Recently, State Grid Corporation announced the launch of China's first trillion-parameter artificial intelligence large model in the power industry - the 'Bright Power Large Model'. They have signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Baidu and Alibaba. The officials stated that they will work together with the signing parties to build the Bright Power Large Model and promote the integrated development of energy and power technological innovation and industrial innovation.

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.

On December 18, 2024, ZhiYuan Research Institute signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Tencent Group, aiming for in-depth collaboration in several areas, including large model research and development, exploration of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies, and open-source ecosystem construction. According to the cooperation agreement, ZhiYuan Research Institute and Tencent will leverage their respective strengths to promote the deep integration of large model technology and industrial scenarios, and explore technological solutions for large model training and inference optimization in diverse computing environments. Both parties are also committed to building an open and innovative hardware and software ecosystem to foster the development and application of technologies.

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.

Recently, Zhipu Company successfully completed a new round of financing, raising 3 billion RMB, attracting participation from multiple strategic investors and state-owned institutions, with existing shareholders such as Guanjun Capital also increasing their investment. The funds will primarily be used for the research and development upgrades of Zhipu's base large model, further enhancing its capabilities in complex reasoning, multimodal task solving, and promoting innovation and development in the industry ecosystem. This marks Zhipu's second round of financing this year. Previously, in September, Zhipu received funding support led by Zhongguancun Science City, becoming the first large model startup to achieve a valuation exceeding 20 billion RMB.

At the recent Geek Park IF2025 Innovation Conference, Wang Xiaochuan, founder and CEO of BaiChuan Intelligence, had a dialogue with Zhang Peng, founder of Geek Park, elaborating on his in-depth thoughts on the medical field, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), and technological progress. Wang Xiaochuan reflected on his original intention to choose the medical sector, which is both a dream of his involvement in life sciences and a decision made after rational consideration. As early as 2000, during his graduate studies, Wang Xiaochuan began to engage with life sciences and developed a strong interest in the mathematical models behind life.

Recently, as ByteDance's Doubao Large Model accelerates its commercialization process and shows impressive performance in the global AI sector, the "Doubao" concept stocks have become the new favorites in the capital market, leading to a new round of price increases in the AI track. Several listed companies, including Tianyu Shuke, Juran Smart Home, and Bee Assistant, have seen their stock prices hit the daily limit for multiple days in a row, with Tianyu Shuke achieving 6 consecutive limits in 10 days by Friday's close, Juran Smart Home hitting 5 limits in 6 days, and Bee Assistant reaching a peak of 20CM limit up during trading. This reflects the market's strong optimism about the Doubao Large Model and its ecosystem.

The Alibaba Tongyi Laboratory voice team announced that its open-source voice generation model CosyVoice has been upgraded to version 2.0. This upgrade marks significant progress in voice generation technology in terms of accuracy, stability, and natural experience. CosyVoice 2.0 achieves bidirectional streaming voice synthesis through the integration of offline and streaming modeling techniques, allowing for a first-package synthesis delay of up to 150ms, thereby significantly improving the responsiveness of voice synthesis.

According to the latest report from South Korean media ET News, Samsung plans to introduce AI large model support for its voice assistant Bixby in January next year, which is expected to be a key selling point for the upcoming Galaxy S25 series. This year, Samsung has been actively enhancing AI capabilities in its smartphones. From 'sketch-to-image generation' to 'select-and-search', the Galaxy series phones have shown increasingly advanced intelligent features. Notably, Samsung has also engaged in deep collaboration with Google to adapt the Gemini AI assistant for its phones.

On December 12, Peking University and ByteDance officially announced the establishment of the Doubao Large Model System Software Joint Laboratory, marking a new milestone in the collaboration between industry, academia, and research in China's AI field. The research work of the joint laboratory will be based on the Doubao large model independently developed by ByteDance. Researchers from universities and enterprises will conduct in-depth research on key technologies such as model training and inference within the laboratory. With the construction and development of the laboratory, a large number of Peking University students will also enter the laboratory for internships, working side by side with industry researchers.

According to media reports, at the 2024 Annual China Game Industry Conference, Giant Network launched the 'QianYing' voice game generation large model, further focusing on the 'Game + AI' sector. According to public information, 'QianYing' consists of two core large models: the Game Video Generation Large Model YingGame and the Video Dubbing Large Model YingSound, which breakthrough achieves the generation of interactive voice game videos. Giant Network stated that the current 'QianYing' voice game large model...

According to the Qichacha APP, China Life (601628) has recently applied to register a trademark for 'AI Large Model Service Platform', classified under financial management, and the current trademark status is 'application in progress'. Previously reported, the Guoshou Investment GPT platform under China Life's Guoshou Assets has launched various office assistants including multi-model experience officers, customer panoramic insights, intelligent document Q&A, AI search, company policy Q&A, and voice cloning, among others, continuously expanding the capabilities of large models and flexibly combining them to achieve business goals.

Beijing Mianbi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced the completion of a new financing round of hundreds of millions of RMB. This round was jointly led by Loongson Venture Capital, Dinghui Baifu, Zhongguancun Science City Fund, and Sequoia Capital. The Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund and Qiming Venture Partners participated as co-investors, with Wanjia Capital acting as the exclusive financial advisor. Mianbi Intelligence plans to use this funding to accelerate the commercialization of terminal-side AI large models, aiming to provide high-performance, low-energy consumption, and faster large model services under the same parameters to deeply serve the industry and create tangible value for users.

Recently, Beijing Xiaoyu Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Co., Ltd., the first large model robot company invested by Xiaomi, announced the completion of its A round financing worth 100 million yuan. Xiaoyu Intelligent Manufacturing was founded in 2023 by the core founding team of Xiaomi Group. The founder, Qiao Zhongliang, was one of Xiaomi's initial members and served as the head of MIUI development; the co-founder, Wang Wenlin, previously served as the general manager of Xiaomi's software system platform department, leading the development of the 'Xiaomi Brain.' Source note: The image is generated by AI, sourced from Midjourney, which focuses on the industrial sector.

Tao Lin, Vice President of Tesla, issued a statement today reiterating the company's commitment to the development path of autonomous driving technology. Lin mentioned that several years ago, company founder Elon Musk determined that only through pure vision technology can we achieve safer and smarter fully autonomous driving. She explained that because existing road and traffic rules are designed based on human vision, the combination of cameras, visual neural networks, and autonomous driving hardware can best mimic human observation, perception, and decision-making habits, potentially reaching or even surpassing human driving capabilities.

Tencent Cloud recently announced the launch of its AI coding assistant - Tencent Cloud AI Code Assistant. This tool aims to assist programmers in writing code by predicting and providing code suggestions, significantly enhancing development efficiency. The core advantage of this AI code assistant lies in its ability to deeply understand the context of the code, offering more accurate logical and grammatical code completion suggestions, surpassing traditional keyword-matching completion methods. It can also learn and adapt to a programmer's coding style and historical code patterns, providing customized code completions that align more closely with individual habits.