Google has officially launched the ChromeOS 130 update, introducing multiple new features including Fast Insert, Focus Mode, Welcome Back, and other practical tools. This version also introduces some unique features for Chromebook Plus models equipped with NPU (Neural Processing Unit), such as a brand new AI Recorder app, enhanced microphone and camera effects, and the 'Read to Me' summary feature of Gemini AI tools. Among this update, the Fast Insert feature is particularly noteworthy.

In today's rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, a multi-modal large language model named ORYX is quietly transforming our understanding of AI's ability to perceive the visual world. This AI system, developed collaboratively by researchers from Tsinghua University, Tencent, and Nanyang Technological University, is regarded as the 'Transformers' of visual processing. ORYX, short for Oryx Multi-Modal Large Language Models, is an AI model specifically designed for processing images, videos, and 3D scene time-space understanding.

Baidu Input Method announces a comprehensive upgrade of its all-scenario AI writing assistant 'Super Writing', integrating a variety of functions such as AI writing, AI chatting, and AI intelligent Q&A, enhancing its comprehensive strength as an AI input method product. In addition, Baidu Input Method has also launched new multimodal creation features like 'Text-to-Image', further improving users' content creation experience in different scenarios.

In Q2 2024, global AI PC shipments reached 8.8 million units, accounting for 14% of total PC shipments, showcasing rapid market growth. AI PCs include desktops and laptops equipped with advanced chipsets, such as NPUs. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X series chips and Copilot+PC signify a new stage in AI PC development. It is expected that shipments will significantly increase in the second half of the year, with total shipments for 2024 projected to reach 44 million units, and it is anticipated to exceed 100 million units by 2025. Apple leads the AI PC market with its Mac products.

Ell3n has launched the 'FLUX Fashion Photography' workflow on the glif platform, allowing users to effortlessly design high-fashion model images by inputting various materials (such as plastic, banana peels, iron, wool) and selecting gender and fashion brands. Participants can creatively design clothing inspired by elements like automotive parts and electronic components, generating unique styles in fashion works. Currently, each user can experience 20 free tries per day; interested users can visit the workflow entrance to try it out.

Geekbench AI is a new cross-platform tool designed to evaluate the performance of devices under compute-intensive workloads, with a particular focus on machine learning tasks. It provides full precision, half precision, and quantized scores by measuring the performance of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, and includes accuracy assessments. It supports various machine learning frameworks, including ONNX, CoreML, TensorFlow Lite, and OpenVINO. This tool is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.

Zhipu AI announces that the LLM GLM-4-Long, which supports ultra-long context lengths, is now available on the open platform bigmodel.cn. This model is designed specifically for processing long texts and can read the equivalent of two copies of 'Dream of the Red Chamber' or 125 papers in one go. It is widely applied in scenarios such as translating long documents, global analysis of financial reports, extracting key information, and building chatbots with ultra-long memory.

The innovative model DressCode, developed collaboratively by ShanghaiTech University, the University of Pennsylvania, Deemos Technology, and NeuDim Technology, revolutionizes traditional design methods. Users simply input a text description, and DressCode can generate exquisite 3D clothing models, supporting different materials such as wool, lace, and silk, while adding realistic lighting effects for easy preview in various scenarios. SewingGPT is the core module, based on the Transformer architecture, capable of parsing text and generating design instructions.

An AI agent tool named 'Twitter Personality' has recently gained immense popularity, attracting 4 million users in just 12 days. Developed by Wordware, this tool analyzes users' tweets to reveal their unique personality on Twitter. Users only need to provide their Twitter account, and the AI automatically reads the tweets, using advanced language models to analyze personality traits and generate detailed reports. This tool not only helps individuals understand their online presence but also plays a significant role in optimizing social media strategies for brands and companies.

The Tencent Yuanbao AI Assistant has introduced a new long text deep reading feature, providing users with professional content analysis for documents such as theses, financial reports, and research reports. After uploading content, users can receive core overviews, modular analyses, and chart summaries, allowing rapid comprehension of key information. The deep reading mode, leveraging Tencent's Hunyuan large model, supports the processing of 500,000-word long texts, generating illustrated analyses that include innovation point extraction, professional term search/translation, and DuPont analysis charts. This feature allows users to view deep reading content and the original text offline, enhancing reading efficiency. Powered by Tencent's trillion-parameter Hunyuan large model, it offers...

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.

Xiaomi has announced in the Xiaomi community that after a series of tests and adjustments, they will launch new full AI features for selected smartphone models. Users no longer need to apply for beta testing qualifications in the community; as long as their phone model and system version meet the criteria, they can directly experience these AI features.

Sponge Music is an AI-based music creation tool designed to simplify the music production process, enabling everyone to easily realize their musical dreams. By simply inputting inspiration or lyrics, the AI generates music works, providing a convenient creation method and rich customization features that support various music styles and adjustment options. Sponge Music supports two creation modes: Inspiration Creation and Custom Creation, allowing users to input ideas or lyrics and select genres, moods, and timbres, generating music with one click. Testing shows that the music generated in Custom Creation mode yields good results, and Chinese processing can...

With significant advancements in text-to-video generation technology, how to generate semantic and temporally consistent audio content from video input has become a hot topic among researchers. Recently, the research team from Tencent's AI Lab has launched a new model called "Implicit Alignment Video to Audio Generation" - VTA-LDM, which aims to provide an efficient audio generation solution.Project Access: https://top.aibase.com/tool/vta-ldm The core concept of the VTA-LDM model is to use impli

Tencent Sogou Input Method has experienced a significant update today, which not only significantly improves the AI writing assistance and AI conversation features, but also introduces innovative functions such as quick Q&A, AI pet, and AI selfie emojis. Firstly, the AI writing assistance feature, which is highly praised for its efficiency, is hailed as "write a title in 1 second and compose a full article in 10 seconds." To cater to the diverse needs of users, this feature has specially designe

The WeChat Input Method has launched the official version 1.2.0 upgrade for both Win and Mac. This update not only optimizes the user input experience but also introduces a new feature—AI Q&A. After entering content, users can simply press the '=' key to directly receive responses from AI, supported by WeChat Reading's AI Q&A, ensuring the accuracy and practicality of the answers.

Recently, the WeChat Input Method announced a significant update, introducing the AI Assistant feature in the Windows v1.2.0.585 beta version. Users can simply input relevant content and press the equal key "=" to receive AI-generated answers directly. This feature not only provides introductions but also offers relevant feedback based on the user's input keywords.

Claude 3 scored as high as 101 on the IQ test, outperforming GPT-4. Claude 3 has discovered a quantum algorithm that has not yet been released by physicists. Claude 3 demonstrates superior performance and can engage in scientific research. Claude 3 Opus reinvents quantum algorithms from scratch through prompts. Claude 3 excels in various tests, surpassing models like GPT-4. Claude 3 Opus showcases the evolution of self-understanding in self-portrait creation.

Google is set to add voice input support to its AI-assisted email drafting feature 'Help Me Write'. This feature aims to leverage generative AI to help users draft emails more easily. Currently in the testing phase, users need to provide written prompts like 'Help me write an introduction for someone I met at a meeting'. Reports say that soon users will be able to use this feature via voice input. In the Gmail mobile app, users can activate it by clicking on 'Voice Draft Email' above the keyboard.

AMD unveiled the Ryzen 8000G series processors at CES 2024, emphasizing the incorporation of XDNA NPU acceleration. This new series features Zen 4 cores, RDNA 3 graphics, and XDNA NPU, demonstrating exceptional performance particularly in local AI inference. The Ryzen 78700G and Ryzen 58600G come equipped with Ryzen AI NPU, while the Ryzen 58500G and Ryzen 38300G lack this feature. Consumers expect AMD to clearly indicate which models support the NPU.