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Recently, the Speech Team of Qwen Laboratory has made a milestone achievement in the field of spatial audio generation and launched the OmniAudio technology. This technology can directly generate FOA (First-order Ambisonics) audio from 360-degree videos, bringing new possibilities to virtual reality and immersive entertainment. Spatial audio, as a technology that simulates real auditory environments, can enhance immersive experiences. However, existing technologies are mostly based on fixed perspective videos and underutilize the spatial information of 360-degree panoramic videos. Traditional video-to-audio generation

The Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has released the open-source "Wanjuan Silk Road 2.0" multilingual multimodal corpus. Building upon the existing 5 languages (Arabic, Russian, Korean, Vietnamese, and Thai), this updated corpus adds three rare languages: Serbian, Hungarian, and Czech. It encompasses four modalities – text, images, audio, and video – totaling over 11.5 million data points and more than 26,000 hours of audio and video, making it a significant resource for low-resource multilingual multimodal research.

In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, especially driven by countries like the United States and China, has made AI a focal point of global technological competition. To this end, the EU recently announced a funding program of up to 200 billion euros to promote development in this field. Despite Germany's strong capabilities in AI research, why hasn't a single successful AI enterprise emerged? Source: Image generated by AI, image courtesy of service provider Midjourney according to Professor Bjorn from the University of Munich.

Recently, Tongyi Laboratory officially open-sourced its innovative music generation technology - InspireMusic. This technology aims to create an open-source AIGC toolkit that integrates music, song, and audio generation capabilities, providing researchers, developers, and music enthusiasts with a comprehensive creative platform. InspireMusic offers researchers and developers rich tools for training and fine-tuning music/song/audio generation models, as well as efficient models to optimize generation results. Meanwhile, this toolkit...

The AI image detection system developed by Tencent's Hongyuan Security Team's Zhuque Laboratory can determine if an image is AI-generated within a few seconds by uploading the image and waiting for verification. The system primarily distinguishes between real images and AI-generated images by capturing differences, such as AI-generated images sometimes defying common sense logic, showing unrealistic content like dogs flying with wings or cats smoking cigars.

AliCloud and leading large model enterprise Zero One Technology have announced an important strategic cooperation to jointly establish the "Industrial Large Model Joint Laboratory," marking deep collaboration between two tech giants in the field of AI. This cooperation will accelerate the transformation of large model technology into practical application scenarios and promote further integration of the industrial large model ecosystem. The newly established joint laboratory will cover three core areas: technology, business, and talent. By integrating the R&D advantages of both parties in the field of large models, the laboratory will focus on exploring next-generation foundational model technologies and will utilize AliCloud's capabilities.

ZhiYuan Robotics, in collaboration with the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and other institutions, has launched the AgiBot World dataset, the world's first million-level robot dataset based on real-world scenarios. Compared to Google's Open X-Embodiment, the scale of long-range data has increased tenfold, the scene coverage has expanded one hundredfold, and the data quality meets industrial standards. This open-source project, hailed as the 'ImageNet moment' in the field of embodied intelligence, showcases remarkable robotic capabilities, from arranging flowers in the living room to cooking in the kitchen and handling checkout in supermarkets.

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.

On December 12, Peking University and ByteDance officially announced the establishment of the Doubao Large Model System Software Joint Laboratory, marking a new milestone in the collaboration between industry, academia, and research in China's AI field. The research work of the joint laboratory will be based on the Doubao large model independently developed by ByteDance. Researchers from universities and enterprises will conduct in-depth research on key technologies such as model training and inference within the laboratory. With the construction and development of the laboratory, a large number of Peking University students will also enter the laboratory for internships, working side by side with industry researchers.

Microsoft Research recently inaugurated its newest laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, marking a significant step in the company's AI research initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region. Leading the lab is former Osaka University professor and senior researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, Kazuya Matsushita, who returns to Microsoft with ten years of academic experience to embark on a new chapter. The new laboratory will focus on fields such as embodied AI, health and welfare, neuroscience, social AI, and industrial innovation, aligning closely with Japan's socioeconomic development priorities. Through deep collaboration with local academia and industry, the laboratory aims to contribute to global innovation.

The image generation field has welcomed a striking new star. A mysterious model named "Blueberry" has suddenly appeared in the AI arena, rapidly rising to the top with its astonishing performance, sparking widespread attention and discussion in the industry. This model, called "Blueberry," has outperformed well-known competitors, including OpenAI's "Strawberry," Flux.1, Ideogram v2, and Midjourney v6.1, swiftly becoming the new champion in the image generation domain. However, the true identity of "Blueberry" remains unclear.

At the 2024 WAIC Scientific Frontier Main Forum, the OpenDataLab team from the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Shanghai AI Lab) launched a new intelligent data extraction tool called MinerU. This tool aims to simplify the AI data processing workflow and assist AI researchers in extracting high-quality data from vast amounts of documents.

Fetch.ai announces the establishment of an innovation laboratory aimed at advancing the development of AI smart agent solutions to enhance technological value for businesses and consumers. The laboratory will provide funding, expert guidance, and strategic support, organize competitions, and offer rapid development opportunities to foster innovation. Fetch.ai commits to investing $10 million annually to support projects focused on building AI smart agents. Additionally, Fetch.ai has launched the 'Innovation Ambassador Club' and 'Intern Incubator Program' to promote innovation within the ecosystem and support talent.

AMD announced that it has officially completed the acquisition of Silo AI, one of Europe's largest private artificial intelligence laboratories. The transaction is valued at approximately $665 million, equivalent to around 4.77 billion yuan based on the latest exchange rate, and AMD will pay the entire amount in cash.