Caixin AI Daily News on June 18th, today's AI daily morning news mainly includes: Douyin and Boning Yingye jointly launched the first AIGC science fiction short film series "Sanxingdui: The Future Revelation"; WeChat Video Number plans to restrict digital human carry-on goods and encourage live broadcasts by real people; Tencent Hyunyuan, in collaboration with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Tsinghua University, launches a portrait animation generation framework. Product structure, 10-30 billion yuan products operating income of 401/1288/60 million yuan respectively.

Jieyue Xingchen and Shanghai Film started the "AI+" cooperation

Recently, Jieyue Xingchen was invited as a partner in the "AI+IP" and participated in the Shanghai Film "AI+" cooperation launch ceremony. At the event site, Shangying announced that it will cooperate with Beijing Film Academy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Zhixiang Future, Jieyue Xingchen and other "AI+" ecological partners to jointly develop based on the development of the Chinese animation school's large model, explore multi-field applications such as "AI+animation", "AI+film and television", "AI+sound", and "AI+IP commercial development".

Jieyue Xingchen founder and CEO Dr. Jiang Daxin said:"We are very pleased to cooperate with Shanghai Film to use AI technology to interpret the unique value of classic IP. We believe that based on Jieyue Xingchen's powerful large model capabilities, we can help creators release surging creativity and open up AI+IP's infinite imagination space."

At present, both parties are conducting innovative exploration of "AI+IP", and the works will be publicly displayed in the near future. Stay tuned.

Douyin and Boning Shan Productions jointly launch the first AIGC science fiction short film series "Sanxingdui: The Future Revelation"

The AIGC science fiction short film series "Sanxingdui: The Future Revelation" produced by Boning Film Production and jointly produced by Douyin made its debut at the Boning 25th Anniversary News Conference.

The first season of the show consists of 12 episodes, co-produced by Douyin, and will be aired in the Douyin short film summer season. As the chief AI technical support, ImDream AI provided ten AI technologies such as AI script creation, concept and storyboard design, lens image generation, image-to-video conversion, video editing and media content enhancement for "Sanxingdui: The Future Revelation" based on the Bean Bag large model technology.

WeChat Video Number plans to restrict digital human carry-on goods and encourage live broadcasts by real people

Recently, in order to optimize the video showcase ecosystem and create a good trading environment, Tencent has revised the "Implementation Rules for Video Showcase Experts Posting Low-Quality Content", and the revised content was solicited for opinions from June 7th to June 13th this year. According to the latest revision plan, virtual/digital human live streaming involving "using plugins, AI tools and other methods to generate virtual images for live streaming", "providing, selling, teaching or displaying content that is not encouraged on the platform: such as explaining and selling virtual human proxy software", will be clearly listed as low-quality content of video showcases and be subject to violations.

Video Number officials told reporters that the platform hopes and encourages real human anchors to interact with the audience in real time. Although the relevant revisions have not been fully implemented, the attitude towards digital human live broadcasts is so "severe", and Video Number is the first in the industry.

Tencent Hyunyuan jointly launches portrait animation generation framework with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Tsinghua University

Tencent Hyunyuan and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Tsinghua University jointly launched the portrait animation generation framework "Follow Your Emoji", which can transform given photos into lifelike facial animations and capture subtle changes in expression.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang sells company stock again after 9 months

The latest regulatory filing shows that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang cashed out $31.2 million through a series of internal trades, selling 240,000 shares held on June 13-14. According to statistics, the last time he actually sold company stock was on September 14th of last year, when he exercised and bought 29,684 NVIDIA shares at a price of $4 per share and sold them at an average price of $455.75, earning nearly $13.5 million. After the last stock sale, Nvidia's stock price tripled in 9 months.

Musk: Developing "Phase IV of the Great Plan".

On Monday, Musk posted on social media that he is working on the "Fourth Part of the Master Plan" for Tesla, which he says will be epic. As a preface to this, Musk presented the "Third Part of the Master Plan" at Investor Day in March of last year, hoping to provide a viable solution for achieving a sustainable global energy economy through end-to-end electrification, sustainable power generation and storage.

After a year's hiatus, Apple announced that it will be shutting down its Pay Later service for now.

Apple is shutting down its Pay Later program that allowed customers to pay in installments, signaling the company's retreat in offering more financial services internally. The company announced on Monday that it will no longer offer new loans through Pay Later, a service that allows users to pay up to $1,000 in four installments. Prior to this, Apple announced that third-party services from Affirm Holdings Inc. and Citi and others will be included in the upcoming iOS 18 software."Starting later this year, global users will be able to obtain installment loans through credit and debit cards as well as lending institutions when using Apple Pay to check out," a spokesperson said in a statement."With the launch of the new global installment loan service, Apple Pay Later will no longer be available in the United States." Apple launched the Pay Later project in the U.S. last year using an internal platform. This was the first time Apple issued loans to customers through a new subsidiary, but it still relied on support from Goldman Sachs and Mastercard.

Korean chip companies seek merger to develop new generation of AI chips

Korean AI chip design startup Rebellions Inc. plans to merge with its rival Sapeon Korea Inc. to gain a leading position in developing the next generation of AI chips. Both companies said the goal is to sign a final contract in the third quarter, and the merged entity will be established at the end of this year. Rebellions was founded in 2020, and Sapeon Korea was established in 2022. Both companies are supported by Korean technology giants, with the former aligned with Samsung, KT and Kakao, and the latter spun off from SK Telecom, Korea's largest telecom company.