Today, in response to rumors that ByteDance might initiate a price war for large models, Douyin Vice President Li Liang issued a statement on social media, clearly stating that this is not a price war. Li Liang pointed out that the Doubao large model has reduced costs through technological innovation, with significant optimizations in algorithms, software engineering, and hardware solutions. He mentioned that the pricing of 0.3 yuan per 1,000 tokens not only has a considerable gross profit but also follows a transparent pricing strategy, which is not the traditional 'list price discount' model.

Beijing TuSimple Technology Co., Ltd. has officially changed its name to CreateAI. This rebranding comes alongside the announcement of several significant advancements in the generative AI field, marking its ambitious plans to apply generative AI technology in the animation and video game industries. Additionally, CreateAI announced that it has acquired the official licensing rights to the renowned wuxia intellectual property 'The Legend of the Condor Heroes' and plans to develop a large-scale open-world RPG game. Furthermore, the company will collaborate with notable animation director Masashi Hoshino and leading animation production company Hashimoto Co., Ltd. to utilize AIGC.

Chinese AI video generation startup Aishi Technology recently announced the completion of its Series A2 to A4 financing, raising nearly 300 million yuan. Previously, the Series A2 financing was funded by Ant Group, while the recent Series A3 and A4 rounds were co-invested by the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Guoke Investment, and Guangyuan Capital. This round of financing will primarily be used to enhance technological research and development capabilities, expand computing power resources, build a talent team, and accelerate product feature iteration and market coverage, thereby continuously promoting the widespread application of AI video generation technology.

YouTube recently announced a collaboration with the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to help celebrities and creators identify content on the platform using their AI-generated images and submit removal requests. This technology is planned to be tested early next year, initially focusing on celebrities and athletes, before expanding to 'top YouTube creators, creative professionals, and other leading partners representing talent.' Last year, CAA launched CAAVault, a service that scans and stores its clients' digital images.

During a continuous 12-day live event, OpenAI released the O1 model API to developers on the 9th day and announced significant upgrades to the real-time API, supporting WebRTC technology. Starting from the release date, OpenAI will provide access to the O1 API for developers at usage level 5. Compared to the previous preview version, this updated O1 model API achieves a 60% reduction in thinking costs and adds advanced visual processing capabilities. Meanwhile, GPT-4o has improved in audio processing.

Recently, Zhipu Company successfully completed a new round of financing, raising 3 billion RMB, attracting participation from multiple strategic investors and state-owned institutions, with existing shareholders such as Guanjun Capital also increasing their investment. The funds will primarily be used for the research and development upgrades of Zhipu's base large model, further enhancing its capabilities in complex reasoning, multimodal task solving, and promoting innovation and development in the industry ecosystem. This marks Zhipu's second round of financing this year. Previously, in September, Zhipu received funding support led by Zhongguancun Science City, becoming the first large model startup to achieve a valuation exceeding 20 billion RMB.

Recently, an AI startup named Artisan launched a controversial advertising campaign in San Francisco with the slogan 'Stop Hiring Humans,' sparking widespread anger and protests. Artisan focuses on automation technology, particularly an AI sales agent named Artisan. Other slogans from this advertising campaign include 'Artisan Never Complains About Work-Life Balance' and 'Artisan's Zoom Camera Never Fails.'

At the recent Geek Park IF2025 Innovation Conference, Wang Xiaochuan, founder and CEO of BaiChuan Intelligence, had a dialogue with Zhang Peng, founder of Geek Park, elaborating on his in-depth thoughts on the medical field, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), and technological progress. Wang Xiaochuan reflected on his original intention to choose the medical sector, which is both a dream of his involvement in life sciences and a decision made after rational consideration. As early as 2000, during his graduate studies, Wang Xiaochuan began to engage with life sciences and developed a strong interest in the mathematical models behind life.

Meta has recently launched a new neural watermark system called VideoSeal, designed to help identify AI-generated videos, even if the videos have been edited, it can effectively trace their origin. This watermark is invisible to viewers but can be verified through detection methods to confirm the video's authenticity. Meta has released the entire system as open source software under the MIT license, including the VideoSeal watermark model, research papers, and training and inference code.

Recently, Jiyue Xingchen announced the launch of a new member in the Step series model matrix—the Step-1o end-to-end speech model, claimed to be the first trillion-parameter end-to-end speech model in China. The release of this new model marks a significant advancement in the field of speech technology. By utilizing an end-to-end speech solution, it integrates speech understanding and generation, thereby enhancing the IQ and EQ limits of the model and providing a supernatural, high-quality communication experience.