Recently, some media reports indicated that WeChat is conducting gray testing of the AI Q&A feature, allowing some users to input questions in the WeChat search box to trigger the AI Q&A function. The AI Q&A can generate an approximately 400-word response in about 20 seconds and provide 5 reference materials from WeChat official accounts. The test results show that the AI Q&A feature currently mainly cites WeChat official accounts as reference materials.

Tencent has recently launched a smart workbench product called ima.copilot (shortened to ima), which is powered by Tencent's Hunyuan large model technology. This product aims to provide users with a new experience in searching, reading, and writing through its thinking knowledge base. The core features of ima.copilot include knowledge acquisition, the creation of a personalized knowledge base, and intelligent writing assistance.

At the Snapdragon Summit 2024 held today, Qualcomm officially unveiled the highly anticipated Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform, a chip built on TSMC's advanced second-generation 3nm process technology, marking a new peak in performance for Android smartphone chips. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 features an entirely new core design, eliminating the small cores in favor of a full big-core layout, which includes 2 ultra-large cores with clock speeds reaching up to 4.32GHz and 6 large cores at 3.53GHz. This design sets a new historical record for smartphone processor clock speeds.

Tencent Zhi Ying has launched a new feature called 'AI Online Sensation Helper', aimed at simplifying the photo editing process and enhancing efficiency through artificial intelligence technology. This feature, using a cloud-based smart video creation tool, allows users to upload photos and have them automatically beautified and optimized by AI, including portrait beautification and background enhancement, to meet users' pursuit of trendiness and personalization.

In today's rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, a multi-modal large language model named ORYX is quietly transforming our understanding of AI's ability to perceive the visual world. This AI system, developed collaboratively by researchers from Tsinghua University, Tencent, and Nanyang Technological University, is regarded as the 'Transformers' of visual processing. ORYX, short for Oryx Multi-Modal Large Language Models, is an AI model specifically designed for processing images, videos, and 3D scene time-space understanding.

Tencent Youtu Lab has collaborated with the research team at Shanghai Jiao Tong University to introduce a revolutionary knowledge enhancement method, paving new avenues for optimizing large models. This innovative technology discards the limitations of traditional model fine-tuning, directly extracting knowledge from open-source data, significantly simplifying the model optimization process, and achieving outstanding performance that surpasses existing state-of-the-art technologies (SOTA) across multiple tasks. In recent years, while large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in various fields, they still face numerous challenges in practical applications. Traditional model fine-tuning methods...

Tencent Cloud announced a strategic partnership with the S.M.A.R.T Entrepreneurs Association in Singapore, aimed at accelerating the deployment of smart digital humans in the Southeast Asian market. The S.M.A.R.T Entrepreneurs Association focuses on assisting global entrepreneurs and senior management teams in building global intelligent enterprises, achieving business transformation and digital transition, and promoting mutually beneficial international business cooperation.

Tencent Cloud and Xiaomi have collaborated to launch the new Smart Lock M30 Pro. This product utilizes Tencent's 'palm scanning technology' that leverages AI recognition capabilities of palm prints and palm veins, providing users with a novel and convenient way to unlock securely. This technology is based on Tencent's proprietary 'palm print + palm vein' recognition algorithm, which captures images of the veins beneath the palm skin using near-infrared light for high-precision identity verification. Since every individual's palm vein pattern is unique, this technology not only enhances the convenience of unlocking but also significantly increases security.

Today, Tencent Robotics X Lab announced its latest research achievement, the home environment robot 'Xiao Wu'. This robot aims to become an indispensable assistant in households, capable of walking and transporting objects in real environments, and even assisting the elderly. Xiao Wu's design overturns the traditional concept of robots by adopting a four-legged wheel-foot composite structure. This design allows for faster movement on flat surfaces while maintaining adaptability over uneven terrains. This flexibility enables Xiao Wu to operate in various environments such as homes and nursing homes.

Tencent Hunyuan recently announced that its AI agent product 'Tencent Yuanqi' now supports publishing to WeChat Official Accounts, bringing several new features to account operators. These features include: real-time interaction with digital avatars, allowing account operators to create digital avatars for real-time interaction with fans, enhancing user engagement and experience.

Recently, Johns Hopkins University and Tencent AI Lab jointly launched a new text-to-audio generation model named EzAudio. This technology promises unprecedented efficiency and high-quality text-to-speech conversion, marking a significant leap in artificial intelligence and audio technology. EzAudio operates by utilizing the latent space of audio waveforms instead of traditional spectrograms, an innovation that allows it to work at high temporal resolution without the need for an additional neural vocoder. The architecture of EzAudio is referred to as EzAu.

Recently, several universities in Hong Kong and China have teamed up with Tencent to develop an AI model called GameGen-O, specifically designed for creating simulations in open-world video games. GameGen-O's capabilities extend beyond generating high-quality game content; it also simulates features from various game engines, capable of creating a diverse range of game elements such as character dynamics, complex actions, and various events. Project link: https://gamegen-o.github.io/

Tencent recently announced the official launch of its Tencent Yuanbao brand Smart Agent Zone, which has invited 11 partners to jointly create a high-quality AI smart agent application ecosystem. These applications cover various fields including entertainment, tourism, shopping, health, e-sports, express delivery, design, and recruitment, featuring well-known companies such as Yuanwen Group, Tongcheng Travel, Weimob, Zhiming Technology, China Resources Sanjiu, Kuaidi 100, Canva, High Competition Culture, Mafengwo, as well as VIPKID and Zhilian Recruitment Smart Agent.

At the 2024 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Conference, Tencent's Vice President and Head of Cloud Business, Qiu Yuepeng, announced the official launch of the Tencent Hunyuan Turbo large model. This new generation of large models is designed based on the MoE (Mixture of Experts) architecture, achieving a doubling in inference efficiency with a 100% improvement compared to the previous generation, while significantly reducing inference costs by 50%. Additionally, Hunyuan Turbo also demonstrates outstanding performance in decoding efficiency, improving by 2.

Tencent Docs has recently launched an upgraded version of the 'Smart Scan' feature, aimed at providing users with a more convenient and efficient document management experience. This new feature is especially suitable for the back-to-school season when teachers and students need to handle a large volume of materials and documents. Users can access the 'Smart Scan' tool through the Tencent Docs mini program or APP, which offers three core functionalities: scan archiving, handwriting removal, and document management.

Domestic AI chip design company Suiyuan Technology has initiated the counseling process for its A-share listing, officially starting its IPO. Established in 2018, Suiyuan Technology focuses on the development of cloud computing products in the AI field, including AI acceleration cards, intelligent computing clusters, and related software and platforms. The company's founders, Zhao Lidong and Zhang Yalin, both possess strong technical backgrounds. One year after its establishment, Suiyuan Technology launched its first-generation AI training chip, SuiSi 1.0, and has now developed to the second generation, SuiSi 2.0, while also developing multiple AI inference chips. In just six years, the company has completed ten rounds of financing, totaling nearly 7 billion RMB.

Tencent Youtu Lab and Shanghai Jiao Tong University released a comprehensive review focusing on dataset evaluation and selection for instruction tuning to enhance large model performance. The study aims to help large models grasp the essence of natural language processing by analyzing data quality, diversity, and importance to guide the construction of efficient and critical datasets. It highlights that data quality directly impacts tuning effect....

Tencent's Hunyuan DiT model has recently partnered with the community to release three new controllable plugins for ControlNet: tile (high-definition image enlargement), inpainting (image restoration and expansion), and lineart (line art generation), further expanding its ControlNet matrix. The addition of these plugins enables the Hunyuan DiT model to cover a wider range of application scenarios.

Tencent's YouTu Lab and other institutions have released the first open source multimodal large language model VITA, aimed at bridging the gap in processing Chinese dialects. Based on the Mixtral8×7B model, VITA expands the Chinese vocabulary and undergoes bilingual instruction fine-tuning, mastering both English and Chinese. Key features include: 1. **Multimodal Understanding**: VITA can handle video, images, text, and audio, which is unprecedented among open source models. 2. **Natural Interaction**: No specific wake words are required, allowing for instant response while maintaining polite and non-intrusive communication.

Tencent has recently launched an innovative educational assistance tool called 'AI Essay Guidance', aimed at helping students improve their writing skills. This feature is based on Tencent's Hunyuan model and is currently available for free on the QQ Browser.