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Amap announced the launch of its HumanRig technology and the open-sourcing of the industry's first large-scale dataset specifically designed for 3D humanoid character rigging. This technology aims to reduce the cost of character animation production and drive the animation industry towards greater efficiency and automation. It serves as a key infrastructure for Amap in building immersive navigation experiences.

Blender-MCP (Model Context Protocol) has been officially open-sourced, enabling seamless integration of Anthropic's Claude AI with Blender. This breakthrough allows users to create complex 3D scenes using natural language prompts. According to AIbase, the tool allows users to generate sophisticated 3D models with text descriptions alone, such as a scene depicting a low-poly dragon guarding treasure, significantly lowering the technical barrier to entry for 3D modeling. Blender-MCP

Tencent HunYuan has announced the open-sourcing of its customizable image generation plugin, InstantCharacter, with compatibility for the open-source text-to-image model Flux. This launch signifies a major breakthrough in character consistency and image generation accuracy, providing content creators with a more efficient and flexible creative tool.

Beijing's Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund has announced an additional investment of 200 million RMB in Zhipu (Z.ai), building on its previous investment, to support the development of Zhipu's open-source models and the construction of its open-source community ecosystem. Zhipu is the first AI large language model company invested in by the fund and is currently the fastest-growing company. Zhipu has comprehensive accumulation in model capabilities including text, reasoning, speech, image, video, and code, a well-established commercial layout, and a developer community and enterprise user base exceeding one million.

The Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund recently announced an additional investment of 200 million RMB in Beijing Zhipu AI Technology Co., Ltd. (Zhipu). According to the fund, Zhipu is the first AI large language model company invested in since the fund's establishment and is one of the fastest-growing companies in the field. Zhipu has accumulated deep expertise in model development across text, reasoning, speech, image, video, and code, and boasts a robust commercialization strategy, having established a developer community and enterprise user base exceeding one million. This investment aims to further support Zhipu's growth and development.

ByteDance has officially released UI-TARS-1.5 on the Hugging Face platform, an open-source multimodal agent built upon a powerful vision-language model. This release marks another significant breakthrough for ByteDance in the field of AI automated interaction, providing developers and users with a highly efficient and intelligent cross-platform GUI (Graphical User Interface) automation solution. UI-TARS-1.5: A New Benchmark for Multimodal Agents. UI-TARS-1.5 is the latest in ByteDance's UI-TARS series...

The ByteDance Doubao large model team announced the open-sourcing of UI-TARS-1.5, an open-source multimodal agent built on a vision-language model capable of efficiently executing various tasks in a virtual world. The model achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on seven typical GUI (Graphical User Interface) benchmark evaluations and demonstrated, for the first time, its long-term reasoning capabilities in games and interactive capabilities in open spaces. This open-source project marks a significant advancement in multimodal agent technology for GUIs.

Alibaba's Tongyi announced the open-sourcing of the Wan2.1 series of models, including a powerful first and last frame video generation model. This model utilizes the advanced DiT architecture, achieving several technological breakthroughs. It significantly reduces the computational cost of generating high-definition videos while ensuring high temporal and spatial consistency. This open-sourcing provides developers and creators with powerful tools, driving the advancement of video generation technology.

Pollen Robotics has launched its latest open-source humanoid robot, Reachy 2, with a price tag of $70,000. Already adopted by Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University, and several top AI labs, Reachy 2 is a leading platform for robotics research and education. Its modular design, open-source architecture, and powerful AI capabilities have attracted significant attention from research institutions and developers worldwide, making it a key player in the field of humanoid robotics.

Recently, an open-source project called DroidRun has garnered significant attention. This project leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable control of Android phones via natural language instructions, offering users an unprecedented level of automation. From social media management to automating daily tasks, DroidRun showcases the immense potential of AI in mobile device interaction. According to AIbase, DroidRun has officially been open-sourced, with the source code now available on GitHub, providing developers and tech enthusiasts with the freedom to explore.

OpenAI has officially released its latest open-source project, Codex CLI, a lightweight code intelligence tool. The release has generated significant attention, surpassing 5000 stars on GitHub in just 5 hours. It's projected to reach 10,000 stars today, quickly becoming a rising star on the platform. OpenAI's co-founder and president, Greg Brockman, stated that Codex CLI is just one of their code tools.

The Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has released the open-source "Wanjuan Silk Road 2.0" multilingual multimodal corpus. Building upon the existing 5 languages (Arabic, Russian, Korean, Vietnamese, and Thai), this updated corpus adds three rare languages: Serbian, Hungarian, and Czech. It encompasses four modalities – text, images, audio, and video – totaling over 11.5 million data points and more than 26,000 hours of audio and video, making it a significant resource for low-resource multilingual multimodal research.

The Kimi team recently released a technical report and open-sourced the preview version of Kimina-Prover, including 1.5B and 7B parameter distilled models, the Kimina-Autoformalizer-7B model for data generation, and a revised miniF2F benchmark dataset. Kimina-Prover, jointly developed by the Numina and Kimi teams, is a mathematical theorem proving model that excels in the field of formal theorem proving.

A significant breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence. AIbase learned from social media that ByteDance recently announced the open-sourcing of its new multimodal generation model, Liquid. This model, utilizing an innovative unified encoding method and a single large language model (LLM) architecture, seamlessly integrates visual understanding and generation tasks. This release not only showcases ByteDance's technological ambition in multimodal AI but also provides a powerful open-source tool for global developers. Below is AIbase's in-depth analysis of the Liquid model, exploring its technological innovations and core features.

On April 15th, Hugging Face, the renowned open-source large language model platform, announced its acquisition of Pollen Robotics, marking its official entry into the physical robotics field. While specific transaction terms remain undisclosed, the acquisition will bring approximately 20 Pollen Robotics employees to Hugging Face. This represents the company's largest personnel acquisition to date, signifying its ambition in expanding its business areas. Hugging Face's co-founder...

Hugging Face, a leading AI development platform, recently announced the acquisition of Pollen Robotics, a French humanoid robotics startup, marking its strategic foray into the robotics sector. While the financial details of the deal remain undisclosed, the acquisition has generated significant attention. Founded in 2016 by engineers Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet, Pollen Robotics' flagship product, Reachy2, is an advanced humanoid robot already utilized at Cornell...

China's AI industry is accelerating its journey to the global stage. AIbase learned from social media that the National Supercomputing Internet Platform has officially launched MiniMax's domestic AI large models, including MiniMax-Text-01 and MiniMax-VL-01, and they have joined the supercomputing internet AI open-source community. Simultaneously, MiniMax's ChatBot dialogue service has also been integrated into the platform, providing users with a highly efficient intelligent interaction experience. The following is AIbase's in-depth analysis of this significant development.