The Cyberspace Administration of China, together with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, has announced the "Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services", which will come into effect on August 15, 2023.
Elon Musk officially announced his newly established artificial intelligence company xAI on Wednesday, stating on its official website that its goal is to "understand the true nature of the universe." The team members come from companies and research institutions such as DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and the University of Toronto. Musk and his team will share their findings in a live chat on Twitter Spaces on Friday.
Quora's AI chatbot Poe has recently released a series of tool and feature s, including support for the latest Claude 2 model, larger contextual windows, URL retrieval, document uploading, and continuing public conversations shared by other users. (News source: Poe Newsletter)
According to the logs of Google Bard, Bard has recently added support for over 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi, Spanish, and more. In addition, Google has added a text to speech feature for Bard, which can be used to read text aloud.

At this morning's 2023 JD Global Technology Explorer Conference and JD Cloud Summit, the JD Yanxi Big Model was officially released, and the official Yanxi AI development and computing platform was also released. The platform has already started pre registration and is expected to be officially launched in August.

Adobe Firefly recently released a press release stating that it will expand the service globally to support text prompts in over 100 languages, and will also localize to 20 languages. In addition, Adobe also claims that users have generated over 1 billion visual assets on the Firefly website and Photoshop. (News source: BusinessWire)

Google announced the start of internal testing of NotebookLM - originally named Project Tailwind, an artificial intelligence note taking experimental project launched at this year's Google I/O conference, and currently only accepts applications from IP addresses in the United States. (News source: The Verge)

Resemble AI, an artificial intelligence language cloning and synthesis platform, announced that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Ubiquity Ventures, bringing the startup's total funding to $12 million. (News source: CMSWire)

Google Arts and Culture Lab introduced its latest work Viola the Bird, an AI trained program that can convert cursor movements into violin and cello notes, generating real-time music with gentle birds playing on the strings. (News source: Google Blog)

Recently, South Korean Internet giant Kakao announced a major to its AI image generation tool Karlo and big language model KoGPT, and set up a new fund to support AI image generation start-ups. (News source: TechCrunch)
July 12
Anthropic has officially released the all-new Claude 2 and launched a more convenient web beta version (only available for IPs in the United States and the United Kingdom). Compared to previous versions, Claude 2 has made epic improvements in code, mathematics, and reasoning, supporting contexts up to 100K tokens. In addition, it also supports chatting with Claude 2 in Chinese, and it is completely free. (News source: Xin Zhiyuan)

Recently, semiconductor analysis firm SemiAnalysis released an internal technical decryption document for GPT-4, which disclosed key information such as GPT-4 architecture, infrastructure, training dataset, cost, vision, and MoE. (Read translation: AppSo; Original English text: SemiAnalysis


Bill Gates published an article on his personal blog website stating that 'the risks of AI do exist, but they are manageable'. Gates listed in the article the risks that AI may bring, such as deepfakes, misinformation, cyber attacks, job transitions, illusions, and biases. He also called on governments and businesses to manage the risks of artificial intelligence and encouraged everyone to pay attention to the development of AI. (Read the original text: GatesNotes)

Lingyang, an enterprise intelligence service company under Alibaba, announced the launch of Lingyang One's multi platform, multi-channel one-stop DAAS product, which will soon be fully upgraded with the integration of big models. Enterprises using Lingyang One will be able to use big model technology. (News source: Sina Technology)
Microsoft Edge browser is about to launch a new feature that allows users to control browser operations through the Bing chat panel on the right. Users only need to input prompts, and the browser will perform corresponding operations based on the meaning of words, such as opening tabs and download pages. (News source: IT Home)

The library website Shutterstock announced the expansion of its partnership with OpenAI, allowing OpenAI to access more training data, including Shutterstock's image, video, and music libraries, as well as related metadata. Shutterstock has also been granted priority access to the latest OpenAI technology. (News source: Tencent News)

On July 12th local time, Musk will discuss artificial intelligence with Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher and Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna on Twitter Spaces, and the conversation will last for about 45 minutes. (News source: Interface News)

IBM is considering using its internally designed artificial intelligence chip to reduce the cost of cloud computing services and will include the chip as part of its newly launched Watsonx AI cloud service. (News source: IT Home)

Indian IT outsourcing giant Wipro has announced plans to invest $1 billion over the next three years to train its 250000 employees in artificial intelligence technology and integrate it into its products. (News source: Sina Finance)

Prompt Engineering startup Vellum.ai has announced the completion of a $5 million seed round funding, with a focus on helping other companies improve generative AI prompts. Rebel Fund, Eastlink Capital, Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator, and others participated in this round of financing. (News source: TechCrunch)

Venture capital firm Sapphire Ventures has announced plans to invest over $1 billion in AI related startups to accelerate the adoption of the technology by companies around the world. (News source: Reuters)

EBay announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Certilogo, a company that provides AI driven digital ID and identity verification for clothing and fashion products. This acquisition will help eBay with brand anti-counterfeiting certification for second-hand products, and specific financial details have not been disclosed. (News source: PRNewsWire)

The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development) calls on member countries to prepare for the negative impacts of large-scale adoption of AI technology, stating that high skilled white-collar jobs in fields such as finance, medicine, and law are at the highest risk of being impacted, accounting for approximately 27% of employment in OECD member economies. (News source: Financial Times)

July 11
Meitu Xiuxiu officially announced today that it has launched an AI image expansion function on the Meitu Xiuxiu App and Wink App. This function uses AI algorithms to intelligently recognize and predict missing parts based on the context and texture of the image, allowing the image to obtain a larger frame and perspective. (News source: IT Home)

Baichuan Intelligence has officially released the 13 billion parameter general-purpose big language model (Baichuan-13B Base), which is officially claimed to be the most powerful open-source model with billions of parameters in both Chinese and English. (News source: Quantum Bit)

Tencent announced that its self-developed chess and card AI "LuckyJ" has topped the international mahjong platform, reaching a stable rank of 10.68 on the Japanese Mahjong Tianfeng platform's special room, setting a new record for AI's best performance in the mahjong field. (News source: Tencent official account)

Pano AI, a startup that utilizes artificial intelligence for wildfire detection and warning, has raised $17 million in a new round of funding, bringing its total fundraising amount to $45 million. This round of financing is led by Valor Equity Partners and has added several strategic investors, including T-Mobile Ventures and Salesforce. (News source: GlobeNewswire)

GenAI recently announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Pulse AI has been approved to join NVIDIA's Startup Acceleration Program and has placed a purchase order for approximately $1.8 million worth of hardware, providing over 350000 hours of artificial intelligence computing time annually. (News source: Interface News)

Interface. ai, a startup that provides artificial intelligence solutions for the financial industry, announced its withdrawal from Sphere AI Assistant, which can help banks and credit unions automate nearly 95% of customer service support inquiries to improve operational efficiency. (News source: PRNewsWire)