Are you still troubled by unclear photos? A brand new image super-resolution tool called InvSR has emerged, allowing images to be instantly transformed into clear and sharp ones with minimal processing steps. The strength of this tool lies in its utilization of the rich prior knowledge embedded in large pre-trained diffusion models, achieving efficient and high-quality image resolution enhancement. The core technology of InvSR is its innovative partial noise prediction strategy. It cleverly constructs the intermediate state of the diffusion model as the starting point for the sampling process and employs a deep noise.

An unexpected personnel change brought OpenAI's Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil to the stage of the Marriott Hotel in San Francisco. This Silicon Valley product master, who previously achieved commercial miracles at Twitter and Instagram, now bears the responsibility of OpenAI's commercialization transformation. Just days earlier, the sudden departure of the company's CTO Mira Murati once again placed OpenAI in the spotlight. This executive reshuffle is not a coincidence. Over the past year, OpenAI has faced wave after wave of challenges.

With the development of digital art, automated image processing technology has received increasing attention. Recently, a research team from Tsinghua University and Tencent's ARC Lab proposed a novel image sequence coloring model called ColorFlow. This model aims to address the challenge of maintaining consistency in character and object identity while coloring black and white image sequences, fulfilling the practical needs of industries such as comics and animation. ColorFlow is a three-stage diffusion base framework that leverages contextual information by utilizing a reference image pool for black and white.

OpenAI's latest release of the Realtime Embedded SDK has stirred the industry, providing a development toolkit aimed at microcontrollers that advances the integration of artificial intelligence with miniature hardware. This SDK is specifically designed for microcontrollers like the ESP32 and enables real-time interaction between devices and cloud-based AI models through WiFi, significantly lowering the technical barriers to smart hardware development. This news quickly triggered a ripple effect in the market, leading to an increase in prices for ESP32-related hardware, including modules, chips, and accessories.

Recently, at the 12th Digital Finance and Technology Finance Conference, part of the Zhongguancun Forum series of events, Ant Group's Deepfake detection solution was selected as a “Financial Technology Innovation and Application Case.” Leveraging its Tiantong Laboratory, Ant Group has constructed the first large-scale, high-quality, multi-modal Deepfake dataset in the industry, synthesizing over a million multimedia contents that fully simulate Deepfake attack samples in real-world financial risk control environments, becoming a benchmark for evaluating existing Deepfake detection in the financial sector.

In 2024, the global AI craze continues to rise, and Thailand is no exception, standing on the brink of an explosion in artificial intelligence (AI). Imagine strolling through the streets of Bangkok, where everything around you is quietly changing. Restaurants have smart ordering systems that can converse with you fluently in Thai, hospitals have AI diagnostic systems capable of accurately analyzing your health status, and even the shared bicycles on the roadside are equipped with smart navigation. This is no fantasy; it is the ongoing AI transformation in Thailand. Image source note: The image is generated by AI, and the image is authorized.

Against the backdrop of rapid development in artificial intelligence, iFLYTEK and several enterprises jointly established the 'Anhui Kexun Artificial Intelligence Venture Capital Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership)' on December 16. The fund has a total investment of 500 million RMB, aiming to support and promote innovation and development in the field of artificial intelligence. According to data from the Tianyancha App, the managing partner of this newly established investment fund is Hefei Kexun Innovation Information Technology Partnership (Limited Partnership). Its business scope is extensive, covering equity investment and investment management for private equity funds.