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.

Beijing TuSimple Technology Co., Ltd. has officially changed its name to CreateAI. This rebranding comes alongside the announcement of several significant advancements in the generative AI field, marking its ambitious plans to apply generative AI technology in the animation and video game industries. Additionally, CreateAI announced that it has acquired the official licensing rights to the renowned wuxia intellectual property 'The Legend of the Condor Heroes' and plans to develop a large-scale open-world RPG game. Furthermore, the company will collaborate with notable animation director Masashi Hoshino and leading animation production company Hashimoto Co., Ltd. to utilize AIGC.

At the 2024 Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference in Winter, ByteDance also launched the Global AI Search on Volcano Engine. This service integrates contextual search recommendations, enterprise private domain information integration, and connected Q&A services, closely aligning enterprise information, business needs, and user demands to help businesses achieve more precise recommendations and broader information discovery.

Beijing TuSimple Technology Co., Ltd. officially launched its first 'Image-to-Video' large model - 'Ruyi' on December 17, 2024, and has made the Ruyi-Mini-7B version open source for users to download from the huggingface platform. TuSimple was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, California, focusing on the application of AI technology across various industries, including animation gaming and transportation.

Meta has recently launched a new neural watermark system called VideoSeal, designed to help identify AI-generated videos, even if the videos have been edited, it can effectively trace their origin. This watermark is invisible to viewers but can be verified through detection methods to confirm the video's authenticity. Meta has released the entire system as open source software under the MIT license, including the VideoSeal watermark model, research papers, and training and inference code.

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 media reports, at the 2024 Annual China Game Industry Conference, Giant Network launched the 'QianYing' voice game generation large model, further focusing on the 'Game + AI' sector. According to public information, 'QianYing' consists of two core large models: the Game Video Generation Large Model YingGame and the Video Dubbing Large Model YingSound, which breakthrough achieves the generation of interactive voice game videos. Giant Network stated that the current 'QianYing' voice game large model...

Alibaba DAMO Academy, in collaboration with the ModelScope community, recently announced the open sourcing of a new multilingual benchmark testing set, P-MMEval, aimed at comprehensively evaluating the multilingual capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and conducting comparative analysis of cross-language transfer abilities. This testing set covers efficient datasets for both basic and specialized capabilities, ensuring consistency in multilingual coverage across all selected datasets, and provides parallel samples across multiple languages, supporting up to 10 languages from 8 different language families, including English, Chinese, and Arabic.

A research team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has recently unveiled an AI technology called SOLAMI, which can create lifelike 3D virtual characters that not only interact with you in real-time in the VR world but also understand your voice and movements, allowing for chatting, dancing, and even boxing! This is simply a blessing for gaming, virtual socializing, and singles alike! SOLAMI is an end-to-end social vision-language-action (VLA) modeling framework that leverages deep learning technology to translate user voice and movements into a form understandable by virtual characters.

Recently, Zhu Xiaohu, the managing partner of Jinshi River Venture Capital, has repeatedly posted on social media in response to the Dark Side of the Moon arbitration case, criticizing former managing partner Zhang Yutong. In response, Yang Zhiling, founder and CEO of the Dark Side of the Moon, issued a statement last night via social media, addressing questions regarding his exit from his previous company to start anew and the issue of Zhang Yutong's shares in the Dark Side of the Moon. Yang Zhiling clearly stated that all necessary procedures received the signature approval of each director when he left Cyclical Technology to begin a new venture. He emphasized his clear separation from the previous company and some shareholders.

Alibaba's Damo Academy Tongyi Lab recently announced the open sourcing of a voice processing technology called ClearerVoice-Studio, aimed at enhancing voice quality and intelligibility. As voice technology becomes more widely used, voice quality is gaining increasing attention, especially in situations involving background noise, reverberation, and device pickup, leading to a growing demand for voice processing technology.

On November 30, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released the 'Generative Artificial Intelligence Application Development Report (2024)', which revealed that by June 2024, the user base of generative artificial intelligence products in China reached 230 million, accounting for 16.4% of the total population. Among various generative AI products, Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan leads with an 11.5% usage rate among domestic internet users.