With 12 engineers and a $19 billion valuation, AI Dark Horse's dream story

The development of generative AI in 2024 is described as crazy, with the big model war spreading to various tracks and the vertical application boom. Especially in the field of AI programming, algorithmic progress soared, multiple up-and-coming unicorns were born, investors poured in intensively, and billion-dollar financing was announced from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. But if the nomination of the annual...

Oriental Calculation Chip Makes Its Official Debut: A Rising Star in 3D AI Chips Valued at 12.2 Billion, Aiming for Autonomous and Controllable Domestic Computing Power

On July 1, the official website and WeChat official account of Shanghai Dongfang Suanxin Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Dongfang Suanxin") were simultaneously launched. This 3D AI chip company, led by Wei Shaojun—a leading figure in China’s chip design industry—has finally unveiled itself. According to authoritative sources...

Ant Group's AI health app AQ rebrands as “Afu,” with monthly active users exceeding 15 million.

Today, Ant Group announced the rebranding of its AI health application AQ to “Ant Afu,” alongside the release of a new app version featuring upgrades to three core functions: health companionship, health Q&A, and health services. Its positioning has shifted from an AI tool to an AI health companion. For instance, through Afu's “health companionship” feature, users can...

[May Roundup] Ali invests $800 million in Dark Side of the Moon / Musk's xAI close to closing nearly $6 billion in financing

May 25 Jingdong Completes Issue of US$2 Billion Convertible Senior Notes Jingdong Group announced on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in the morning that it completed the issue of US$2 billion in aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2029 on May 23rd. This included the full exercise of the initial purchaser's option to purchase an additional 2.5 percent in aggregate principal amount of...

Seventh batch of deep synthesis service algorithms filed through the list released, Huawei, Tencent, Jitterbug and others in the list

The National Internet Information Office website on August 5, according to the "Internet Information Services Depth Synthesis Management Regulations", the State Internet Information Office publicly released the seventh batch of domestic depth synthesis service algorithm filing information. According to the filing list, Huawei Cloud's "Huawei Cloud MetaStudio Split Number...

Free in advance! Baidu Wenshin Megamodel 4.5 and Wenshin Megamodel X1 are online!

March 16, Baidu officially released Wenxin Big Model 4.5 and Wenxin Big Model X1, which can be used free of charge on the official website of Wenxin Yiyin. According to reports, Wenxin Big Model 4.5 is Baidu's first native multimodal big model, and its multimodal comprehension, text and logical reasoning capabilities have been significantly improved in a number of measurement...

Free Sora! Microsoft Releases Bing Video Creator

At 1:00 a.m. today, Microsoft released Bing Video Creator, a brand new feature of the Bing search engine, on its official website. Bing Video Creator is powered by OpenAI's literate video model, Sora, which can be used through natural language...

AI video company Aishi Technology closes $60 million Series B round led by Alibaba

On September 10, AI video generation enterprise Aishi Technology announced the completion of more than 60 million U.S. dollars in Series B financing, led by Alibaba and followed by investors such as Dachen Caixin, Shenzhen Venture Capital, Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Hunan Dianguang, Giant Network and Antler. It is reported that this is the domestic video birth...

Jen-Hsun Huang's Fortune Surpasses $100 Billion for the First Time: From Night Market Boy to "Silicon Valley God of War"

On May 29, 2024, the three major U.S. stock indices closed collectively lower, and NVIDIA bucked the market by rising 0.81% to $1,148.25, with its shares reaching a new record high and its latest market value of $2.8 trillion. This is the third consecutive quarter in which NVIDIA's year-over-year revenue growth exceeded 200%. Jen-Hsun Huang, in his subsequent earnings...