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The entrepreneurial project of a former Huawei genius boy "Zhiyuan Robot" received investment from Baidu, and its valuation was revealed to have surpassed that of a unicorn
Zhongke Financial won the bid for Shanghai Bank's Yuanshi Bank project and will build an online Yuanshi version of mobile banking
The scientific research team of West Lake University has developed a "high-fidelity active mechanical touch interaction system" that will bring a tactile perception experience to the metaverse.
Shanghai: Support private enterprises to participate extensively in the construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure such as data and computing power
Beijing: The scale of the core artificial intelligence industry will reach 300 billion yuan by 2025, continuing to maintain a growth rate of more than 10%
Former NetEase Cloud Music CEO Zhu Yiwen enters AI + education field to start a business
WPP partners with NVIDIA to use generative AI to create advertising content at scale
OECD to develop new guidelines on generative AI
The prices of mainstream NFT series have been hit hard in the past year, while the total number of blue-chip NFT holders has increased by 90%
Duolingo CEO: After launching the enhanced version of ChatGPT subscription option, the number of paying users increased by 63% year-on-year as of the end of Q1 this year
OpenAI CEO and other 350 AI industry figures signed an open letter warning that AI may bring "extinction risk" to mankind
Report: Generative AI companies have strong ability to attract money, and the time to develop into a unicorn is half the average time
Tribe Capital plans to launch a US$250 million India-specific fund to invest in AI, financial technology and other fields
The most avant-garde mural in the Tang Dynasty, it looks very much like you who said "yeah" when taking photos
Metaverse headlines: "Zhiyuan Robot", the entrepreneurial project of former Huawei genius boy, received investment from Baidu, and its valuation was revealed to have surpassed that of a unicorn
The entrepreneurial project of "Huawei Genius Boy" Zhihui Jun has just been invested by Baidu! Qubit learned that Zhihuijun’s entrepreneurial project Zhiyuan Robot has recently completed its third round of financing, and its market valuation has been revealed to be around one billion US dollars.
Tianyancha App shows that new shareholders in this round include Robin Li’s Sanya Baichuan Zhixin Private Equity Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership), as well as first-tier VCs such as Jingwei and Gaorong, and the registered capital has increased to approximately 48.4702 million yuan.
The affiliated company of Zhiyuan Robot is called Shanghai Zhiyuan New Technology Co., Ltd. It was established in February 2023, and its legal representative is Shu Yuanchun. The business scope includes research and development of intelligent robots, development of artificial intelligence theory and algorithm software, sales of artificial intelligence hardware, and sales of electronic products, etc.
In short, what Zhiyuan Robot wants to do is to deeply integrate AI and robots. This can be seen from Zhihui Jun’s latest Bilibili video.
Domestic News Zhongke Financial won the bid for Shanghai Bank’s Yuanshi Bank project and will build an online Yuanshi version of mobile banking
According to China Securities Journal, Zhongke Financial won the bid for Shanghai Bank’s Yuanshi Bank project. It will use artificial intelligence, virtual reality and other technologies to create an online Yuanshi version of mobile banking, and select application scenarios such as financial management halls, Yuanshi business halls, and automobile financial services to create a Yuanshi bank that is highly immersive, has good user and interactive experience, and has social attributes.
The scientific research team of West Lake University has developed a "high-fidelity active mechanical touch interaction system" that will bring a tactile perception experience to the metaverse.
According to Science and Technology Daily, current VR interaction can only provide visual and auditory experiences, presenting an intangible virtual space.
Westlake University's WESTLAKE Jiang Hanqing team proposed and developed a "high-fidelity active mechanical touch interaction system" for the first time. They drew on origami art to make the virtual world in VR glasses not only visible and audible, but also "touchable", bringing a new tactile perception experience to the metaverse. Relevant research was published online in "Nature Machine Intelligence" on the 29th.
Shanghai: Support private enterprises to participate extensively in the construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure such as data and computing power
According to a report from the Associated Press on May 30, the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission recently issued "Several Policies and Measures for Shanghai to Strengthen Support for the Development of Private Investment." It is proposed to encourage private capital to invest in new infrastructure. The implementation period of the interest discount policy for new infrastructure projects will be extended to the end of 2027, and an interest subsidy of up to 1.5 percentage points will be provided.
Give full play to the guiding role of artificial intelligence innovation and development special projects, and support private enterprises to participate extensively in the construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure such as data and computing power.
Promote the "demand side" reform and support universities, scientific research institutions, and state-owned enterprises to use privately invested data storage and computing power resources through government procurement, leasing, etc.; support private enterprises in renting computing power and storage resources through science and technology innovation vouchers; promote government departments to rent privately invested dedicated computing power to support professional scenario applications such as large semantic learning, metaverse, and space-time base maps.
Beijing: The scale of the core artificial intelligence industry will reach 300 billion yuan by 2025, continuing to maintain a growth rate of more than 10%
On May 30, the Beijing Municipal People's Government issued the "Implementation Plan for Accelerating the Construction of an Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center with Global Influence in Beijing (2023-2025)".
The plan proposes that by 2025, the scale of the core artificial intelligence industry will reach 300 billion yuan, maintaining a growth rate of more than 10%, and the scale of the radiating industry will exceed 1 trillion yuan. The investment in scientific research by leading artificial intelligence companies continues to increase, the number of start-ups continues to grow, the total number of companies maintains the leading position in the country, and 5-10 new unicorn companies have been cultivated.
The depth and breadth of artificial intelligence applications have further increased, and generative products have become mainstream applications and ecological platforms in the domestic market, promoting high-end development of the industry.
Former NetEase Cloud Music CEO Zhu Yiwen enters AI + education field to start a business
According to 36Kr’s report on May 30, Zhu Yiwen, the former CEO of NetEase Cloud Music, has started a business in the field of AI + education. It is understood that Zhu Yiwen has completed team building in Hangzhou. The core members include early founding employees of NetEase Cloud Music, experts from Hikvision and Alibaba, as well as experts in the field of education. Its product development lasted for several months, and early versions have been implemented in many primary schools in Hangzhou.
According to sources, Zhu Yiwen’s entrepreneurial project model mainly collects data from offline teaching, uses AI technology to analyze it, and then feeds it back into the education process. At present, Zhu Yiwen and his team have contacted a number of investment institutions and are expected to complete the first round of financing in the second half of this year.
Overseas News WPP cooperates with NVIDIA to use generative AI to mass-produce advertising content
According to a report from the Associated Press on May 30, WPP, the world's largest advertising company, has cooperated with chip manufacturer NVIDIA to use generative artificial intelligence to mass-produce advertising content for customers. The companies announced the partnership on Monday, with Nvidia boss Jen-Hsun Huang saying at Computex in Taipei that they will work together to develop a content engine that will allow WPP to use artificial intelligence to generate ads in minutes that previously took weeks to create.
According to Huang Renxun, all walks of life around the world are competing to tap the advantages of artificial intelligence, including the digital advertising industry, which is worth US$700 billion. WPP is empowering customers to improve product experiences with unprecedented fidelity and scale through Omniverse Cloud and generative AI tools.
OECD to develop new guidelines on generative AI
According to news on May 30, Nikkei News reported on May 29 that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will formulate new guidelines on generative artificial intelligence.
Coleman, Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said in an interview that the organization is considering revising the artificial intelligence principles formulated in 2019 and plans to discuss the new guidelines as early as June and produce results before the end of the year.
The prices of mainstream NFT series have been hit hard in the past year, while the total number of blue-chip NFT holders has increased by 90%
According to Cointelegraph, over the past year, the prices of some of the most popular NFTs in 2022 have been “significantly discounted.” This trend also reflects the depreciation of virtual real estate in 2023, and these assets are considered the most worthy of investment in 2022.
Mainstream NFT series such as Doodles, Invisible Friends, Moonbirds and Goblintown have lost up to 95% of their value (in ETH). The value of blue-chip NFT series alone has dropped by more than 40% on average.
Data from NFTGo.io shows that the blue chip index has fallen from a yearly high of 12,394 ETH in July 2022 to the current level of 7,446 ETH.
While some expect further long-term declines in NFT prices, a handful of investors believe now is a good time to invest as they anticipate a rebound. The total number of blue-chip NFT holders has increased by more than 90% in the past year. During this period, the number of sellers increased by 32%, while the number of buyers decreased by 30%.
Metaverse Viewpoint Duolingo CEO: After launching the enhanced version of ChatGPT subscription option, the number of paying users increased by 63% year-on-year as of the end of Q1 this year
According to a report by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on May 30, Luis von Ahn, CEO of the language learning software Duolingo, said that AI is a good thing for Duolingo and that AI is a friend, not an enemy.
He said that after Duolingo launched the enhanced version of ChatGPT subscription option in March, the number of paid users increased by 63% to 4.8 million as of the end of Q1 this year.
OpenAI CEO and other 350 AI industry figures signed an open letter warning that AI may bring "extinction risk" to mankind
According to the New York Times, 350 executives, researchers and engineers in the AI industry recently signed an open letter expressing concern that AI technology will pose an existential threat to humanity.
The letter, published by the nonprofit Center for the Safety of Artificial Intelligence, contains only one sentence: “Reducing the risk of extinction posed by artificial intelligence should become a global priority, alongside other society-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
Three AI company executives, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, as well as 2018 Turing Award winners Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, have signed the letter.
Institutional perspective report: Generative AI companies have strong ability to attract money, and the time it takes to develop into a unicorn is half the average time
According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily report on May 30, data from the American research institution CB Insights shows that there are currently 13 generative AI companies that have become unicorns (referring to startups with a corporate valuation of more than US$1 billion). So far in 2023 alone, 5 companies, including Canada's Cohere and the United States' Runway, have become unicorns. The average time it takes for these 13 companies to become a unicorn is 3.6 years, which is reduced by half compared with the overall average time of 7 years.
The revenue of these generative AI companies varies greatly, and most of them are not high, but their employees are expanding rapidly.
Financing News Tribe Capital plans to launch a US$250 million India special fund to invest in AI, financial technology and other fields
According to news on May 30, the Economic Times of India reported that Tribe Capital plans to launch an Indian special fund with a scale of US$250 million. Tribe India Venture AIF Fund I will be operated separately from Trible Capital’s global funds and will focus on increasing investment in artificial intelligence, software and financial technology.
Tribe Capital has previously supported a large number of cryptocurrency platforms and Web3 startups, including FTX, Kraken, Binance US, etc. Last year, its incubator project Tribe Crypto Labs raised US$25 million.
Previously, in April, Bloomberg reported that Tribe Capital planned to raise US$250 million for a potential FTX restart plan and had received US$100 million in support.
Digital collection of the most avant-garde murals from the Tang Dynasty, which looks just like you who said "yeah" when taking photos
According to the Hi Yuan Universe platform, Hi Yuan Universe and the Zhaoling Museum jointly launched the digital cultural and creative product "Duan Yubi's Tomb Mural "Giving the Envoy Picture"", which will be sold for the first time from May 30 to June 2. There are 4 models in this series, with a quantity of 666 copies each.
According to Duan's epitaph, Duan Fibi was the niece of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. His father was the prince-in-law Duan Lun, and his mother was Princess Gaomi, the fourth daughter of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty Li Yuan. The remaining murals in Duan Ruibi's tomb are located on the east and west walls of the passage cave and the patio. The east and west walls of the second passage are "Pictures of Giving to Envoys", each with two bays, and one person for an envoy (eunuch) in each room, for a total of 4 people.
