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According to Sina Technology news, after winning the Apple Design Award, Taobao Vision has accelerated its offline strategy. The first offline concept flagship store has started trial operation inside Alibaba headquarters. This marks that immersive spatial shopping experience is transitioning from the virtual world to the real-world scenario, bringing a new turning point for the e-commerce industry. Currently, Taobao Vision's offline concept store operates on an invitation-only basis and showcases multiple future shopping scenarios such as virtual test drives of Xiaomi SU7 and immersive smart home experiences, aiming to bring the spatial shopping experience of Apple Vision Pro to reality.

Google has quietly launched an experimental app called the Google AI Edge Gallery, marking a significant step forward in edge computing and privacy-focused AI deployment. This application enables users to run open-source AI models from the Hugging Face platform directly on their smartphones, allowing functions like image generation, text processing, and code editing without an internet connection. A landmark in local AI, the Google AI Edge Gallery achieves this through Google's LiteRT (

Meta recently announced the global rollout of real-time translation for its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Previously, this feature was limited to early testing users in select markets. This full launch allows users to enjoy more convenient language conversion across various scenarios, especially the ability to overcome language barriers offline. According to Meta, the real-time translation feature on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses now covers global sales markets and supports English, French, and Italian (among other languages).

In the smart car sector, ZEEKR Intelligent Technology recently announced a remarkable achievement: the successful offline deployment of the automotive industry's first in-cabin AI large model. This technological breakthrough not only marks a significant step forward in ZEEKR's intelligent vehicle development but also brings users a revolutionary driving experience. This technology enables ZEEKR vehicles to perform real-time image and text understanding and reasoning without relying on a network connection, significantly enhancing the vehicle's intelligence. ZEEKR plans to roll out this feature gradually via OTA (Over-the-Air) updates.

Lantu Auto announced that its self-developed AI voice dialogue system will be officially launched in the first half of 2025 and integrated into its upcoming new models. The system boasts an extremely fast response time of less than one second for all operations, ensuring a smoother user experience for voice-controlled vehicle functions. Furthermore, it features over 98% wake-up recognition accuracy, enabling precise command recognition. With continued technological advancements, Lantu Auto plans a large-scale OTA (Over-the-Air) update in the second half of 2025.

The social platform X, owned by Elon Musk, recently added a new image generator named Aurora to its AI assistant Grok. However, this feature disappeared from the interface of some users just a few hours after its launch, raising public interest. Similar to X's first image generator Flux, launched in October, Aurora has almost no generation limits and can be accessed through the Grok tab on both the mobile app and website. It is capable of generating images featuring public figures and copyrighted content.

At the 2024 Apple event, watchOS received multiple AI upgrades, including the first introduction of the translation app to watchOS 11, supporting offline multilingual translation and speech recognition, usable on specific models of Apple Watch without a phone connection, and allowing the download of 20 language models for offline translation. The Smart Stack feature has also been enhanced with AI, automatically adding widgets based on user context. watchOS 11 also introduced a new 'Photos' watch face, utilizing machine learning to recognize and manage the user's photo library.

The Galactica model from Meta was taken offline just three days after its release due to hallucination issues, with LeCun expressing regret. Galactica is regarded as an early attempt at large language models, positively influencing Meta's subsequent projects. The model's lead author, Ross Taylor, admitted that the foundational model was not thoroughly checked prior to release, but he still emphasized its research value. Joelle Pineau, Vice President of AI Research at Meta, highlighted that Galactica was a research project, not a product. The removal of Galactica has sparked significant discussion.

Microsoft plans to develop Bing Chat into a standalone chatbot by introducing an offline mode, similar to ChatGPT. The new mode generates responses faster without using search integration, comparable to OpenAI's AI models, but faces issues with information timeliness. Testing by Windows Latest indicates that Bing Chat may be based on different AI combinations, including GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4, and trained on the latest data. Microsoft is seeking user feedback on providing a faster Bing.

{Point 1: DeepMind's AlphaStar Unplugged successfully tackled the challenge of StarCraft II through offline learning. Point 2: AlphaStar Unplugged established an offline RL benchmark, advancing the research of large-scale offline reinforcement learning. Point 3: This achievement is expected to further propel progress in large-scale offline reinforcement learning research.}