On November 28, the official website of the National Radio and Television Administration announced the approval and implementation of the industry standard 'Technical Requirements for Digital Virtual Humans'. This recommended industry standard aims to regulate the definition, classification, application scenarios, images, driving technology, platform capabilities, and safety capabilities of digital virtual humans, applicable to builders of technical systems, creators, and users.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon recently predicted that artificial intelligence smartphones (AI smartphones) will become accessible to every consumer worldwide within five years. He forecasts that almost everyone could possess an AI-based smartphone in the near future. Amon believes that the proliferation of AI smartphones will follow the mature trajectory of the transition from feature phones to smartphones, requiring a gradual enhancement and enrichment of application scenarios. He is convinced that with ongoing technological advancements, AI smartphones will lead market trends and become mainstream in the industry.

On September 21, 2024, the Huazhi Large Model Industry Application Seminar co-hosted by CNKI and Huawei Cloud was held in Shanghai, where the Huazhi Large Model 5.0 version was released. This version has undergone comprehensive upgrades in application scenarios, inference capabilities, and content generation credibility, and has introduced new applications such as Smart PPT, AI Technology Search, Huazhi APP, and 3D Holographic Interactive Digital Humans.

Apple has released the MacBook Air series products featuring the M3 chip, which shows significant performance improvements and supports large memory capacity and AI functionalities. Apple's capability for practical AI applications remains in a cautious exploratory phase. AIPC has become a hot topic in the PC market, with major manufacturers introducing AI computers. Trends include the enhancement of Arm architecture, the mainstreaming of heterogeneous computing, and an increasing demand for edge AI.

In 2022, China's industrial cloud IaaS + PaaS market reached $8.38 billion, a year-on-year growth of 29.2%. The enterprise-built cloud (private cloud) market reached $5.29 billion, with rapidly growing demand for scaled replication of AI application scenarios. The private cloud market in the resource and energy sector reached $2.09 billion, while the equipment manufacturing industry reached $840 million, and the communication and electronics manufacturing sector reached $1.34 billion. Huawei, Tencent, and Amazon Web Services are leading in the resource and energy, equipment manufacturing, and communication electronics manufacturing industries. The AI large model has achieved its first commercial landing in the mining industry.

The latest progress in DingTalk's intelligentization shows that there are 17 product lines and 55 scenarios fully integrated with large models. DingTalk has added features for AI-assisted content creation, such as automatic PPT generation, charts, mind maps, and project management templates. DingTalk has launched the intelligent base AI PaaS to help connect enterprise data with large models, reshaping the DingTalk ecosystem.