Against the backdrop of growing global demand for advanced artificial intelligence infrastructure, Silicon Valley's GPU cloud computing provider GMI Cloud announced the completion of $82 million in Series A funding. The funding was led by Headline Asia and supported by notable partners such as Banpu Next and Wistron. Following this round of funding, GMI Cloud's total capital has exceeded $93 million, with the funds aimed at opening a new data center in Colorado.

On October 24, Xpeng Motors held the 'Xpeng P7+ AI Driving Technology Sharing Conference and the Launch of AI Tianji 5.4.0' in Guangzhou, announcing that the P7+ and subsequent models will come standard with AI advanced smart driving without the need for optional purchases, subscriptions, or additional fees. Dr. Li Liyun, Vice President and Head of Autonomous Driving at Xpeng Motors, emphasized that building a cloud-based large model is the key to success in the smart driving competition. Xpeng Motors chose the same path as OpenAI from the research phase, which is to first build a powerful 'cloud-based large model'.

As a new wave of competition arises in the global AI video generation field, Chinese tech company MiniMax's 'Haibao AI' has made a strong impression with its remarkable performance. Data shows that this AI product, which was launched in April of this year, achieved a staggering 867.41% increase in visit volume in September, rapidly becoming the top product in global AI visit growth rankings. The core competitiveness of this product lies in its underlying technological support. MiniMax built Haibao AI based on the trillion-parameter MoE model abab-6.5, allowing it to compete with GPT-4.

Recently, researchers developed an AI model named DIAMOND (Diffusion for World Modelling) that can simulate the popular computer game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) within a neural network. This model runs on a single Nvidia RTX 3090 graphics card, achieving a speed of 10 frames per second. Although the frame rate is not very high, this achievement is still impressive in the field of AI simulation. DIAMOND's training

Recently, OpenAI's financial situation has garnered widespread attention. According to a report by CNBC, OpenAI is expected to incur a loss of approximately $5 billion this year, while generating revenue of $3.7 billion. This information was first disclosed by The New York Times and later confirmed by CNBC. Notably, OpenAI's revenue reached $300 million last month, reflecting a staggering growth rate of 1700% compared to early last year. If this trend continues, OpenAI's sales are projected to reach $11.6 billion next year.

According to Qunzhi Consulting, the overall demand for robots globally shows a continuous growth trend, with an expected shipment scale of approximately 47 million units in 2024, maintaining a compound annual growth rate of over 20% for the next five years. Furthermore, the revenue scale is expected to reach nearly $128 billion by 2029. Image source note: Image generated by AI, with image licensing provided by Midjourney. In terms of shipment volume, Qunzhi Consulting's data indicates that in 2023, consumer robots accounted for about 81% of the global market shipments, maintaining a long-term dominant position in the robot market.

Recently, OpenAI launched a groundbreaking multilingual dataset designed to evaluate AI performance across 14 languages, including Arabic, German, Swahili, Bengali, and Yoruba. This dataset, named 'Multilingual Massive Multitask Language Understanding' (MMMLU), has been published on the open data platform Hugging Face, marking another significant advancement for OpenAI in the global AI landscape. Dataset link: https://huggingface

Recently, Google announced it will invest $120 million to establish a new project called the 'Global AI Opportunity Fund,' aimed at promoting artificial intelligence education worldwide. This announcement was made by CEO Sundar Pichai at the first UN Future Summit held in New York. Pichai stated that the fund will collaborate with multiple nonprofit organizations to provide multilingual AI training, helping people in different countries enhance their AI capabilities in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape.

On September 19, Kuaishou announced a major global upgrade to its Keling AI model, launching version 1.5. The new version features significant improvements in several areas, including video quality, dynamic effects, aesthetic performance, motion realism, and semantic understanding.

Recently, the United Nations released a widely discussed report proposing the establishment of a global artificial intelligence fund aimed at helping developing countries access technological dividends. This proposal has the backing of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence, calling for contributions from governments and private enterprises to assist countries that cannot invest in AI independently. Notably, one of the main speakers of the report, Ms. Wendy Hall, a computer science professor at the University of Southampton, pointed out the challenges faced by Western nations.

Recently, U.S. officials announced that a global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Summit will be hosted in San Francisco in November. As AI technology advances rapidly, governments around the world are striving to keep pace with this change. The summit will be co-chaired by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and is scheduled for November 20-21. Raimondo stated in a release, 'As AI develops rapidly, we are doing everything we can.' She noted the importance of close international collaboration and thoughtful coordination.

Recently, a new study has drawn attention, revealing that ChatGPT's responses reflect the cultural values of people from English-speaking and Protestant countries. The core of this study is that large language models like ChatGPT were trained on a vast amount of data from certain countries and cultures, which may lead to outputs that carry cultural biases. The research team, led by René F Kizilcec and his colleagues, examined five different versions of OpenAI's GPT.