Babbitt | Metaverse Daily Must-Read: The European Parliament voted to pass the "Artificial Intelligence Act", basic model suppliers must declare the copyright of training AI data, violations may face high fines

Abstract: According to The Paper, on June 14, local time, the European Parliament voted to pass the "Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act)", prohibiting real-time facial recognition and putting forward new transparency requirements for generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT. For example, suppliers of the underlying models, including OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, will be required to declare whether they used copyrighted material to train the AI. Regulators could force companies to withdraw apps from the market. In extreme cases, violations can result in fines of up to 30 million euros (about $33 million) or 6 percent of a company's annual global revenue, and for tech companies like Google and Microsoft, fines can run into billions of dollars.

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Shanghai Municipal Government: Develop new digital economies such as blockchain and Web3.0, and promote major applications in Metaverse

Babbitt News, on June 15, the General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government issued the "Shanghai Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting High-quality Manufacturing Development (2023-2025)". In terms of key tasks, it is planned to lay out new tracks and future industries. Implement the "four new tracks" and "five future industries" action plans, develop new digital economies such as blockchain and Web3.0, promote major applications in the Metaverse, and deploy carbon capture and utilization, "ammonia-hydrogen" and efficient energy storage and other green and low-carbon fields, and create terminal brands such as intelligent networked vehicles, intelligent robots, intelligent wearables, and virtual displays; accelerate the layout of future industrial segments, and build future industrial pilot areas such as Zhangjiang, Lingang, and Daling Bay.

French President Emmanuel Macron: will invest more than 500 million euros in the development of artificial intelligence and build a world-class industrial cluster

According to Xinhua News Agency, French President Emmanuel Macron announced at the opening ceremony of the "Long Live Science and Technology" Science and Technology Innovation Exhibition held in Paris on the 14th that he will invest more than 500 million euros in the development of artificial intelligence and create a world-class industrial cluster.

When Macron held a roundtable discussion with the heads of startups that day, he pointed out that in the face of the wave of the new industrial revolution, France must create 5 to 10 artificial intelligence industry clusters and create world-leading top companies. For this purpose, it plans to invest more than 500 million EUR. He also said the government would also invest 50 million euros to upgrade the existing Jean-Zay supercomputer project. He hopes that France will vigorously develop generative artificial intelligence and open source large language models, and encourage the establishment of French databases.

Macron introduced that a fund called "Tibi 2" invested by 28 institutional investors will be used to fund start-ups. The fund has currently collected up to 7 billion euros in funds, with an ultimate goal of 10 billion euros. He also said that 125 technological innovation companies have received funding from the "France 2030" investment program.

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

According to Xinzhiyuan, on June 15, "Baichuan Intelligence" formed by Wang Xiaochuan officially launched the first 7 billion parameter Chinese and English pre-trained large model baichuan-7 B. It is reported that baichuan-7 B not only surpasses other large models such as ChatGLM-6 B by a significant advantage in the C-, AGI and Gaokao Chinese authoritative evaluation lists, but also significantly leads LLaMA-7 in the MMLU English authoritative evaluation list b. At present, the baichuan-7 B large model has been released on Hugging Face, GitHub and Model Scope platforms. Previously reported in April, Wang Xiaochuan founded Baichuan Intelligent: it has received 50 million US dollars in start-up capital, and it is expected to release a large model by the end of the year.

The total number of ChatGPT plug-ins has reached 430, an increase of more than 400% compared with the initial opening

According to a report by "Kechuangban Daily" on June 15, since OpenAI opened its plug-ins, the number of plug-ins has been increasing rapidly. According to the statistics of foreign Reddit netizens, the total number of the latest plug-ins has reached 430, which is the same as when it was first opened on May 13. Compared with 74 of the 2019, the increase is more than 400%. The netizen also pointed out that 112 of them were added within one day on June 11.

Alibaba Cloud: 15 open-source large models that support Chinese have been launched in the Mota community

Babbitt News, on June 15th, at the 2023 Open Atom Global Open Source Summit, Alibaba Cloud announced the 1+4 open source strategy. In addition to the four open source areas of operating system, cloud native, database, and big data, the AI model community magic build is the first debut. At present, 15 open source large models supporting Chinese have been launched in the Mota community.

It is reported that the original intention of the establishment of the magic building community is to make AI development and use easier through open source and openness and the way of building a community ecology. Mota Community implements the new concept of Model as a Service (MaaS), provides multiple types of high-quality AI models and integrated services such as model tuning, training, and deployment, aiming to lower the threshold for AI model applications.

Netease Cloud Music × Xiaobing: Co-promoting AI singer music creation software, the first release has 12 built-in AI singers

According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report, on June 15, Xiaobing and Netease Cloud Music announced a strategic cooperation. The AI singer music creation software "Netease Cloud Music·XStudio" jointly launched by the two parties has been officially launched for the majority of musicians. And music lovers are free to use. This software can help musicians create AI new-generation music works, and is the first product of its kind jointly created by the world's mainstream music platforms and artificial intelligence companies. The software starts with 12 AI singers and will continue to push new ones. On the same day, the two parties also announced the first virtual singer label WOWAIDO! established.

Lenovo Group: The annual revenue of AI server and other infrastructure business exceeds 2 billion US dollars

According to Jiemian News, on June 15, Lenovo Group ISG (Infrastructure Solutions Business Group) announced that its global AI infrastructure business annual revenue exceeded 2 billion US dollars, and announced its next-stage growth strategy, that is, additional investment will be made in the next three years $1 billion to accelerate AI deployment in enterprises worldwide. As part of the additional investment, Lenovo will spend US$100 million globally to grow the Lenovo AI Innovator Program, which has developed more than 150 leading AI solutions in its first year with 45 industry-leading ISV partners . With the new solutions, customers can more quickly deploy and leverage leading AI capabilities, such as generative AI, computer vision, voice AI and virtual assistants.

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"European Parliament Approves , Requires Disclosure of Copyright of Generative AI Training Data"

On June 14, local time, the European Union's "Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act)" took an important step towards becoming law: the European Parliament voted to pass the bill, banning real-time facial recognition and imposing restrictions on generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT. New transparency requirements are introduced. The AI Bill will now enter the final stages before regulation is launched in the EU.

"6 years of achievements, crawled 2 million+ times, only claiming 1 yuan? The AI model was accused of "stealing" data, the latest response from Xueersi》

Last month, Xueersi revealed that it is currently developing its own large mathematical model MathGPT, which is aimed at global mathematics enthusiasts and scientific research institutions, and is built with problem-solving and lecture algorithms in the field of mathematics as the core. At that time, many people felt that the "science students" version of ChatGPT was finally coming. Unexpectedly, before MathGPT was actually launched, the "scandal" about it broke out first: this Tuesday, the Bishen Composition App accused Xueersi of illegally accessing and caching as many as 2.58 million data on its server through "crawler" technology. times, to develop MathGPT's new product "composition AI assistant".

"Internet Society of China: 2023 Global Generative AI Industry Research Report"

On May 19, 2023, during the 7th World Intelligence Conference "World Intelligent Technology Innovation Cooperation Summit", it was jointly compiled by Tianjin Society of Artificial Intelligence, Zhiding Technology, and Zhiding Think Tank under the guidance of Internet Society of China and China Software Industry Association The "Global Generative AI Industry Map 2023" and "2023 Global Generative AI Industry Research Report" were released to help government departments, industry practitioners, educators and the public better understand the development of global generative AI for reference.