The Alibaba Cloud Bairen Model Service Platform recently launched the 'Real-Time Audio and Video Interaction' feature, enabling users to easily build multi-modal AI applications without the need for programming knowledge. This new feature allows users to quickly integrate AI models into Web, iOS, and Android applications and share them with others. Users can create intelligent agent applications through simple steps: first, create a new intelligent agent application, then select and configure the required text, speech, or visual understanding models on the Alibaba Cloud Bairen platform. The platform offers over 200 large models, including

Li Xiang, founder and CEO of Ideal Automotive, is set to return to the public eye after a period of silence online. Ideal Automotive officially announced that from December 25 to 27, Li Xiang's dialogue program will be broadcast over three consecutive nights at 8 PM, with each session lasting 30 minutes. In the program, Li Xiang will address three focal questions from netizens: whether car manufacturers can engage in AI, Ideal Automotive's understanding of intelligent driving, and his personal reasons for buying a Ferrari.

Today, in response to rumors that ByteDance might initiate a price war for large models, Douyin Vice President Li Liang issued a statement on social media, clearly stating that this is not a price war. Li Liang pointed out that the Doubao large model has reduced costs through technological innovation, with significant optimizations in algorithms, software engineering, and hardware solutions. He mentioned that the pricing of 0.3 yuan per 1,000 tokens not only has a considerable gross profit but also follows a transparent pricing strategy, which is not the traditional 'list price discount' model.

Recently, New York-based company Runway announced the launch of a new talent network aimed at helping brands, agencies, and film production companies hire AI film creators. With advancements in video generation by Google and OpenAI, Runway hopes to expand the application of its AI video tools through this platform. The new Runway talent network provides a platform for creators, artists, and companies focused on AI video tools from around the world to showcase their work.

Beijing TuSimple Technology Co., Ltd. has officially changed its name to CreateAI. This rebranding comes alongside the announcement of several significant advancements in the generative AI field, marking its ambitious plans to apply generative AI technology in the animation and video game industries. Additionally, CreateAI announced that it has acquired the official licensing rights to the renowned wuxia intellectual property 'The Legend of the Condor Heroes' and plans to develop a large-scale open-world RPG game. Furthermore, the company will collaborate with notable animation director Masashi Hoshino and leading animation production company Hashimoto Co., Ltd. to utilize AIGC.

OpenAI recently stated that there are currently no plans to release its AI video generation model, the Sora API. The Sora model can generate highly realistic videos based on textual descriptions or reference images. During an AMA (Ask Me Anything) event with the OpenAI developer team, Romain Huet, the Director of Developer Experience at OpenAI, clearly stated that the Sora API is not currently in the plans. 'We do not have any plans for the Sora API at this time.'

During the 2024 Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference · Winter, Volcano Engine announced a brand new upgrade of the Doubao Large Model family, showcasing its latest advancements in the field of artificial intelligence. The daily tokens usage of the Doubao Large Model has exceeded 4 trillion, reflecting an increase of over 33 times since its release in May, demonstrating its widespread application and rapid growth in the industry.

Chinese AI video generation startup Aishi Technology recently announced the completion of its Series A2 to A4 financing, raising nearly 300 million yuan. Previously, the Series A2 financing was funded by Ant Group, while the recent Series A3 and A4 rounds were co-invested by the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Guoke Investment, and Guangyuan Capital. This round of financing will primarily be used to enhance technological research and development capabilities, expand computing power resources, build a talent team, and accelerate product feature iteration and market coverage, thereby continuously promoting the widespread application of AI video generation technology.

Recently, OpenAI revealed during a Q&A session that there are currently no plans to launch an API for its video generation model Sora. Sora can generate relatively realistic videos based on text descriptions or reference images, attracting significant attention. However, Romain Huet, the head of the development team at OpenAI, stated that they do not plan to launch the API at this stage. He mentioned at the meeting: 'We currently have no plans for a Sora API.' This decision may be related to capacity issues.

Pollo AI, a leader in the field of AI video generation, recently released four new AI effects, attracting attention in the industry once again. Users can easily achieve effects like 'squeeze,' 'inflate,' 'explode,' and 'melt' by simply uploading static images, bringing anything (or anyone) to 'life' in videos using advanced AI technology. Additionally, Pollo AI has appropriately introduced several holiday-themed templates to help users quickly create short videos filled with a Christmas atmosphere. The four newly launched effects each have their own unique characteristics.

In the field of video analysis, the persistence of objects is an important cue for humans to understand that objects still exist even when completely occluded. However, current object segmentation methods mainly focus on visible (modal) objects, lacking the capability to handle non-modal (visible + invisible) objects. To address this issue, researchers proposed a two-stage method based on diffusion priors, Diffusion-Vas, aimed at improving the effectiveness of non-modal segmentation and content completion in videos, enabling the tracking of specified targets within the video and using diffusion models to complete the occluded parts.

Beijing TuSimple Technology Co., Ltd. officially launched its first 'Image-to-Video' large model - 'Ruyi' on December 17, 2024, and has made the Ruyi-Mini-7B version open source for users to download from the huggingface platform. TuSimple was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, California, focusing on the application of AI technology across various industries, including animation gaming and transportation.