Biotech startup Chai Discovery has launched the AI model Chai-1, aimed at predicting molecular structures to aid drug development. This model surpasses Google's DeepMind AlphaFold in accuracy and has been supported by OpenAI and Thrive Capital. Chai-1's free web interface and open-source code encourage non-commercial research. The model excels in predicting various types of molecules, particularly demonstrating unexpected accuracy when data is incomplete, contributing significantly to drug development.

Biotechnology company Chai Discovery has received nearly $30 million in investment from Thrive Capital and OpenAI within six months of its founding. The company focuses on the application of biotechnology in drug development, developing innovative technologies that can predict biochemical molecular structures and reprogram molecular interactions, aiming to transform biology into 'engineering.' Chai Discovery's goal is to accelerate and optimize the drug development process by enhancing drug molecule design through technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.

At the 2024 IFA Berlin Consumer Electronics Show, Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., Ltd. showcased its comprehensive AI home appliance product line, highlighting its innovative strength in the AI technology field and its global strategy for accelerated overseas expansion. Changhong unveiled the world's first Canghai Smart AI TV and the industry's first large model for white goods - the Changhong Meiling Smart Home AI Model, leading the intelligent revolution in the home appliance industry.

Yunzhisheng Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. has recently launched an automatic live streaming system called 'Blue Algae AI Broadcasting', aimed at addressing multiple pain points in the live streaming industry through artificial intelligence technology. This system is based on Yunzhisheng's Shanhai Large Model and advanced human-like AI voice technology, enabling 24-hour continuous broadcasting, significantly reducing live streaming costs while enhancing interactivity and viewer experience.

At the 2024 WAIC Scientific Frontier Main Forum, the OpenDataLab team from the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Shanghai AI Lab) launched a new intelligent data extraction tool called MinerU. This tool aims to simplify the AI data processing workflow and assist AI researchers in extracting high-quality data from vast amounts of documents.

MiniMax Xiyu Technology recently announced that since its establishment at the end of 2021, it has built trillion-parameter MoE large text models, speech models, and image models. It has also launched native applications such as Xingye and Hailuo AI, while providing an open platform API service for enterprises and developers.

The Claude 3.5 Sonnet model has recently been closed to free users, offering only the simplified Claude 3 Haiku model. This change has drawn user attention, especially from those relying on its advanced features for complex task handling and visual reasoning. Launched in June of this year, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a new AI model that has set industry standards with its exceptional performance, enhanced comprehension, accelerated execution, and groundbreaking visual processing capabilities. The closure affects user experience, impacting some users.

'Shan Hai Jing', as an ancient cultural treasure of China, has recently been revitalized through AI technology on Douyin, attracting widespread attention. The video 'Nanshan Yijing - Part One', created by the blogger 'AI Insanity', was completed in just 8 days, featuring exquisite visuals and a precise restoration of the original 'Shan Hai Jing'. It blends documentary and popular science elements, incorporating distinctive Chinese geographical features and referencing the research of mythologist Yuan Ke to strive to showcase the atmosphere of the ancient world. This innovative attempt has received high praise, with some even claiming that its quality surpasses traditional production standards. This phenomenon highlights

On August 23, 2024, the well-known Chinese artificial intelligence company Yunzhisheng announced the launch of its latest research and development achievement – the Shanhai Multimodal Large Model in Beijing. The Shanhai Multimodal Large Model is part of Yunzhisheng's Atlas AI infrastructure, capable of receiving and processing inputs from various modalities, including text, audio, and images, and generating any combination of text, audio, and image outputs in real-time. This capability enables the Shanhai model to not only conduct efficient voice interactions but also provide a conversational experience that is close to natural human dialogue.

On August 18, Zero-One Everything and SF Technology announced an ecological cooperation, aiming to explore the deep integration of artificial intelligence with supply chain management and jointly promote the intelligent development of supply chain management. This partnership combines Zero-One Everything's deep expertise in large model technology with SF Technology's profound understanding of smart supply chains, intending to help SF Technology achieve new breakthroughs in the supply chain sector while allowing Zero-One Everything's Yi series large models to be applied in a wider range of business scenarios.

Tencent Youtu Lab and Shanghai Jiao Tong University released a comprehensive review focusing on dataset evaluation and selection for instruction tuning to enhance large model performance. The study aims to help large models grasp the essence of natural language processing by analyzing data quality, diversity, and importance to guide the construction of efficient and critical datasets. It highlights that data quality directly impacts tuning effect....

Geekbench AI is a brand new cross-platform tool designed to evaluate device performance under AI-intensive workloads. It tests the CPU, GPU, and NPU to determine the device's ability to handle machine learning applications. It supports various AI frameworks such as ONNX, CoreML, TensorFlow Lite, and OpenVINO, and evaluates performance from both speed and accuracy dimensions, providing scores in full precision, half precision, and quantized precision. Additionally, Geekbench AI's testing results...

Geekbench AI is a new cross-platform tool designed to evaluate the performance of devices under compute-intensive workloads, with a particular focus on machine learning tasks. It provides full precision, half precision, and quantized scores by measuring the performance of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, and includes accuracy assessments. It supports various machine learning frameworks, including ONNX, CoreML, TensorFlow Lite, and OpenVINO. This tool is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.

The LSLM full-duplex language model developed in collaboration between Shanghai Jiao Tong University and ByteDance revolutionizes traditional AI assistant interaction by enabling real-time conversation where users can listen while speaking. The core advantage of LSLM lies in its ability to simultaneously process speech input and generate output, significantly enhancing the natural flow of dialogue. By integrating streaming self-supervised learning with a token-based decoder, this model supports real-time speech interaction and performs exceptionally well even in noisy environments. LSLM's mid-term fusion strategy strikes the optimal balance between speech generation and real-time interaction, demonstrating impressive noise resistance.

The AI painter struggles to generate specific scenes like 'Ice Cola in a teacup,' highlighting the issue of text-image misalignment. Zhao Juntu, a PhD student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and his team discovered that even the most advanced AI models have difficulty accurately understanding and realizing complex concepts described in text, such as the difference between a transparent glass cup and a traditional teacup. To address this issue, they proposed a Mixture of Concept Experts (MoCE) method, utilizing large language models to help AI grasp hidden concepts, thereby enabling more precise control over text.

The Economist article highlights the 'data wall' challenge faced by AI companies due to the depletion of high-quality internet data, predicting that by 2028, all quality text data will be exhausted, hindering machine learning progress. Professor Stuart Russell from UC Berkeley warned that AI like ChatGPT could deplete textual content in the universe. However, Stanford's Professor Fei-Fei Li asserts that there is still a wealth of diverse data ava....

The Shanghai Cyberspace Administration recently announced that 11 generative AI services have passed inspection and completed registration, bringing the total number of registered services to 20. This initiative aims to promote the healthy development and standard application of generative AI, implementing relevant interim management measures. The announcement emphasizes that services that directly call registered model capabilities through APIs or other means, especially those with public opinion attributes or social mobilization capabilities, must undergo registration. Existing generative AI applications or features must prominently display their registration number either in a notable position or on their product detail pages. This measure aims to ensure the safe use of the public.

Stable-Hair is an innovative hair transfer technology designed to address challenges in handling diverse and complex hairstyles, providing users with an enhanced virtual hairstyle try-on experience. Utilizing diffusion models, it accurately transfers various real hairstyles onto user-provided facial images. The workflow consists of two phases: first, a 'baldness converter' removes hair from the image, followed by hairstyle transfer through three ....

Worth Buying Technology announced an official partnership with large model company MiniMax. MiniMax's large model product, HAI-AI, has been integrated into Worth Buying's 'Consumer Large Model Enhancement Toolkit.' Through the 'Floating Ball' feature of HAI-AI, users can now quickly compare prices and make purchases. This collaboration not only enriches Worth Buying Technology's AI ecosystem but also promotes co-construction and win-win cooperation with partners in the large model industry.

PepsiCo's Chief Operating Officer Greg Lyon recently stated that the changes the company has experienced in the past three years are greater than in the previous 31 years he has worked there. This shift is largely driven by a significant change in consumer shopping habits, particularly after the pandemic, with people increasingly leaning towards online purchases of food and beverages.