Recent Trends in the AI Industry

Recently, the AI industry has been developing rapidly, with significant movements in financing, large models, and application layers:

Financing Aspect

Multiple AI companies secured significant funding:

• Zhipu AI has completed financing of over 2.5 billion RMB.
• Baichuan Intelligent raises $300 million in Series A1 funding
• "Extreme Space" has completed over 100 million yuan in Series B financing.
• Mind Foundry completed a $22 million financing round.
• Riffusion completes $4 million seed round funding
• Reality Defender completed $15 million Series A funding.

Large Model Aspects

• Baidu releases Wenxin large model 4.0
• The Chinese Academy of Sciences Open Source Astronomy Model StarWhisper
• South Korea's SK collaborates with Deutsche Telekom to develop AI large language model
• Alibaba Damo Academy releases remote sensing AI large model
• Adept released the multimodal large model Fuyu-8B
• Peking University Open Source 70 Billion Parameter Code Large Model CodeShell

Application Aspects

• Tmall Genie "Genie Large Model" Fully Launched
• Baidu Baijiahao internal test "Baijiahao AI Assistant"
• Kunlun Wanwei Tiangong AI Assistant App opens for beta testing
• Kugou Music launched AI smart illustration and AI music magic features.
• Vivo's self-developed AI large model will be implemented in OriginOS 4
• Jasper AI launches new AI marketing tool
• AI programming language Mojo launches on Mac platform

Regulatory Trends

The EU plans to categorize AI models into three types for regulation, implementing stricter rules for the most powerful models.

Trends of Large Companies

• Apple plans to invest $1 billion annually in generative AI.
• Intel launches its first AI PC acceleration program
• Meta AI releases a new system that can decode brain activity images.

Overall, the AI industry is in a period of rapid development, with various parties actively positioning themselves and continuously innovating in technology and applications.