SenseTime recently launched its new app, 'Magic Photo Capture', providing users with a creative and fun AI imaging experience. With the arrival of the Lunar New Year, this app aims to help users create personalized New Year photos using advanced artificial intelligence technology, enhancing the festive atmosphere. 'Magic Photo Capture' is not just an ordinary photography app; it includes a variety of templates in its mini-program, allowing users to choose from graduation photos, creative group photos, classic art style portraits, travel photos, new national style, and more.

On January 22, 2025, Volcano Engine, a subsidiary of ByteDance, officially announced the release of Doubao Large Model 1.5, which is now fully available on the Volcano Ark platform. The newly released Doubao Large Model 1.5 has achieved significant performance improvements across multiple domains, reaching a globally leading level of comprehensive capabilities, marking another important breakthrough for ByteDance in the field of artificial intelligence.

"Ziyue-o1" is a lightweight 14B single model specifically designed for consumer-grade graphics cards, capable of stable operation on devices with low VRAM. The model utilizes chain-of-thought techniques to provide detailed problem-solving processes and logical reasoning, aligning its operational methodology more closely with human thought processes. Through self-talk and self-correction, the model can generate step-by-step problem-solving processes, aiding users in better understanding and mastering knowledge.

Recently, SenseTime announced the official launch of its brand new app 'Instant Photo Fun', bringing users a creative and fun AI imaging experience. This app is launched in time for the Lunar New Year, aiming to use AI technology to create personalized New Year portraits for users and foster a rich festival atmosphere.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Arthur Mensch, co-founder and CEO of the renowned French AI startup Mistral, stated that the company is fully committed to achieving its goal of an initial public offering (IPO). Founded in 2023 by researchers from tech giants like Google DeepMind and Meta, Mistral has rapidly risen in just two years, releasing a series of open-source AI models and launching chatbot-like technology.

Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump took a series of 'Day One' actions on Monday, with his top priority being the revocation of former President Biden's executive order on artificial intelligence. He also called for federal employees to return to office work. Biden's AI order provided a roadmap for the federal government to develop technology and manage risks. The order prompted the Office of Management and Budget to issue a memo requiring agencies to implement specific measures for managing and monitoring their AI use cases, as well as the application of technology in a national security context.

Against the backdrop of rising labor costs, the UK retail industry is rapidly moving towards an era of automation. From electronic shelf labels to self-checkout machines, many new technologies are gradually transforming the familiar supermarket shopping experience. With the national minimum wage increase and higher employer national insurance contributions, retailers are significantly increasing their investments in automation technology, hoping to address the rising labor costs by improving production efficiency. Recent holiday trading updates show that investment in automation has become a focal point for major retailers. A survey indicates that nearly one-third of retail financial leaders...

Today, Tencent announced the launch of the Hongyuan 3D AI Creation Engine, designed to quickly generate high-quality 3D models through prompts or images. This creation engine integrates a 3D feature matrix, editing tools, generation workflows, and a rich library of creative materials, providing great convenience for designers and creators. Users only need to enter simple prompts, such as 'round brown long sofa' or 'owl, big eyes, dark brown,' to easily generate corresponding 3D models and choose different styles for download, supporting mainstream 3D formats.

On his first day in office, President Trump announced the revocation of an executive order signed by former President Biden in 2023, which aimed to mitigate the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) to consumers, workers, and national security. Biden's executive order directed the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the U.S. Department of Commerce, to establish guidelines to help businesses identify and rectify flaws in their AI models, including biases. Furthermore, the executive order required developers of AI systems to report to the U.S. government before publicly launching their products.

A research team from New York University, MIT, and Google has recently proposed an innovative framework aimed at addressing the bottleneck of inference time scaling in diffusion models. This groundbreaking research transcends the traditional method of simply increasing the denoising steps, opening up new avenues for improving generative model performance. The framework primarily unfolds from two dimensions: one is leveraging feedback from validators, and the second is implementing algorithms to discover better noise candidates. The research team builds on a pre-trained SiT-XL model with a resolution of 256×256, maintaining 250 fixed denoising steps.

Microsoft Research has launched a powerful AI system called MatterGen that can generate new materials with specific properties, potentially accelerating the development of key technologies such as batteries and solar panels. The introduction of MatterGen signifies a fundamental shift in how scientists discover new materials. Unlike traditional methods that screen millions of existing compounds, MatterGen directly generates new materials based on desired characteristics, akin to how AI image generators create visuals from textual descriptions.

360 Group recently announced the official launch of HarmonyOS native versions for its Nano AI Search and 360 AI Office applications, marking an important step in the company’s AI application strategy. As a multimodal content creation engine known in the industry as 'Search Engine 3.0', Nano AI Search has shown impressive performance since its launch in November 2024. Data shows that the application surpassed 1 million visits on its first day, and by December 2024, the visit count reached 359 million, ranking fourth in the 'AI Product Rankings · Global Overall List', becoming the only one in the TOP 10.

Luma AI recently launched its latest video generation model Ray2 on its Dream Machine generative AI video creation platform, which has attracted widespread attention in the industry. Since the release of Dream Machine last summer, the AI video field has seen rapid changes in just seven months, with many new models emerging, including Runway, Kling, OpenAI's Sora, and Google's Veo2.

Recently, a line art coloring method called MangaNinja has garnered widespread attention, allowing users to color target line art based on reference images with just an input of the line art and the reference image. This technology is based on a diffusion model and focuses on reference-image-guided line art coloring, significantly enhancing the accuracy of coloring and interactive control capabilities. The research team employed two innovative designs to ensure precise transfer of character details. First, they introduced a patch rearrangement module to facilitate correspondence learning between the reference color images and the target line art. Secondly, they adopted a point-driven approach.

According to reports, the U.S. Department of Commerce has added Zhipu AI to its entity list for export controls, accusing it of promoting China's military modernization and infringing on U.S. national security and diplomatic interests. ** This decision makes Zhipu AI the first Chinese large model company to be added to the U.S. entity list, marking a new round of suppression by the U.S. on China's artificial intelligence industry. Zhipu AI subsequently issued a statement emphasizing that the company is based on technology transfer from Tsinghua University and provided a detailed review of its technological development history. Zhipu AI started developing the GLM pre-training architecture in 2020 and launched it in 2022.