Alibaba's AI-powered search engine, Accio, has reached over one million users. New AI features are being added to further enhance its capabilities and empower global trade.

Heygem is an open-source alternative to HeyGen, offering precise cloning of appearance and voice, and supporting lip-sync for realistic video generation.

The creator of Docker has unveiled Dagger, a new open-source project aiming to provide a compelling alternative to Google's Claude Code. This innovative tool promises to simplify and streamline various coding tasks.

On March 6th, Mobvoi collaborated with leading academic institutions including the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanyang Technological University, and Northwestern Polytechnical University to open-source Spark-TTS, a new generation of speech synthesis model. Simultaneously, they launched TicVoice 7.0, a high-quality commercial TTS engine. As Mobvoi's seventh-generation TTS engine, TicVoice 7.0 represents a significant breakthrough in speech synthesis, ushering in a new paradigm for voice generation.

The internal testing of the AI agent Manus has sparked significant excitement, with users praising its groundbreaking capabilities and demanding access. Its innovative features are revolutionizing the traditional virtual assistant experience.

According to LatePost, Meituan CEO Wang Xing held a significant internal communication meeting on February 28th, attended by senior executives and directors. This meeting, the first high-level communication meeting in Meituan's 15-year history, saw Wang Xing delve into Meituan's future development directions. This meeting signifies Wang Xing's deeper reflections on Meituan's future, outlining three key focus areas for the next decade: food and grocery retail, internationalization, and technological innovation. In terms of food and grocery retail...

Lei Jun pointed out that AI terminals, as important platforms for the implementation of AI technology, are constantly expanding their application scope, extending from smartphones, smart cars, and wearable devices to smart homes and robots. This trend not only injects new vitality into the consumer market but also provides key impetus for the high-end and intelligent upgrading of the industrial chain. However, in the early stages of the rapid development of AI terminals, it is still necessary to overcome core technological bottlenecks, build a collaborative innovation ecosystem, and promote industry standardization, collaboration, innovation, and high-quality development.

According to CCTV News, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) recently released an international standard for elderly care robots, spearheaded by China. This marks a new development stage for the elderly care robot industry. The standard, IEC63310, is titled "Performance criteria for active assisted living robots for use in interconnected home environments." Developed based on the physiological and behavioral characteristics of the elderly, this standard provides crucial guidelines for the design, manufacturing, testing, and certification of various elderly care robots. The release of this standard aims to meet the needs of the elderly...

On February 27th, according to CCTV reports, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) recently officially released the international standard for elderly care robots (IEC63310 "Performance Standard for Active Assistive Living Robots Used in Interconnected Home Environments") spearheaded by China. This standard, based on the physiological, psychological, and behavioral characteristics of the elderly, focuses on the needs and characteristics of the elderly in daily life and health care in interconnected home environments, providing a benchmark for the design, manufacturing, testing, and certification of elderly care robots. World Health Organization data shows that it is expected that by 2050...

La Asociación China de Go publicó recientemente un comunicado en el que impone un severo castigo a la ajedrecista profesional Qin Siyue (nacida en 2006) por hacer trampa en el Campeonato Nacional de Go (individual) categoría femenina. El comunicado revela que Qin Siyue fue descubierta el 15 de diciembre de 2024 llevando un teléfono móvil y utilizando un programa de inteligencia artificial para hacer trampa. Tras la investigación, se descubrió que Qin Siyue no solo escondió su teléfono antes de la competición, sino que también hizo trampa durante la misma y ocultó los hechos cuando se le preguntó, lo que constituye una infracción grave. Nota de la imagen: La imagen fue generada por IA, proveída por Midjourney China.

Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo has announced the formation of a large model team focused on e-commerce recommendations, further strengthening its commitment to AI in the sector. According to recent posts on X, the team is led by a former core member of Baidu's Phoenix Nest (Baidu's advertising system), whose salary is reportedly multiple times higher than at Baidu, demonstrating Pinduoduo's significant investment in talent acquisition. While Pinduoduo has not officially disclosed the leader's identity, an X user @TechBitDaily revealed in a February 23rd post that the team has already recruited numerous individuals from Baidu.

In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), while large language models (LLMs) excel at processing natural language, they often struggle with complex reasoning tasks. These tasks typically require multi-step reasoning, domain-specific knowledge, or effective integration of external tools. To overcome these limitations, researchers have been exploring how to enhance LLM capabilities through the use of external tools. Traditional enhancement methods usually necessitate fine-tuning or additional training of the models, which limits their adaptability and flexibility for tasks.

Ovis2 is the latest version of the Ovis series models proposed by Alibaba's international team. Compared to the previous version 1.6, Ovis2 has significant improvements in data construction and training methods. It not only enhances the capacity density of small models but also greatly improves chain of thought (CoT) reasoning capabilities through instruction fine-tuning and preference learning. Additionally, Ovis2 introduces video and multi-image processing capabilities, and enhances multilingual abilities and OCR capabilities in complex scenarios, significantly increasing the model's practicality.

Microsoft recently announced a significant technological breakthrough, claiming that its newly developed chip could enable the construction of quantum computers within years instead of decades. The highlight of this chip lies in its use of the world's first topological conductor, a material that creates a new state of matter that is neither solid, liquid, nor gas. This innovation makes it possible to design quantum systems that can fit on a single chip, and the chip itself is smaller than a palm. Microsoft's research has been published in the Nature Journal, and numerous experts have expressed their...