this is kind of interesting. Now that Huawei came out with Xiaoyi, everyone else is going to have to talk about it even if what they have is not on the same level or worth talking about yet.Lei Jun: The 1.3 billion parameter model has already run through the mobile phone
Jiwei.com reported that on the evening of August 14th, Lei Jun, chairman of Xiaomi, said in his annual speech that Xiaomi fully embraces large models. The latest large model with 1.3 billion parameters has successfully run locally on the mobile phone, and some scenes can be compared to the 6 billion parameter model. The result of running in the cloud. Xiao Ai has upgraded the large model, and invites to test it today.
Lei Jun said that Xiaomi’s R&D investment in 2023 is expected to reach 20 billion. Currently, the number of global patent authorizations is 32,000+, and the 5G standard essential patent statement is valid for 4.1% of the global patent families. Xiaomi has laid out 12 technical fields and 99 subdivided tracks, and will invest 100 billion yuan in technology in the next five years. In terms of AI, Xiaomi has been laying out since July 2016, and established a large-scale model team in April this year, with more than 3,000 AI-related teams.
I would bet in 3 years IBM will report that they have a severe staff shortages and it was a big mistake.I wonder how soon for AI to make an impact for employment.
After watching their presentation, I think the voice assistance is quite impressive in understanding+carrying out voice commands. This is expected to help schools & businesses.
iFlyTek out with Spark model 2.0. A lot of interesting stuff in there. All use Huawei hardware tech behind it (including the developer box which uses Kunpeng CPU & Ascend NPU)
According to people familiar with the moves, Saudi Arabia has bought at least 3,000 of Nvidia’s H100 chips — a $40,000 processor described by Nvidia chief Jensen Huang as “the world’s first computer [chip] designed for generative AI” — via the public research institution King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust).
The Saudi LLM is being developed by the Provable Responsible AI and Data Analytics lab at Kaust, which is primarily staffed by Chinese researchers.
Many Chinese nationals with AI expertise have chosen to work at Kaust because they have been prevented from studying and working in the US after graduating from Chinese universities on the US entity list, according to two Kaust sources.