【推荐1】China Daily, February 28th, 2023-MOSS, the first large-scale conversational language model in China, will be made open-source software by the end of March, according to its research and development team.

Named after the artificial intelligence-based computer that controls the space station in the popular Chinese sci-fi film, The Wandering Earth II, MOSS became the first ChatGPT-like software to be released in China. It was made available for public testing on Feb 20. Many people were quick to test the software and share their experiences online. The traffic was so heavy that the platform had to be suspended for an upgrade.

“The plan is to have MOSS interact with humans for a month so as to optimize it. If everything goes well, it will be made open source by the end of March, ” Qiu Xipeng, director of the Natural Language Processing Committee of the Shanghai Computer Society, which is leading the R&D, told ThePaper. cn during the 2023 Global Artificial Intelligence Developers Conference in Shanghai on Sunday.

Making MOSS open-source software can effectively reduce the threshold (门槛)for the development and application of pre-trained language models, thus allowing small and medium-sized enterprises to develop various products, such as smart customer service, smart home and AI lawyers on the basis of it. Qiu said, “MOSS still has a lot of room for improvement, but its appearance proves that the domestic scientific research team has the ability to overcome important technical challenges on the way to developing ChatGPT-like products. ”

“We want to share MOSS and its model codes and development experiences with everyone, and hope that China can be at the forefront of the world in terms of large-scale language models. We look forward to the continued cooperation between the Fudan team and the Shanghai laboratory, through MOSS and subsequent research and exploration, to promote AI inclusiveness and authorize the domestic AI industry as soon as possible, ” he added.

【推荐3】The Kyiv City Ballet danced to a full theater in Paris for the company’s last show of its French tour. The tour has left the dancers without a place to go after the war started in Ukraine. In other times, performing at the Théatre du Chatelet would be a dream come true for the dancers. But with the ongoing war in their country, the dancers feel only a deep sadness.

“We are both physically and emotionally exhausted.” Ekaterina Kozlova said. She is the company’s assistant director. “Everyone in the ballet is worried about their families, loved ones, friends, colleagues at home. It’s been very difficult.”

The Théatre du Chatelet, in the center of Paris, offered them the stage on Tuesday for the group’s final show of a French tour. The dance director of the Paris Opera and some members of her company joined the Ukrainians for a class before performing several ballet classics together. They danced parts of Russian composer Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and The Nutcrackery.

For many of the dancers, the chance to train and dance was a way to think about “something other than the conflict in Ukraine,” Kozlova said. One of the dancers will be going to the Ukrainian border in the coming days to pick up her young daughter who was taken out of the country. Only some members of the company were traveling around France. Many of the ballet’s best dancers stayed behind, waiting to join their friends after they reached Paris.

“Most of our artists are detained in Paris.” Director Ivan Kozlova told the Paris crowd. The city of Paris and the ballet community have helped find temporary housing for the Ukrainian dancers who say they hope to continue dancing in France and elsewhere. The Chatelet theater offered the whole group a residency. But for now, Tuesday’s last-minute performance was their last. All sales from their performances will go to nongovernmental organizations collecting and sending humanitarian aid to Ukraine and neighboring countries.

【推荐2】At 14, Fraser Doherty was busy making jam after his grandparents taught him a family recipe. He started selling jars of his jam door to door near his parents’ home in Edinburgh. As interest grew, his hobby stated to turn into a business. He now makes 40,000 jars of jam a month and is well on his way to making his first million.

Doherty, who has been chosen to represent Britain in the Global Students Entrepreneurs Awards in Chicago next month, said there are several advantages to having started young: “As a young person you have a different view of the world. You have a naivety and an optimism and are willing to give things a shot. The downside for me isn’t particularly scary. I don’t have a mortgage or kids to worry about so I didn’t have a huge amount to lose if my idea had not worked.”

Duncan Cheatle, founder of The Supper Club, a forum for established entrepreneurs in London, agreed that becoming an entrepreneur at a young age has a lot to recommend it.

“For young people there is no concept of thinking outside the box because there isn’t a box. There is capacity in young people to see things in a different way that older people lose. And often not being an expert in something can be helpful because if you don’t understand why something works in a certain way, you will decide to do it differently.”

Emma Jones, founder of Enterprise Nation, the home business website, said that young people were much more confident about using technology as a base for their business than the older generation. “Whole sectors that didn’t exist ten years ago are coming up now because young entrepreneurs are challenging all previous rules and saying technology means that we can do things like this. They have an open capacity to think of new ideas and as a result they are starting very interesting businesses.”

【推荐3】The former CEO of Starbucks, Howard D. Schultz was born on July 19, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York. He lived in a neighborhood with low-income families. As a child, Schultz saw his father struggling with money. At the age of seven, his father injured his leg at work and had no medical insurance(保险), so the economic stress on the family left Howard terrible memories of his childhood.

In high school, Schultz played football that earned him a scholarship to Northern Michigan University. After graduation, Schultz had a few jobs before joining Starbucks. At the time there were only three Starbucks stores.

The trip that changed Starbucks and Schultz’s career was his trip to Milan. While exploring the place he came across small coffee shops, where the owners developed personal relationships with their customers, even calling them by their given names while serving them coffee.

In 1985, Schultz quit Starbucks as his Italian-based coffee experience idea was rejected by the two founders. He then went on to create his own coffee company called “Ⅱ Giornale”, Italian for “The Daily”.

“In the course of the year I spent trying to raise money, I spoke to 242 people, and 217 of them said no,” he wrote about his struggle. “Try to imagine how disappointing it can be to hear that many times why your idea is not worth investing in.”

He spent two years creating the coffee culture he had experienced in Italy, at “Ⅱ Giornale”. In August 1987, Starbucks was purchased(购买) by “Ⅱ Giornale” for $3.8 million. Starbucks now has an annual sale of over $16 billion.

Once Schultz said, “I cannot offer you any specific secret to success. But my own experience suggests that starting from scratch (白手起家) and achieving much more than what I dream about is quite possible.”