Universal large model

According to media reports, in response to recent rumors online rumors behind the Wenxin Yiyin general large model was abandoned news, Wenxin Yiyin marketing department head Zhang Quanquan in the circle of friends to post a rumor. Zhang said that the so-called abandonment of the general model research and development "is purely a rumor! Wenxin Yiyin has just completed a comprehensive upgrade of its functions. We will continue to increase R & D investment in the field of general large model. Baidu published data show that the Wenxin Yiyin big model user volume has exceeded 300 million, the number of daily calls reached 500 million, the industry based on the Wenxin Yiyin big model, the total development of more than 1,000 AI tools and more than 500,000 AI applications. Review the development of Wenxin Yiyan...

SemiKong, the world's first open source chip design model, has been officially released. It is fine-tuned based on Llama3 and its performance exceeds that of general large models. This is not only a technological breakthrough, but also a victory for the open source spirit, which indicates that the $500 billion semiconductor industry will usher in earth-shaking changes in the next five years. The advent of SemiKong marks a solid step forward in the application of AI in the field of chip design. It was jointly created by Aitomatic and FPT Software and made its debut at the Semicon West2024 conference, which attracted the attention of the industry...

According to Jiemian News and Sci-Tech Innovation Board Daily, citing people familiar with the matter, MiniMax, a general large-scale model startup, is undergoing a new round of large-scale financing, with Alibaba as the core lead investor (the largest venture capitalist in a round of financing). Previously, MiniMax had completed three rounds of financing, with investors including Tencent and Mihoyo. As of press time, neither MiniMax nor Alibaba responded to the news. Not long ago, another large-scale model startup, "Dark Side of the Moon", also reportedly completed a $1 billion (IT Home Note: Currently about 7.21 billion yuan) round of financing...

On December 22, at the plenary meeting of the Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee of the National Information Technology Standardization Technical Committee, the results of the first official "Big Model Standard Conformity Evaluation" in China were announced. 360 Group, Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba were the first to pass the evaluation. The test was initiated by the China Electronics Technology Standardization Institute and aims to establish a big model standard conformity list to lead the healthy and orderly development of the artificial intelligence industry. The evaluation is carried out in multiple dimensions, covering multimodal fields such as language, speech, and vision. It is an authoritative evaluation based on the official big model test benchmark. 360 Zhinao became one of the first four domestic big models to pass the evaluation...