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Step-1o announced the launch of Step-1o end-to-end speech model with hundreds of billions of parameters, which is said to be "the first end-to-end speech model with hundreds of billions of parameters in China". According to Step-1o, the traditional speech model adopts the cascade program, the user input voice information needs to be converted into text, and then converted into voice output, this process will not only reduce the transmission efficiency, but also in the process of loss of information, including emotions, resulting in the speech model to extend the slow response, the answer to the quality of the level of intelligence is insufficient, the expression of emotion empty stereotypes of the shortcomings. However, an end-to-end speech solution can realize speech understanding and generation of ......

German company Semron recently managed to raise $7.9 million (€7.3 million) in funding, aiming to drive up the efficiency of AI chips on mobile devices through advanced 3D packaging technology. Dresden-based Semron says they aim to set new AI chip standards on mobile devices to meet the evolving needs of the industry. Photo credit note: Image generated by AI, image licensed to service provider Midjourney The funding was led by Join Capital with support from SquareOne, OTB Ventures and Onsigh ......

According to a report by @GuoYiTongZhong on December 19, the first domestic intelligent body security ecological collaboration organization - "IIFAA Intelligent Body Trusted Interconnection Working Group" (hereinafter referred to as the "Working Group") announced the establishment of the Working Group in Beijing. The working group is dedicated to promoting the industry to jointly develop relevant security technical specifications for cross-smart body interactions, in order to respond to the security and collaboration challenges brought about by the rapid development of smart bodies, and to jointly build an open, cooperative, and win-win smart body ecosystem. 1AI learned from the report that more than twenty head ...... of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Glory, OPPO, Xiaomi, Huawei, Smart Spectrum, Byte, Ali, Ant, Jingdong, China Mobile, Qualcomm, and other

Google plans to make a major update to its AI tool Bard this week, according to a recently leaked document. The update hasn't been officially announced yet, but is rumored to include renaming Bard to Gemini. The change makes sense, as Google launched a new multimodal AI model called Gemini at the end of 2023 and has already begun to integrate it into some of its products, including Bard, and a name change for simplicity's sake would make sense. Leaked file by Android app developer Dylan Rous......

TechCrunch, a technology media outlet, published a blog post yesterday (December 23), arguing that although OpenAI's o3 model has achieved impressive results in tests such as ARC-AGI, the high computational cost behind it makes it difficult to popularize it in practical applications in the short term. o3 Performance One of the new features of o3 is the ability to adjust the inference time, which is categorized into three computation levels: low, medium, and high, and the higher the computation level, the better the task execution performance of o3. And o3 is an important step towards that goal for OpenAI, as demonstrated in the ARC-AGI benchmark ......

Opera recently made an official announcement about building a new AI server cluster in Keflavik, Iceland. The cluster, which is powered by pure green energy using NVIDIA's DGX SuperPOD solution, will begin operations later this month. Opera said in a press release that it has been putting AI at the center of its browser product development since the beginning of last year, and that several of its browsers have already implemented AI features. The browser maker believes that AI will soon play a role that goes beyond chatbots and help users perform more complex browser tasks, which means more ......

December 28 news, according to the U.S. media CNBC reported today, Google CEO Pichai told employees last week that 2025 "high stakes, high stakes", because the company faces increasing competition, regulatory barriers and the rapid development of AI. I think 2025 will be a critical year," Pichai said. We need to be acutely aware of the urgency of the moment and accelerate the pace of the company. This is a time of disruptive impact, and we must focus on driving the change that technology brings and solving real problems for our users." He also believes that building a company that includes Gemini ......

Source Ishan Agarwal recently tweeted that Samsung has brought an OTA upgrade with built-in Galaxy AI features to the Galaxy Buds FE, Galaxy Buds 2 and Galaxy Buds 2 Pro headsets. According to reports, the OTA upgrade brings two features to the said headphones, real-time translation and interpretation, but it is currently only available when the headphones are connected to Galaxy S24 series phones. Among them, the real-time translation feature allows users to translate via Galaxy Bu......