Meitu Announces Acquisition of Zcool for 285 Million Yuan, Enhancing AI Visual Model Ecosystem

AI Daily: Alibaba and Tencent Fully Support MCP Protocol; Step-R1-V-Mini Multimodal Inference Model from Jieyue Xingchen; Meitu's Miracle F1 Image Generation Model

Welcome to the AI Daily column! Your daily guide to exploring the world of artificial intelligence. We present you with the hottest content in the AI field, focusing on developers and helping you understand technology trends and innovative AI product applications. Discover new AI products: https://top.aibase.com/ 1. Alibaba has announced full support for the MCP protocol, followed closely by Tencent. Recently, the Chinese AI field has witnessed a technological standard revolution, with the Model Context Protocol becoming a domestic AI standard.

Meitu WHEE Integrates DeepSeek R1 for Prompt Optimization and Keyword Autocompletion

AI Daily: Meituan Develops Internal Large Model LongCat; vivo Establishes Independent Robotics LAB Center; Tencent Releases Official Version of HunYuan T1

Welcome to the [AI Daily] column! This is your daily guide to exploring the world of artificial intelligence. Every day we present you with the hottest content in the AI field, focusing on developers and helping you understand technology trends and learn about innovative AI product applications. Discover fresh AI products here: https://top.aibase.com/ 1、Alibaba Tongyi Lab's LHM technology achieves rapid 3D human body reconstruction and animation generation from a single image. Alibaba Tongyi Lab's LHM technology has made a significant breakthrough in the field of 3D human body reconstruction, using multi-modal transformation...

Wang Xing: Meituan's Developed Internal Large Language Model LongCat, Investing Billions in GPU Resources

Meituan CEO Wang Xing detailed the company's strategic plan for artificial intelligence (AI). Wang revealed that over the past year, Meituan prioritized securing GPU resources, investing heavily in AI infrastructure. He further stated that Meituan plans to further increase investment in key AI infrastructure in 2025 to strengthen its position in this field.

Silicon-based Liquid Completes New Funding Round, Meituan Invests, Zhipu Exits

Tianyancha App shows that Beijing Silicon-based Liquid Technology Co., Ltd. recently underwent a major business change. In this change, Beijing Zhipu AI Technology Co., Ltd. withdrew from the shareholder ranks, while four new investors were added: Meituan's Tianjin SanKuai Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Xinglian Dingsen Equity Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership), Nanjing LvYong Jinhao Equity Investment Management Partnership (Limited Partnership), and SME Development Fund PwC (Hangzhou) Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership). After this round of financing, the registered capital of Silicon-based Liquid increased from approximately RMB 13.758 million...

Meituan Internal Communication Meeting: AI a Key Focus for Wang Xing's New Directions

According to LatePost, Meituan CEO Wang Xing held a significant internal communication meeting on February 28th, attended by senior executives and directors. This meeting, the first high-level communication meeting in Meituan's 15-year history, saw Wang Xing delve into Meituan's future development directions. This meeting signifies Wang Xing's deeper reflections on Meituan's future, outlining three key focus areas for the next decade: food and grocery retail, internationalization, and technological innovation. In terms of food and grocery retail...

Meitu Image Research Institute Collaborates with Beijing Jiaotong University to Develop New Natural Image Matting Technology, Selected for AAAI 2025

Recently, Meitu Image Research Institute (MT Lab) and Beijing Jiaotong University jointly proposed a technique called MEMatte (Memory Efficient Matting), which is a super high-resolution matting technology successfully selected for the top-tier conference in the field of artificial intelligence, AAAI 2025. The main highlight of the MEMatte technology is that it is a memory-friendly natural image matting framework that effectively reduces the computational overhead of the model. This innovation allows for operations in memory-constrained environments, such as commercial graphics cards and edge devices.

Support for Chinese Fonts! Meitu WHEE's 'AI Poster' Feature Coming Soon

Recently, Meitu announced that its WHEE application will soon launch a brand new 'AI Poster' feature, designed to simplify the poster creation process through artificial intelligence technology, providing users with an efficient and convenient design experience. In traditional poster creation, users often spend a lot of time and effort searching for inspiration, gathering materials, and repeatedly adjusting layouts. However, the 'AI Poster' feature of Meitu WHEE will completely change this situation. Users will only need to input a simple sentence to easily generate posters in various styles.

Meitu WHE AI Poster Launch: Create Professional Chinese Posters with One Click!

Recently, Meitu Inc. launched a new feature for its image generation tool WHEE, which now supports the creation of Chinese posters. WHEE is renowned for its high-quality material generation, and this upgrade further enhances user experience and functional diversity. The AI poster generation feature of WHEE allows users to flexibly handle text layout. Due to the randomness and uncontrollable font styles present in traditional AI text layout, Meitu has innovatively made the text an editable independent layer. Users can not only drag freely

AI Poster Generation Upgraded! Meitu WHEE Breaks Through the Text Layout Problem

Following ByteDance's launch of Jimeng AI to tackle the challenges of generating Chinese posters, Meitu has also stepped up with its image tool WHEE, which focuses on high-quality material generation and includes powerful AI poster generation features, supporting the creation of Chinese posters. Notably, WHEE takes functionality and technology a step further, providing users with a more flexible and controllable creative experience. For a long time, AI-generated posters have faced randomness and uncontrollability in text layout, such as arbitrary font styles and chaotic layouts.