At the 'All-In Summit 2024', Google co-founder and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin expressed his excitement about the latest advancements in AI and stated that he is working at Google almost every day. Brin confirmed his return to Google's headquarters last year to participate in AI projects, emphasizing the value of the rapid development in the AI field. He noted that algorithm improvements may have already surpassed the increase in computational power requirements, maintaining an optimistic view on AI and believing that future AI model training will not require a significant increase in computational capabilities. Brin's return has implications for Google's future development and AI.

ComfyUI version 0.2.0 introduces Flux ControlNets technology, including Canny and Union control nets, significantly enhancing image processing capabilities. The optimized queue management features, new 'Go-to Node' for quick navigation, 'Contain' image display, and task output folder view, greatly improve work efficiency. Enhanced node library functionalities such as bookmarks, recursive expand/collapse, and search filters make resource management easier. The user interface and experience have been completely revamped.

Amazon has announced the hiring of the core team from robotics startup Covariant, comprising about a quarter of its staff, and has signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement to use Covariant's robotic foundation models. This move represents Amazon's strategic positioning in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, aiming to advance foundational research in AI and robotics technology and apply it to Amazon's existing robotic systems, providing greater practical value to customers. Through a 'reverse acquisition' strategy, Amazon gains new technologies while avoiding a direct acquisition of the startup.

In the current wave of AI technology, innovative applications are emerging endlessly, especially in the field of video generation. Recently, an AI tool that transforms highly abstract concepts into video content has garnered widespread attention. These tools can convert popular abstract memes or concepts on the internet into concrete visual presentations, thereby creating content that is both humorous and thought-provoking. For instance, Bilibili UP主 "一朵五颜六色的白云" utilized this AI techno

Google is serious this time! According to the latest leak, the Google Pixel 9 series is set to bring a series of eye-catching AI features. Highlight One: Add Me Feature Imagine your group photos always have regrets due to someone blinking or not smiling. Now, with the Add Me feature, these regrets will be a thing of the past. It can capture each person's best expression in a group photo, even merging expressions from different photos into a single group shot, ensuring everyone appears at their b

Google announced on Tuesday that its AI-based Gemini mobile app has officially entered the Indian market, supporting nine major local Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and others in addition to English.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a rare public appearance, where he sharply criticized Google's Gemini image generator. He pointed out existing issues with the Gemini image generator, leading Google to halt its functionalities. Brin stated that the problems faced by the Gemini image generator were not intentional. He emphasized his cautious view on the hallucination issues with large models and expressed strong confidence in Google's business model while supporting the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Additionally, Brin commented on Google Glass and mentioned Apple's Vision Pro and Meta's Quest.

GameScent is a product that can emit different scents to match games. GameScent uses AI technology to release scents that fit game scenarios, supporting various scents including gunfire, explosions, racing, storms, forests, and fresh air. More scents will be developed in the future. The president of Elevated Perceptions believes that enhancing the player experience through smell is possible.

The 2023 Annual 'Top Ten Scientific Advances in China' has been released. AI large models bring new breakthroughs for accurate weather forecasting, revealing mechanisms of how dark matter in the human genome drives aging, discovering the existence of a 'tangible' biological clock in the brain and its rhythmic regulation mechanisms, analyzing the salt-alkali tolerance mechanisms of crops and their applications, achieving precise manipulation of DNA from single base pairs to ultra-large segments using new methods, revealing new mechanisms of DNA replication initiation in human cells, discovering the narrow jet of the brightest gamma-ray burst in history and its trillion-electron-volt photon emissions, and developing bosonic error correction to extend qubit lifespans, as well as revealing light-sensing regulation mechanisms for glucose metabolism.

Baidu Intelligent Cloud's total revenue in the fourth quarter reached 8.4 billion yuan, with large models contributing about 660 million yuan in incremental revenue. The daily usage of Wenxin large model exceeds 50 million times, with corporate usage increasing by 150%. The inference cost of Wenxin large model has been reduced to 1% of last year's version. Baidu invests in the integration of text, audio, and video, which is an important direction for the development of large models in the future. Hu Qimu believes that the performance growth brought by Baidu's AI business is the main driving force. Hu Qimu also believes that AI and manufacturing are still in the initial stage, and Baidu needs to collaborate with manufacturing enterprises.

Microsoft has reached a collaboration agreement with the French AI startup Mistral, aiming to help Mistral bring its AI models to market. This partnership makes Mistral the second company to offer commercial language models on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. Mistral was valued at 2 billion euros following a funding round that raised approximately 400 million euros.

Arizona State University collaborates with OpenAI to apply AI technology in the field of education. The partnership focuses on enhancing student academic success, conducting innovative research, and optimizing organizational processes. Arizona State University plans to offer complete access to the ChatGPT enterprise version to all faculty and students starting in 2024.

Midreal AI has become the next-generation novel generation tool, with strong logic and allowing users to choose the direction of the plot. The AI tool is integrated with Discord, enabling users to generate exciting stories by inputting summaries, supporting both Chinese and English. The interactive experience allows users to engage in the creation of narratives in a virtual world, representing a transformative direction in content consumption. Although there are shortcomings in AI-generated content, its role in providing inspiration and creative assistance for creators is undeniable.

Key trends in Asia-Pacific financial services for 2024 include digital transformation, payments, mortgages, generative AI, embedded finance, big tech and emerging technologies, and regulation. Colin Kum, Mambu's new Sales Director for Asia-Pacific markets, stated that generative AI will be a focal point of financial attention in 2024, particularly in enhancing customer experience. The Asia-Pacific financial services sector will be impacted by regulatory changes, with new digital banking licenses being issued in some regions and significant changes to cross-border payment regulations. The rise of generative AI in the banking sector is expected to become a key aspect of 2024.

AI technology will surpass the information revolution, leading to changes in knowledge iteration and social collaboration methods. Wu Yongming emphasizes that AI technology will have a profound impact on society. AI technology will involve changes in productivity, production relations, the digital world, and the real world. AI technology enables machines to understand human language and logic, driving collaborative flow-based development. AI technology will bring significant transformations to the entire society.

Microsoft has added new features such as text prediction to OneNote for Windows. The Copilot AI assistant will be added to OneNote for Windows in November. Copilot can help users create content, organize information, and more. Microsoft is focusing on the development of the OneNote for Windows app. The OneNote for Windows 10 app will stop receiving updates in 2025.

Wang Huainan believes that the battle for large models is basically over, and China should seize the opportunity to create vertical Copilot applications. He is developing an oral history product called 'Ru Xi' to help everyone easily complete their personal history. The goal of the oral history project is to have a Sima Qian beside everyone, marking a historical moment where everyone can leave their mark. Wang Huainan will collaborate with his friend Lu Qi on this project, as they believe it concerns all of humanity and has an idealistic tone. Wang Huainan thinks that Sam Altman's entrepreneurial qualities are what have brought OpenAI to where it is today.

Facebook Research has developed the BrainMagick model that decodes matching speech content from brain activity recorded via EEG and MEG. The model achieves a Top-10 accuracy of 72.5% and a Top-1 accuracy of 41% for speech segments in MEG recordings, supporting the decoding of unseen words. It offers a non-invasive communication hope for aphasia patients with language dysfunction, eliminating the risks associated with brain surgery. The project is open-sourced on GitHub and can be executed using a GPU with 16GB of memory.

Artificial intelligence is expected to generate over $580 billion in additional profits for major North American retailers and restaurants like Amazon and Walmart. The research indicates that by 2029, the largest 212 public retailers and restaurants in North America will produce over $1.5 trillion in additional financial impact. The development of AI will present tremendous opportunities for the retail industry, particularly in terms of sales growth and cost reduction.