AI and Blockchain: Shanghai Accelerates Infrastructure Construction, OpenAI Negotiates High Valuation Share Transactions The Shanghai municipal government recently issued a document announcing that it will accelerate the construction of high-performance Computing Power and high-quality data infrastructure to support artificial intelligence large models and blockchain innovative applications. The city plans to build a diverse supply, cloud-edge collaboration, on-demand scheduling, and efficient green urban high-performance Computing Power network system, with the goal of establishing intelligent Computing Power resources that can support trillion-parameter large model training, high-quality corpora, and professional datasets. In addition, Shanghai will initially establish urban blockchain infrastructure with Pujiang Digital Chain as the core. At the same time, AI giant OpenAI is in talks with potential investors to sell existing employee-held shares at a valuation of $86 billion. According to informed sources, the specific allocation plan has not yet been finalized, and the terms may change. In the field of AI applications, the well-known image generation company Midjourney has partnered with Japanese game company Sizigi Studios to launch an anime-style image generation application NijiJourney for the Japanese market. The application supports Android and iOS platforms, and users can choose to pay $96 annually or $10 monthly for the service. Existing Midjourney users can log in directly using Discord credentials without any additional payment. OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman recently stated at a tech event that while he is interested in AI-based consumer electronics, he believes that the future penetration of AI devices may not reach the level of smartphones. This view provides a new perspective for industry discussions on the prospects of AI devices. In the enterprise application field, Jiadu Technology Group successfully won the bid for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's "Industry Public Service Platform Project for Engineering Technology and Applications of AI Large Models" in conjunction with several top research institutions, universities, and companies. This project is the first major special project for large models by the national Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the only major special project for public service platforms for large models this year. US AI unicorn Jasper AI announced the launch of a new AI-assisted marketing tool aimed at enhancing marketing effectiveness. New features include content optimization analysis, company intelligence center, and marketing campaign tools, which are expected to begin testing in November and be fully launched in the first quarter of 2024. Legal disputes related to AI have also emerged in the music copyright field. Major music publishers Universal, Concord, and ABKCO have sued AI startup Anthropic for copyright infringement, accusing it of illegally copying and distributing a large number of copyrighted song lyrics in the process of building and operating AI models. In the application of AI technology, ChatGPT officially introduced Bing web search functionality, enhancing its real-time information retrieval capabilities. Softr AI launched a no-code application development product that allows users to build fully functional web applications with simple commands. Meta AI released a new AI system that claims to decode images from human brain activity, utilizing non-invasive magnetoencephalography scanning methods. Alluxio launched a new enterprise AI platform that significantly improves GPU utilization through caching technology and adopts a data virtualization platform and DORA architecture, greatly enhancing model training efficiency. However, the development of AI technology is not without challenges. Reports indicate that OpenAI has abandoned the development of a more efficient GPT-4 level model named "Arrakis" due to its failure to meet expected performance standards. This decision reflects the challenges and uncertainties in the R&D process of AI technology.