Recently, a federal lawsuit regarding a Minnesota law on 'using deepfake technology to influence elections' has sparked new controversy. The plaintiff's legal team pointed out in the latest legal documents that the affidavits supporting this law may contain text generated by artificial intelligence. Image source note: The image was generated by AI, provided by Midjourney according to reports from the Minnesota Reformer, where the state's Attorney General Keith Ellison had requested the Stanford Social Media Lab's assistance.

During the 2024 World Internet Conference held today in Wuzhen, Honor CEO Zhao Ming shared his vision for the future development of mobile phones. He stated that by 2027, phones are expected to be able to incorporate large AI models with 100 billion parameters. This advancement will enable phones to learn, understand, and predict user behaviors and intentions, thereby providing users with more personalized arrangements for their lives and work. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image authorized by service provider Midjourney. Currently, several phones on the market are equipped with models of similar scale.

Baidu announced today its financial report for the third quarter of 2024. The data shows that the company's total revenue reached 33.6 billion yuan in the three months ending September 30, a decrease of 3% compared to the same period last year. In terms of net profit, Baidu's net profit attributable to the company was 7.6 billion yuan, while the net profit calculated according to non-GAAP was 5.9 billion yuan.

Facebook's parent company Meta plans to invest billions of dollars in a new AI data center in northern Louisiana. The project is expected to create between 300 and 500 jobs and help enhance Louisiana's position in critical technological infrastructure. According to an application submitted to state regulators, an unnamed company plans to build a 'large-scale facility with economic transformation potential' near Holly Ridge in Richland Parish.

Recently, a business research company released its 2024 Generative AI Market Report, showing that the market has rapidly expanded in recent years. According to the report, the generative AI market is expected to grow from $13.64 billion in 2023 to $18.1 billion in 2024, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32.7%. This growth is mainly attributed to increased computing power, widespread availability of data, continuous R&D advancements, increased industry applications, and breakthroughs in deep learning. Image Source Note: The image was generated by AI, image usage authorized.

As artificial intelligence rapidly develops, copyright issues are becoming a new challenge for AI companies. On November 13, 2024, the German music copyright organization GEMA filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Munich District Court, making it the first collective management organization in the world to take legal action against an AI provider. GEMA claims that OpenAI's ChatGPT has unlawfully copied and used copyrighted lyrics without obtaining proper licenses and paying royalties. This lawsuit also targets OpenAI LLC in the United States.

According to the latest forecast from research firm IDC, global spending on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is expected to reach $337 billion by 2025, and this figure is projected to double to $749 billion by 2028. As IT leaders across industries continue to drive the implementation of AI strategies, future application scenarios will be increasingly diverse. Image source credit: Image generated by AI, image provided by licensing service provider Midjourney. In line with this trend, more and more companies are starting to experiment with generative AI.

At the 2024 Baidu World Conference held at the Shanghai Expo Center, Li Yanhong, founder, chairman, and CEO of Baidu, announced an impressive achievement: the daily call volume of the Wenxin large model has exceeded 1.5 billion, a figure that has grown by more than 7.5 times in the past six months.

In the current market, AI-driven coding assistant startups are emerging one after another, with Augment, Codeium, Magic, and Poolside among them. However, Cursor has become the most popular product. Its developing company, Anysphere, had an annual revenue of $4 million in April this year, which skyrocketed to $4 million per month by last month, growing at a rate far exceeding other coding assistant providers. Such rapid growth has attracted the attention of numerous venture capitalists.

Recently, a startup in Seattle named Moondream launched a compact visual language model called moondream2. Despite its small size, the model has shown outstanding performance in various benchmark tests and has garnered significant attention. As an open-source model, moondream2 is expected to enable local image recognition capabilities on smartphones. Moondream2 was officially released in March and can process both text and image inputs, possessing functions such as answering questions, text extraction (OCR), object counting, and item classification.

Recently, reports have surfaced that Amazon is considering a new investment in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, marking the first funding injection since the $4 billion deal struck with the company last year. According to The Information, Amazon is negotiating with Anthropic, planning to invest billions of dollars. The structure of this investment will be similar to the last one, but with a new condition: Amazon wants Anthropic to use its developed silicon chips and integrate with Amazon Web Services.