On December 20, OpenAI announced the launch of its next-generation model o3 and its streamlined version o3-mini on the last day of its 12-working day online new product launch event. o3 significantly surpasses its predecessor o1 in many aspects, excelling in software engineering, competitive mathematics, and the ability to master human PhD-level natural science knowledge. Especially in the ARC-AGI assessment, o3 achieved a score of 75.7% to 87.5%, exceeding the 85% threshold of human level.

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IT Home December 13 news, Meta announced on Thursday the launch of an artificial intelligence model called Meta Motivo, which is designed to control the actions of humanoid digital intelligent bodies to enhance the metaverse experience.

Meta also released AI tools such as the large concept model LCM and the video watermarking tool Video Seal, and reiterated its determination to continue investing in AI, AR and metaverse technologies.

[AI Era Introduction] Li Feifei’s World Labs’ first “spatial intelligence” model has just been born! A picture generates a 3D world. Netizens exclaimed: It’s crazy. We have entered the next round of revolution. This is the future of video games and movies.

On November 28, the "2024 Sohu Finance Annual Forum" was held in Beijing.

The Sohu Finance Annual Forum has grown into Sohu's annual brand event. Over the years, the forum has always adhered to a forward-looking vision, gathered wisdom and strength, and recorded and promoted every leap of China's economy.

This forum brought together more than 20 business elites and academic leaders. They sincerely took the pulse of the economic situation and discussed the world order; analyzed the real estate market structure and looked forward to investment opportunities in the capital market; focused on industrial innovation and market expansion under a global perspective, and offered suggestions for the sustainable development of enterprises.

With the rise of the concept of the metaverse, digital human technology has become the key to promoting the high-quality development of the digital economy. At the forum on the morning of November 28, Jiang Yahong, a national leading talent and founder and CEO of UStyle Times, gave a keynote speech - real 3D digital human are the "pass" to enter the metaverse.

The State Administration of Radio and Television issued a notice today that the State Administration of Radio and Television has organized a review of the "Technical Requirements for Digital Virtual Humans", and now approves it as a recommended industry standard for radio, television and online audio-visual of the People's Republic of China and publishes it. The standard number is GY/T411-2024, and the standard will be implemented from the date of publication.

Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and big data are profoundly impacting the publishing industry.

Recently, the 32nd National Book Fair, sponsored by the National Press and Publication Administration and hosted by the Shandong Provincial People's Government and the Jinan Municipal People's Government, opened in Jinan, and "digital intelligence" products and experiences such as AI "Li Qingzhao", metaverse publishing, and VR maps were unveiled.

Recently, the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization" mentions, "explore effective mechanisms for the integration of culture and science and technology, and accelerate the development of new cultural formats."

As an advanced form of the integration of the digital economy and the real economy, the metaverse is changing the ecosystem of the traditional cultural tourism industry, promoting the upgrading of traditional cultural tourism formats and the development of new formats.

A few days ago, Elon Musk, the founder of Neuralink Corp., a brain-computer interface startup, said that the company plans to implant his device in a second human patient in a week or so, and hopes to implant the device in a "high single digit" patient by the end of this year.