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2023 Hurun China Metaverse Potential Enterprise List released
NetEase Intelligent Enterprise and Electric Soul Network established "Game Artificial Intelligence Joint Lab"
Lenovo introduced Baidu's "Wen Xin Yi Grid", and AI-generated pictures can customize the appearance of notebooks
Tencent Music launched the virtual chatbot "Unpartnered", which can be randomly and customizable with AI companions
Bloomberg: Apple is building big language models and developing the chatbot Apple GPT
711 Launched X-Store unmanned convenience store: ChatGPT as customer service, goods go out automatically checkout
It is rumored that the Meta Quest Pro will face discontinuation
Infinite Reality announced a partnership with Vodafone to create a metaverse showroom
360 Zhou Hongyi: The real opportunity for big models is in the enterprise market
Sun Gang, global vice president of Qualcomm: AI models with more than 10 billion parameters are expected to be run on mobile phones in the coming months
Ten years from now, the industrial metaverse market will have a share of $765.8 billion
CSC: AI is expected to drive demand for computing power, and operators, optical modules and ICT equipment vendors are expected to benefit
Meituan exclusively invested in Zhipu Huazhang, with a post-investment valuation of nearly $500 million
AI drug design platform developer "Gaowei Pharmaceutical" completed tens of millions of yuan in angel round financing
AI startup Gushwork.ai completes $2 million in pre-seed funding
iQIYI & Quantum Pixel launches the "Detective 3" series of digital collections
Metaverse headlines
2023 Hurun China Metaverse Potential Enterprise List released
Fast Technology reported on July 20 that Hurun Research Institute released the "2023 Hurun China Metaverse Potential Enterprise List", listing the top 200 Chinese enterprises with the most development potential in the metaverse field. The scope of this list is all Chinese enterprises, including private enterprises and state-owned holding enterprises, and the headquarters of enterprises include Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
Among them, Alibaba and Huawei were rated as "Top 2 with the Most Potential". Netease, Tencent, and Baidu entered the "Top 5 with the Most Potential". China Mobile, China Telecom, JD.com, iFLYTEK and Lenovo entered the "Top 10 with the Most Potential". In addition, there are 57 new companies on the list, represented by HTC, Mihayou and United Imaging Medical.
It is reported that among the five major industrial fields of the metaverse, the underlying technology category has the most companies on the list, with 89, represented by Inspur and Allwinner Technology; 65 ecological applications, represented by Bilibili and Mango Supermedia; 22 terminal industries, represented by Lenovo and Goertek; 15 platform technology companies, represented by NetEase and Baidu; There are 9 network technology companies, represented by China Mobile and China Telecom.
Domestic dynamics
Tencent Music launched the virtual chatbot "Unpartnered", which can be randomly and customizable with AI companions
According to "Tech Planet", an AI robot chat app called "Unaccompanied" under Tencent Music has recently started testing. Unaccompanied is an AI chat product that integrates multiple functions such as AI companion chat and AI companion photo, and users can "choose an AI companion that the app has pre-made, or create an AI companion according to the user's own requirements".
In the app, "AI companions created by the user themselves will have more personality for the user." Users need to choose the ideal AI companion image, gender, and initial Al Mate templates such as "two-dimensional, hegemonic, real style, and ancient style".
NetEase Intelligent Enterprise and Electric Soul Network established "Game Artificial Intelligence Joint Lab"
According to CaiLian News Agency, NetEase Smart Enterprise and Electric Soul Network signed a strategic cooperation agreement on July 19, announcing the establishment of the "Game Artificial Intelligence Joint Lab", which will carry out in-depth research and cooperation around AI competitive robots, anti-plug-ins, content security, customer service, testing, BI, recommendation, research and speech-driven expressions, etc., and will also conduct exploratory research and practice around related AI capabilities such as intelligent NPC, AI painting, intelligent matching, AI face pinching, art animation, etc.
Lenovo introduced Baidu's "Wen Xin Yi Grid", and AI-generated pictures can customize the appearance of notebooks
According to titanium media news on July 20, Lenovo announced that it has reached an in-depth cooperation with Baidu in the field of AIGC and launched the first AI customization service in ICT. Lenovo's official website private customization business fully introduces Baidu Wenxin Yistyle, consumers can customize the appearance of their laptops through the official website AIGC theme painting activity.
It is reported that the private customization business is a special service launched by Lenovo's official website in 2022, through "high-end customization + appearance customization" to meet the personalized needs of trendy consumers, and the sales volume of 618 private customization services accounted for more than 20% of Lenovo's official website sales.
Overseas news
Bloomberg: Apple is building big language models and developing the chatbot Apple GPT
On July 20, according to Bloomberg, citing sources, Apple has built its own framework to create large language models, using an infrastructure called Ajax. With this foundation, dubbed "Ajax," Apple has also created a chatbot service, which some engineers refer to as "Apple GPT." The push for AI has become a major part of Apple's work in recent months, with multiple teams collaborating on the project and trying to address potential privacy concerns related to the technology, people familiar with the matter said. But executives have yet to decide how to release the tool to consumers.
711 Launched X-Store unmanned convenience store: ChatGPT as customer service, goods go out automatically checkout
According to the IT House news on July 20, according to the official website of 711 convenience store, 711 recently opened five X-Store convenience stores in Taiwan, focusing on the "Grab and Go" experience, the store has multiple sensors to track the product information taken by customers, and customers can automatically check out after going out. It is reported that customers need to use their mobile phones to scan the QR code of the gate gate and enter the convenience store after verification.
After entering the store, multiple cameras installed on the ceiling can automatically identify the customer's reach hand based on AI, and can automatically classify the real-time behavior of multiple customers.
In addition, these X-Store convenience stores are equipped with robot customer service based on ChatGPT technology, customers can ask them if they have questions when purchasing products, and if the robot customer service cannot meet the customer's requirements, they can also call a human customer service to deal with it.
It is rumored that the Meta Quest Pro will face discontinuation
Recently, The Information revealed the details of Meta Quest Pro in an article.
Earlier this year, Meta informed its suppliers that it would not order new components for the Quest Pro, so the Quest Pro would face discontinuation when the remaining components were consumed, according to two people familiar with the project.
However, this news from The Information is not consistent with Meta's rhetoric. Back in April, Meta CTO revealed that "the Quest Pro will be on the market for a long time."
Infinite Reality announced a partnership with Vodafone to create a metaverse showroom
On July 20, Sina.com reported that Infinite Reality announced that it has partnered with Vodafone Digital Asset Broker (DAB) to develop and plan to launch a metaverse Showroom experience during London Tech Week. The virtual showroom, powered by immersive spaces powered by Infinite Reality, showcases Vodafone's DAB platform.
Set against the backdrop of a photorealistic version of the QEII Centre and the surrounding London cityscape, the experience introduces viewers to advanced technologies such as digital twins as well as real-time, comprehensive information on Vodafone's DAB technology, infinite reality and all-electric vehicles. The showroom experience is available in both desktop and VR formats, showcasing the versatility of the platform and catering to a wide range of attendees.
Metaverse perspective
Zhou Hongyi: The real opportunity for big models is in the enterprise market
According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" reported on July 20, the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Promoting the Development and Growth of the Private Economy" was officially released. Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360 Group, said that the release of the Opinions has brought new historic opportunities for the high-quality development of the private economy.
"Digging deep into the breakthrough point to stimulate the vitality of the private economy is to continue to stimulate various social innovation elements to gather in the field of innovation, and make greater contributions to building a new development pattern and realizing the digitalization of mainland industries."
Zhou Hongyi believes that "only by letting big models enter hundreds of industries can we become an important enabler of industrial digitalization." As an industrially revolution-grade productivity tool, the big model has a real opportunity in the enterprise-level market and should become standard in every digital system. ”
Sun Gang, global vice president of Qualcomm: AI models with more than 10 billion parameters are expected to be run on mobile phones in the coming months
According to Sina.com news on July 20, Sun Gang, global vice president of Qualcomm, said at the 2023 World Semiconductor Conference and Nanjing International Semiconductor Expo on July 20 that 5G technology continues to speak and 5G Advanced opens a new round of 5G innovation; Drive hybrid AI architectures by running AI inference offload on the endpoint side or enabling processing in the cloud.
5G and AI will evolve in tandem, with two synergistic fundamentals powering future innovation.
Institutional perspective
Ten years from now, the industrial metaverse market will have a share of $765.8 billion
On July 20, according to metaverseinsider, according to data from Persistence Market Research (PMR), the global industrial metaverse market is expected to reach $80.1 billion in 2023. Global demand for industrial metaverse solutions is expected to surge at a CAGR of 25.3% from 2023 to 2033, with the total market size expected to reach $765.8 billion by 2033.
According to the latest report, remote collaboration will remain the top application of the industrial metaverse, and the segment is expected to grow at a CAGR of 24.1% until 2033.
CSC: AI is expected to drive demand for computing power, and operators, optical modules and ICT equipment vendors are expected to benefit
According to a report by CaiLian News on July 20, CSC Securities Research Report believes that the development of AI is inseparable from the computing power infrastructure, and the AI computing power has a large amount of data traffic in the data center, the speed and number of optical modules have been significantly improved, and the number of ports and port rates of switches have also increased accordingly; IDC is also expected to enter the demand release stage, and the development of AI is inseparable from the basic communication network, and operators will also benefit from the network and cloud. 800G optical modules will begin to be shipped in small quantities in 2022, and large-scale shipments are expected in 2024, and there is a possibility of time forward. The market pattern of ICT equipment vendors is relatively stable, and the server market pattern has been relatively clear. The switch has technical barriers, and the Chinese market pattern is stable.
Financing news
Meituan exclusively invested in Zhipu Huazhang, with a post-investment valuation of nearly $500 million
According to 36Kr reports, AI large model company Zhipu Huazhang (hereinafter referred to as "Zhipu") completed a B-2 round of financing a few months ago, amounting to hundreds of millions of yuan, which was exclusively invested by Meituan Zhan Investment, and the valuation after this round was nearly 500 million US dollars.
It is understood that the subsequent rounds of financing of Zhipu have also been completed. For the above financing information, Zhipu has officially confirmed.
AI drug design platform developer Gaowei Pharmaceutical completed tens of millions of yuan in angel round financing
According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" reported on July 20, recently, AI drug design platform developer Gaowei Pharmaceutical completed an angel round of financing of tens of millions of yuan, which was jointly invested by a number of well-known investment institutions such as Betta Biomedical Industry Fund and Westlake Innovation Investment.
The funds of this round of financing will be mainly used to support the establishment of a high-dimensional biology-driven innovative drug discovery platform to meet the needs of R&D investment and application promotion of innovative drug solutions for major diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
AI startup Gushwork.ai completes $2 million in pre-seed funding
Gushwork.ai, a global platform that aims to advance business process outsourcing (BPO) using artificial intelligence and human expertise, has raised $2.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Lightspeed with participation from B Capital, Sparrow Capital, Seaborne Capital and Beenext, TechCrunch reported July 20.
Digital collections
iQIYI & Quantum Pixel launches the "Detective 3" series of digital collections
According to Sohu.com, on July 20, iQiyi combined the IP content of its decompression reasoning reality show "Meng Detective Detective 3" with digital collections, and launched 3 series of digital collections.
In this collaboration, the design and production team of Quantum Pixel and iQIYI jointly created a new virtual IP: closely combining the wonderful content of reasoning in the show, introducing three unique detective characters, namely Detective Moe, Refrigerator Man, and Happy Duck, with exquisite design and personalized story background.