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.

According to a report by Bloomberg, Tencent Holdings Limited and Honor Device Co., Ltd. announced on Friday that they will engage in a long-term strategic cooperation in the fields of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. The two parties will collaborate extensively, leveraging Honor's capabilities in terminals, AI, and ecosystem development, and combining these with Tencent's resources in cloud computing, content platforms, and gaming technology. In this partnership, Honor will utilize Tencent's big data analysis and search tools, which will greatly enhance Honor's data processing capabilities. Additionally, both sides plan to jointly develop a coding assistant aimed at benefiting Honor's workforce.

On December 19, 2024, at a press conference, ZhiYuan Research Institute and Tencent announced the launch of LongBench v2, a benchmark designed to evaluate the deep understanding and reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in real-world long text multi-task scenarios. The platform aims to advance long text models in understanding and reasoning, addressing the current challenges faced by large language models in practical applications.

On December 18, 2024, ZhiYuan Research Institute signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Tencent Group, aiming for in-depth collaboration in several areas, including large model research and development, exploration of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies, and open-source ecosystem construction. According to the cooperation agreement, ZhiYuan Research Institute and Tencent will leverage their respective strengths to promote the deep integration of large model technology and industrial scenarios, and explore technological solutions for large model training and inference optimization in diverse computing environments. Both parties are also committed to building an open and innovative hardware and software ecosystem to foster the development and application of technologies.

According to Yahoo Finance, Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup Zhipu announced on Tuesday the completion of its latest funding round, having previously received investments from internet giants such as Alibaba and Tencent last year. The statement reveals that Zhipu's commercial revenue has more than doubled this year. Zhipu is one of the few AI startups in China valued at billions of dollars, receiving substantial investment from local tech giants. In May of this year, Saudi Aramco's venture capital division participated in Zhipu's $400 million funding round, bringing its valuation to approximately $3 billion. AI development.

Tencent Cloud recently announced the launch of its AI coding assistant - Tencent Cloud AI Code Assistant. This tool aims to assist programmers in writing code by predicting and providing code suggestions, significantly enhancing development efficiency. The core advantage of this AI code assistant lies in its ability to deeply understand the context of the code, offering more accurate logical and grammatical code completion suggestions, surpassing traditional keyword-matching completion methods. It can also learn and adapt to a programmer's coding style and historical code patterns, providing customized code completions that align more closely with individual habits.

Tencent Docs has recently launched version 3.9.0, featuring a comprehensive upgrade of the AI Document Assistant to enhance user experience and work efficiency. The new version deeply integrates the three core office functions of 'reading, writing, and searching', aiming to provide a one-stop solution for users' work challenges. In terms of 'reading', the AI Document Assistant's deep reading capability has significantly improved, supporting intelligent close reading for niche scenarios. Users can upload research reports, lengthy documents, and more, and the AI assistant will quickly extract key information. The upgraded assistant supports the upload of up to 50 files at once.

On November 26, 2024, Intel successfully held the New Quality Productivity Technology Ecology Conference in Chengdu. During the event, Intel, along with global open-source partners and ecosystem collaborators, discussed key topics such as enterprise open platforms, AI PC open-source projects, and foundational software bases. Tencent App Discovery focused on 'AI Innovation,' sharing the features and future vision of the desktop version of the 'Xiaobao AI Assistant,' and discussing the importance and practical possibilities of intelligent services for user experience across multi-end scenarios. Tencent App Discovery's Technical Director Jiang Chao highlighted during his speech that

The Sogou Input Method version 12.0 has recently undergone a smart upgrade, introducing a series of new features. The key highlights of this update include AI search, AI quick check, AI companion, magic gestures, and a brand-new visual design. In terms of AI search, version 12.0 of the Sogou Input Method, in collaboration with Tencent's Hunyuan Large Model, enables a feature that allows users to search while typing. Users can quickly obtain search results by simply clicking the magnifying glass icon, significantly improving search efficiency. Additionally, PC users can swiftly gather information through the 'equal sign for word selection' feature, enhancing productivity.

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.

Tencent announced today that its newly developed AI Smart Workspace ima.copilot (abbreviated as ima) is officially open to users in its Windows version. This product not only offers search capabilities but also answers user questions, creates text, and generates images, showcasing Tencent's in-depth exploration and technological strength in the field of artificial intelligence.

Tencent announced that its smart assistant product, Tencent Yuanbao 2.0, has officially been relaunched. The new version features a redesigned conversation list that allows users to easily find historical dialogues and previously used intelligent entities, making it more convenient to review information or continue unfinished conversations. Tencent Yuanbao 2.0 also introduces a dedicated section for AI applications, gathering five major applications: AI Search, AI Reading, Creative Painting, Inspiration Gallery, and AI Photo Enhancement, to meet users' diverse creative needs in searching, reading, writing, and painting.

The Tencent Hunyuan 3D generation model is the industry's first open-source large model that supports both text and image-based 3D generation. The initial open-source models include a lightweight version and a standard version, with the lightweight version capable of generating high-quality 3D assets within 10 seconds. This model has been publicly released in the tech community, including complete model weights, inference code, and model algorithms, available for free use by developers, researchers, and other users.

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.