During the week, the financing of AIGC’s big model was hot, and geniuses, famous schools and big factories rushed to the end.

In the second half of 2023, it is obvious that the financing news of the big model track has increased. Compared with the popular tracks such as mobile Internet, blockchain and metauniverse that appeared in the past, the entrepreneurs of big models have higher "scientific and technological content". The founders are either geniuses who study AI or executives who used to be in charge of AI business in big companies. Is the big model a ticket for entrepreneurs to make a name for themselves, or a new battlefield for big factories to harvest?

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01 financing

The AI start-up big model company "Dark Side of the Moon" completed the first round of market financing, and the market valuation was exposed to about 300 million US dollars.

According to "science and technology innovation board Journal" reported on June 12th, recently, the dark side of the moon completed the first round of market financing, and won the bet of first-tier VCs such as Sequoia and Zhenge, and the market valuation was exposed to about $300 million. The dark side of the moon is an AI start-up model company, whose main business refers to AGI, and is committed to maximizing the value of AI.

Ant and Baidu jointly invested in the AIGC track, and Shengshu Technology completed the first round of nearly 100 million yuan financing and valued it at 100 million US dollars.

According to titanium media reports, on June 19th, Beijing Shengshu Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shengshu Technology") officially announced the completion of nearly 100 million yuan of angel round financing. This round was led by Ant Group, and BV Baidu Venture Capital and Zhuoyuan Capital initiated by Baidu followed suit, and the current valuation has reached 100 million US dollars.

This round of funds will be mainly used to build the core R&D team and accelerate the research and development of multi-modal large models and application products. This is the first AIGC project invested by Ant Group since the release of ChatGPT in November last year, and it is also the third AI content generation related project invested by Baidu Venture Capital. The first two are Xihu Xinchen and Morph Studio.

Gensyn, an AI computing protocol based on blockchain, completed $43 million in Series A financing, with a16z leading the investment.

According to CoinDesk, Gensyn, an AI computing protocol based on blockchain, completed a series of financing of $43 million, with a16z leading the investment, CoinFund, Canonical Crypto, Protocol Labs, Eden Block, Jsquare and other angel investors participating. This round of funds will be used to accelerate the launch of the agreement and expand its staff, including adding agreement and machine learning engineers.

The UK invested 100 million pounds to set up AI working group and OpenAI to build basic models.

According to a report by IT House on June 13th, the British Prime Minister announced the establishment of an AI working group at the recent London Science and Technology Week in 2023, and plans to invest 100 million pounds in the development of artificial intelligence regulations and responsible artificial intelligence to ensure the healthy development of artificial intelligence in a safe environment.

AI protein design company "Domain New Biology" completed nearly 10 million yuan angel round financing.

According to the science and technology innovation board Journal reported on June 13th, the AI protein design company "Domain New Biology" has completed nearly 10 million yuan of angel round financing, with Jiuhe Venture Capital as the investor, and this round of funds will be used for technology research and development and market expansion. Founded in 2022, Domain New Biology is a company focusing on brand-new protein design. This paper briefly summarizes its technology and application, that is, using AI to design biological components, and using biological components to construct gene circuits. By designing gene circuits, strains and catalytic enzymes can naturally evolve and finally generate brand-new functional proteins.

Mistral AI, a French artificial intelligence startup, raised 105 million euros.

According to a report by Cailian on June 14th, Mistral AI, a French artificial intelligence startup, said in a statement on Tuesday that it raised 105 million euros (US$ 113 million) in the first round of financing and became a "new global participant" in the field of artificial intelligence. It is reported that the company is a new company formed by former researchers from DeepMind and Meta, and will try to compete with OpenAI and Google to develop a generative artificial intelligence infrastructure. Mistral’s financing is one of the largest seed rounds in the history of European generative artificial intelligence companies.

Tsmc invests in silicon valley AI chip to establish SiMa.ai

According to the news of IT House on June 14th, SiMa.ai, an artificial intelligence chip startup in Silicon Valley, announced on Tuesday that it has raised 13 million US dollars from investors including VentureTech Alliance, a subsidiary of TSMC, and SiMa.ai has raised a total of 200 million US dollars.

British startup Synthesia recently raised about $90 million to be promoted to AIGC Unicorn.

According to Cailian, on June 13th, local time, Synthesia, a digital media platform headquartered in London, England, announced that it had won about 90 million US dollars in the latest round of financing, with a valuation of 1 billion US dollars, and was officially promoted to a unicorn enterprise.

02 pioneering

Mei Tao, former vice president of JD.COM, established HiDream.ai, aiming to surpass Stable Diffusion on the basic model before the end of the year.

According to the news of Machine Heart, Mei Tao, an AI bull in JD.COM, resigned as the vice president of JD.COM Group before the Spring Festival this year, and decided to join the big model business. A month later, HiDream.ai was established, and the company’s direction was determined as the multi-modal basic model and application of generative vision. It is reported that the model of HiDream.ai can not only support Wensheng pictures, but also support Wensheng videos, Tusheng videos and Wensheng 3D content. Among them, Wenshengtu products support input Prompt to generate pictures, and can further edit the parts of any picture that you want to modify. For example, it is required to modify the background and main body of the generated picture. Mei Tao’s initial goal is to surpass the latest version of Stable Diffusion on the basic model, and to surpass MidJourney on the product before the end of the year.

Li Ming, the former Xiaomi No.9 employee, built the world’s first AI Android desktop robot.

According to the report of IT House on June 13th, Li Ming, the founding employee of Xiaomi No.9, announced his entrepreneurship in April this year, and entered the AI field, and later set up an optimist company as CEO. On June 12th-13th, Li Ming announced more information about his first product "Optimistic Desktop Robot" in Weibo. It is reported that this small robot is positioned as "an AI+robot for geeks and enthusiasts". In addition, Li Ming forwarded the netizen’s response that "618 should leave some money to look at this", suggesting that the robot will be released around June 18.

Meta lost one-third of researchers who published AI research results last year.

According to the Wall Street Journal quoted by Cailian, the analysis data shows that Meta has lost at least one-third of the researchers who published AI research results last year. Many people expressed burnout or lack of confidence in Meta and thought that Meta could not keep up with the pace of competitors. A spokesperson for Meta said that the company has been continuously recruiting and introducing new AI talents.

03 big model

Baichuan Intelligent officially launched the first 7 billion parameter Chinese and English pre-training model baichuan-7B.

According to Zhiyuan Xin, on June 15th, baichuan-7B Intelligent, which was established in Wang Xiaochuan, officially launched the first 7-billion-parameter pre-training model in Chinese and English. It is reported that baichuan-7B not only surpasses other big models such as ChatGLM-6B in the authoritative evaluation list of C-Eval, AGIEval and Gaokao in Chinese, but also leads LLaMA-7B in the authoritative evaluation list of MMLU in English. At present, the large model of Baicheng-7b has been released on Hugging Face, GitHub and Model Scope platforms.

Chinese Academy of Sciences: A new generation of artificial intelligence model Zidong Taichu 2.0 was independently developed.

According to CCTV news, on June 16th, the Institute of Automation of China Academy of Sciences released a new generation of artificial intelligence model-Zidong Taichu 2.0. Compared with the first generation, the brand-new big model has improved the ability of decision-making and judgment, achieved a leap from perception and cognition to decision-making, and will play a greater role in medical care, transportation, industrial production and other fields in the future.

Tianlai 100 completed the training of large model with tens of billions of parameters.

According to 36Kr, on June 10th, at the AI System Sub-forum of the 5th Zhiyuan Conference, Shanghai Tianshi Zhixin Semiconductor Co., Ltd. announced that in the computing power cluster of Tianlai 100 accelerator card, based on the Aquila language basic model with 7 billion parameters of Beijing Zhiyuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, the code data was used for continuous training, running stably for 19 days, and the model convergence effect met expectations, which proved that Tianshi Zhixin had the ability to support the training of large models with 10 billion parameters.

Huawei Shengsi AI framework has opened more than 400 models.

According to the report of science and technology innovation board Daily on June 13th, the Artificial Intelligence Framework Ecological Summit 2023 will be held on June 16th, at which the artificial intelligence framework ecological initiative will be jointly built, the Shanghai Shengsi AI Framework & Large Model Innovation Center will be launched, the first batch of partners will be stationed, the Shengsi Community Council will be established, and the world’s first full-modal large model will be released. The reporter was informed that at present, Shengsi has opened more than 400 models, and its partners have released large models such as Zidong, Taichu, Pengcheng and Shennong, and more than 4.74 million users have downloaded and installed them. The number of service enterprises has exceeded 5,500, and the number of lectures in colleges and universities has exceeded 200, cooperating with more than 40 scientific research institutions.

Meta released "humanoid" AI model I-JEPA, which can analyze and complete unfinished images more accurately than existing models.

According to the news of IT House on June 14th, social media giant Meta Company (formerly Facebook) announced on Tuesday that it will open some components of a new "humanoid" artificial intelligence model to researchers, which can analyze and complete unfinished images more accurately than the existing models. This model is called I-JEPA, which uses the background knowledge of the world to fill in the missing parts of the image, instead of inferring only from nearby pixels like other generative artificial intelligence models. This method adopts the humanoid reasoning method advocated by Yann LeCun, the chief artificial intelligence scientist of Meta Company, which helps to avoid the common mistakes in the image generated by artificial intelligence, such as the problem of having an extra finger.

Microsoft introduced LLaVA-Med AI model, which can analyze medical pathological cases.

According to the report of IT House on June 14th, a few days ago, Microsoft researchers showed the LLaVA-Med model, which is mainly used in biomedical research, and can infer the pathological condition of patients according to CT and X-ray pictures.

360 officially released the new AI products "360 Smart Brain Model" and "360 AI Digital People Square"

According to 36Kr, 360 officially released the new AI product "360 Smart Brain Model". It is understood that the 360-language model is a self-developed 100-billion-parameter model of 360, which has the ability of cross-modal generation and has four capabilities of text, image, voice and video processing, and can be applied to scenes such as Wensheng map, Wensheng map and Wensheng video. In addition, 360 Zhinao 4.0 has been officially connected to 360 full-end products, including search, browser, security guards and so on. Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360, said that 360 has passed the evaluation of ICT Institute of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, becoming the first credible AIGC model in China.

04 application

Sichuan Changhong: AI big model landing application "Changhong Super Brain" opens public beta

According to the report of science and technology innovation board Daily on June 15th, some products of Changhong TV have been equipped with the "Changhong Super Brain" artificial intelligence system, and the public beta has been officially opened for users. According to Sichuan Changhong, "Changhong Super Brain" is an artificial intelligence super brain system based on multi-modal interaction, semantic understanding and intention recognition, big data and other technologies. It interacts with users in the form of digital image "Changhong Xiaobai", executes instructions and realizes users’ intentions. Therefore, "Changhong Super Brain" can perceive, understand and learn, and can be applied to life encyclopedia knowledge, learning and education assistance, document creation and generation, and even picture design and other professional fields and personalized services.

ChatGPT officially enters the in-vehicle system: Meiben vehicles will start testing AI voice assistants.

According to Cailian, on June 15th, local time, Mercedes-Benz and Microsoft jointly announced that the two companies are cooperating to expand the use of artificial intelligence and plan to integrate this technology into the voice control system of vehicles. Mei Ben said that this cooperation will bring the experience of ChatGPT to car owners through Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service. The test plan will start on Friday local time, and 900,000 vehicles equipped with MBUX infotainment system in the United States can participate in the test.

JD.COM and Baidu jointly built the first AI below-the-line in electric commerce, which can save about 80% in production cost.

According to Baidu AI official micro-news, during the period of 618 this year, JD.COM combined with Baidu Wenxin to apply AIGC to e-commerce marketing, and made the first large-scale below-the-line attempt to build the first AI below-the-line in e-commerce industry. According to Baidu’s calculation, the cost of such a group of posters, from models and costumes to design and typesetting, may be close to 10,000 yuan, while with AI, the production cycle is shortened by 70% and the production cost can be saved by about 80%.

Meta released speech to generate AI "VoiceBox", which supports dubbing for characters in the meta-universe.

Babbitt News: On June 16th, Meta announced the release of the speech generation AI model "Voicebox", which supports speech generation from text, can match the audio style according to a sample only two seconds long, and convert the text sample into another language. Given a single speech sample, it can read the translated text content in the original voice of the speaker. Currently, it supports six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Polish and Portugal.

05 supervision

The UN Secretary-General supports the establishment of a global artificial intelligence (AI) regulator.

According to Reuters, Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, said yesterday that some executives of AI enterprises had proposed to establish a global AI regulatory body similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and he supported it.

Guterres said: "The latest form of artificial intelligence, that is, generative AI, is issuing deafening alarm sounds, the biggest source of which is the developer of generative AI. We must take these warnings seriously."

ASEAN is drafting an AI regulatory bill: Singapore will take the lead and complete it by the end of this year at the earliest.

According to a report by IT House on June 16th, five sources recently revealed to Reuters that Southeast Asian countries are drafting the governance norms and ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), thus setting up a "guardrail" for this booming technology.

Ministers from 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed in February to draw up an ASEAN AI guide for the region’s 668 million people, but previous reports did not involve the details of discussions among regional policy makers. Some Southeast Asian officials said that ASEAN is drafting the AI ​ ​ guide and will strive to balance the economic benefits of the technology with its many risks: "The drafting work is underway and may be completed before the end of the year, and then it will be discussed and approved by ASEAN member States." Another official said that the draft may be officially announced at the ASEAN Digital Ministers’ Meeting early next year.

06 policy

Shanghai Science and Technology Commission issued an action plan for tackling key problems in the Meta-Universe.

Babbitt News: On June 13th, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission issued the Action Plan for Key Technologies of Shanghai Metauniverse (2023-2025). The main directions of the scheme include immersion technology and Web3 technology. Aiming at the technical characteristics of the "Metauniverse" such as immersion, openness, perpetual real-time and people-centered, around the technical aspects of the "Metauniverse" such as content, storage, transmission and terminal, combined with the industrial development at home and abroad and the research and development foundation of this city, the scheme focuses on the two main directions of immersion technology and Web3 technology, and focuses on immersion video, immersion computing, new display, perceptual interaction and interaction.

According to the plan, in order to meet the demand of mass immersive audio-visual content production in Metauniverse, based on the technical route of AI empowerment and virtual-real integration, key technologies such as artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC), cross-scale collection and reconstruction, digital life generation and driving, and virtual space three-dimensional engine will be laid out, so as to realize the automatic and low-cost production of ultra-realistic immersive audio-visual content in Metauniverse and support the ecological construction of content creation in Metauniverse.

07 big company

Accenture plans to invest $3 billion in data and AI business within three years.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Accenture said it plans to invest $3 billion in data and artificial intelligence (AI) business within three years. The professional service company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland said that its data and AI business will double its AI talents to 80,000 through a combination of recruitment, acquisition and training. The company also said that it is launching a new platform called AI Navigator for Enterprise, which will help customers find out how to use AI in their business.

Lenovo will invest an extra $1 billion to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence.

According to Jin Shi’s news on June 14th, Lenovo will invest an extra $1 billion to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI). The annual revenue of artificial intelligence infrastructure has exceeded $2 billion.

AMD announced the new MI300X AI chip, and the number of GPUs required for AI model training will be less.

According to the report of Cailian on June 14, AMD announced the new MI300X AI chip; The new chip means that the generative AI model no longer needs so many GPU；; The company also announced the MI300A chip, which is being shipped in small batches and will be used in the American "El Capitan" supercomputer.

Lenovo Group: The annual income of infrastructure business such as AI server exceeds 2 billion US dollars.

According to the interface news report, on June 15th, Lenovo ISG (Infrastructure Solution Business Group) announced that its annual revenue of global AI infrastructure business exceeded US$ 2 billion, and announced its next-stage growth strategy, that is, it will invest an additional US$ 1 billion in the next three years to accelerate the AI deployment of global enterprises. As part of the additional investment, Lenovo will invest $100 million in the development of Lenovo AI Innovator Program, which has jointly developed more than 150 leading AI solutions with 45 industry-leading ISV partners in the first year. Through the new solution, customers can deploy and utilize leading AI capabilities more quickly, such as generative AI, computer vision, voice AI and virtual assistant.

08 viewpoint

Zhou Hongyi: The basic level of domestic large model has caught up with GPT-3.5.

According to The Paper, on June 13th, Zhou Hongyi, founder and chairman of 360 Zhinao Big Model, said that the iteration speed of domestic big models has basically caught up with or approached the international advanced level. At present, the basic level of domestic large-scale models has caught up with GPT-3.5, and the speed of catching up with GPT-4 is faster than our own imagination. He predicted that the GPT-5 launched in the future will have multi-modal capabilities in an all-round way, and multi-modal will become the focus of competition in the future.

Wedbush: AI is pushing the technology industry into the "1995 moment", which may increase by 10% to 12% in the second half of this year.

According to the science and technology innovation board Journal reported on June 13th, Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives wrote in a report on Monday that technology stocks are preparing for a long-term rebound, and may rise by 10% to 12% in the second half of this year. Ives said that although the valuation of technology stocks is an issue that needs to be focused on, it still believes that AI is pushing the technology industry into the "1995 moment", and the future growth will be unprecedented since the 1990s. At present, in the period of AI arms race, technology suppliers of software/chip/digital media ecosystem must build platforms around ChatGPT/ other artificial intelligence models, which will change many industries in the next few years.

Musk: Humans are already semi-robots.

Babbitt News: On June 12th, Musk published a blog post on a16z partner Marc Andreessen, "Why will AI save the world? "commented. Musk believes that humans are already semi-robots, because most of our memories are outsourced to computers. He also pointed out that there are still many things that artificial intelligence can’t do, such as "thinking", which has not been outsourced at present.

Researchers have confirmed that training AI with AI-generated results will lead to model degradation and even collapse.

According to the news of IT House on June 14th, a research team observed and recorded the "doll-like training" of training AI with the results generated by AI. The results showed that "using the content generated by the model in training will lead to irreversible defects in the subsequently generated model". Ilia Shumailov, one of the main authors of the paper, also said, "With the passage of time, the errors in the generated data will force AI to further perceive the reality wrongly. We are surprised to observe that the model crashes quite quickly, and the model can quickly forget most of the original data they learned from it."

In addition, if the results generated by AI are artificially polished and then put into model training, it is impossible to avoid the "degradation" of the model. For any large model, due to too much learning data, they will inevitably come into contact with the data generated by other AI, so the researchers said that "AI identification should be introduced to pick out the learning data that may be wrong" to improve the learning ability and accuracy of the model.

Yang Likun, chief AI scientist of Meta: ChatGPT does not have human intelligence yet.

According to CNBC, Yann LeCun, the chief artificial intelligence scientist of Meta, talked about the limitations of generative AI at the Viva Tech conference held in Paris, France on Wednesday, saying that AI systems like ChatGPT do not have human-level intelligence, and generative AI systems are not even as smart as dogs. Machines smarter than humans will appear in the future, which should not be regarded as a threat.

Nikon: The natural beauty shot through the lens and the photographer’s creativity are irreplaceable by AI.

According to the news of IT House on June 16th, creative companies represented by Adobe have begun to embrace artificial intelligence and integrate it into their own photography and design software. Nikon, a camera manufacturer, does not recognize the trend of AI in the latest video, and thinks that the natural beauty shot through the lens and the creativity of photographers are irreplaceable by AI. It is reported that Nikon first put the advertisement in Peru, encouraging photographers not to turn to generative AI, but to see the world through creative lenses. The bottom slogan is "Don’t give up the real world".

09 research report

Bloomberg Intelligence: The market size of generative AI is expected to grow to $1.3 trillion in 2032.

According to the science and technology innovation board Journal reported on June 13th, the Bloomberg Intelligence report pointed out that in the next 10 years, the market size of generative AI will increase from 40 billion dollars in 2022 to 1.3 trillion dollars in 2032, and the compound annual growth rate is expected to reach 42%. IT is estimated that by 2032, generative AI will account for 10%-12% of IT hardware, software services, advertising expenditure and game market expenditure, which is currently less than 1%.

Report: 70% programmers have used various AI tools to program.

According to the report of IT House on June 14th, the latest developer survey report published by Stack Overflow, a programming question-and-answer website, shows that although programmers are skeptical about the accuracy of various AI-driven tools, it does not prevent the use of tools such as ChatGPT in the development process.

The survey results show that 77% of the programmers surveyed are welcome to use AI in their workflows, and 70% of the respondents said that they have been using AI tools to program this year. 33% of respondents believe that the introduction of AI tools can improve productivity; 25% of the respondents think that they can speed up their study.

Report: Generative AI can add $4.4 trillion in revenue to the global economy every year.

According to the new york Times, according to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute, generative AI will bring 4.4 trillion dollars of income to the global economy every year. According to the report, between 2030 and 2060, half of all work will be automated. McKinsey had previously predicted that AI would automate half of all its work between 2035 and 2075, but generative AI accelerated the agency’s prediction.

Report: China’s cloud service expenditure increased by 6% in the first quarter, and the AI wave may bring new growth opportunities to the cloud service market.

According to a report by Cailian on June 15th, Canalys, an analyst, reported that in the first quarter of 2023, Chinese mainland’s expenditure on cloud infrastructure services increased by 6% year-on-year to reach 7.7 billion US dollars, accounting for 12% of the global total cloud expenditure. The demand of enterprises for going to the cloud is still sluggish, and the overall market has maintained single-digit growth for three consecutive quarters. With the relaxation of epidemic restrictions, the demand for telecommuting and online meetings has subsided. Enterprises are still cautious about their IT budgets. The slow consumption of cloud computing in the stock market and the limited investment in cloud computing in the incremental market have led to a decline in the overall growth rate of the cloud computing market in China. With ChatGPT leading the AI wave, generative AI and AI big models are highly sought after, which is expected to bring new growth opportunities to the cloud service market.

GitHub reports that 92% of American programmers are using AI tools.

According to a report by IT House on June 15th, GitHub, an online code hosting platform, recently conducted a survey on American enterprises with more than 1,000 employees, and surveyed 500 enterprise developers by questionnaire, hoping to understand the influence of artificial intelligence on the work of developers.

The survey results show that 92% programmers are using various AI tools, and 70% programmers think that the introduction of AI tools has obviously improved work efficiency. The programmers interviewed said that AI tools can improve code quality, speed up output and reduce production-level events. This means that AI programming tools are an important part of modern commercial IT.

McKinsey: By around 2045, 50% of jobs will be taken over by AI.

According to the news of IT House on June 15th, a report entitled "The Economic Potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence" by consulting firm McKinsey shows that by 2045, 50% of jobs will be taken over by AI. In this report, McKinsey claims that "the time for AI to replace human work" has been advanced. "The new AI adopts scenarios to consider the development of generative artificial intelligence, and simulates the time spent on work activities in 2023. Between 2030 and 2060, 50% of occupations will be replaced by AI, with the midpoint of 2045, which is about ten years faster than previous estimates."

The report also shows that the current AI may add "2.6 trillion US dollars to 4.4 trillion US dollars" to the global economy every year, which is equivalent to adding a country’s GDP level on the earth.

Report: AI server shipments will be less than expected, and the proportion will still be less than 1% in 2023.

According to the science and technology innovation board Journal reported on June 15th, although the generative artificial intelligence is very hot, many technology companies and cloud services plan to purchase AI servers and integrate them into existing systems. However, the shipments of such products will not increase significantly as expected, and it is estimated that the shipments in all servers will account for less than 1% in 2023.

Report: 70% of HR are concerned about the application of AI in the fields of talent intelligence assessment and analysis and intelligent resume screening.

On June 15th, 36Kr Enterprise Service Review released "Organizational Change and Recruitment Upgrade under Man-Machine Symbiosis-AI+Recruitment Application Guide". According to the report survey, 75% of HR respondents believe that their positions will be partially replaced by artificial intelligence; Only 3% of HR respondents believe that artificial intelligence will completely replace their positions; About 70% HR is concerned about the application of AI in the field of talent intelligence evaluation and analysis and intelligent resume screening; Salary performance management and employee training are also AI application scenarios that HR is concerned about.

Data: About $8.7 billion has been invested in AI startups in the past three months.

According to the science and technology innovation board Journal reported on June 16th, according to the data of the startup database Crunchbase, in the past three months, about $8.7 billion was invested in artificial intelligence startups, including $150 million in Series A financing of CharacterAI, $270 million in Series C financing of Cohere, € 105 million in seed financing of MistralAI and $100 million in Series D financing of Runway.

Quark released the volunteer report of the 2023 college entrance examination: the attention of AI-related majors rose the fastest.

According to the interface news report, on the afternoon of June 14th, Quark released the "2023 College Entrance Examination Volunteer Report" based on Quark Search and volunteer table data. The report shows that among the popular undergraduate majors, computer science and technology, law and clinical medicine still firmly occupy the top three. With the popularity of large models and generative AI, the majors related to artificial intelligence have the strongest upward trend.