Financial Association, AI Daily, April 24 — Today's AI Daily Morning News main content is: the Beijing Internet Court handed down a first instance verdict in the country's first “AI voice infringement case”, finding that the defendant's use of the plaintiff's voice and AI text-to-speech products were not legally authorized to develop the case, constituting infringement; Cathay Pacific Junan said that Llama 3 began a large-scale open source transformation, and AI application scenario innovation ushered in catalysis; the market value of Betta has evaporated by more than 90%, and that paying users continue to be lost.

▍ The first trial verdict handed down in the country's first “AI voice infringement case”

On the morning of April 23, the Beijing Internet Court handed down a first instance verdict in the country's first “AI voice infringement case”, finding that the plaintiff's voice rights and AI voice were involved in the case. The defendant's use of the plaintiff's voice and the development of the AI text-to-speech product in the case was not legally authorized, constituting infringement. It apologized in writing, and compensated the plaintiff 250,000 yuan for various losses.

▍ Shangtang upgrades the “Japanese New 5.0” model to target GPT-4Turbo

Shangtang's “Nishi-Nisshin 5.0” uses a hybrid expert architecture, over 10TB tokens training, covering a large amount of synthetic data, and a context window of about 200K during inference. In the cloud, end, and edge full-stack large model product matrix, the “Shangtang End Side Big Model” for terminal devices can meet the application needs of various end users for large model technology/Since it was first released in April last year, the Shangtang “Rixin SenseNova” large model system has officially launched five major iterations.

Based on more than 10TB of tokens training and covering a large amount of synthetic data, the new “Daily New 5.0” uses a hybrid expert (MoE) architecture, and the context window can be effective up to about 200K during inference. This update mainly focuses on enhancing knowledge, mathematics, reasoning and coding skills, comprehensively benchmarking GPT-4 Turbo, and reaching or surpassing GPT-4 Turbo in mainstream objective evaluations.

▍ Guotai Junan: Big model open source route confirmed, AI application scenario innovation ushered in catalysis

Guotai Junan said that Meta launched its latest version of its artificial intelligence open source big language model, Llama 3, which includes two versions with 8B and 70B parameters. The performance of many key benchmarks is superior to many similar models. With the launch of Llama 3, a larger model with 400B parameters in the future, the open source community is expected to usher in huge changes, and innovative AI applications are expected to be implemented at an accelerated pace.

Currently, the big model technology route includes a closed source camp represented by OpenAI and an open source camp represented by Llama. This time, Llama 3 can also achieve significant performance advantages with small model parameters, further affirming the open source technology route and Llama's training framework. Improved model usage efficiency will also mobilize peripheral tool applications, and AI application scenario innovation is expected to achieve further breakthroughs.

▍ Musk: The humanoid robot Optimus may be sold before the end of next year

Tesla CEO Musk said that the humanoid robot Optimus may be sold before the end of 2025; by the end of this year, the Optimus humanoid robot will have the ability to complete simple factory tasks.

▍ 100 billion manufacturing capital “favors” industrial mother machines and robots

In November 2019, the National Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrading Fund was established with a registered capital of 147.2 billion yuan. According to statistics from the “Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily” reporter, since its establishment, the transformation and upgrading fund has invested in 14 A-share listed companies, 6 of which are science and technology innovation board companies, namely Kode CNC, Ling Yunguang, Tiejian Heavy Industries, Harbin Railway Technology, Lianying Laser, and Aviation Materials Co., Ltd. The fund also particularly “favors” high-end fields such as industrial motherboards and robots.

In the field of industrial mother engines, in addition to Kede CNC, a company listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, the National Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrading Fund has also laid out leading enterprises such as Xugong Machinery, Liugong, Weichai Power, and Railway Construction Heavy Industries in the downstream application process of “industrial mother machines”.

According to data from the Financial Services Association Venture Capital Connect - China, up to now, there have been 41 public direct investment cases by major manufacturing funds. The most recent investment was leading an investment in Luoshi Robotics at the beginning of this month. The company was founded in December 2014 and focuses on R&D, production and sales of high-performance robot products. In terms of research and development, Luoshi Robotics independently developed robot control technology and created xCore, a control system platform shared by industrial and collaborative robots.

▍ Sam Altman invests in energy startup Exowatt

According to the Wall Street Journal, investors such as OpenAL CEO Sam Ultrman and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz invested $20 million in Exowatt. Exowatt aims to address the clean energy needs of large data centers.

▍ Betta's market value has evaporated by more than 90%, and paying users continue to be lost

As of the close of trading on April 23, Betta's stock price was $8.39, with a total market capitalization of US$268 million. At the beginning of 2021, the market value of Betta was over 3 billion US dollars, and now more than 90% has evaporated. Currently, Betta continues to lose its paid users. The MAU (monthly active users) for the fourth quarter of 2023 was 51.7 million, a decrease of 5.7 million compared with the same period last year; the average number of paying users in the fourth quarter was 3.7 million, a decrease of 1.9 million over the previous year. In 2023, Betta ushered in its first annual report of turning a loss into a profit in nearly three years, but revenue continued to decline.

▍ Vietnam's FPT will cooperate with Nvidia to invest US$200 million to build an “artificial intelligence factory”

Vietnamese tech giant FPT and Nvidia announced that they have reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation. They plan to invest 200 million US dollars to build an “artificial intelligence factory” using Nvidia technology to promote AI research and provide services and solutions to Vietnamese and global customers. The statement said that Nvidia will help FPT develop AI technology in fields such as automobiles and digital transformation.