Last Thursday, domestic tech company Shanji launched its first AI camera glasses, marking an important milestone in the domestic AI eyewear field. The glasses are priced at 1499 Yuan, while the first batch of 50,000 co-creation units was sold at a discounted price of 999 Yuan, reportedly even lower than similar products from Xiaomi. Additionally, Shanji introduced a special promotion where users can receive a full refund if they check in 200 days within 300 days (not necessarily consecutively), which undoubtedly increases the product's appeal.

OpenAI's latest release of the Realtime Embedded SDK has stirred the industry, providing a development toolkit aimed at microcontrollers that advances the integration of artificial intelligence with miniature hardware. This SDK is specifically designed for microcontrollers like the ESP32 and enables real-time interaction between devices and cloud-based AI models through WiFi, significantly lowering the technical barriers to smart hardware development. This news quickly triggered a ripple effect in the market, leading to an increase in prices for ESP32-related hardware, including modules, chips, and accessories.

After 12 days of technical sharing livestream events, OpenAI released its next-generation inference model o3 on the final day. This is an upgrade following the earlier release of the o1 inference model. The o3 model series includes o3 and o3-mini, with o3-mini being a smaller, streamlined version fine-tuned for specific tasks. OpenAI stated that the o3 model could approach the realization of artificial general intelligence (AGI) under certain conditions, meaning artificial intelligence capable of performing any task that a human can accomplish.

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.

Li Xiang, founder and CEO of Ideal Automotive, is set to return to the public eye after a period of silence online. Ideal Automotive officially announced that from December 25 to 27, Li Xiang's dialogue program will be broadcast over three consecutive nights at 8 PM, with each session lasting 30 minutes. In the program, Li Xiang will address three focal questions from netizens: whether car manufacturers can engage in AI, Ideal Automotive's understanding of intelligent driving, and his personal reasons for buying a Ferrari.

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.