Algorithm news compilation| Asia's largest AI supercomputer was put into operation, and the brain-computer interface went to the clinic

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Asia's largest supercomputing center lingang put into operation, can complete 1,000 billion parameter model training (the surging news)

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_16426502

Artificial intelligence software company SenseTime (0020. HK) announced on January 24 that its Artificial Intelligence Computing Center (SenseTime AIDC), located in the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, with a total investment of about 5.6 billion yuan, will be operational today. AIDC's computing and processing power can be called "Big Mac", with a peak computing power of 3740 Petaflops, which can provide large-scale elastic computing power and complete training of 1,000 billion parameter models.

Meta is developing a record-breaking supercomputer to power Metavalse (VentureBeat)

https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/24/meta-is-developing-a-record-breaking-supercomputer-to-power-the-metaverse/

On January 25, Meta and Nvidia officially launched a new supercomputer, the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), claiming that it is one of the fastest RUNNing AI supercomputers today, and the company aims to complete it by the middle of this year. Zuckerberg pointed out that the experiences the company creates for the virtual world require huge computing power — up to half a billion operations per second. RSC will enable new AI models to learn from trillions of examples, understand hundreds of languages, and more.

Chip Frontier: Increase production and increase investment

Intel Spends $20 Billion to Build Large Chip Manufacturing Plant in Ohio (Engadget)

https://www.engadget.com/intel-ichip-making-facility-in-ohio-073608482.html

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger expects this to be "the largest silicon manufacturing base on earth." This is Intel's first investment in fabs in new regions in nearly 40 years and an important part of Intel's manufacturing reboot program, IDM 2.0, which aims to give the company back the ability to manufacture chips at state-of-the-art nodes and provide foundry services to other companies.

Data and models

Improper acquisition and use of data intensifies, people's congress deputies suggest legislation to determine data rights and interests (The Paper)

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_16355737

"It is recommended that Shanghai municipality try first, determine the non-personal data rights and interests of enterprises through the formulation of local legislation or government regulations, and give enterprises a basis for relief by determining the infringement of non-personal data rights and interests." Qin Na, a deputy to the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress and executive deputy director of the Social Education Research Center of the School of Sociology of Shanghai University, suggested during the "Shanghai Two Sessions" in 2022.

Data 'black hole': Europol orders deletion of vast amounts of personal data (The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/10/a-data-black-hole-europol-ordered-to-delete-vast-store-of-personal-data

The EU Police agency is accused of illegally possessing information and aspires to become a NSA-style mass surveillance agency. The EUROPEAN Union's data protection regulator (EDPS) has ordered the EU-owned Europol to delete data that has been held illegally for more than six months and to tease out the data it can legally retain in a year's time.

With 15 billion parameters, Google open sourced all the code of the largest visual model in history, V-MoE (Heart of the Machine)

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/_EAmHwqNYQmoM4AS-Lqmxg

Google Brain recently open-sourced the entire code for the training and fine-tuning model of V-MoE, the largest visual model ever launched before, which achieves a Top-1 accuracy close to SOTA. They hope that open source code and models will attract more researchers to the field.

Metaverse territory expansion

Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the meta-universe (CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/16/walmart-is-quietly-preparing-to-enter-the-metaverse.html

Walmart appears to be venturing into the metaverse, having filed several new trademarks indicating its intention to manufacture and sell virtual goods, including electronics, home décor, toys, sporting goods and personal care products. In his filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Walmart said it would offer users virtual currency as well as NFTs. In a public statement, Walmart said it was "constantly exploring how emerging technologies can shape the shopping experience of the future," but declined to comment on specific trademark applications.

The Eye of the Metacosm! Meta mechanical bionic eye patent exposure, but also in the bionic human body (new Zhiyuan)

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/FKPpXI8bIj4UJF15XS1XzA

Recently, Meta applied for a patent for the Two-axis rotatable mechanical eyeball. The technology in the patent is said to be used to build Facebook's AR/VR applications to render 3D images faster in the metaverse. Meta said that the mechanical bionic eye was designed to match the robot's head, in order to make the eye appear more realistic. The bionic eye will be equipped with sensors to help it see the real world, and can be trained and improved by machine learning.

Huang Jen-hoon thought about the metacosm five years ago? Nvidia: Metaverse not for metaversity (The Paper)

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_16337562

In the past year, the metaverse has become a hot concept, known as the "metaverse creation tool" Nvidia Omniverse has broken the circle and has been widely concerned, and the "digital Huang Jenxun", which has caused a hot discussion at the GTC conference, is made of Omniverse. In reality, however, Omniverse did not first appear because of the metaverse, but before the metaverse became a hot word. So why did NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang start advancing the Omniverse project five years ago? What is the metaphor of a "digital wormhole"? What exactly can Omniverse do?

Brain-computer interfaces are moving toward clinical trials

Elon M. Musk's brain-computer interface company is slowly moving toward human trials (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-20/elon-musk-s-brain-implant-company-is-inching-toward-human-trials

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink is now hiring a head of clinical trials, which could mean the company's long-term goal of implanting chips into the human brain is approaching. Recently, Musk also told the Wall Street Journal that Neuralink hopes to implant its device into the human brain sometime in 2022.

Why "Father of Brain-Computer Interface" Nico Lelis Left Academia to Join Chinese Startups (The Paper)

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_16074625

Miguel Nicolelis is the academic founder of the field of brain-computer interfaces, known as the "father of brain-computer interfaces", and was named one of the 20 most influential scientists in the world by Scientific American. Currently, he has joined Chinese startup BrainCo as Chief Scientific Advisor. Why did he leave academia to join Chinese start-ups?