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.

A significant shift has occurred in the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI. With OpenAI announcing the signing of a Stargate agreement with companies like SoftBank and Oracle, Microsoft is no longer the exclusive data center infrastructure provider for OpenAI. According to the new agreement, Microsoft has been granted a 'right of first refusal' on new cloud computing capacity from OpenAI, meaning that if Microsoft cannot meet demand, OpenAI can seek support from other cloud service providers. Microsoft confirmed this change in a blog post, stating that OpenAI has turned to Azure.

Recently, WeChat's official editing tool 'Instant Editing' has integrated various practical AI functions, making users' video creation more efficient. The new version of 'Instant Editing' adds three features: 'Public Account to Video', 'AI Comic Video', and 'Live Shopping Video', with a rich selection of templates for users to choose from. The 'Public Account to Video' feature allows users to directly convert articles from WeChat public accounts into videos. Users only need to click 'Public Account to Video', input the public account link, and the system will automatically recognize the content of the article.

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.

The Dark Side of the Moon Company proudly launches its brand new SOTA (state-of-the-art) model—k1.5 Multimodal Thinking Model, marking a significant breakthrough in multimodal reasoning and general reasoning fields. This model not only possesses outstanding multimodal processing capabilities but also demonstrates exceptional general reasoning abilities, effectively addressing various complex tasks. The standout feature of the k1.5 model is its multimodal reasoning capability. It can process information from different modalities including text, images, and sounds simultaneously, providing more comprehensive and accurate results.

Qingying 2.0 has undergone a comprehensive upgrade in model architecture, training methods, and data engineering, with a significant improvement of 38% in the base model's capabilities. This enhancement enables Qingying 2.0 to generate video content with more natural movements, exquisite visuals, and stable control. Users only need to input simple prompts to allow the main subject in the video to perform significant movements while maintaining stability. For instance, Qingying 2.0 can generate a coherent action of a man stepping out of a poster, adjusting his tie, and executing close-up shots, demonstrating its ability in motion continuity and visual stability.

Traditional video understanding models face numerous challenges when processing long videos, including the complexities of understanding the extended context. Although considerable research has been conducted to enhance video understanding capabilities, effectively overcoming the issues of low training and inference efficiency remains difficult. To address these challenges, the research team utilized HiCo technology to compress redundant parts of video information, significantly reducing computational demands while retaining key information. Specifically, HiCo achieves hierarchical compression of the video by segmenting long videos into shorter clips, thereby reducing processing time.

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.

Recently, Zhejiang University and Alibaba DAMO Academy jointly released a remarkable study aimed at creating high-quality multimodal textbooks from educational videos. This innovative research not only provides new ideas for training large-scale language models (VLMs) but may also change the way educational resources are utilized. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, the pre-training corpus of VLMs mainly relies on visual-text pairs and visually intertwined data. However, much of this current data comes from the web, where the correlation between text and images is weak, and the knowledge density is relatively low.

Recently, ByteDance launched an AI integrated development environment (IDE) called Trae, aimed specifically at Chinese developers. This product is designed to compete with internationally renowned tools such as Cursor and Windsurf, particularly focusing on the user experience of Chinese developers. In their daily programming, many developers often need to switch between English and Chinese. This mixed-language working mode, while common, poses inconveniences for many Chinese developers. Existing IDEs such as

On January 20th, SenseTime announced that its 'SenseNova-5o Interactive Version' is officially providing real-time audio and video conversation services, available to users for free for a limited time. The release of this interactive version marks another significant advancement for SenseTime in the field of artificial intelligence, aiming to enable more natural and smoother communication between AI and humans through powerful real-time interaction, visual recognition, memory thinking, and complex reasoning capabilities.

The AI image detection system developed by Tencent's Hongyuan Security Team's Zhuque Laboratory can determine if an image is AI-generated within a few seconds by uploading the image and waiting for verification. The system primarily distinguishes between real images and AI-generated images by capturing differences, such as AI-generated images sometimes defying common sense logic, showing unrealistic content like dogs flying with wings or cats smoking cigars.

Recently, researchers at Keele University developed a new AI tool capable of identifying fake news with an accuracy of up to 99%, providing crucial support in combating online misinformation. The research team includes Dr. Uchenna Anie from the School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Dr. Sangeeta Sangeeta, and Dr. Patricia Aso-Ayobode. The team employed various machine learning techniques to design a model that scans news content and assesses its credibility. The researchers used an 'ensemble voting' technique, which...

Recently, UK-based AI video generation company Synthesia announced the completion of a $180 million Series D funding round. Since its establishment in 2017, Synthesia has become a leader in the industry, serving over half of the Fortune 100 companies and producing millions of minutes of AI-generated video content each month. The company is dedicated to helping businesses efficiently create videos and virtual avatars to enhance their communication effectiveness and content dissemination capabilities. With this funding, Synthesia plans to further develop.

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.