SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom Collaborate to Develop AI Large Language Model


Sam Altman stated that AI cannot shorten working hours, as increased productivity will trigger a sense of competition, leading people not to reduce their work. He pointed out that for a long time, tech company CEOs have promised to shorten working hours, but it has not come true.
Meituan denied on July 27 the rumor that Pei Peng, head of basic models for the LongCat team, had left. Pei, a Peking University graduate, joined Meituan in 2023. He oversaw LLM, multimodal model, and Agent research, and led the development of the trillion-parameter LongCat-2.0 model.....
NVIDIA is discussing a major deal with OpenAI, planning to provide about $25 billion in financing guarantees to support its leasing of a 10-gigawatt data center developed by SoftBank's energy subsidiary in Ohio. Including chips, the total investment in the project may exceed $50 billion, making it the largest data center in the world.
According to a report on July 24th, Tencent announced on July 23rd that it would merge the Yuan Multimodal Model Department with the Large Language Model Department to form the Basic Model Department, led by Chief AI Scientist YAO Shunyu. This move aims to enhance R&D and collaboration efficiency, and strive to achieve the intelligence upper limit of full modal models. There were hints of this integration earlier, as YAO Shunyu had already taken charge of the Large Language Model team in December last year. Now, combining both sides means Tencent is concentrating resources to promote the deep integration of multimodal and language models, accelerating the construction of a new generation of unified basic models, and moving towards higher peaks of full modal intelligence.
Alphabet's bet on AI startup Anthropic has paid off massively. As of June 30, its total private investment value was ~$124.3B, with Anthropic holdings worth ~$124B, making it one of its most successful investments and highlighting deep capital-compute ties between the two AI giants.....