AI Industry Weekly Update

OpenAI's annual revenue has reached $1.3 billion, a significant increase from $28 million last year. CEO Sam Altman stated that companies attempting to copy ChatGPT will struggle to survive in the long run, and blindly seeking funding is not wise.

Multiple AI startups complete financing:

• Lambda Labs secured nearly $300 million in funding.
• Cleanlab raised $25 million in Series A funding.
• FluidAI Medical raised $15 million in Series A funding.
• Moonhub AI raised $10 million in seed funding.
• Anysphere received an 8 million USD investment from OpenAI

New developments in the field of large models:

• Moonshot AI launches Kimi Chat supporting input of 200,000 Chinese characters.
• Zhipu AI and Tsinghua KEG open source CogVLM-17B multimodal model
• The Zhiyuan Research Institute upgrades the Aquila series, adding the 34 billion parameter Aquila2-34B.
• SenseTime upgrades its healthcare large model "Da Yi"
• Meitu releases MiracleVision 3.0 visual model

In terms of AI applications:

• Adobe releases multiple generative AI innovations
• NetEase Youdao launched a virtual speaking tutor based on large models.
• Zhongwen Online launched the "Xiaoyao" ten-thousand-character creative large model.
• Baidu will launch AI native maps
• vivo will release its self-developed AI large model matrix

Big Company News:

• Google AI search function upgrade, supports image generation
• The Apple AI team developed a multimodal large model called Ferret.
• Microsoft will integrate Copilot into Office applications in November.
• AMD acquires AI software company Nod.ai
• TSMC's AI orders are expected to increase by 6% next year.

Research institutions predict that the generative AI industry may face a downturn in 2024, and the pace of technological development will slow down. Eight months after its release, GPT-4 remains the most powerful language model. Domestic AI chip brands shipped over 50,000 units in the first half of the year.