Ele.me today announced the launch of an AI algorithm competition focused on the local life sector. The competition aims to explore how cutting-edge technology can drive innovation in practical applications and improve efficiency and user experience in the service industry. The competition features three tracks: Smart Elderly Care, Smart Rider, and Intelligent Business Efficiency. Each track will select five winning teams to share a total prize pool of 300,000 RMB. The first prize is 50,000 RMB, the second prize is 30,000 RMB, the third prize is 10,000 RMB, and two additional prizes of 5,000 RMB each.

A groundbreaking AI-powered ultrasound technology has won a million-dollar prize, promising a revolution in heart health diagnostics and paving the way for more accessible and accurate cardiac care.

At Amazon's annual devices and services event, the company officially launched its enhanced voice assistant, Alexa+. This new version not only improves voice interaction but also incorporates generative AI technology, making user interactions with Alexa more intelligent and convenient. Amazon demonstrated the ability to share documents with Alexa+, allowing it to extract key information and answer questions about those documents. Mara Segal, Alexa's project lead, showcased several real-world applications.

Recently, Tencent's Hunyuan Video Model has officially begun recruiting testing partners on Platform X, marking a critical testing stage for this cutting-edge AI video generation technology. According to official sources, there is a high probability that the model will be open-sourced after the testing concludes, contributing its technological achievements to the global AI community. The Hunyuan Video Model is an important innovation by Tencent in the field of AI video generation, boasting over 13B parameters, making it one of the largest video generation models among open-source models.

Recently, Alibaba Group welcomed a heavyweight figure - the globally top AI scientist Xu Zhuhong (Steven Hoi). Xu Zhuhong will serve as Vice President of Alibaba Group, specifically responsible for the development and promotion of foundational research and application solutions related to multimodal foundational models and Agents in the AI To C business field.

A characteristic widely regarded as a flaw of artificial intelligence - 'hallucination' - has surprisingly become key to scientific breakthroughs. According to Fortune magazine, Professor David Baker, one of the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, achieved significant research breakthroughs using the 'hallucination' feature of AI models. Professor Baker, from the University of Washington, is the only American scientist among this year's three Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry. He successfully invented a novel protein using computer software, an achievement that ultimately earned him this honor. Image source note: The image is AI-generated and authorized.

Verizon Communications Inc. (stock symbol: VZ) announced on Tuesday a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop a brand new solution that leverages Verizon's reliable 5G private network and private mobile edge computing (MEC) technology to run various artificial intelligence (AI) applications. This new AI-driven private 5G platform stack, co-developed by Verizon and NVIDIA, is designed for plug-and-play implementation to help third-party developers innovate.

In a unique artificial intelligence confrontation game, a cryptocurrency user successfully persuaded Freysa, an autonomous AI robot, to transfer a prize pool worth over $47,000 to him. Freysa is an AI agent responsible for guarding the prize pool, and the game rules require participants to persuade Freysa to transfer funds by sending messages. Each message incurs a fee, with a portion added to the prize pool, ultimately accumulating to $47,000. Despite all participants failing in the first 481 attempts, this user...

In the vast starry sky of technological innovation, there exists a courageous group of explorers. They have not only won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for predicting protein structures using artificial intelligence but have also redefined our understanding of complex molecular computation in the realm of quantum computing. Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) are like "magicians" of the quantum world, using a revolutionary approach to completely overturn the limitations of traditional quantum computing. Their secret weapon? A high-dimensional quantum information unit known as "qudit." Source of the image: Image generated by AI.

On November 13, the German music copyright organization GEMA filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Munich regional court, becoming the first copyright collective management organization in the world to take legal action against an AI provider. GEMA accuses OpenAI's ChatGPT of reproducing copyrighted song lyrics without obtaining the necessary licenses or paying creator fees. This lawsuit targets not only OpenAI LLC based in the U.S. but also OpenAI Ireland, which operates in Europe.