At the intersection of technology and creativity, Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has once again showcased its innovative prowess. During the Snap Partner Summit held recently in Santa Monica, California, the company announced a series of exciting AI tool upgrades aimed at providing creators with a more powerful and intuitive content creation experience. The most notable new feature is 'Easy Lens.' This innovative tool allows creators to easily generate Snap's unique augmented reality (AR) objects, 3D effects, and characters through simple English descriptions.

Amazon is set to launch a fully revamped version of its Alexa personal voice assistant in October, introducing features such as the AI-generated news summary called 'Smart Briefing', which will require a subscription to access. The new Alexa aims to enhance daily engagement, particularly regarding the accuracy of political news and information security. The AI-generated news summary feature has become a focal point of user demand, with subscription costs expected to reach up to $10 per month. Additionally, Amazon plans to expand Alexa's presence in e-commerce and children's entertainment through 'Project Banyan'.

The newly launched v0 web development assistant is specifically designed for frontend developers. It offers professional services through chat interactions to solve development challenges. It can generate user interface code, run code, and answer programming questions, supporting technologies such as TypeScript, React, Next.js, etc. It facilitates code generation, performance optimization, application deployment, and problem-solving. By default, it enters the chat interface, supporting JavaScript code generation, providing answers on the latest frontend technologies, and generating code from uploaded content. v0 continually learns and evolves to adapt to the latest frameworks.

On August 19, Kunlun Wanwei announced the launch of SkyReels, the world's first AI short drama platform, marking the official arrival of the 'one person, one drama' era. The SkyReels platform achieves full-process automation for script generation, character customization, storyboard creation, plot development, dialogue/background music, and video synthesis by integrating large video models and 3D models, allowing creators to easily produce high-quality AI videos with the click of a button.

According to recent reports, despite earlier news that Apple plans to charge users for its AI service Apple Intelligence with a monthly subscription fee of up to $20 (approximately 143 RMB), analyst Gurman has stated in his latest report that Apple will not charge for this service for at least three years.

The VFusion3D AI model, developed in collaboration with the University of Oxford, can transform a single 2D image or text into high-quality 3D objects, having a profound impact on the fields of virtual reality, gaming, and digital design. This model effectively addresses the scarcity of 3D training data by generating synthesized 3D data through pre-trained video AI. In practical tests, VFusion3D performed excellently compared to leading systems, with over 90% of human evaluators preferring its generated 3D reconstructions. VFusion3D can transform input in just seconds.

A Massachusetts YouTube creator named David Millette has filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of using the transcription content of millions of YouTube videos without permission to train generative AI models like ChatGPT. The lawsuit states that OpenAI's AI products profit from the use of unlicensed and uncompensated training data, violating copyright law and YouTube's terms of service. Millette seeks over $5 million in damages on behalf of all potentially affected YouTube users.

Apple has released the developer beta of iOS 18.1, introducing AI call recording and transcription capabilities that allow users to tap the 'Record' button during calls to start recording and automatically generate a transcript after the call, which is stored in Notes. This feature is particularly useful for users who need to document important phone conversations, such as journalists or patients communicating with doctors. Additionally, this version includes natural language search in Photos, an email summary feature in Mail, and design updates for Siri. However, the AI-enhanced Siri features are expected to launch in 2025.

The AI image processing technology "Diffree" has gained attention for its ability to seamlessly add new objects, like cushions and decorations, to images based on text descriptions. It is particularly useful in indoor design and advertising. Its core features include a "text-guided" function and a "text-to-image" (T2I) model, utilizing the Stable Diffusion diffusion model along with an additional mask prediction module for precise image editing w....

最近，来自北京大学和鹏城实验室的研究团队推出了一款名为 HoloDreamer 的新型3D 场景生成框架，旨在通过用户的文本描述生成身临其境、完整的3D 场景。

DeepSeek has open-sourced the RWKV-CLIP model, a visual-language representation learner that combines the strengths of both Transformer and RNN architectures. The model has significantly enhanced performance on vision and language tasks by pre-training on image-text pairs sourced from web data, expanding its dataset with information obtained from various websites.To address the issue of noisy data and improve data quality, the research team introduced a diverse description generation framework.

In the field of hardware innovation, the startup company Bird Buddy has gained widespread attention and many imitators with its unique product - the connected bird feeder camera. Today, the company based in Michigan announced a new feature called "Name That Bird," which, driven by artificial intelligence, may further solidify its position in the market. Bird Buddy's "Name That Bird" feature allows users to name and track each visiting bird. Although the effectiveness of this feature is yet to be

Groq has recently launched the Whisper Large-V3 model, allowing users to utilize the API in Playground or local projects to achieve speech transcription and translation functionalities. This model supports transcription in multiple languages with extremely fast processing speed, and it can translate other languages into English.

OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has achieved an annualized revenue of $3.4 billion over the past six months, doubling its revenue and demonstrating rapid business growth. This growth is primarily attributed to the application of conversational AI and chatbots in corporate and personal work environments. OpenAI's valuation is approximately $86 billion, with its revenue mainly coming from subscription fees for chatbots and API access fees.

According to a report by Yicai Global, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman informed employees that the company's annual revenue reached $3.4 billion over the past six months. This figure indicates that OpenAI's growth is accelerating, even in a highly competitive environment.

Amazon introduces a generative AI feature that allows sellers to create high-quality product detail pages by simply providing a website link. The AI technology reduces the workload involved in creating pages, enhances page quality, and increases product visibility. The new feature has begun rolling out and will be available to U.S. sellers in the coming weeks. Sellers can easily create engaging product descriptions in their Amazon store using the generative AI feature by providing a website link.

Google plans to launch Bard Advanced, a premium subscription service similar to ChatGPT Plus. Bard Advanced will be locked in subscription mode, providing more complex and responsive services. Gemini Ultra supports Bard Advanced and is expected to be released in early 2024. Bard has surpassed GPT-4, ranking second on third-party leaderboards with performance exceeding GPT-4. Google has canceled its contract with AI data company Appen, raising concerns about AI.

Google appears to be developing an upgraded version called 'Bard Advanced', which users will need a paid Google One subscription to access. Bard Advanced seems to be powered by Google's newly launched large language model (Gemini Ultra), offering enhanced features compared to the current version of Bard (Gemini Pro). In addition to the upgraded Bard, some new functionalities have been discovered, such as creating custom bots and utilizing AI extensions.

🎨 Model Quality Improvement: V6 generates images with richer details and improved coherence. The text rendering capability has also been enhanced. 🔀 Enhanced Blending Function: The image blending effect is more cohesive with better detail representation. 📝 Enhanced Semantic Understanding: There is a significant improvement in the length and detail of prompt words, better coherence, and a markedly improved ability to understand natural language.

OpenAI has finally resumed the ChatGPT Plus subscription service, allowing users to subscribe to this service again. Last month, OpenAI paused the subscription service due to insufficient GPU resources and a surge in users, but has now found more GPU capacity to reopen the service.