After a 5-year restoration project, this masterpiece of Gothic architecture dating back to the 12th century is set to reopen to the public. The devastating fire in 2019 not only destroyed the iconic spire of Notre-Dame but also severely damaged this ancient building that holds the memory of human civilization. However, with the assistance of modern technology, this historical structure is returning with a renewed appearance. The ambitious project, costing approximately €700 million (about 5.3 billion RMB), involved more than 250 companies and over 2,000 craftsmen.

Recently, a federal lawsuit regarding a Minnesota law on 'using deepfake technology to influence elections' has sparked new controversy. The plaintiff's legal team pointed out in the latest legal documents that the affidavits supporting this law may contain text generated by artificial intelligence. Image source note: The image was generated by AI, provided by Midjourney according to reports from the Minnesota Reformer, where the state's Attorney General Keith Ellison had requested the Stanford Social Media Lab's assistance.

After a successful entrepreneurial journey, former SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson embarks on a new startup adventure. His new company BrightAI has just completed a $15 million seed funding round exclusively led by Upfront Ventures, unveiling this tech company deeply focused on smart monitoring for infrastructure. BrightAI was founded in 2019 by Hawkinson along with Nathan Hanks and Doug.

Recently, Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) announced a partnership with technology company OpenAI to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) technology for unlocking deep insights across its many renowned brands. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed by service provider Midjourney. These brands include Estée Lauder, Clinique, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, and Aveda.

According to AI Frontline news, Liu Wei, an outstanding scientist and one of the heads of Tencent's Hunyuan Large Model technology, has left Tencent. Liu Wei was responsible for the technical development and application practice of the Hunyuan Large Model at Tencent. He has published papers at several international conferences and journals and has received multiple awards. His departure has drawn attention from the industry as he was one of the key figures behind the Hunyuan Large Model at Tencent. The Hunyuan Large Model is a significant part of Tencent's strategy in the field of artificial intelligence, aimed at providing powerful AI capabilities for various application scenarios. It is reported that Liu Wei once stated that Tencent's Hunyuan Large Model.

Addverb Technologies, backed by the Reliance Group, is rapidly catching up with the global robotics industry. The company recently announced that it will launch its first humanoid robots in 2025, with an initial plan to roll out 100 units. Sangeet Kumar, the co-founder and CEO of Addverb, stated in an interview that these robots will be utilized across various sectors including energy and retail. Addverb has a strong background.

UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 recently launched an innovative anti-fraud technology - an AI virtual grandma named 'Daisy', specifically designed to combat the rising tide of phone scams. This virtual grandma's sole task is to answer scam calls and delay the scammers as much as possible. When scammers dial a specific number set up by the operator, this AI robot, 'indistinguishable from a real person', will answer the call. According to O2, they have utilized multiple cutting-edge AI technologies and models.

Beijing AiShi Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced that its PixVerse platform has officially opened its text-to-video and image-to-video technology services to the public. Previously, AiShi Technology's PixVerse V3 had a global simultaneous launch, achieving significant improvements in foundational model capabilities. It offers multi-modal generation capabilities and rich AI features, including creative templates, lip-sync matching, story continuation, and style transfer.

The Traffic Police Division of the Pudong Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau recently officially issued the first batch of identification plates designed specifically for autonomous driving equipment. The design features a combination of light blue and white with black text, starting with an abbreviation for the region followed by a combination of letters and numbers, and clearly labeled 'Autonomous Equipment' at the top. This marks a step towards the gradual integration of autonomous driving technology into the daily lives of the public. The issuance of identification plates for autonomous driving equipment is an important move for the development of smart traffic in Shanghai, and a significant milestone in the application of autonomous driving technology.

In today's technology landscape, CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) is an important multimodal foundational model. It combines visual signals and text signals into a shared feature space using contrastive learning loss on a large-scale dataset of image-text pairs. As a retriever, CLIP supports various tasks such as zero-shot classification, detection, segmentation, and image-text retrieval. Meanwhile, as a feature extractor, it performs well in nearly all...

iFLYTEK recently announced the official launch of its latest development, the iFLYTEK Spark Multimodal Interaction Model. This technological breakthrough marks iFLYTEK's expansion from a single voice interaction technology to a new stage of real-time audio-visual multimodal interaction. The new model integrates voice, vision, and digital human interaction functions, allowing users to seamlessly combine all three with a single button.

Caiyun Technology recently held the 'From Paper to App' themed communication conference in Beijing, officially releasing the general large model Yunjin Tianzhang based on the DCFormer architecture and announcing the upgrade of its AI RPG platform Caiyun Xiaomeng to version V3.5 based on DCFormer. This marks a significant breakthrough in model architecture efficiency in the field of artificial intelligence. In the AI field, the Transformer architecture has always been the core technical support for mainstream large models like ChatGPT and Gemini.

A remarkable startup is developing a groundbreaking AI system that promises to give creators unprecedented capabilities for generating cinematic worlds. The company, named Odyssey, employs a unique approach: having staff carry specialized camera systems to gather scene data from around the globe. Founded by autonomous driving experts Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, Odyssey recently completed an $18 million Series A funding round led by EQT Ventures.