At the Volcano Engine AI Innovation Roadshow in Shanghai on August 21, 2024, Volcano Engine showcased a comprehensive upgrade of the Doubao Large Model. This includes the Doubao Text-to-Image Model, which has improved text and image matching capabilities for long texts, the Doubao Speech Recognition Model, which reduced error rates by up to 40% across multiple public test sets, and upgrades to the Doubao Speech Synthesis Model, enhancing streaming speech synthesis abilities for real-time responses and accurate punctuation. Volcano Engine also released a real-time interactive solution for Conversational AI, integrating the Doubao Large Model with real-time audio and video technology, providing end-to-end capabilities.

Yellow.ai, a global leader in conversational AI solutions, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud service provider to deliver generative AI-based voice and chat bot solutions. Yellow.ai leverages AWS's global infrastructure to provide high availability and low-latency services. Using generative AI technology, Yellow.ai can automatically handle 90% of customer inquiries, reducing operational costs by 20%. Yellow.ai's dynamic AI agents can engage customers in goal-driven conversations, providing high

GitLab has recently launched Duo Chat, integrating conversational AI into the workflow to simplify the developer experience. Duo Chat allows for natural language conversations within the GitLab platform, providing code explanations, generating tests, and simplifying coding tasks. GitLab emphasizes privacy, using advanced technologies to support the backend of Duo Chat to ensure that user data is not used for AI model training. This tool aims to boost developer productivity by offering comprehensive AI-driven features within a unified platform, streamlining the development workflow.

OpenAI is set to launch a new custom AI feature for ChatGPT called the GPT Builder, allowing users to customize language, tone, and other aspects. Users will be able to set knowledge bases, web browsing capabilities, and more for the AI. OpenAI plans to introduce a bot marketplace to share customized AIs, aiming for commercialization of ChatGPT through a subscription model.

Fujitsu has announced the launch of two new AI trust technologies aimed at enhancing the reliability of conversational AI models, including technologies for detecting hallucinations and adversarial attacks. These technologies will be integrated into Fujitsu's AI platform 'Kozuchi', designed to provide tools for businesses and individual users to assess the reliability of conversational AI responses, thereby enhancing AI security. The first technology aims to detect hallucinations in conversational AI responses with high precision, addressing potential misinformation issues in those replies. The second technology is used to detect conversational...

Google is preparing to launch the conversational AI Gemini, aimed at providing services to enterprises. Gemini consists of a series of large language models that can generate text, code, images, and more. It is a key part of Google's efforts to catch up with OpenAI in the generative AI field. Gemini will be made available to enterprises through Google Cloud and aims to compete with OpenAI's popular GPT models.

["Voiceflow is a startup that provides a conversational AI agent collaboration platform.", "Voiceflow's collaboration platform is similar to Figma, offering teams an integrated low-code environment to design, build, test, and deploy conversational AI agents.", "Voiceflow has partnered with 450 enterprises, with over 130,000 users, and this funding round has raised a total of $35 million, valuing the company at $105 million."]