Today, in response to rumors that ByteDance might initiate a price war for large models, Douyin Vice President Li Liang issued a statement on social media, clearly stating that this is not a price war. Li Liang pointed out that the Doubao large model has reduced costs through technological innovation, with significant optimizations in algorithms, software engineering, and hardware solutions. He mentioned that the pricing of 0.3 yuan per 1,000 tokens not only has a considerable gross profit but also follows a transparent pricing strategy, which is not the traditional 'list price discount' model.

On December 12, Peking University and ByteDance officially announced the establishment of the Doubao Large Model System Software Joint Laboratory, marking a new milestone in the collaboration between industry, academia, and research in China's AI field. The research work of the joint laboratory will be based on the Doubao large model independently developed by ByteDance. Researchers from universities and enterprises will conduct in-depth research on key technologies such as model training and inference within the laboratory. With the construction and development of the laboratory, a large number of Peking University students will also enter the laboratory for internships, working side by side with industry researchers.

Wall Street's 'barometer' has changed again! On Wednesday, Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s stock price surged like a wild horse, reaching a new intraday all-time high. The driving force behind this seems to be the hot AI technology! Doug Clinton, founder and CEO of Intelligent Alpha, acted like a 'detective', unraveling how artificial intelligence is propelling the tech giant's stock price to soar. He noted that investors are focusing on Apple's enormous potential in the AI field, signaling a promising future.

A research team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has recently unveiled an AI technology called SOLAMI, which can create lifelike 3D virtual characters that not only interact with you in real-time in the VR world but also understand your voice and movements, allowing for chatting, dancing, and even boxing! This is simply a blessing for gaming, virtual socializing, and singles alike! SOLAMI is an end-to-end social vision-language-action (VLA) modeling framework that leverages deep learning technology to translate user voice and movements into a form understandable by virtual characters.

Recently, OpenAI announced a partnership with defense contractor Anduril, which has sparked strong reactions from employees within the company. Many employees expressed their concerns about the military applications of OpenAI technology on the internal discussion platform and demanded more transparency from the company. Source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed by Midjourney. According to a report from The Washington Post, employees questioned whether AI technology could be limited to defensive drone attacks and even raised concerns like

Last night, OpenAI unveiled the brand new o1 model and ChatGPT Pro subscription service, painting an exciting development blueprint for AI technology. During the launch event, Sam Altman and his team took less than 15 minutes to showcase the revolutionary breakthroughs of the o1 model. Compared to the previous preview version, the new o1 achieved significant improvements across several key metrics, with a nearly 30% boost in mathematical capabilities and a 27% increase in coding skills, even surpassing humans in the GPQA Diamond benchmark test.

Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is developing an artificial intelligence solution called 'Augmented Intelligent Infectious Diseases' (AI2D), aimed at determining the necessity of prescribing antibiotics, reducing antibiotic usage, and identifying the most appropriate antibiotic for each patient. The project is in collaboration with DXC Technology and currently covers pneumonia cases. The AI2D model is built on de-identified clinical data of approximately 8,000 SGH patients from 2019 to 2020, including X-rays, clinical symptoms, vital signs, and infection responses.

On the imaginative edge of the internet, certain creatives can instantly ignite people's resonance. Recently, Xiaohongshu blogger "DIGIT.AI" redefined the concept of pain cars using AI technology, garnering nearly 30,000 likes and blurring the lines between virtual and reality. Pain cars, a subcultural concept originating from Japan, were originally an alternative expression of decorating car bodies with anime characters. Now, with the magic of AI, it is redefining visual creativity in an unprecedented manner. For example, AI-generated dynamic images of Pingu the Penguin perfectly blend with the streets of Shanghai.

This afternoon, at the Huawei Mate ceremony, Huawei officially released the Mate70 series smartphones, marking another innovation in the field of smartphone AI development. This phone introduces full-stack AI technology that integrates software and hardware with cloud collaboration for the first time, further advancing the intelligence of smartphones. The 'software' of Huawei Mate70 refers to the new HarmonyOS system, the 'hardware' includes the imaging and audio systems, 'end' represents edge computing power and edge large models, while 'cloud' involves cloud computing power and the Pangu large model.

Recently, Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) announced a partnership with technology company OpenAI to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) technology for unlocking deep insights across its many renowned brands. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed by service provider Midjourney. These brands include Estée Lauder, Clinique, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, and Aveda.

In today's technology landscape, CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) is an important multimodal foundational model. It combines visual signals and text signals into a shared feature space using contrastive learning loss on a large-scale dataset of image-text pairs. As a retriever, CLIP supports various tasks such as zero-shot classification, detection, segmentation, and image-text retrieval. Meanwhile, as a feature extractor, it performs well in nearly all...

Shanghai Mita Network Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced that its AI-driven search platform—Mita AI Search—has been updated and now features a new topic functionality, allowing users to upload materials to the knowledge base and customize data sources for personal or professional fields. Users can create a personalized search environment tailored to their needs through Mita AI Search, enhancing search efficiency and relevance.

Recently, Meta announced that it will use artificial intelligence technology on the Instagram platform to predict users' ages in order to automatically transition any users suspected of age misrepresentation to teen accounts. This initiative comes in response to widespread public concern about the impact of social media platforms on the mental health of teenagers. Meta had already introduced teen accounts back in September of this year. Teen accounts are designed specifically for users aged 13 to 17, incorporating multiple restrictions, including limits on who can contact them and the content they can see.

In the rapid development of modern technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is gradually permeating all aspects of life. Recently, a digital olfactory company named Osmo announced a significant breakthrough in 'scent transmission,' where AI can achieve olfactory 'teleportation' without the need for human hands or noses. The core of this technology lies in the use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) to collect and analyze aroma data. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed by service provider Midjourney Osmo.