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.

The latest release by QuestMobile, the '2024 AI Agent Application Insights Semi-Annual Report', shows that the monthly active users of artificial intelligence (AI) applications have exceeded 66 million, marking the rapid development and popularization of AI technology at the application level. The report highlights that AI applications have formed eight major categories, including emotional companionship, office efficiency, education and learning, lifestyle assistance, entertainment and leisure, copywriting, and industry consulting, with commercialization paths now opened.

Today, ByteDance's Volcano Engine announced that the Doubao Large Model will release a video generation model on September 24, bringing upgrades to more capabilities in the model family. It is understood that the Doubao Large Model was officially launched at the Volcano Engine Original Power Conference on May 15, 2024.

Recently, Doubao, the educational application from ByteDance's AI smart assistant brand, completed a major upgrade. This app aims to be a smart partner for learners and a valuable assistant for family education, providing support for the new term's studies. 'Doubao Aixue' has introduced multiple auxiliary learning features, including answering questions, homework correction, knowledge Q&A, essay guidance, and mental calculation practice, to meet the diverse needs of family education.

The third edition report of 'Top 100 Consumer Generative AI Applications' released by Andreessen Horowitz reveals popular AI applications and their usage trends. The report shows that content generation tools, particularly in image, video, and music, dominate web applications, with 52% of web products focusing on this area. The music generation tool Suno has notably improved its ranking. In the mobile application sector, image and video editing tools are favored by users, and ChatGPT remains...

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.

Today, ByteDance announced a new feature for the Doubao model that supports real-time voice calls. It is reported that the conversational AI real-time interaction solution provided by Volcano Engine combines the Volcano Ark large model service platform and Doubao's speech recognition and synthesis models, streamlining the conversion process between speech and text. This solution achieves efficient voice data collection, processing, and transmission, offering outstanding intelligent dialogue and natural language processing capabilities.

The Doubao AI Assistant under ByteDance has recently launched a new feature—music generation. Users can simply click on 'Music Generation' in the Doubao app or PC version, enter keywords or custom lyrics, and select the corresponding music style, atmosphere, and vocal type to generate a unique song. This feature aims to help users realize their dreams of music creation and express their emotions and stories through music.

In the digital world, the growth of artificial intelligence relies on checkpoints, which can restore the training status to the last safe state during training large language models (LLMs) if issues like sudden power outages or hardware failures occur. However, traditional checkpoint systems are inefficient when dealing with large models. To address this, ByteDance and the research team from Hong Kong University have proposed ByteCheckpoint, an innovative checkpoint system that improves data and metadata handling.

Recently, there have been user inquiries on social media, questioning whether WPS Office may have leaked its review content to ByteDance's AI product "Doubao".In response, ByteDance swiftly issued an official statement, clearly stating that the rumors about Doubao AI using WPS user data for training are unfounded. The statement emphasized that the book information obtained by Doubao AI comes from public sources and provides references to relevant websites.ByteDance further clarified that there h

Recently, multiple netizens have posted on social media platforms alleging that the WPS Office software by Kingsoft seems to be sharing user-created documents with Doubao AI, owned by ByteDance, for training purposes. This accusation has sparked widespread attention and discussion.Reports indicate that several users have reported on platforms like Weibo and Xiaohongshu that content from documents not yet published has been accessed by Doubao AI. This includes signed authors from the Tomato Novel

In this era of information explosion, we are bombarded with a vast amount of knowledge every day. How to efficiently absorb and organize this knowledge has become a headache. But worry not, the launch of the Doubao Browser Extension brings us a brand new solution. Take, for example, a 2-hour "History of Gods Pure Edition" video on Bilibili. Such lengthy content requires a long time to watch. If you want to quickly get a general understanding of the video's main content, you can use the Doubao Br

Recently, Honor Mobile announced a collaboration with Doubao Model under Byte. According to official news from Volcano Engine, several models from the Doubao Model family, including voice recognition and role-playing, will provide foundational capabilities to support Honor in building vertical model applications in the mobile office field.

Today, ByteDance officially launched the AI coding tool Doubao MarsCode. According to reports, MarsCode is an integrated development environment (IDE) that features a built-in AI assistant and supports over 100 languages and mainstream IDE extensions. It has a powerful AI assistant that provides functions such as code completion, explanation, and debugging, helping developers code and innovate faster. The AI assistant can offer suggestions for single lines or entire functions during the coding process and supports generating code snippets through comments.