Capital as the exclusive investor. This round of financing is mainly used for iterative development of multi-type standard products and intelligent algorithm technology innovation.
other
New breakthrough in quantum entanglement research, Chinese scientists’ new achievements lay the foundation for optical lattice quantum computing
According to news on September 6, the University of Science and Technology of China announced on September 6 that Academician Pan Jianwei and Professor Yuan Zhensheng of the University collaborated with Associate Professor Ma Xiongfeng of Tsinghua University and Associate Researcher Zhou You of Fudan University to recently use ultra-cold energy bound in an optical lattice. Atoms, through a number of innovative technologies, have prepared multi-atomic entangled states, taking an important step towards preparing and measuring large-scale entangled states of neutral atoms, laying the foundation for the development of new high-performance quantum computers. The internationally renowned academic journal Physical Review Letters recently published this result.
Economic Daily Jin Guanping: Independent innovation supports "Chinese core"
According to news on September 6, from the sudden pre-sale of Huawei Mate60 Pro to the long queues in offline stores, in the past few days, all walks of life have been paying attention to this domestic mobile phone. Behind this is the expectation for "Chinese core", which is The urgency to break through the blockade is also the confidence in self-reliance and self-reliance through science and technology. Although Huawei currently remains silent on the technical details of this mobile phone, and there are many unknowns about the chip it uses, based on information from all parties, it is certain that "Chinese Chip" is overcoming obstacles and making strides forward. China has two major advantages in developing "Chinese chips". One is the push from huge market demand, and the other is the ability to quickly gather resources and talents. At the same time, we should give full play to the advantages of industrial clusters, make good use of large domestic and foreign markets, combine new demands, drive and expand the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to accelerate maturity, and take advantage of the momentum to promote industrial upgrading.
Baidu Robin Li’s message to entrepreneurs: There is no point in rolling large models, but there are greater opportunities to roll them out.
According to news on September 5, at the 2023 Baidu Cloud Intelligence Conference, Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li said in the Baidu "Wenxin Cup" Entrepreneurship Competition award speech that AI native applications must be able to solve problems that could not be solved in the past. Bad questions, application is the meaning of large models. Robin Li said that the model itself does not directly generate value. The application developed based on the basic large model is the meaning of the model. For entrepreneurs, "It is meaningless to roll up a large model, and the application opportunities are greater." He analyzed that in the mobile Internet era, the operating systems are only Android and iOS, but there are many particularly successful applications. Only by generating enough AI native applications based on large models can we have a healthy ecological environment.
The country’s first large model alliance was established
From September 4th to September 6th, the 2023 China International Intelligent Industry Expo was held in Chongqing. At this Smart Expo, MaMa Consumer Finance Co., Ltd., Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, and Baidu were selected into the Chongqing Large Model Alliance to jointly promote the development of Chongqing's large model. It is reported that this is the first large-scale model alliance in the country, and the company will soon serve as the chairman of the alliance.
Preview: The 2023 World Manufacturing Conference will be held in Hefei on September 20, focusing on quantum technology, artificial intelligence, high-end equipment, smart home appliances and other fields
According to news on September 6, it was learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that the 2023 World Manufacturing Conference will be held in Hefei, Anhui from September 20 to 24. The number of exhibitors and exhibition area are the largest ever. With the theme of "Building the World Intelligently and Creating Beauty", the conference will set up a theme exhibition hall of 20,000 square meters and a market-oriented exhibition area of 60,000 square meters, focusing on quantum technology, artificial intelligence, high-end equipment, smart home appliances and other fields. Focus on displaying the latest representative achievements in the global manufacturing field such as quantum computers, power rockets, 600 kilometers per hour maglev trains, superconducting gyroproton therapy systems, and 80,000-ton die forging presses; releasing independent heavy-duty gas turbine turbine blades, quantum spin magnets It has launched a batch of new technologies and products such as instruments, and launched the country's first industrial Internet platform with large-scale model capabilities, demonstrating the diverse ecology of general artificial intelligence technology empowering all walks of life.
