Published fiscal second-quarter reports indicate that some companies have exceeded expectations while others have disappointed, reflecting the impact of the rise of AI on their profitability.

On July 18th, OpenAI announced the launch of GPT-4o mini. This model is priced one order of magnitude cheaper than the previous Frontier model and over 60% cheaper than the GPT-3.5 Turbo.

Will the American sword of Damocles force China's domestic models to grow rapidly?

Ren Shaoqing said, to abandon the industry for many years of "perception-decision-regulation" traditional paradigm to do intelligent driving, the future will gradually shift to the end-to-end model paradigm, with deep neural network technology to achieve high-level intelligent driving.

Since December, the valuation of Mistral AI has increased by about 3 times; in the past 1 year, the valuation of Mistral AI has increased by about 25 times.

In Baidu's Q4 2023 earnings call, Baidu's founder, chairman, and CEO Robin Li revealed that Baidu Intelligent Cloud's total revenue for the fourth quarter was 8.4 billion yuan, with large models contributing approximately 660 million yuan in incremental revenue to the cloud business.

Microsoft is developing a in-house new LLM MAI-1 with around 500 billion parameters, which may debut in this month.

Wang Xing said he "welcomes Wang to continue to fight side by side with us" and wished Wang Huiwen an early and complete recovery.

According to the source, Alibaba Cloud is fully implementing AI programming internally, using generic code to assist programmers in writing code, reading code, checking bugs, and optimizing code.To this end, Alibaba Cloud also specifically assigned a formal employee job number to Tongyi Lingma - AI001.

On March 20, according to media reports, OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, is expected to launch a new generation of large models - GPT-5 - in the middle of this year.。

Last week, Apple's research team in arxiv.org published a research paper on multi-modal large models, which is an important breakthrough in Apple's AI research field。

In order to stabilize investor confidence, Google not only needs to explain why its big models are making such low-level errors, but also why its products are able to compete with Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropoic and others.。

AI-driven big models are driving innovation and revolution in the cloud computing industry, and the infrastructure system for big models urgently needs to be restructured to support the development of AI-native applications.。

On November 5, Musk's xAI announced its first artificial intelligence model, "Grok," on X. According to the official introduction, Grok-1 has surpassed ChatGPT-3 in computational reasoning ability.5

On the morning of July 6, the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) opened at the Shanghai World Expo Center and Expo Exhibition Hall。The theme of this conference is "Zhilian World Generates Future," and the number of exhibitors and exhibition area are the highest ever.。

On June 28, Volcano Engine, ByteDance's cloud service platform, hosted the "V-Tech Experience Innovation Technology Summit". At the meeting, Volcano Engine released the large model service platform "Volcano Ark", which will provide enterprises with comprehensive platform services such as model fine-tuning, evaluation, and inference.

On June 26, Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li attended the "World Internet Conference Digital Civilization Nishan Dialogue" and delivered a speech entitled "Big Model Reshapes the Digital World."。

On June 19, Tencent Cloud announced for the first time the progress of research and development of industry models.。Tencent will help enterprises to build exclusive large models and intelligent applications, and will build industry large model selection stores, comprehensively reduce the landing threshold, to provide enterprises with MaaS (Model as a Service) one-stop service.。

On May 22, it is reported that the US group has formed a team to develop a large model, which has been secretly developed for more than two months.。HKUST Xunfei also released the "Xunfei Spark Cognition Model" on May 6.。According to media statistics, more than 40 companies and institutions in China, including Baidu and Tencent, have released large model products or announced large model plans.。