Cloud computing giant Salesforce recently announced plans to hire 2,000 sales representatives specifically for selling its artificial intelligence tools. This decision was revealed by CEO Marc Benioff during a recent event, highlighting Salesforce's commitment and investment in the AI sector. Notably, Benioff had previously shared his hiring plans with Bloomberg last month, and this recruitment number is double the previous figure.

On November 30, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released the 'Generative Artificial Intelligence Application Development Report (2024)', which revealed that by June 2024, the user base of generative artificial intelligence products in China reached 230 million, accounting for 16.4% of the total population. Among various generative AI products, Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan leads with an 11.5% usage rate among domestic internet users.

Recently, Quark launched the 'Academic Search' AI product, which leverages AI technology and a vast database of academic literature to significantly enhance the efficiency of information retrieval, creation, and processing in academic work. According to the latest data from PConline, Quark ranks first in the download volume of PC AI applications in China for 2024, becoming the preferred PC AI product for young people. Compared to regular searches, academic searches have higher requirements for the authority, professionalism, and timeliness of information, and frequently utilize features such as summarization and writing creation, making generative AI highly relevant in the academic field.

Corning Inc. recently released its Q3 earnings report. The report shows that Corning performed exceptionally well in Q3 2024, primarily driven by increased market demand for optical fiber connectivity products, which are particularly suitable for generative AI applications. In the earnings report, Corning's core sales reached $3.73 billion, an 8% increase compared to last year. Meanwhile, the company’s earnings per share (EPS) rose by 20% to $0.54. This growth is a result of their commitment to innovation and technology.

Ding Jian, the president of Xianyu, announced at the '2024 E-commerce Conference' during the 2024 China International Fair for Trade in Services that Xianyu will launch two new AI products this year, namely 'Smart Publishing' and 'Smart Hosting'. These products are currently undergoing small-scale gray testing within the Xianyu app and are expected to officially launch this year. 'Smart Publishing' allows users to upload just one product image, and the system will use image recognition and natural language generation technology to automatically create a product description that fits the Xianyu style.

At today's 2024 Bund Conference, Ant Group President Han Xinyi announced that the group will launch three new artificial intelligence products at this year's conference. These products are: the AI Life Manager 'Zhixiaobao', the AI Wealth Manager 'Maxicaicai', and an AI Health Manager that is still being named.

To lower the barrier for small and medium-sized enterprises to apply artificial intelligence technologies and accelerate the digital transformation process, DingTalk has recently launched new products and features based on 'Low-Code + AI' and 'Multi-dimensional Tables + AI'. These products and features aim to help businesses quickly implement AI applications.

Recently, there have been user inquiries on social media, questioning whether WPS Office may have leaked its review content to ByteDance's AI product "Doubao".In response, ByteDance swiftly issued an official statement, clearly stating that the rumors about Doubao AI using WPS user data for training are unfounded. The statement emphasized that the book information obtained by Doubao AI comes from public sources and provides references to relevant websites.ByteDance further clarified that there h

The third Meitu Image Festival took place on June 12th, themed 'Discussing AI Workflows'. Meitu unveiled 6 products at the event, aiming to initiate a new phase of AI workflows. These products span various fields such as commercial photography, voiceover videos, e-commerce design, design services, game marketing, and video generation, including the following:

Apple firmly responds to the EU's €500 million fine; ByteDance is secretly developing multiple AI products; OpenAI claims the New York Times hired hackers to attack ChatGPT; Google CEO calls the diversity issues in Gemini 'unacceptable'; Li Yanhong expresses strong investment in generative AI and foundational models; Elon Musk and Lei Jun discuss Apple's abandonment of car manufacturing; Sony PlayStation department lays off 900 employees; Changan Auto responds to the acquisition of HiPhi; GitHub launches Enterprise version of Copilot.

ByteDance is secretly developing multiple products in the AI large model field. A closed team for the video editing tool, Jianying, was established months ago to secretly develop AI products. ByteDance has made significant progress in the research and development of AI large model-related products. Jianying is a video creation tool, situated upstream in content creation, venturing into AI, specifically text-to-video.

ByteDance is secretly developing multiple AI products, including multimodal digital humans. ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is dedicating all his time to AI. The company's video editing app, Jianying, formed a closed team months ago to develop new AI products. ByteDance has already launched three AI conversational products. The AI chatbot development platform Coze, released last year, has gone live domestically. ByteDance also introduced the text-to-image open model SDXL-Lightning.

ByteDance is secretly developing multiple AI products including multimodal digital human products, AI-generated images, and AI-generated video, with the Jianying team clandestinely working on AI products.

Essential AI and Google Cloud announce a multi-year partnership to streamline the development of full-stack generative AI products. Essential AI will utilize Google Cloud's TPU v5p for model training to provide customized large language models. In this collaboration, Essential AI will leverage Google Cloud's global infrastructure and advanced analytics tools, including BigQuery, Looker, and Google Analytics.

📢 Google will provide legal protection for users of generative AI products to safeguard them against copyright infringement lawsuits. 🔒 Google employs a dual protection strategy, covering both the training data and the results generated by the foundational models to address potential copyright issues. 💼 Specifically, seven products are mentioned, including Duet AI and Vertex AI, for which Google will offer legal protection to users.

Talkie is an AI chatbot and card game product that has recently seen a rapid rise in rankings in the non-gaming category of the US App Store. Silicon Valley VCs believe that generative AI applications in the B2B sector require high-quality industry data, diverse application scenarios, and strong market demand. Industries like healthcare and finance possess high-quality data and numerous application scenarios, making them fertile ground for generative AI. The quality of data is more important than quantity; specialized models for industries can be trained without massive data sets. Foreign education companies are exploring various applications of ChatGPT in the education sector.

The rise of AI 2.0 products has expanded the application scope of artificial intelligence, with over 1000 AI products receiving funding. Through AI 2.0 products, entrepreneurs can seize opportunities in the AI era and consider how to iterate existing businesses using AI. The AI era has drastically impacted existing industries, and the development of large models has put competitive pressure on original market players.