The Alibaba Cloud Bairen Model Service Platform recently launched the 'Real-Time Audio and Video Interaction' feature, enabling users to easily build multi-modal AI applications without the need for programming knowledge. This new feature allows users to quickly integrate AI models into Web, iOS, and Android applications and share them with others. Users can create intelligent agent applications through simple steps: first, create a new intelligent agent application, then select and configure the required text, speech, or visual understanding models on the Alibaba Cloud Bairen platform. The platform offers over 200 large models, including
OpenAI announced its next-generation inference series models - o3 and its lite version o3-mini during a 12-day launch event. These models are viewed as successors to the o1 series, specifically designed to conduct deeper thinking before answering questions to improve accuracy. The o3 model achieved outstanding performance on the ARC-AGI benchmark test, becoming the first AI model to surpass this benchmark, demonstrating question-solving capabilities close to human levels. The o3 series models have a minimum performance of 75.7% on the ARC-AGI benchmark.
2024 is set to be a busy year for the UK, with Donald Trump being re-elected as President of the United States, interest rates slightly declining, and geopolitical tensions intensifying. As the new year approaches, Bloomberg News has interviewed several CEOs in the UK to discuss their outlook for 2025. These CEOs come from various industries, including finance, construction, and energy, sharing their insights on key themes for the coming years. Image source note: The image is AI-generated, with licensing provided by Midjourney.
In the latest earnings call on December 20, 2024, Accenture announced that its orders for Generative AI reached a record $1.2 billion. This brings the company's total sales in Generative AI to $4.2 billion since September 2023, marking a new quarterly sales high in the field, reflecting the growing investment from clients in Generative AI. Image source note: Image generated by AI, licensed from Midjourney.