Wondershare Technology Launches China's First 10 Billion Parameter Multimedia Large Model 'Tianmu'

Wondershare Technology unveiled the first domestic multimedia large model with a hundred-billion parameter scale, "Sky Screen," at the 2023 World Computing Conference. This multimedia large model offers more specialized AI innovation solutions, encompassing capabilities for multimodal AI generation and optimization in vision, audio, and language. Additionally, Wondershare showcased several AI application products that integrate the capabilities of the large model, achieving an upgrade and intelligence enhancement of digital creative software. This announcement was made during the 2023 World Computing Conference.

RWKV: Small Team Aims to Be Android of AI Era with Big Model

Meta Intelligence OS is a startup founded by Bloomberg. It has developed a series of large models based on the open-source model RWKV and aims to become the Android in the era of large models. The RWKV model has superior performance and low cost in inference tasks, thus attracting customers from industries such as finance, law firms, and smart hardware. The business model of Meta Intelligence OS is model customization based on private data and internal AI Agent development. The company hopes to solve the problems of API call latency and data security by deploying large models on terminal devices. Currently, RWKV versions are available on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers, and Android and iOS versions are also in development. Meta Intelligence OS is raising funds and collaborating with chip companies and computing power platforms to create benchmark customers. Luo Xuan said that the decisive battlefield for large models is on hardware, and both terminal devices and the cloud require dedicated chips.

Aishi Technology Completes Nearly 300 Million Yuan Financing, AI Video Generation Platform PixVerse Surpasses 10 Million Users

Chinese AI video generation startup Aishi Technology recently announced the completion of its Series A2 to A4 financing, raising nearly 300 million yuan. Previously, the Series A2 financing was funded by Ant Group, while the recent Series A3 and A4 rounds were co-invested by the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Guoke Investment, and Guangyuan Capital. This round of financing will primarily be used to enhance technological research and development capabilities, expand computing power resources, build a talent team, and accelerate product feature iteration and market coverage, thereby continuously promoting the widespread application of AI video generation technology.

ByteDance Launches Doubao Visual Reasoning Model: Prices as Low as 0.003 Yuan per Thousand Tokens

On December 18th, at the Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference, Volcano Engine President Tan Dai unveiled the new Doubao Visual Understanding Model. This model processes both text and image-related information simultaneously, providing more accurate answers. The new model excels in content recognition, understanding, and reasoning capabilities, featuring more nuanced visual description abilities, which brings stronger intelligent processing capabilities to enterprise users. Tan Dai revealed at the conference that the Doubao Visual Understanding Model has achieved significant technological breakthroughs and has also seen a dramatic reduction in pricing.

Verizon Partners with NVIDIA: Building an AI-Driven 5G Private Network Platform to Accelerate Enterprise Intelligent Transformation

Verizon Communications Inc. (stock symbol: VZ) announced on Tuesday a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop a brand new solution that leverages Verizon's reliable 5G private network and private mobile edge computing (MEC) technology to run various artificial intelligence (AI) applications. This new AI-driven private 5G platform stack, co-developed by Verizon and NVIDIA, is designed for plug-and-play implementation to help third-party developers innovate.

Former iRobot CEO Returns to Robotics, Launches Health Companion Home Robot

Colin Angle, co-founder and former CEO of iRobot, has announced his return to the robotics field by founding a new startup, Familiar Machines & Magic, focused on developing an innovative home health and wellness robot. According to the Boston Globe, this robot may take the form of an animal or 'pet', aiming to provide companionship to family members while assisting in health management. Familiar Machines & Magic