In India, the issue of missing children is becoming increasingly serious. By the end of 2023, the number of missing children had risen to 47,000. To address this challenge, the police have started using artificial intelligence technology to help solve cases. In January 2024, the Delhi Police successfully cracked a 'blind case' thanks to the assistance of AI. The police formed a 30-member team to reconstruct the facial features of an unidentified man using AI technology. Since the man's face was damaged beyond recognition, the AI-generated image became crucial.

Title: Artificial Intelligence "Pioneer" Fei-Fei Li Founders World Labs, Raises $230 Million! Recently, Stanford University professor and "AI Pioneer" Fei-Fei Li's new startup World Labs successfully raised $230 million, with investors including renowned venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Radical Ventures. This funding values World Labs at over $1 billion.

Recently, the US Department of Commerce released a proposal requiring artificial intelligence (AI) companies to provide detailed reports, aimed at stricter regulation of this rapidly evolving technological field. The notice, titled 'Proposed Rules,' was published on September 9, with the intention of ensuring the safety, reliability of AI technology, and preventing potential misuse by foreign adversaries or non-state actors. Photo credit: Image generated by AI, image licensed from Midjourney. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo stated at a press conference that the rapid development of AI...

On the occasion of Alibaba's 25th anniversary, the company's founder Jack Ma delivered an inspiring speech on the internal website. Ma emphasized that Alibaba's success is attributed to its unwavering commitment to idealism, belief in the power of the market and the value of innovation, and the conviction that only companies that create genuine value for society can endure.

In the 37th America's Cup sailing race, the WindSightIQ program introduced television broadcasting for the first time, visualizing the wind field as augmented and virtual reality graphics through LiDAR, sensor fusion, and scientific computation technology. This helps viewers understand the key wind factors in sailing. While crew members still need to rely on intuition and training to plan their routes, commentators and viewers can now see wind direction patterns in real-time, comparing actual performance with the optimal path, thereby participating in the race at an unprecedented level. This innovation offers a brand new viewing experience, making wind, which is typically invisible, ...

In the 1923 play 'The Adding Machine', an office worker faces an existential crisis as he is replaced by a machine. Now, the Seattle theatre company 'The Feast' is attempting to integrate generative AI into drama creation with 'The Adding Machine: A Cyber-Ethics Play', where AI will partake in scene and costume design, interacting with chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude to generate real-time text or voice responses. Actors are required to interact with AI for improvisational performances. Artistic Director Ryan Guzzo Purcell is cautiously optimistic, concerned about the potential implications of AI technology.

Amazon has launched the AI Cloning Narrator project aimed at accelerating audiobook production. The project invites narrators to submit recordings to train AI for 'voice cloning'. Narrators can choose to participate in the project voluntarily, including live performances or AI-generated recordings. Audiobooks using AI cloning will be labeled on the product detail page, and narrators will be compensated through a royalty-sharing model, requiring narrator consent for AI cloning use. After beta testing in the U.S., this feature will expand to rights holders, aiming to provide narrators with more creative opportunities and enhance the audiobook market.

The Baidu Marketing Platform Light Ship has recently undergone a full upgrade, incorporating generative AI technology aimed at bringing innovation and efficiency improvement to the entire marketing chain. The upgraded Light Ship platform operation time has been shortened to the minute level, with AI MAX showing an average conversion rate increase of 7.2%, significantly enhancing marketing efficiency and effectiveness.

The rapid development of AI technology has propelled GPUs to become a hot commodity worldwide, with Nvidia reporting significant growth in the second quarter, exceeding $30 billion in revenue. However, powerful GPUs require adequate data centers to support the AI demand. Nvidia, along with partners, is investing $160 million in Applied Digital to expedite the construction of data centers in North Dakota, aiming to provide data center and cloud services around Nvidia's GPUs. The construction of data centers is crucial, as GPUs are expensive.

Chinese Academy of Engineering academician Wang Jian shared his in-depth thoughts on AI, AI+, and AI infrastructure at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Bund Conference. He emphasized that AI+ is not merely a simple integration of AI and industry, but rather the integration of data, models, and computing power, with cloud computing serving as the infrastructure of the AI era. Wang Jian pointed out that although artificial intelligence has a long history, it has only truly impacted industries for the past 7 years, with the critical turning point being Google’s introduction of the Transformer in 2017. Under the logic of AI+, ChatGPT is not just an application, but a broader application platform.

In the digital office era, AI technology has revolutionized document processing, data analysis, and office automation, significantly enhancing efficiency and quality. This article introduces several AI-driven smart office tools, including WPS AI, CoolTable ChatExcel, Office Raccoon, AEE, and Gaodeng Financial AI Assistant. These tools simplify document processing, data analysis, and office workflows through intelligent services, offering functions such as smart document generation, spreadsheet analysis, data querying, automated logic operations, and financial report analysis.

Google is leveraging artificial intelligence technology to analyze sound data, aiming to predict and detect health issues early, particularly tuberculosis. In partnership with Indian startup Salcit Technologies, the plan is to integrate this innovative technology into smartphones for easier use in resource-limited areas. This method can assist in diagnosing health conditions through simple audio like cough sounds. Google's ongoing exploration in the health sector, including disease detection through olfactory technology, demonstrates its commitment to enhancing health management capabilities through technological means.

Recently, Zhipu AI launched its foundational large model GLM-4-Plus, showcasing visual capabilities that rival OpenAI's GPT-4, and announced that it would be available for use starting August 30. This model has made significant advancements in language foundation, text-to-image, image/video understanding, and video generation, becoming the first general video understanding model API in the country, contributing over 20 million downloads to the open-source community. GLM-4-Plus excels in language parsing, instruction execution, and long text processing.

Yale University has announced a $150 million investment over the next five years to advance research and applications in the field of artificial intelligence for faculty and students. The investment focuses on building computing infrastructure, providing secure generative AI tools, recruiting dedicated faculty, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, and enhancing research and educational capabilities. The plan includes the establishment of approximately 450 graphics processing units (GPUs) and the development of a platform named 'Clarity' to provide users with secure access to AI tools, along with plans to hire over 20 experts in the AI field. This initiative aims to strengthen Yale's leadership in the AI domain.

Approximately 725,000 people die each year from diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, with mosquitoes being the primary culprits, mainly causing malaria. To address this public health crisis, Bill Gates has introduced two innovative technologies: VectorCam and HumBug. VectorCam is an AI-driven mobile application that allows users to identify the species, gender, and blood-feeding status of mosquitoes by taking photos, achieving an accuracy rate of up to 90%. It is particularly suited for rural health teams, simplifying mosquito monitoring and malaria control. HumBug uses smartphones to capture mosquito flight.

AGI startup Anuttacon has announced the addition of Tong Xin and Wang Yuyang, with Tong Xin taking on the role of Chief Researcher and Wang Yuyang serving as President of User Ecosystem. Both are top talents in the industry, with Tong Xin previously being a global research partner at Microsoft and Wang Yuyang formerly serving as Vice President at Bilibili. Anuttacon focuses on AI technology, developing virtual world experiences and AGI products. This move showcases the company's ambition in the AGI field and its strong demand for top AI talents.

South Korea's AI application 'X Caliber' is revolutionizing pet medical services by providing fast and accurate diagnoses that assist veterinarians in addressing pet health issues, significantly improving the speed and efficiency of care, and enhancing pet owners' trust in the diagnostic results. This technology utilizes AI to analyze X-rays with an accuracy rate of 86%, and has been implemented in South Korea, the United States, Australia, and parts of Southeast Asia, demonstrating great potential especially in Indonesia where it alleviates shortages of veterinary radiologists. This marks a gradual expansion of AI applications in the medical field, heralding a new era of AI in healthcare.

During the themed event on 'The Deep Empowerment of AI Technology in Primary and Secondary Education', Li Ying, CEO of Baidu Xiao Du Technology, shared the latest developments in Xiao Du's education business. As of July 2024, the Xiao Du Learning Machine has surpassed 2 million cumulative users, with more than 50% being daily active users, indicating its popularity. The usage rate of AI teachers has increased by 3.5 times compared to traditional methods, with users spending an additional 25% time on the learning machine, totaling 114 minutes per day. Notably, during the immersive interactive preview section for Chinese language, the average usage time reached 22 minutes.

As a domestically produced game that has attracted global attention, Black Myth: Wukong achieved sales of 390 million yuan in its first month and surpassed 1.2 million copies sold, setting a new pre-sale record for Chinese games. This game has not only become a huge hit in the Chinese market but has also sold well worldwide, creating a new record for Steam download bandwidth. Its aesthetic effects, rich storyline, and unique charm of Chinese culture have earned high praise, including from IGN China. The game utilizes NVIDIA AI technology, particularly its ray tracing and DLSS 3 technology, to achieve stunning graphics and ultra-high performance.

Salesforce has released an open source multimodal AI model named xGen-MM, designed to simultaneously understand and generate various data types such as text and images, significantly changing the way AI research and applications are conducted. The model performs exceptionally well in multiple benchmark tests, demonstrating strong performance compared to similar open source models, and includes pretrained models, datasets, and fine-tuning code. The largest model boasts 4 billion parameters and can handle 'interleaved data,' enabling multitasking, such as answering questions about multiple images at once. The diverse options available in the model reflect the potential of AI.