What are today's most hard-hitting AI news?
1. Salesforce Ups the Ante for AI Products after Microsoft
Just as Microsoft announced the pricing for business users of 365 Copilot, Salesforce immediately followed by announcing its own AI services, offering a higher price tag of $50 per user per month for a single product. This includes three services: Service GPT, which generates personalized replies and automatically summarizes customer interactions for future reference; Sales GPT, which can generate personalized customer emails; and Einstein GPT Trust Layer, which ensures customer data privacy and isn't used for training large models.
However, to utilize Salesforce's latest AI capabilities, customers must first purchase a basic package. According to their official website, Sales GPT and Service GPT are only available to Enterprise and Unlimited subscribers, which are priced at $175 and $325 per user per month, respectively.
2. Apple Covertly Developing AI Tool 'Apple GPT' - A Savior for Siri?
Bloomberg reports that Apple is quietly developing and testing an AI tool internally known as 'Apple GPT', posing a direct challenge to OpenAI and Google. The goal is to launch consumer products by 2024.
Apple GPT's development framework is named Ajax, built on Google's JAX framework. It is currently being used to create large language models and serves as the basis for the internal ChatGPT-style tool 'Apple GPT'. Reportedly, Apple has already improved search, Siri, and Maps based on this system.
3. Silicon Valley is All In for 'Automatic AI Entities'
Recently, AI agent Al has gained significant attention, being regarded as the next AI blockbuster application following chatGPT. These 'automatic AI entities' can perceive the environment and respond, complete tasks through autonomous decision-making and action, and iterate through learning and reflection, almost without human instruction and supervision.
Renowned AI journalist Matt Schlicht stated that at least 100 serious projects are dedicated to the commercialization of AI agents. This new technology has swept Silicon Valley, with nearly all tech giants such as individual developers, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google's parent company), and start-ups joining the fray.
4. Starting Next Week! OpenAI Presents Perks for VIP Users
OpenAI announced on Twitter that starting next week, ChatGPT Plus customers will be able to send twice as many messages using GPT-4, up to 50 every three hours. Previously, the limit was 25 messages every three hours, marking a welcome benefit for both users and developers.
5. China's First Large Model that Understands Authors - Yuewen Miaobi
Yuewen Group released the first large model in the domestic literary field - Yuewen Miaobi, a model that understands web literature and authors. The capabilities of this large model have been embedded into the [Author Assistant] - adding the AIGC auxiliary creation function, otherwise known as the Author Assistant Miaobi version. Not only does it assist in literary creation, but it can also help draw scenes, accompanying novels with illustrations.
