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Zhihu AI, a leading player in the Chinese large language model market, has officially begun its initial public offering (IPO) process, marking a significant milestone for the industry's 'Big Six' companies.

Zhihu recently released its Q4 2024 and full-year financial results. The data shows that Zhihu's annual revenue reached 3.6 billion yuan, a 14.3% decrease compared to last year. However, in Q4, Zhihu achieved a significant breakthrough, with revenue reaching 860 million yuan. Adjusted net profit was 97.1 million yuan, and operating profit was 23.1 million yuan, successfully achieving overall profitability. This marks the first time Zhihu has achieved overall profitability in a single quarter since its IPO.

The new version of Zhihu Straight Answer boasts several innovative features. Users can upload and parse web pages, documents, and other knowledge bases, and treat each Zhihu answerer as an independent knowledge base. By focusing on a single answer or all the works of a specific answerer, users can ask questions, search, and parse to obtain more targeted and professional answers. This feature significantly enriches the content sources for AI search, resulting in more accurate and reliable search results.

The DeepSeek-R1 model boasts excellent logical reasoning and structured output capabilities, excelling in text generation scenarios. Zhihu Zhida, on the other hand, has a vast repository of high-quality content within the community and over 50 million Chinese and English literature pieces, providing strong professional content search and provenance capabilities. The combination of the two will bring a significant innovation to AI search products.

Qingying 2.0 has undergone a comprehensive upgrade in model architecture, training methods, and data engineering, with a significant improvement of 38% in the base model's capabilities. This enhancement enables Qingying 2.0 to generate video content with more natural movements, exquisite visuals, and stable control. Users only need to input simple prompts to allow the main subject in the video to perform significant movements while maintaining stability. For instance, Qingying 2.0 can generate a coherent action of a man stepping out of a poster, adjusting his tie, and executing close-up shots, demonstrating its ability in motion continuity and visual stability.

On November 21, at the 2024 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhou Yuan, founder, chairman, and CEO of Zhihu, shared his views on the changes brought by AI search. He believes that AI search is currently still in its early stages, and both domestically and globally, its user coverage and application scenarios need further expansion and improvement. Zhou pointed out that the industry often compares AI search with traditional search, yet traditional search has already addressed a wide range of mature problems.

Beijing Zhupu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced that its AI product 'Qingyan' has added a video call feature, which is now fully available to users with a limited-time free experience. The launch of this new feature marks a significant advancement in the interaction methods of the 'Qingyan' AI product, allowing users to interact with AI in a more intuitive way through video, moving beyond just text and voice communication.

Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. announced a series of significant technological updates on August 29, 2024, including the release of a new generation foundation model and new application services. At the KDD2024 conference, Zhipu introduced new foundation models including the language model GLM-4-Plus, the text-to-image model CogView-3-Plus, the image/video understanding model GLM-4V-Plus, and the video generation model CogVideoX. These models have achieved international leading standards in their respective fields.

During its OpenDay event, Zhipu AI introduced an AI large model named Qingying, capable of generating videos from any text. Qingying can produce high-definition videos at a resolution of 1440x960 within 30 seconds. Users need only to input a text (i.e., Prompt) and choose a desired style, such as cartoon 3D, black and white, oil painting, cinematic, etc., to generate the video. Qingying is now available on the Qingyan App, accessible to all users.

Recently, at the 10th SaltClub New Knowledge Youth Conference, the founder of Zhihu, Zhou Yuan, announced the launch of a new AI product called "Zhihu Direct Answer." This product marks another innovation by Zhihu in the field of large model applications, aiming to enhance the efficiency and quality of question and answer interactions through AI technology. "Zhihu Direct Answer" is based on Zhihu's extensive question and answer data, offering two types of answer generation methods: brief and in-

At the 2024 National Two Sessions, Zhou Yuan, Founder and CEO of Zhihu, submitted multiple proposals focusing on addressing the shortcomings of high-quality Chinese corpus data. The data volume in China is expected to grow from 18.51ZB to 56.16ZB, but high-quality Chinese data remains scarce. Zhou suggested establishing a regulatory mechanism for data compliance to promote the improvement of AIGC regulatory legislation. As 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of internet access in China, Zhou proposed to strengthen the保障 of policies and regulations. Additionally, he advocated for accelerating the legislative process to promote the development of the private economy and inspire innovation among internet platform enterprises. Zhou emphasized that artificial intelligence technology...

Zhihu announced that its 'Zhihai Map AI' large model will open for service. This large model has hundreds of billions of parameters and stronger logical reasoning capabilities. It aims to continuously empower creators, discussion forums, information retrieval, content operation, and various business scenarios. Zhihu's educational business has also utilized large model technology for product innovation. In the future, 'Zhihai Map AI' will be applied to empower creation, discussion forums, and information retrieval.

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