AI and Weather: The Revolutionary Changes Brought by Fuxi 2.0 and Aurora (06/03-06/09)
Exploring the applications of AI technology in meteorology, showcasing the remarkable achievements of Fuxi 2.0 and Aurora.
AI models improve fast. Professionals must keep learning. AI Disruption gives weekly updates on new AI models. It reviews and analyzes them. Let's look at last week's big AI model events.
Key Highlights
AI is used in many fields now, like health care and money. It reached weather science too.
Last week, big new weather AI models came out. The "Fuxi 2.0" and "Aurora" models are important.
Fuxi 2.0 helps with new energy needs. It gives better wind and solar forecasts. It looks at extreme weather too.
Aurora was trained on lots of weather data. It can forecast air pollution and weather very fast and accurately. It is 5000 times faster than old systems.
These new models make weather predictions better and faster. They will help with climate change and green energy. A new era of smart, efficient weather forecasting has begun.
Continuous Updates in AI Models
June 3: New Fuxi 2.0 weather AI model released. Gives good wind and solar forecasts.
June 4: Microsoft made Aurora AI for the weather. Trained on huge data. 5000 times faster than old tools.
June 4: Alibaba upgraded Qwen to Qwen2. Open source now. Has 5 model sizes. Knows 27 languages. Better at code, and math. Longer context.
Multimodal Domain
June 6: ByteDance made Seed-TTS, a text-to-speech AI. Sounds very natural, like humans. Improves voice assistants.
June 6: Stability AI made Stable Audio Open, a music generation AI. Can create high-quality audio for up to 47 seconds.
June 6: Tsinghua and Shenshu made Vidu, China's first long video generation AI. Can make 32-second videos with audio.
June 6: Kuaishou launched Keling, a video-generation AI. Users can test it in the Kuaishou App.
Open-Source Developments
June 3: Kunlun Wanwei open-sourced 200B Skywork-MoE AI model. Uses special technology. It can run on one 4090 server.
June 4: Lanzhou Tech released Mengzi3-8B, a small efficient AI model. Low memory needs. Open-source and free for business use.
June 5: The Zhipu AI team unveiled GLM-4-9B, a powerful open-source model. Supports up to 1M context input.
June 5: MiniCPM and MiniCPM-V model weights are now open for research and business use under licenses.
Application Exploration
June 1: Perplexity AI made "Pages" to create reports and guides from search results.
June 1: ElevenLabs introduced "Sound Effects" to make 22-second sounds from text descriptions.
June 5: Microsoft Designer added "Sticker Maker" to make custom stickers from user input.
June 6: Asana launched "AI Teammates" to recommend tasks and plan projects using team data.
June 6: ChatGPT iOS app update supports multitasking interactions, enhancing user experience.
Infrastructure
June 3: NVIDIA CEO announced the new Blackwell GPU at Computex. Promises better AI and high-performance computing.
June 3: AMD CEO showed new products at Computex, including Zen 5 CPUs, AI chips for PCs, data center chips, and GPUs.
June 4: Mamba-2 architecture introduced. Improves sequence modeling for AI applications.
June 6: Tencent Cloud released the Hunyuan open-source library. Makes AI models perform much better.
Other Developments
June 3: Quantum software company MicroEpoch completed a multi-million Pre-A round of funding.
June 4: Cisco launched a $1 billion AI investment fund.
June 4: LiveKit raised $22.5 million in Series A funding.
June 4: Twelve Labs secured $50 million in Series A funding.
June 5: Pika raised $80 million, valuing the company at $470 million.
June 5: Shenshu Technology completed a multi-billion Pre-A round of funding.
June 5: Hoop raised $5 million in seed funding.
June 6: bem secured $3.7 million in seed funding.
June 6: Cartwheelz raised $5.6 million in seed funding.
June 6: Tektonic AI raised $10 million in seed funding.
June 6: Sixfold raised $15 million in Series A funding.
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