AI and Blockchain News Updates

The Shanghai Municipal Government recently issued a document planning to accelerate the construction of high-performance computing power and high-quality data infrastructure to support the innovative applications of large artificial intelligence models and Blockchain. The goal is to establish intelligent computing resources capable of supporting trillion-parameter large model training, high-quality corpora, and specialized datasets, and to initially construct urban Blockchain infrastructure centered around the Pujiang Digital Chain.

According to reports, the artificial intelligence company OpenAI is in talks with potential investors to sell existing employee-held shares at a valuation of $86 billion. The specific allocation plan has not yet been finalized, and related terms may still change.

This week, an anime-style image generation app named NijiJourney was released on Android and iOS platforms, primarily targeting the Japanese market. The app uses anime style settings from a well-known AI drawing tool and requires a paid subscription, offering options of $96 per year or $10 per month.

The CEO of a certain AI company recently stated that although he is very interested in AI-based consumer electronics, he is uncertain about the specific form of such devices and believes that the future prevalence of AI devices may not be as high as that of smartphones.

In the field of AI marketing tools, an American AI unicorn company has announced the launch of a new "end-to-end AI-assisted tool" aimed at enhancing marketing effectiveness. New features include content optimization analysis, an intelligence center for brand strategy alignment, and marketing campaign tools to expedite the review process. These features will begin testing in November and are expected to be fully launched in the first quarter of 2024.

New developments have emerged in the field of music copyright, as three major music publishers have sued an AI startup for copyright infringement. The publishers allege that the company illegally copied and distributed a large number of copyrighted works, including lyrics, during the establishment and operation of its AI models.

In the field of AI application development, a company has launched a no-code application development product, claiming that a fully functional web application can be built with just one prompt, covering various types such as enterprise intranet and customer portals. The product also offers multiple industry templates, enabling non-professional users to easily create applications.

Research on brain-machine interfaces has also made new progress, with a certain technology company releasing a new AI system capable of decoding images from human brain activity. This system combines non-invasive magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology to reconstruct images perceived and processed by the brain in real-time. However, this system still requires pre-training on individual brain waves and has not yet achieved universal thought image generation.