With the development of digital art, automated image processing technology has received increasing attention. Recently, a research team from Tsinghua University and Tencent's ARC Lab proposed a novel image sequence coloring model called ColorFlow. This model aims to address the challenge of maintaining consistency in character and object identity while coloring black and white image sequences, fulfilling the practical needs of industries such as comics and animation. ColorFlow is a three-stage diffusion base framework that leverages contextual information by utilizing a reference image pool for black and white.

Autonomous truck company TuSimple has announced its completion of a transformation, officially rebranding as CreateAI and shifting its focus toward the generative AI field, including animation and game development. This rebranding signifies TuSimple's departure from the autonomous trucking business and its entry into a new arena. TuSimple's transformation comes at a time of ongoing turmoil for the company. Previously, the company exited the stock market in January 2024 and closed its U.S. autonomous trucking operations, transferring the remaining assets to China to fund the new business.

Recently, as Nvidia announced the acquisition of the Israeli workload management startup Run.ai, several civil organizations and think tanks in Europe have called for the EU Commission to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the deal. The specific amount of the acquisition has not been disclosed, but reports state that after four rounds of financing since its founding in 2018, Run.ai reached a valuation of $700 million. Image source note: The image is AI-generated, with licensing provided by Midjourney. Run.ai's core product is a central user interface and control platform that allows users.

Meta Platforms recently submitted a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, urging him to prevent OpenAI's plan to transition from a non-profit organization to a for-profit company. According to The Wall Street Journal, the letter was sent by Meta on Thursday, stating that allowing OpenAI to make this conversion would set a concerning precedent, potentially enabling startups to enjoy non-profit status while ultimately shifting to a for-profit model. Meta emphasized in the letter.

On December 12, Peking University and ByteDance officially announced the establishment of the Doubao Large Model System Software Joint Laboratory, marking a new milestone in the collaboration between industry, academia, and research in China's AI field. The research work of the joint laboratory will be based on the Doubao large model independently developed by ByteDance. Researchers from universities and enterprises will conduct in-depth research on key technologies such as model training and inference within the laboratory. With the construction and development of the laboratory, a large number of Peking University students will also enter the laboratory for internships, working side by side with industry researchers.

Harvard University announced on Thursday the release of a high-quality dataset containing nearly one million public domain books, which anyone can use to train large language models and other AI tools. This dataset was created by Harvard's newly established Institutional Data Initiative and is funded by Microsoft and OpenAI. The included books are all works scanned by the Google Books Project that are no longer under copyright protection.

A recent study from Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism sounds the alarm on the accuracy of AI search services. The research reveals significant accuracy issues in ChatGPT's citation of news sources, with even publishers directly cooperating with OpenAI not spared. The research team conducted a comprehensive test on 200 news citations from 20 different publishers, resulting in shocking findings: ChatGPT had errors or partially incorrect source information in as many as 153 cases.