Amidst the rapid global advancement in technology, Hong Kong is striving to transform itself into an innovation and technology hub, leading to a significant surge in demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) professionals. Recent reports indicate that Hong Kong employers are currently seeking to fill over 2000 AI-related positions, which will be showcased at the upcoming NetEase Hong Kong Career Expo. The expo, scheduled for this Friday and Saturday, will feature over 580 organizations, including startups, tech companies, government bodies, and large corporations such as Hang Seng Bank and Centaline Property.

The Hong Kong Generative AI Research Center (HKGAI), led by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), officially launched its first locally developed generative AI model, HKGAI V1, on February 25th. This significant breakthrough injects new vitality into Hong Kong's AI ecosystem, marking a major advancement for Hong Kong in this cutting-edge technology field. HKGAI V1 is the industry's first large model based on DeepSeek technology for full parameter fine-tuning and continuous training, featuring a powerful local knowledge base and the ability to understand and generate Cantonese.

Recently, the Hong Kong Generative AI Research Center (HKGAI), funded by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government's "InnoHK Innovation Hong Kong R&D Platform," officially launched its HKGAI V1 large language model. This is Hong Kong's first homegrown AI large language model, marking a new stage in the development of artificial intelligence in Hong Kong. Image Note: Image generated by AI, image authorized by Midjourney. HKGAI V1 is based on DeepSeek full parameter fine-tuning technology and has undergone continuous training, successfully achieving the first DeepSeek...

Recently, researchers from Stanford University and the University of Hong Kong discovered that current AI Agents (such as Claude) are more easily disrupted by pop-ups than humans, with significantly reduced performance even when faced with simple pop-ups. According to the study, AI Agents achieved an average attack success rate of 86% when confronted with deliberately designed pop-ups in experimental environments, leading to a 47% decrease in task success rate. This finding has sparked new concerns regarding the safety of AI Agents, especially as they are assigned more autonomous tasks.

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.

ControlMM is an innovative technical framework developed jointly by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Tencent, aimed at addressing challenges in multi-modal full-body motion generation. This framework supports multi-modal inputs from text, speech, and music to generate full-body motions that match the content. It employs the ControlMM-Attn module to process dynamic and static human topology in parallel, achieving efficient movement knowledge learning. A phased training strategy is adopted, progressing from text to motion pre-training, then to multi-modal control adaptation, ensuring the model's effectiveness under various conditions.

A research team from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a full modal pre-training paradigm called MiCo (Multimodal Context). This method has achieved significant results in the field of multimodal learning, setting new state-of-the-art (SOTA) records in 37 categories.

Weitu AI has announced the completion of its angel round financing with a valuation of 100 million USD. The round was co-led by a global Internet technology company with hundreds of millions of monthly active users and a renowned angel investor. The team consists of talents who graduated from prestigious North American universities and have experience working in major global companies. They focus on the development of AI products driven by multimodal large models, aiming for a smarter and more convenient user experience. They are currently collaborating with Internet technology companies and smartphone manufacturers to drive innovation in new AI applications.

Hong Kong startup Weitu AI announced the successful completion of its angel round financing, with a valuation reaching 100 million USD. Investors include internet technology companies with hundreds of millions of monthly active users and renowned angel investors. The Weitu AI team possesses full-stack capabilities and focuses on intelligent interaction methods, closely collaborating on products for both B-end and C-end markets. The company emphasizes that new interaction demands will be applied to intelligent systems, providing users with smarter and more convenient artificial intelligence products.

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