The OpenCompass team from Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and ModelScope have jointly launched an upgrade for the large model evaluation platform CompassArena. This upgrade aims to provide users with a more scientific and comprehensive model evaluation experience. Since its launch, the platform has attracted a large number of community users to participate and contribute data. Based on this data, CompassArena continues to optimize, and this upgrade includes the new Judge Copilot feature and improvements to the ranking algorithm.

At today's Volcano Engine FORCE conference, CEO Tan Dai announced that the Doubao General Model Pro has achieved comprehensive improvements in various fields since May, including overall capability, reasoning ability, instruction adherence, code execution, and mathematical processing. Tan Dai stated: "A more powerful model will drive a comprehensive upgrade of enterprise AI." The enhancements of the Doubao General Model Pro have significantly helped multiple companies, especially industry leaders like China Mobile Games and Silas Automotive, achieve notable upgrades in AI applications. Image source note: Image by AI

Meta recently announced that its Ray-Ban smart glasses will introduce three new features: Real-Time AI, Real-Time Translation, and Shazam. Currently, the Real-Time AI and Real-Time Translation features are available only to members of Meta’s early access program, while the Shazam feature is open to all users in the United States and Canada. The Real-Time AI and Real-Time Translation capabilities were first previewed earlier this year at the Meta Connect 2024 conference. Real-Time AI allows users to interact with their surroundings while the glasses continuously observe the environment.

Google has officially released its next-generation video generation model Veo2, aiming to compete with OpenAI's Sora. Google claims that Veo2 demonstrates higher realism and intricacy in video generation. This update not only enhances video quality but also improves understanding of real-world physics and the subtle nuances of human movement and expression. Google states that Veo2 has a better understanding of the physics of the real world as well as the nuances of human movement and expression.

OpenAI has recently made significant technological updates to its ChatGPT platform, introducing real-time search capabilities and advanced voice interaction modes, greatly enhancing user experience. In their latest tech showcase live stream, OpenAI demonstrated a series of new features for ChatGPT, including deep optimizations to the search algorithm that allow users to quickly access real-time information such as stock data and news, significantly improving the timeliness and practicality of search.

The Alibaba Tongyi Laboratory voice team announced that its open-source voice generation model CosyVoice has been upgraded to version 2.0. This upgrade marks significant progress in voice generation technology in terms of accuracy, stability, and natural experience. CosyVoice 2.0 achieves bidirectional streaming voice synthesis through the integration of offline and streaming modeling techniques, allowing for a first-package synthesis delay of up to 150ms, thereby significantly improving the responsiveness of voice synthesis.

According to the latest report from South Korean media ET News, Samsung plans to introduce AI large model support for its voice assistant Bixby in January next year, which is expected to be a key selling point for the upcoming Galaxy S25 series. This year, Samsung has been actively enhancing AI capabilities in its smartphones. From 'sketch-to-image generation' to 'select-and-search', the Galaxy series phones have shown increasingly advanced intelligent features. Notably, Samsung has also engaged in deep collaboration with Google to adapt the Gemini AI assistant for its phones.

Recently, xAI announced a major upgrade to its Grok AI chatbot, promising significant enhancements in performance, even claiming it can compete with Sonnet3.5, particularly in prompt-following capabilities. The upgraded Grok-2 is now available for free to all X platform users, with paid users benefiting from higher usage limits and additional features. According to xAI, Grok-2 is three times faster than its predecessor and has also seen notable improvements in accuracy and language support.

The advanced AI writing platform Writingtools.ai is pleased to announce the launch of its new feature 'Auto Publish to Your Website'. With scheduleable publishing options, this AI writing feature from Writingtools.ai aims to alleviate the challenges faced by marketers and content creators in content publishing. Writingtools.ai founder Vanessa Norwood stated, 'The Writingtools.ai platform has powerful content generation tools that can greatly assist sales.

Baidu Wenku recently announced an upgrade to its AI capabilities with the launch of the 'Professional PPT Generation' feature, aimed at helping users easily create professional and high-quality PPT presentations. This new feature utilizes AI technology to generate clear content, highlight themes, and appropriately use professional terminology based on keywords or topics input by the user, significantly simplifying the tedious process from conception to design and final draft.

On December 11, Apple announced the release of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2, introducing the all-new Apple Intelligence feature. These features aim to enhance user experience on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, further expanding users' creative and expressive capabilities. With this upgrade, users can easily create using the 'Image Playground' feature.

Recently, users discovered the Anthropic Haiku 3.5 version appearing in the Claude.ai application on the X platform, which may indicate that this AI model will be released to the public in the coming days. Haiku 3.5 is the latest version of the smallest AI model in the Anthropic family. Well-known backend feature finder Tibor Blaho made another attempt; when he tried to upload an image using Haiku, he received a warning stating 'Claude 3.5 Haiku does not support images.'

SenseTime Technology recently announced the upgrade of its Office Raccoon tool to version 2.0, evolving into an 'AI-native all-in-one creative space' that integrates various AI functions to enhance office efficiency. The core features of the new version revolve around the 'Raccoon Three-Step Method (PAW)', which includes Planning, Analyzing, and Writing, aiming to cover multiple aspects of work and learning. Office Raccoon 2.0 has enhanced data analysis capabilities and introduced document parsing abilities, simplifying tasks to save time and increase efficiency.

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 Thanksgiving, Tesla's Optimus robot has once again redefined our imagination of robotic technology. In the latest demonstration video, this humanoid robot showcased its astonishing hand operation ability by effortlessly catching thrown tennis balls. This is not just a simple catching performance. Optimus's new hands and forearms integrate several revolutionary technologies. Its hands have 22 degrees of freedom, while the wrists and forearms add an additional 3 degrees of freedom, bringing its dexterity close to the human hand's 27 degrees of freedom. This means the robot is performing with astonishing capability.

At today's Zhipu Agent OpenDay event, Zhipu AI's CEO Zhang Peng announced the latest upgrade of the company's smart agent AutoGLM. This upgrade enables AutoGLM to perform complex operations exceeding 54 steps and to complete tasks across applications, marking an important advancement in agent technology for autonomous task completion.