At today's Volcano Engine FORCE conference, CEO Tan Dai announced that the Doubao General Model Pro has achieved comprehensive improvements in various fields since May, including overall capability, reasoning ability, instruction adherence, code execution, and mathematical processing. Tan Dai stated: "A more powerful model will drive a comprehensive upgrade of enterprise AI." The enhancements of the Doubao General Model Pro have significantly helped multiple companies, especially industry leaders like China Mobile Games and Silas Automotive, achieve notable upgrades in AI applications. Image source note: Image by AI

The AI application development platform Coze has announced the launch of its new version—Coze 1.5—at the Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference. This update marks a significant step forward for the Coze platform in the field of AI application development, aiming to provide users with a more powerful and convenient development environment. The core highlight of Coze 1.5 is its support for a GUI (Graphical User Interface) development interface, allowing one-click publishing to various application formats such as mini programs, H5, and APIs. This feature enables users to quickly build applications based on large models, regardless of whether they have programming knowledge.

During the 2024 Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference · Winter, Volcano Engine announced a brand new upgrade of the Doubao Large Model family, showcasing its latest advancements in the field of artificial intelligence. The daily tokens usage of the Doubao Large Model has exceeded 4 trillion, reflecting an increase of over 33 times since its release in May, demonstrating its widespread application and rapid growth in the industry.

On December 18th, at the Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference, Volcano Engine President Tan Dai unveiled the new Doubao Visual Understanding Model. This model processes both text and image-related information simultaneously, providing more accurate answers. The new model excels in content recognition, understanding, and reasoning capabilities, featuring more nuanced visual description abilities, which brings stronger intelligent processing capabilities to enterprise users. Tan Dai revealed at the conference that the Doubao Visual Understanding Model has achieved significant technological breakthroughs and has also seen a dramatic reduction in pricing.

Recently, as ByteDance's Doubao Large Model accelerates its commercialization process and shows impressive performance in the global AI sector, the "Doubao" concept stocks have become the new favorites in the capital market, leading to a new round of price increases in the AI track. Several listed companies, including Tianyu Shuke, Juran Smart Home, and Bee Assistant, have seen their stock prices hit the daily limit for multiple days in a row, with Tianyu Shuke achieving 6 consecutive limits in 10 days by Friday's close, Juran Smart Home hitting 5 limits in 6 days, and Bee Assistant reaching a peak of 20CM limit up during trading. This reflects the market's strong optimism about the Doubao Large Model and its ecosystem.

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.

The video generation feature for Doubao on PC, a product of ByteDance, has entered its beta testing phase, with some users already receiving access. After applying for the beta test, users can visit doubao.com, select the 'Video Generation' feature, upload images, and input prompt words while also adding camera movements and storyboard information to generate video content. During the beta phase, users can generate up to ten videos for free each day.

The Intelligent AI Assistant Doubao, developed by ByteDance, has recently upgraded its text-to-image capabilities. The new feature allows users to generate images containing specified text with a single click. The relevant person in charge of the Doubao large model team pointed out that the text-to-image model of Doubao integrates LLM (Large Language Model) and DIT (Digital Image Technology) framework, optimizing its learning ability for Chinese data, and enhancing the generation capability of Chinese characters, significantly improving the generation results.

ByteDance recently released a new feature for the Doubao application - Image Understanding. The Doubao app and PC version have added photo and camera buttons, allowing users to upload images for content recognition. Doubao's image understanding capability goes beyond text recognition; it can also analyze image content and even understand and explain jokes.

According to Tech Planet, Douyin has announced the launch of a new feature called the 'V Project,' aimed at expanding the boundaries of live streaming and interaction. Douyin states that 'V' represents infinite possibilities, symbolizing exploration, innovation, and breakthroughs. Through this project, Douyin hopes to provide users with a more interesting and enriched interactive experience. The core highlight of the 'V Project' is the AI Avatar feature. This feature allows creators to generate a virtual avatar that mirrors their personality and thoughts, enabling continuous interaction with users for 24 hours.

ByteDance announced that its AI smart assistant Doubao PC has launched a new feature that allows users to easily edit images without the need for professional photo editing skills. Users can simply visit doubao.com, select 'Image Generation' to create an image, click 'Continue Editing', and enter simple instructions to complete the editing with one click. Additionally, users can upload images for further processing through the 'Reference Image' entry.

At a recent video cloud technology conference, Volcano Engine unveiled a significant innovation: a video preprocessing solution for large model training. This technology has been successfully applied to the Doubao video generation model, marking a significant advancement in AI video generation technology. Volcano Engine's President, Tan Dai, emphasized that AIGC and multimodal technology are profoundly changing user experience. Leveraging experience from Douyin, Volcano Engine is actively exploring the integration of AI large models with video technology to provide comprehensive solutions for enterprises. Wang Yue, Head of Video Architecture at Douyin Group, pointed out that large model training faces numerous challenges.

Today, Doubao officially launched the Ola Friend smart earphones, which integrate artificial intelligence technology to provide users with an AI companion that is always by their side. The product is available in Silver Light, Lightweight White, Butterfly Wing Black, and Dreamy Purple colors, priced at 1199 Yuan, with pre-sales starting at 11 am on October 10.

Recently, OpenAI has caused a stir in the video AI field as they are set to make significant upgrades to Sora, which was released in February of this year. According to reports from the Information Daily, the main goal of this upgrade is to significantly enhance Sora's performance, enabling it to generate longer and higher quality video content more quickly. Reflecting on the initial performance of Sora, there were indeed many pressing issues that needed addressing. The original version took over 10 minutes to generate a video, an efficiency level that clearly fails to meet practical application needs.

At today's 2024 Volcano Engine AI Innovation Tour, in addition to the video generation model, ByteDance also launched the Doubao Music Model and Doubao Simultaneous Interpretation Model, announcing significant upgrades to the Doubao General Model Pro, Text-to-Image Model, Speech Synthesis Model, and other specialized models. The introduction of the Doubao Music Model signifies Volcano Engine's deep commitment to the field of music creation. Supported by powerful algorithms, this model enables high-quality music creation freely. For lyrics generation, it can quickly generate emotional lyrics based on just a few simple input words.

At the 2024 Volcano Engine AI Innovation Roadshow, Volcano Engine President Tan Dai unveiled the latest Doubao · Video Generation Model. This model incorporates several advanced technologies, including the efficient DIT Fusion Computing Unit, which enables deep compression encoding of video and text; it also employs a novel diffusion model training approach to ensure consistency in generating multi-camera videos; in addition, the model integrates a deeply optimized Transformer architecture, significantly enhancing the generalization ability of video generation.