AI Industry Weekly Report: OpenAI's annual revenue exceeds $1.3 billion, multiple companies launch new models

OpenAI's annual revenue reached $1.3 billion, a significant increase from last year's $2.8 billion. The company's CEO believes that businesses that simply repackage ChatGPT will struggle to last, and blindly raising funds is also unwise.

Multiple companies have launched new AI models: Moonshot AI has released Kimi Chat, which supports input of 200,000 words; Zhiyu AI and Tsinghua University have released and open-sourced the CogVLM-17B multimodal model; the Zhiyuan Research Institute has upgraded the Wudao series models, adding the 34 billion parameter Aquila2-34B; SenseTime has upgraded its healthcare large model "Daiyi"; Meitu has launched the visual large model MiracleVision 3.0.

In terms of applications, Adobe has launched several generative AI innovations; NetEase Youdao has introduced a virtual speaking private tutor; Chinese Online has released the "Xiaoyao" model that can generate a ten-thousand-word novel with one click; Baidu will launch the first AI-native map; vivo will release its self-developed AI large model matrix.

In terms of financing, Lambda Labs completed nearly $300 million in funding; Orbem completed €30 million in Series A funding; Cleanlab raised $25 million; FluidAI Medical completed $15 million in Series A funding; Jinjing Yunhua completed nearly ¥100 million in Series B funding; Moonhub AI completed $10 million in seed funding.

Analysts believe that generative AI is being overly hyped and expect the related industry to "cool down" in 2024. An IDC report shows that domestic AI chip brands shipped more than 50,000 units in the first half of 2023. The AI Panorama report indicates that GPT-4 is still the most powerful language model currently.