At the Baidu World Conference held on November 12, 2024, Baidu announced an important innovation in the field of AI creation — 'Free Canvas', a new feature launched in collaboration with Baidu Wenku and Baidu Netdisk. Baidu's founder, chairman, and CEO Robin Li emphasized that 'Free Canvas' is a versatile whiteboard powered by the Wenxin multimodal large model, designed to inspire limitless inspiration and creativity in everyone, allowing anyone to become the protagonist of their own story, a cartoonist, or a short video director. He pointed out that 'Free Canvas' is not a futures product but is available immediately.

Recently, Kuaishou has launched the 'Keling AI' standalone app to enhance its AI creation strategy on mobile platforms. This app is based on Kuaishou's self-developed Keling large model and Ketu large model, providing capabilities for video and image generation and editing. According to official descriptions, the 'Keling AI' app is a next-generation creative productivity platform, forming a cross-platform product matrix with web, app, mini-program, and international versions. The 'Keling AI' app meets users' daily creative needs, but compared to the more feature-complete Keling web version, it still has some practical functionality missing.

ByteDance quietly enters the new battlefield of AI communities, drawing industry attention with its internally incubated AI platform, Lumi. Positioned as a community for sharing AI models, the platform is still in the whitelist testing phase, but its complete ecological layout is beginning to take shape. As an important part of ByteDance's strategy in the AI field, Lumi's core positioning is to create a comprehensive platform that integrates model sharing, workflow building, and model training. In the context of AI technology rapidly penetrating various industries, the emergence of this platform may provide developers and researchers with greater opportunities.

Canva has officially launched its AI creation suite 'Magic Studio' in China, marking a significant step towards its mission of 'empowering the world through design'. Aimed at enhancing design efficiency and unleashing creative potential, 'Magic Studio' makes it easy for newcomers to create professional-quality works with its user-friendly features. Its core advantages include the provision of intelligent tools, such as 'Magic Write', 'Magic Eraser', 'Magic Capture', and 'Magic Animation', covering the entire process from copy generation, image processing to presentation design, simplifying the design experience.

MoeThread's AI creation platform 'MoBi MaLiang' announces a complete upgrade, providing users with a more efficient and personalized image generation experience. The upgraded MoBi MaLiang has particularly enhanced its understanding of Chinese language and culture, making creative portrait generation more precise. Users can generate personalized creative portraits quickly in just three simple steps: upload a photo, enter a description, and generate an image.

The one-stop AI creation platform 'DreamAI' developed by the JinYing team under ByteDance is now available on the Apple App Store and various Android app markets such as Xiaomi. The platform offers features for AI image creation and video creation.

Meta has announced the shutdown of its celebrity chatbot project, which allowed users to interact with virtual avatars of celebrities. Despite significant promotion, the project is no longer in service. Meta's focus has shifted to AI Studio, a new tool that allows users to create their own chatbots. Initial projects included virtual characters such as Coco, Victor, and Amber, but they failed to meet expectations, particularly in attracting more celebrities, resulting in low returns on investment. Nevertheless, Meta remains committed to AI chat technology.

Recently, the online literary community has been embroiled in a heated debate over the rights of artificial intelligence and authors. The controversy originated from the "AI Training Supplemental Agreement" added to the signing agreements on the Tomato Novel platform, which required authors to agree to use their works for the platform's AI content development, sparking strong opposition from many online novelists.According to multiple online novelists who posted on social media, this agreement n

During the Huawei Developer Conference 2024 (HDC2024), Huawei Music and iFLYTEK Co., Ltd. held a comprehensive deep cooperation signing ceremony in Dongguan. This cooperation marks a joint effort to promote the construction of a new ecosystem geared towards the all-scenario era, based on the development direction of HarmonyOS.

Douyin influencer 'Ruo Ruo Running Fast' released a video celebrating reaching over 10 million followers, stunning viewers with AI comic effects. Douyin launched the AI creation feature on December 8, sparking discussions with the topic 'Everyone is an AI artist', and related videos have surpassed 610 million views. The ancient style AI effects are popular, with influencer 'Pipi in the Countryside' receiving over 200,000 likes for their application of the effects. Major platforms are adopting AI painting technology, lowering barriers for ordinary users to engage in AI creation, bringing rich possibilities to the AIGC creative ecosystem. Douyin users are eagerly trying out AI painting.

The award-winning work 'Twin Sisters in Love' at the inaugural AI Photography Award sparked a debate about AI creation at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale. The AI-generated artwork 'Space Opera' won an award at an art fair in Colorado, USA in 2022, leading netizens to criticize both the organizers and the artist. German photographer Boris Eldagsen expressed doubts about AI technology by entering an AI work for the Sony World Photography Award. The Japanese government has drafted guidelines for AI-generated images that clarify responsibilities among all parties. AI serves as a tool for creation, while humans provide the creativity.

The author spent a month using AI to create a Xiaohongshu influencer to demonstrate that AI can produce content efficiently. The author created multiple AI accounts and found that the generated content was highly homogeneous and lacked differentiation. The author believes that to leverage AI in creation, one must not solely rely on AI for production but also provide high-quality materials. The author took AI to the Hangzhou Asian Games to help generate specific service-oriented content. The author realized that AI is not just a tool but also a good partner for thinking and communication; the era of co-creation between AI and humans has already arrived.

American AI researcher Stephen Thaler claims that his AI DABUS has sentience and that its creations should be granted copyright. The court dismissed Thaler's claims, reaffirming that copyright requires a human creator and that AI does not possess copyright. Thaler's representative, Professor Ryan Abbott, argued that to encourage AI to create things like vaccines, its creations should be eligible for patent protection.

1. AI live streaming cannot completely replace real human live streaming as human emotions are richer and can better guide consumer purchases. 2. AI-generated text and images require significant human modification and refinement, resulting in low creative efficiency. 3. Issues such as data security and copyright ownership in AIGC make the industry and regulators uneasy, leading platforms like Douyin and Dazhong Dianping to start cracking down on AI-generated content.

1. Reports suggest that Microsoft may introduce AI features in Windows 11 Paint. 2. The new feature, supported by Bing Image Creator, can generate images based on descriptions. 3. Users can input text in the sidebar, and AI will create images according to the descriptions.

AI creation allows people to quickly write and publish books, but there are still commercialization challenges. AI tools can assist in picture book creation, but the coherence and style adjustments of AI-generated illustrations still require human intervention. Currently, AI-generated literary works lack originality and often replicate or resemble human creations.