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1. Alibaba Open-Sources MNN TaoAvatar for Real-Time 3D Digital Human Applications on Mobile Devices: Virtual Customer Service and Virtual Anchors
Alibaba Group has introduced MNN TaoAvatar through open-source efforts, bringing high-fidelity 3D virtual avatar generation and real-time interaction capabilities to mobile devices, creating new possibilities for live streaming, virtual social interactions, and AR applications.
【AiBase Summary:】
✨ MNN TaoAvatar supports real-time generation and driving of true 3D virtual characters, running smoothly at 90 FPS on mobile phones.
🌟 Combining with 3D Gaussian Spraying technology, it achieves millimeter-level fine control, ensuring natural synchronization of virtual character actions.
🌐 The open-source ecosystem provides rich APIs and tools, supporting multimodal inputs, reducing development thresholds, and accelerating the popularization of technology.
Details link: https://github.com/alibaba/MNN
2. MiniMax Agent Goes Live! Image Generation + Multilingual Support, More Intelligent Long-Term Task Processing
MiniMax officially announced a major upgrade to its AI productivity tool, MiniMax Agent, adding intelligent image search, stable image generation, multilingual support, and diversified document export functions, significantly enhancing user experience.
【AiBase Summary:】
🌟 New features include intelligent image search and generation, supporting complex scenes and creative expressions, suitable for design, marketing, and content creation.
📚 Introduces reflection mode, enhancing long-term task processing capabilities, especially suitable for scenarios requiring deep reasoning, such as academic research or code debugging.
🌍 Adds Chinese, Japanese, and Korean support, optimizes Python drawing functions, fills the gap in Asian language support, and enhances localization experience.
Details link: https://agent.minimax.io
3. Luo Yonghao's Digital Human Live Streaming to Debut on Baidu E-commerce, Exploring a New 'AI+IP' Sales Model
Notable e-commerce host Luo Yonghao announced that his digital human avatar will start live streaming sales on Baidu’s e-commerce platform, marking his first attempt at digital human live streaming. Backed by Baidu's technology, this reflects the huge potential of the 'AI+Top IP' model.
【AiBase Summary:】
Luo Yonghao's digital human live streaming will debut on Baidu e-commerce on June 15th, marking the first integration of top hosts with digital human technology.
Baidu's e-commerce platform already has over 100,000 digital human hosts; digital human live streaming can reduce merchants' operating costs by over 80%, and average GMV increases by 62%.
This trial may promote the live e-commerce industry towards intelligence, high efficiency, and low cost.
4. OpenAI Employees' Stock Sale Surge Reaches $3 Billion, SoftBank Becomes Largest Buyer
This article discusses the phenomenon where OpenAI employees have collectively cashed out nearly $3 billion through multiple equity sales, analyzing the reasons behind it and its impact, revealing SoftBank as the largest buyer.
【AiBase Summary:】
Since 2021, OpenAI employees have cumulatively cashed out nearly $3 billion through multiple equity sales; SoftBank became the largest buyer.
The frequency of employee stock liquidation is high, participation enthusiasm remains strong, but may accelerate departures.
In the fierce competition for AI talent, OpenAI faces immense pressure; retaining core teams is a key challenge.
5. OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT Projects: Deep Research + Voice Mode
As a user, I am very excited about the functional updates of ChatGPT Projects. The addition of deep research and voice modes makes AI assistants smarter and easier to use, with significant improvements in cross-platform collaboration and mobile office work. It has made handling complex tasks much more efficient for me.
【AiBase Summary:】
Deep Research Support: Combines internal and external data to provide precise information retrieval, suitable for complex scenarios.
Voice Mode Integration: Enhances mobile office convenience through voice interaction, meeting real-time collaboration needs.
Mobile Enhancement: Supports multi-modal interaction, including file uploads and real-time sharing, expanding usage scenarios.
Details link: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-using-projects-in-chatgpt
6. Meta's New Model Empowers Robots to Manipulate Objects in Unknown Environments
Meta's V-JEPA2 model builds a world model through video and physical interaction, enabling robots to predict and plan actions in dynamic environments, especially applicable to logistics and manufacturing.
【AiBase Summary:】
🔍 V-JEPA2 models build world models through observing videos and physical interactions, enhancing robots' operational capabilities in dynamic environments.
🤖 Supports zero-shot robot planning; robots can manipulate unfamiliar objects without additional training.
📈 Widely applied in logistics and manufacturing, increasing robot adaptability and reducing reprogramming requirements.
Details link: https://ai.meta.com/vjepa/
7. AMD and OpenAI Jointly Release Powerful AI Chips: Inference Performance Improved by 35 Times
AMD and OpenAI launched their latest Instinct MI400 and MI350 series AI chips; MI350 series significantly improves AI computing performance, while MI400 series caters to next-generation flagship AI computing needs. Additionally, ROCm7 platform further boosts developer efficiency.
【AiBase Summary:】
🚀 MI350 series GPUs offer outstanding AI computing performance with memory bandwidth up to 8TB/s, improving inference performance by 35 times.
🌟 MI400 series optimized for low precision computing, FP4 performance reaches 40 petaflops, UALink technology enables seamless GPU interconnection.
🌐 ROCm7 platform integrates multiple leading AI platforms, providing over 3.5 times inference performance improvement, helping developers work efficiently.
8. Imagen 4 Lands on Gemini! Chat Turns into a Gallery, AI Image Generation Enters a New Era
Google's Gemini platform has integrated the latest generation of Imagen4 image generation model, achieving comprehensive upgrades from complex details to text rendering. It also supports direct image generation and adjustment during chats, providing strong support for creative design, marketing, and education fields.
【AiBase Summary:】
✨ Excellent detail presentation: complex fabrics, animal fur, etc., are clear and realistic, comparable to professional photography.
💬 Enhanced interactive experience: chat generates images, supports real-time adjustments, greatly improving creation efficiency.
🌟 Wide application scenarios: suitable for design, marketing, education, etc., supports 2K resolution, meeting multi-field needs.
9. Google AI Assists Climate Prediction: Breaking Traditional Model Limitations, Precise to 10 km!
This article introduces Google researchers' new method combining physical modeling with generative AI, using dynamic down-sampling methods and the R2D2 model to enhance global climate predictions to approximately 10-kilometer resolutions, significantly reducing computational costs and improving prediction accuracy.
【AiBase Summary:】
🌍 Utilizing AI technology, global climate predictions are transformed into place-specific predictions with 10-kilometer resolutions, narrowing the gap between models and actual needs.
⚡️ R2D2 model combines the advantages of physics and AI, enhancing prediction accuracy and efficiently generalizing to unseen scenarios.
💰 The new method significantly reduces computational costs, being only a fraction of traditional high-resolution simulations, applicable to more fields.
Details link: https://research.google/blog/zooming-in-efficient-regional-environmental-risk-assessment-with-generative-ai/
10. Accelerated Development: Gartner Predicts 50% Reduction in Delivery Time for Generative AI Applications
Gartner predicts that by 2028, 80% of generative AI commercial applications will be developed on existing data management platforms, resulting in a 50% reduction in delivery time. The application of RAG technology can significantly improve the accuracy and reliability of generative AI models while simplifying the data governance process.
【AiBase Summary:】
🌟 By 2028, 80% of generative AI commercial applications will be developed on existing data management platforms, reducing delivery time by 50%.
🚀 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) will become an important foundation for developing generative AI applications, offering flexibility and explainability.
🔍 Gartner suggests enterprises evaluate the transformation potential of existing platforms, integrate RAG technology, and utilize metadata to protect security.