202426 Apr

Microsoft agreed to invest $20 million in Yushan AI to develop a large offline AI model

Summary

-- As governments and institutions around the world increasingly focus on cybersecurity, the development of offline AI products has been gaining attention. Microsoft USA has recently not only been actively developing small open-source "edge" models, but has also decided to invest $20 million in Yushan AI, a company with both American and Taiwanese backgrounds. Yushan AIs large language model (LLM) features offline operation, mobile compatibility, decentralization, domain-specific and private capabilities,Recently, Catherine Szpindor, Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives, called for the removal of Microsofts Copilot AI service, reflecting the common global governmental concerns about information security. This means that internal government and institutional information no longer needs to be uploaded to any external services and can be operated internally within a secure environment, enhancing efficiency..The $20 million invested by Microsoft in Yushan AI will be used to purchase additional computing power to train various offline Yushan AI large language models. This initiative will help Yushan AI accelerate the research and optimization of its offline large language models to meet the needs of different application scenarios.

Source: Prlog

Funding

$20M
Amount
Apr 26 2024
Date
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Investor
Yushan AI
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