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Olympic swimming champion enlightenment coach： Liu Zige can’t swim when he joins the team.


　On August 14th, China’s 19-year-old Liu Zige won the gold medal and broke the world record in the women’s 200m butterfly final at the Beijing Olympic Games. this is ChinaswimThe first gold medal won by the Legion in this Olympic Games is also the 18th gold medal won by the China Legion in this Olympic Games. China News Agency issued Du Yang photo


　　China News Service, Benxi, August 14th (Shen Diancheng, Feng Shuli) On the morning of 14th, in the women’s 200m butterfly final of Beijing Olympic Games, Liu Zige of China won the gold medal with a time of 2: 04.18 and broke the world record. this is ChinaswimThe legion’s first gold medal in this Olympic Games.


　　Liu Zige, registered in Shanghai, was born in Benxi City, Liaoning Province, and started from Benxi.swimCareer.


　　After Liu Zige won the championship, the reporter interviewed her first coach Dong Liu. Today it is still Benxi Sports School.swimDong Liu, the coach of the team, said: "I selected her."swimTeam, she also can’t at all.swim.


　　According to Dong Liu, in 1996, Liu Zige, then seven years old, was in the first grade of primary school. Because of her tall figure and good physical conditions, she was selected by Dong Liu to enter Benxi Sports School.swimTeam, after trial training, Liu Zige has a good sense of water and swims very lightly, so she left her behind.swimTeam. After more than two years of training, Liu ZigeswimWhen the performance improved obviously, coach Liu transferred her to Shenyang Sea Ship.swimClub, agreed at that time, Liu Zige not only represents the naval ship club, but also represents Benxi Sports School.


　　From 2003 to 2004, Liu Zige’s performance suddenly improved, and he was at a higher level among the players in the same group. Later, she moved to Baoshan District of Shanghai.swimTeam.


　　According to Dong Liu, Liu Zige didn’t call this name when he was in Benxi. His name was Liu Qi.


　　Dong Liu said that the last time he and Liu Zige met was at the end of last year, when Liu Zige went back to Benxi to visit his parents. At that time, there was no talk about the Olympic Games between master and apprentice, because "it was not clear at that time that Liu Zige could be selected as a country."swimTeam to participate in the Olympic Games ".


　　In China in 2008.swimIn the 200-meter butterfly event in the championship and Olympic trials, Liu Zige won the first place with an excellent score of 2: 07.76 reaching the A-level standard, and Liu Zige, who was originally unknown, undoubtedly won the Olympic participation quota.


　　Dong Liu revealed that around 2006, Liu Zige encountered a sports bottleneck, and her performance could not be broken. She was once discouraged and depressed and wanted to quit the national team. Therefore, leaders of Dong Liu and Benxi Sports School visited Liu Zige in Beijing and advised her to stay in the national team and strive to break through the bottleneck.


　　In the women’s 200m butterfly final of the 14th Olympic Games, Benxi Sports SchoolswimNearly 30 coaches, team members and sports school leaders of the team gathered in a conference room to watch the game live. Seeing that Liu Zige won the championship, they cheered with excitement.


　　Dong Liu told reporters that Liu Zige called her family in Benxi the first time after winning the championship. She only said to her father, "Dad, I won!" (End)

Editor: Li Dan

Why is the road to work so clean after the first snow？ Wuhan traffic police sprinkled 105 tons of salt and snow melting agent overnight.

On Monday morning rush hour, many citizens were worried that the road would be affected by the strong wind, rain and snow the night before, so they went out early, but the road was clean and there was no water and ice, which was no different from the usual Monday morning rush hour. Changjiang Daily reporter learned from the traffic control department that in order to cope with the bad weather, the city’s traffic police took to the streets overnight and made a series of preparations.
The reporter learned from the Command and Dispatching Center of the Municipal Traffic Management Bureau that the command rooms of all districts in the city report the road traffic conditions and road icing conditions every hour from 0: 00. The command room of the senior management brigade is equipped with standby forces on duty to grasp the road conditions in time through video, the temperature conditions of departmental bridges in time through the traffic video analysis application system, and the bad weather warning information is released in time through 12 LED screens on the road and 30 screens of 12 toll stations.
The high-speed traffic control brigade also contacted the maintenance, road administration and rescue units in advance, prepared more than 400 tons of snow melting agent, 13 snow shovels and spreaders, 12 maintenance patrol vehicles and 8 rescue vehicles, and more than 80 road administration and maintenance personnel arrived in advance. More than 2,000 reflective cones and more than 50 warning signs were set up on key bridges to make emergency preparations for snow melting and antifreeze. According to the snowy road conditions, from 21: 30, 105 tons of salt and snow melting agent were spread on key road sections such as the outer ring road, the second passage of the airport and the western section of the fourth ring road, and various emergency treatments for snow melting and thawing were done in advance.
Optical Valley Traffic Police prepared and installed 40 emergency signs, 300 reflective conical barrels and 200 water horses in advance. On the evening of 13th, additional police forces were sent to direct traffic at major intersections, so as to find and eliminate traffic safety hazards at intersections such as bridges, sharp bends and poor sight, accident-prone sections and easy-to-block sections in time. Cooperate with road administration, maintenance and other departments to clear snow and prevent skidding, and throw snow melting agent on the snowy road surface at the first time to prevent the accumulation of snow on the road surface from melting and freezing. Electronic guidance screens constantly remind drivers to drive slowly and keep a safe distance at important sections such as Guanggu Turntable, Minzu Avenue, Gaoxin Avenue, National Highway 316 and Third Ring Road.
The traffic police on the riverbank will move at the sight of snow, and at the same time, they will increase the road police force, and at the same time, they will grasp the traffic road surface and facilities in the jurisdiction in real time through video inspection and road patrol control. The combination of road police and facilities patrol inspection will ensure the smooth traffic road surface and good facilities in the jurisdiction. Sixteen rain and snow weather warning signs prepared in advance will be placed at the diversion turnouts of Wuhan Avenue and Jiangbei Expressway overnight, and at the same time, 50 tons of salt, 1,000 straw mats, 1,000 shovels, 2 snow melting vehicles and 500 snow chains will be reserved, and snow melting and anti-skid materials will be loaded to deal with sudden warning on the road caused by bad weather at any time.
With the city’s traffic police ready, there was no icy road section in the central city of the city on Monday morning peak, and the road traffic situation was the same as the usual Monday morning peak.
(Changjiang Daily-Changjiang Net reporter Cindy Wei correspondent Lei Xinbin Wang Meihui Zhan Xiaojing)
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Foreign Minister of Israel： Whether the international community supports it or not, the Israeli army will continue its war with Hamas.

According to a number of media reports such as British Sky News and Qatar Al Jazeera, Israeli Foreign Minister Cohen said on the 13th that Israel will continue its war with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) regardless of whether the international community supports it or not.
Sky News mentioned that US President Biden said on the 12th that Israel was "losing" the support of the international community because of its indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza Strip. Qatar Al Jazeera reported that Cohen said on the 13th that it would be a mistake to agree to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip at this stage. "Whether the international community supports it or not, Israel will continue its war with Hamas". He added that "the ceasefire at this stage is a gift to the terrorist organization Hamas, which will make it come back and threaten Israeli residents".
According to the British "Guardian" report, Cohen also called on the international community to take "effective and positive" actions to protect the global waterway. The report mentioned that the Houthi armed forces in Yemen had previously warned that they would consider ships bound for or associated with Israel as "legitimate targets" in the Red Sea.
According to a number of media reports, such as the Associated Press, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on the realization of a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on December 12, and 153 countries voted in favour, 10 countries including Israel voted against it, and 23 countries abstained. The resolution expressed serious concern about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and the suffering of Palestinian civilians, proposed that Palestinian and Israeli civilians must be protected in accordance with international humanitarian law, demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, immediately and unconditionally released all detainees, and ensured the smooth passage of humanitarian relief.
According to CNN and other media reports, Israeli Permanent Representative to the United Nations Eldin condemned the above-mentioned resolution as "hypocritical" on the 12th, and said that ending the conflict would only benefit Hamas. Hamas welcomed the resolution. Riad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, said that the UN General Assembly sent a "strong message" and that "today (12th) is of historical significance".
(Source: World Wide Web)
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La Liga： las palmas vs Atletico Madrid! Blood pressure？ Why does Atletico Madrid like the home team type？

Let’s have our first chat today.La Liga: las palmas vs Atletico Madrid!

At the beginning of the season, we talked about Atletico Madrid’s away game against Vallecano. At that time, we analyzed why Atletico Madrid likes teams like Vallecano.

Coincidentally, today’s las palmas is also quite similar to Vallecano.Can Atletico continue to satisfy the fans?

This las palmas is just like.Basaer teamSame.

After playing in Barcelona for more than ten years, coach Pimienta has been a youth training echelon coach in Barcelona for twenty years.

After he came to las palmas, he brought in many players from Barcelona’s youth training to play football in Barcelona.

So,The style of this team is very similar to that of Barcelona, and many data are also very close to that of Barcelona.For example, the possession rate, the average number of passes per game, the high-pressure forced data and so on.

They have many advantages of Barcelona, such as high-intensity and effective high-level grabbing.Not only can it disrupt the opponent’s offensive organization, but it can often launch a counterattack on the spot to get a chance to break the door after stealing.

Therefore, it is very powerful for them to play the passing and controlling teams such as Huang Qian and Royal Society, and it will be very difficult for opponents to organize attacks normally.

But Atletico don’t buy it.

We introduced it before when Atletico Madrid played Vallecano.Atletico’s attack is very simple and fast, and it pays attention to the quick delivery of the ball, which will not give the opponent too much time to rush forward.

Moreover, because Atletico Madrid’s lineup is very stable, their ability to kick the ball may even be close to the level of Real Madrid.

Then, if Real Sociedad, Vallecano and other high-ranking teams that are equally fierce are hard to win the ball from Atletico Madrid, it may be difficult for las palmas.

Besides,Las palmas also has many shortcomings of Barcelona, for example, because a large number of people pressed into the frontcourt and forced to grab, which led to being easily beaten by opponents.

In almost every game this season, their opponents can get excellent scoring opportunities by playing behind them. For example, the last goal of almeria was a long pass behind them.

As far as Barcelona can play like this, it is backed by a strong defender. araujo, Comte and Christensen are all first-class in La Liga.

But las palmas doesn’t have a first-class defender. Even when playing Huang Qian, Huang Qian’s 1.95-meter high center Soloff is actually faster than their defender …

The combination of Atletico’s Gleizman and Morata is one of the best combinations in the five major leagues, and Morata is in the best season of his career, so it is hard for las palmas’s defenders to guard against it.

In addition, on the 1st, las palmas went to Manakol Island in the Mediterranean to play in the Cup, with a journey of 4,000 kilometers, which was still a bit of a toss-up.

Although the rotation has been made, many main players have also played, which may be somewhat worn out and may be at a disadvantage in physical fitness.

In the case that there is a big gap between the lineup configuration and competition experience of the two teams, if the weak side has no advantage in technical and tactical style and physical fitness, it will be difficult to play this game.

If Atletico Madrid wins tonight,You can temporarily climb to the top of La Liga.The fighting spirit may be relatively strong.

All things considered, can Atletico satisfy the fans? What do you think? The cocktail party expects them to score three points away from home!

Well, in other competitions today, Xiaojiu will still send you text analysis in the evening. If you have anything unclear, you can ask me, "Look at the ball and see clearly", and we will be there or not!

If you like it, move your fingers and pay attention to it!

Ministry of culture and tourism： the tourism market has entered the fast lane of recovery and development

China Youth Daily, Beijing, December 14th (reporter Xia Jin from Zhongqing.com, Zhongqing.com) At the press conference of "Accelerating the Construction of a Cultural Power and Promoting the High-quality Development of Culture and Tourism" held by the the State Council Press Office today, Du Jiang, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, said that since this year, the tourism market has entered the fast lane of recovery and development, and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has continuously improved the quality of tourism products, innovated the supply of tourism products, strengthened the docking between supply and demand, stimulated consumption potential, and constantly met the diversity of the people.

At the press conference. Zhongqing Daily Zhongqing Net reporter Xia Wei/photo

Du Jiang introduced that in order to strengthen the implementation of policy planning and consolidate the policy guarantee for high-quality supply, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has promoted the implementation of the Tenth Five-Year Plan for Tourism Development, the Outline for the Development of National Tourism and Leisure (2022-2030), and Several Opinions on Releasing Tourism Consumption Potential to Promote High-quality Development of Tourism. Together with the relevant ministries and commissions, a series of policy documents were issued, such as the Tourism Development Plan for Northeast China, accelerating the integration of urban and rural road passenger transport and tourism, strengthening the collaborative innovation and development of 5G+ smart tourism, and financial support for the high-quality development of rural tourism, so as to coordinate and promote the construction of Beijing-Zhangjiakou sports and cultural tourism belt.

In terms of improving the quality of tourism products and meeting tourism demand with high-quality supply, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has improved the product series of "urban leisure" and "rural holiday", and promoted the equal development of sightseeing and leisure vacation through brand creation, standard review and pilot demonstration. Du Jiang introduced that at present, there are 14,900 A-level scenic spots, more than 700 national and provincial tourist resorts, 111 national tourist and leisure blocks, 243 national night culture and tourism consumption gathering areas, 142 national industrial tourism demonstration bases, 1,597 national rural tourism key villages and towns, and 8 rural tourism key villages and towns such as Yucun, Zhejiang Province have been identified as "the best tourist villages" by the United Nations World Tourism Organization. At the same time, the pilot work of the national red tourism integration development is also progressing solidly.

In order to innovate the supply of tourism products and create tourism demand with new supply, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism actively develops new products and formats such as camping tourism, ice and snow tourism, sports tourism, marine tourism and tourism performing arts, and has launched 7 national ski resorts, 22 camps of the third batch of national self-driving motor homes 5C and 4C, 13 national sports tourism demonstration bases, the first batch of 24 pilot projects for cultivating new spaces for immersive experience of smart tourism and 40 excellent tourism performing arts projects. The tourism products from all over the country are beaded into chains, and 10 national tourist routes with the theme of the Yangtze River, the top ten go on road trip boutique routes of "China Road", more than 400 national rural tourist boutique routes with the theme of "Four Seasons in the Country", the theme of "Reading Li Bai and Traveling to China" and the theme of tea culture in China have been launched. In addition, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism also launched a new supply and new demand docking activity, and jointly launched the first batch of 46 rich examples of integration of transportation and tourism with the Ministry of Transport and other six departments to promote the development of new products and formats of transportation and tourism.

Source: China Youth Daily client

12-2 wins 10 match points, O ‘Sullivan hits 23rd in the world, and the 8th world championship goes further.

In the early morning of April 23rd, Beijing time, the 2023 Snooker World Championships continued. In the second round of a focus match, Ronnie O ‘Sullivan, the seven-time world champion "Rocket", started to hang up. After the twelfth game, he won 10 match points with 10-2, beating his opponent Wafi Ayuri down in the dumps. In this state, the eighth world championship is very promising.

The second round match between O ‘Sullivan, the world’s number one, and Ayuri, the world’s number 23, was very simple. The former showed his attack to the fullest, while the latter was firmly pressed on the sofa and watched his opponent score one red ball and one colored ball.

In the first stage of the match between O ‘Sullivan and Ayuri, as soon as the defending champion of the World Championships came up, he showed Ayuri his great strength. In the first game of the competition, O ‘Sullivan won with a single shot of 78 points, with a strong start of 78-1 and a 1-0 lead. In the second game, O ‘Sullivan scored 78 points in a single shot again, with Ayuri sealed 78-0 and leading 2-0.

In the third game, after Ayuri lost two games in a row at the beginning, he scored 64 points in this bureau, pulled back a game 70-53, and the score was 1-2. In the fourth game, O ‘Sullivan once again showed his domineering strength. He scored two 50+shots (68 points and 51 points) in this bureau, 120-0 again sealed Ayuri, leading 3-1. The two sides entered the inter-office rest.

In the fifth game, after a short intermission, O ‘Sullivan won 74-29 and led 4-1 through several handovers. In the sixth game, O ‘Sullivan further improved his offensive feel. He blasted a single shot with 102 points, 102-0 nil for Ayuri and a 5-1 lead.

In the seventh game, O ‘Sullivan scored 57 points in a single shot and won 88-42, expanding the score advantage to 6-1. In the eighth game, Ayuri scored 58 points in a single shot, and 64-44 pulled back a game with a score of 2-6, avoiding the embarrassment of the score being 1-7 in the first stage.

After a night’s rest, O ‘Sullivan and Ayuri fought for the second stage. After coming back, Ayuri’s state didn’t improve, but O ‘Sullivan wound up. After his wave of 6-0 offensive, Ayuri won 10 individual match points 12-2, which made him depressed.

Happy childhood with heart to sunshine —— Panpan No.2 Primary School in Changsha held the Spring Track and Field Games.

New Hunan Client April 21st (correspondent Liao Canchang) On April 20th, the first spring track and field meeting of Panpan No.2 Primary School in Changsha County was grandly opened in order to enhance the physique of teenagers, cultivate students’ interests and hobbies in participating in sports activities, and form the habit of insisting on exercising.

Teams from all classes marched into the stadium with vigorous steps, and they were full of energy and spirits. Sebrina, secretary of the school party branch and principal, attended the opening ceremony, and Peng Fang, deputy secretary, announced the official opening of the sports meeting.

On the court, the judges pinch the watch and measure the inch, and abide by the principle of "accuracy, fairness and justice"; Athletes do their best and sweat hard.

The students of Panpan No.2 Primary School greeted the flowers and applause at the end with their firm faith in their hearts, steady pace at their feet and perseverance.

This article comes from Hunan Daily and only represents the author’s point of view. The national party media information public platform provides information dissemination and dissemination services.

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Writing robot： will it change the future literary world？

Writing robot: will it change the future literary world?

Writing robot has become a hot topic. These robots can automatically generate articles and improve writing efficiency, so this technology has been widely used in publishing houses, news media and other fields. So, will writing robots change the future literary world? This paper will discuss this issue through the story of the AI team written by Tiger.

Tiger AI is the most advanced natural language generation software company, and their products have defeated many competitors by virtue of their high-quality natural language generation technology. I believe that in the future, with the continuous development of artificial intelligence and natural language generation technology, the application of writing robots will be more and more extensive.

However, the Tiger Writing AI team does not think that writing robots will completely change the future literary world. Although writing robots can automate some tedious and repetitive tasks, they lack emotion and imagination and cannot produce excellent works like human writers. Writing robots can be used to simplify the process, but they cannot produce truly excellent literary works.

In fact, the Tiger Writing AI team believes that writing robots are more used to accomplish certain tasks under the creativity of human writers. For example, human writers can use writing robots to complete some tedious tasks, or use their language generation technology to improve the quality of articles. This is similar to the changes brought by automobiles. They do not replace people’s motivation, but provide people with more convenience and choices.

Another giant followed suit, and one shot was five ＂Wang Huiwen＂

Recently, SaaS giant Salesforce announced the launch of a $250 million fund, which is by far the largest AIGC venture capital fund.

In this regard, CEO Clara Shih said that the fund will focus on "cultivating the next generation of artificial intelligence startups".

Some analysts also said that although the generative AI like ChatGPT itself amazed the public. However, their greatest role in the enterprise lies in their combination with the company’s business, which is obviously the goal of Salesforce.

However, judging from today’s stock price performance, the heavy AI did not make this old SaaS manufacturer dead.

250 million US dollars, which has exceeded the net profit of last year.

Different from VC’s pursuit of high returns, as a typical CVC, Salesforce chose to set up the fund at this time more likely because of industry competition and stock price considerations.

We saw that the foundation of the fund was announced at its annual conference TrailblazerDX. At that time, the company announced three major initiatives in generating artificial intelligence:

First, Salesforce is integrating generative artificial intelligence into customer relationship management products under Einstein GPT. These new features are designed to combine the data in Salesforce with a series of generative AI engines (including engines from OpenAI and Cohere), so that customers can seize the initiative in making marketing emails, writing supporting articles and even making computer code.

Second, Salesforce announced its cooperation with OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT available directly from Slack. This function is currently in the testing stage and will be launched on a large scale later this year.

Third, Salesforce Ventures is launching a $250 million investment fund to support generative AI startups.

There are several backgrounds that have to be mentioned behind these three measures.

First of all, on the eve of releasing its new AI product, Salesforce released a survey result, which showed that although some IT leaders expressed concern about AI, most people thought it could help them better support customers and improve data insight. Even 67% of the respondents said that they would give priority to this technology in the next 18 months, and one-third of the respondents thought it would be their top priority.

At the same time, Salesforce believes that it has identified several areas where artificial intelligence is reshaping the sales pattern: artificial intelligence insight of sales, natural language chat robots for service requests, targeted marketing content and personalized e-commerce experience.

Secondly, at the end of last year, after OpenAI’s ChatGPT broadened the imagination of the technology industry, many large companies rushed to announce the function of using artificial intelligence to generate content. Last month alone, Microsoft integrated OpenAI technology into Bing, Google announced the launch of ChatGPT competitor Bard, Meta released one of its large language models under the open source license, and Snapchat launched a social generation tool.

In addition, Microsoft recently launched Dynamic 365 Copilot, a functional assistant tool for customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) based on artificial intelligence, which directly extended its hand to the territory of traditional enterprise software platforms such as Zoho, Salesforce and IBM.

A consensus in the field of science and technology is that it is often fatal to miss the first advantage of technology, so we have seen Salesforce’s heavy investment in AI.

More importantly, the deployment of AI and the launch of Slack’s new ChatGPT application are at a critical moment when the board members of Salesforce are replaced, and investors have been pushing for new changes. Even at the beginning of this year, the company cut 10% of its employees.

As we all know, affected by the macro-environment, the market value of American SaaS companies suffered a decline in different degrees in 2022, and Salesforce was not spared. Salesforce is also under pressure from investors. Using the white-hot trend of generating artificial intelligence can help companies resist concerns about their growth prospects.

It is worth mentioning that at the beginning of this month, Salesforce released the latest financial report data. According to the financial report, the revenue of Salesforce in fiscal year 2023 was $31.4 billion, an increase of 18% year-on-year. However, the income growth rate has slowed down this fiscal year. Its revenue in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023 was $8.4 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14%, which was lower than the annual growth rate.

In terms of profit, salesforce’s operating profit in fiscal year 2023 was $1 billion, compared with $500 million in the previous fiscal year, which was significantly improved this fiscal year. This fiscal year, the company’s net profit was $200 million, compared with $1.4 billion in the same period of the previous fiscal year, and the net profit in the latest fiscal year decreased by 86%.

It can be seen that the scale of the AIGC fund has exceeded the net profit of Salesforce last year, which can be seen from the investment.

According to public data, Wall Street analysts agreed that earnings per share (EPS) in the fourth quarter was $1.36. However, the company reported earnings per share of $1.68, far exceeding expectations. In addition, the average income of analysts is estimated to be about $8 billion, while the company’s revenue in the fourth quarter was $8.4 billion.

But despite the amazing revenue growth of Salesforce in recent years, it is expected to achieve the goal of reaching $50 billion in sales in fiscal year 2026. But its share price trend has been developing in the opposite direction. Since December 2020, the company’s share price has plummeted by nearly 30%.

It is not difficult to see that Salesforce is eager for the growth prospects of its performance.

The first four companies to be selected.

Back to Salesforce, the new fund itself. Although the fund is the largest fund of Salesforce Ventures, it is not the first dedicated AI fund. As early as 2017, it raised $50 million for the artificial intelligence innovation fund to support its Einstein artificial intelligence toolset.

According to PitchBook, Salesforce Ventures has participated in 140 venture capital transactions of artificial intelligence and machine learning startups, accounting for about 19% of its total investment so far.

John Somorjai, executive vice president of Salesforce enterprise development and Salesforce Ventures, said: "for more than ten years, Salesforce Ventures has been investing in high-potential enterprise technology business, and these initial investments of the fund to generate artificial intelligence companies are fully in line with this strategy."

In fact, in the past decade, Salesforce Ventures has raised more than a dozen funds, ranging in size from $50 million to $125 million, and has also launched a series of vertically specific investment funds, including funds targeting specific regions such as Japan or Canada.

But before, Salesforce Ventures usually invested in enterprise cloud startups. After all, such investments may become more important for this software company because of the restrictions on large-scale acquisitions. For example, it has invested in star companies such as Zoom and DocuSign, and invested heavily in Snowflake IPO.

It is precisely because of its huge transaction scale and strategic value that Salesforce Ventures has always been regarded as the king of SaaS unicorns. At the same time, some people think that it may continue this myth in the AI field.

It is reported that the fund has invested in four start-up companies: You.com, a upstart search engine, just launched the generation of artificial intelligence a few months ago; Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former employees of OpenAI and highly sought after by VC, developed ChatGPT；; Cohere, a natural language processing (NLP) startup that recently cooperated with Google; And a secret startup called Hearth.AI

Specifically, Richard Socher, the founder of You.com, is the former chief scientist of Salesforce. The company was founded in 2020, and launched the AI chat function YouChat in search engines before Google and Microsoft at the end of last year. In terms of financing, at the end of 2021, You.com completed a $20 million seed round of financing led by Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, and then completed a $25 million series of financing in the middle of last year.

Anthropic was founded in January, 2021. The latest report shows that shortly after accepting hundreds of millions of dollars from Google, it recently completed a new round of financing of 300 million dollars. After this financing, the value of Anthropic reached 4.1 billion dollars. Earlier, Anthropic raised $704 million through Series A and Series B financing in 2022.

Similarly, Cohere was founded in 2019, mainly providing access to large-scale language models and natural language processing (NLP) tools through APIs. Cohere has raised $170 million so far, including $125 million in Series B financing last year and $40 million in Series A financing in 2021. Earlier this year, it was reported in Reuters that Cohere was in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in a round of financing, and the valuation of this startup may exceed 6 billion dollars after the completion of financing.

As for Hearth.AI, it should have been established in May, 2022. Except that it is the next generation management system (CRM) shown on its official website, we have not found any more public information. (Text/Zhang Xue, source/investment network)