In the latest earnings call on December 20, 2024, Accenture announced that its orders for Generative AI reached a record $1.2 billion. This brings the company's total sales in Generative AI to $4.2 billion since September 2023, marking a new quarterly sales high in the field, reflecting the growing investment from clients in Generative AI. Image source note: Image generated by AI, licensed from Midjourney.

In a recent round of financing, Silicon Valley startup Perplexity reached a valuation of $9 billion, tripling its previous valuation. The funding amount was $500 million, marking Perplexity's rapid development in the artificial intelligence search engine sector and strong investor interest. Established in 2020, the company focuses on developing AI-based search engines aimed at enhancing user search experiences. Its technology enables users to obtain information more efficiently, especially in

Databricks, a startup based in San Francisco, USA, recently announced it has successfully raised $10 billion in funding, bringing the company's valuation to $62 billion. This news reflects strong investor interest in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in the growing demand for investments in generative AI. Founded in 2013 by students from the University of California, Berkeley, Databricks focuses on providing cloud computing platforms to help enterprises manage data using artificial intelligence technologies.

Recently, U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, alongside SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, announced a plan for SoftBank to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects over the next four years. This major investment is expected to focus on the development of artificial intelligence. Image source note: The image was generated by AI, with licensing provided by Midjourney. During the announcement, Trump stated that SoftBank's investment reflects tremendous confidence in America's future. He mentioned that since his election, many have expressed hopes to invest in...

Recently, Zhipu Company successfully completed a new round of financing, raising 3 billion RMB, attracting participation from multiple strategic investors and state-owned institutions, with existing shareholders such as Guanjun Capital also increasing their investment. The funds will primarily be used for the research and development upgrades of Zhipu's base large model, further enhancing its capabilities in complex reasoning, multimodal task solving, and promoting innovation and development in the industry ecosystem. This marks Zhipu's second round of financing this year. Previously, in September, Zhipu received funding support led by Zhongguancun Science City, becoming the first large model startup to achieve a valuation exceeding 20 billion RMB.

Domestic artificial intelligence company Wenwen Xinqun has announced the open sourcing of its latest developed end-side full-modal understanding AI model — Megrez-3B-Omni. This model is the world's first open source project of its kind, marking the company's innovative development in the AI field. At the same time, Wenwen Xinqun also launched a pure language version of the model, Megrez-3B-Instruct, to further enrich its product line. Founded in May 2023, the founding team comes from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. The company is committed to creating efficiency.

According to the Globe and Mail, the Canadian federal government is considering introducing incentives of up to CAD 15 billion to encourage major domestic pension funds to invest in AI data centers powered by green energy. This proposal was made during private consultations with pension funds and may be considered as part of the government's fall economic statement. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image authorized by service provider Midjourney. With the rapid development of AI technology, platforms like OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Broadcom made a shocking prediction during its earnings call, stating that by 2027, the company could have a market opportunity in the artificial intelligence (AI) chip sector ranging from $60 billion to $90 billion. This forecast signals that the AI boom in the semiconductor industry is surpassing industry giant NVIDIA. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan mentioned that three major hyperscale cloud computing clients plan to deploy over 1 million XPU clusters in the coming years. Image Source Note: Image generated by AI, image licensed.

Meta is investing $10 billion to build a large AI data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana. This data center will be the largest of Meta's 20 data centers, with construction expected to begin this month and continue until 2030. It is reported that it will be optimized to support Meta's AI workloads, aiding in the operation of Meta's technologies including Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads.

Adobe is making a significant expansion into the artificial intelligence (AI) space, launching a brand new high-end video generation feature based on the tremendous success of the Firefly AI platform. According to the company, the Firefly platform has generated over 16 billion pieces of content since its launch, demonstrating its impact. In a fourth-quarter earnings call on December 11 (Wednesday), Adobe announced plans to launch AI video generation capabilities as a premium service in early next year. Currently, this feature is in a limited