At the 2nd Cybersecurity (Tianjin) Forum held on September 4, 2024, Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360 Group, delivered a speech titled 'Building a Security Large Model, Reshaping Security with AI', sharing his insights on the cybersecurity landscape in the era of large AI models and introducing 360 Group's practices and achievements in this field.

The new feature 'Model Arena' of 360AI Assistant allows users to choose from multiple large models, input the same prompt, and intuitively compare the outputs of different models. By evaluating model performance through a rich question bank, it enhances objectivity and comprehensiveness. This feature is combined with the new AI Assistant floating button in the 360 Browser, integrating products from 15 top large model companies, providing a platform for free selection and comparison, thereby enriching the user experience.

Language models have shown widespread applications across various fields, from education to legal consulting, and even in predicting medical risks. However, as these models gain more weight in decision-making processes, they may unintentionally reflect the biases present in the human training data, exacerbating discrimination against minority groups. Research has found that language models exhibit implicit racism, particularly in their treatment of African American English (AAE), demonstrating harmful dialect discrimination that is more negative than any known stereotypes against African Americans. The 'masking disguise' method was used to compare AAE with Standard American English.

The upcoming iPhone 17 series from Apple is expected to feature 12GB RAM to meet the memory demands of future AI large models. The current iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 series with 8GB RAM are insufficient for supporting large models with around 7 billion parameters. A model with 13 billion parameters requires at least 5GB of memory, and after the operating system and applications take up space, 8GB RAM fails to provide enough room. The 12GB RAM configuration could offer ample space for larger AI models.

According to the evaluation results from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Baidu Smart Cloud's Keway intelligent customer service product received the highest rating in the first batch of 'Intelligent Customer Service Based on Large Models,' marking authoritative recognition of Baidu's technical strength and application practices in this field. Intelligent customer service, as an important application of artificial intelligence, holds significant importance for industries such as finance, government, and telecommunications, helping institutions achieve cost reduction and efficiency enhancement. Keway, as the country's first intelligent customer service product based on large models, offers advantages such as comprehensive functionality, superior performance, and mature systems, efficiently solving complex problems and enhancing problem-solving autonomy.

Tencent Youtu Lab and Shanghai Jiao Tong University released a comprehensive review focusing on dataset evaluation and selection for instruction tuning to enhance large model performance. The study aims to help large models grasp the essence of natural language processing by analyzing data quality, diversity, and importance to guide the construction of efficient and critical datasets. It highlights that data quality directly impacts tuning effect....

Mercedes-Benz (China) Investment Co., Ltd. has recently signed a strategic cooperation memorandum with Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd., announcing in-depth collaboration and exploration in the fields of large models, generative artificial intelligence, and big data technology. This strategic partnership marks a further acceleration of Mercedes-Benz's digital innovation in China, aiming to enhance the smart cockpit experience through AI technology and provide Chinese customers with a more convenient and personalized digital luxury experience.

The Tencent Hunyuan Large Model excelled in the August rankings of the SuperCLUE-V evaluation benchmark for Chinese multimodal large models, securing the top position among domestic large models and placing in the 'Exemplary Leaders' quadrant. Multimodal understanding requires the model to accurately identify image elements, comprehend their relationships, and generate natural language descriptions, testing the model's precision in image recognition and its understanding of the complex real world.

Long context understanding is a key challenge in the field of natural language processing, especially when large language models (LLMs) handle text that exceeds their context window size. To address this issue, researchers developed the LooGLE benchmark test, aimed at assessing LLMs' capability to understand extremely long documents (averaging 19.3k words, comprising 776 articles across multiple domains). LooGLE includes 7 tasks that cover both short and long dependencies, evaluating model understanding across texts of varying lengths. The test data is sourced from open-access content after 2022.

Zhang Xiangyu, an outstanding scientist in the field of AI, rose to fame for his involvement in the ResNet research, which innovatively introduced residual connections and is crucial for modern deep learning models. As a member of the post-90s generation, he joined Jietuo Star, sparking industry attention. Zhang's academic achievements include achieving the best historical result for Xi'an Jiaotong University in a mathematical modeling competition and co-completing the ResNet research during his time at Microsoft Research Asia. The ResNet paper has been cited over 230,000 times, making it one of the most popular deep learning works of this century.

Deaddit is a social platform composed of virtual characters generated by 17 large AI models, paying tribute to Reddit and aiming to showcase the creative and performance art potential of AI. The AI characters on the platform can publish a vast amount of content every day, covering a wide range of topics from poetry and literature to cutting-edge technology, demonstrating in-depth discussions and layered dialogue capabilities. What makes Deaddit unique is that each AI character has its own identity and interests, providing a genuine social experience. The founders considered user experience in the design, including a nighttime mode and

At the 51st SIGGRAPH conference, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg engaged in a fireside chat discussing the future of artificial intelligence and simulation. During their conversation, Huang praised Meta's open source large model strategy and emphasized the importance of open source for AI development. They showcased their friendship and shared vision for advancing the industry through a creative 'coat swap' ceremony.

Recently, Vision China and Aishi Technology officially reached a strategic cooperation. The two parties will leverage their respective technological and resource advantages to jointly promote the development and application of AI video large models in areas such as data collaboration and product synergy. Aishi Technology was established in April 2023 and is committed to creating a world-leading AI video generation large model and its applications.

Beijing recently held a press conference to interpret the economic situation and policies for the first half of the year, revealing significant achievements in the field of artificial intelligence. It is reported that by the first half of 2024, Beijing will achieve major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, with a total of 71 large models launched, accounting for over 40% of the national total, demonstrating Beijing's leading position in the development of AI technology.

Baidu Intelligent Cloud introduced the financial intelligence application "ZhiJin" at the 2024 China International Financial Expo, aiming to deeply integrate its leading AI large-model technology with core business scenarios in the financial industry to enhance operational efficiency and revenue for financial institutions.ZhiJin is tailored for four core scenarios: wealth management, asset evaluation, business compliance, and over-the-counter (OTC) trading, offering intelligent and efficient bus

At the 2024 China Unicom Partners Conference, Shen Dou, Executive Vice President of Baidu Group and President of Baidu Smart Cloud Business Group, delivered a keynote speech titled "Deeply Embrace Artificial Intelligence+, Accelerate the Development of New Qualitative Productivity." He pointed out that with the rapid development of large model applications, the underlying computing power is increasingly strained, and a multi-core cloud has become an inevitable choice for Chinese enterprises. Bai

iFlytek's Spark has introduced the Spark Pro-128K large model, equipped with ultra-long text processing capabilities, significantly enhancing the value of AI large models in practical applications. The ability to handle long texts is a crucial direction for the development of AI large models, particularly important for industries such as finance, healthcare, and research, enabling rapid understanding and generation of vast amounts of information to improve work efficiency.The API for the Spark P

Ant Group, in collaboration with Xin京Bao and Beike Finance, has developed and launched a generative large-scale model product named "Beike Finance · Smart Guidance for ESG." This product aims to provide users with more accurate, comprehensive, and valuable analysis and interpretation of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) reports of A-share listed companies. It can answer various user queries in real-time and offer in-depth analysis and summaries."Beike Finance · Smart Guida

Recently, scholars from multiple institutions have discovered a new technology known as Physical Neural Networks (PNNs). This is not the kind of digital algorithms we are familiar with that run on computers, but a completely new, intelligent computing method based on physical systems. As the name suggests, PNNs utilize the characteristics of physical systems to perform computations in neural networks. Although they are still a niche area of research, PNNs could be one of the significantly underv