The Hugging Face team is trying to speed things up with a new model called aMUSEd that can generate images in just a few seconds, faster than other competitors like Stable Diffusion, as reported by Webmaster's Home on January 5. This lightweight text-to-image model is based on Google's MUSE model and has a parameter size of about 800 million. aMUSEd can be deployed on devices such as mobile devices. Its speed comes from the way it's built. aMUSEd employs an architecture called the Masked Image Model (MIM) instead of the latent diffusion found in Stable Diffusion and other image generation models. According to the Hugging Face team, MIM reduces the inference steps, which increases the speed and explainability of the model. And its small size also makes it fast.

AI New Intelligence News, on January 4, DingTalk officially announced that DingTalk Personal Edition was officially launched in full, and users can click on the personal avatar in the upper left corner of the mobile phone or PC to switch between "DingTalk" and "DingTalk Personal Edition". According to the official introduction, DingTalk Personal Edition has built-in AI services such as the conversational robot "Jarvis" based on Tongyi Qianwen and the painting robot "Muse" based on Tongyi Wanxiang, and provides a command center with more than 300 preset template libraries. Users can set a variety of roles such as teaching assistants, programmers, and mental health consultants for "Jarvis" according to their needs, while the painting robot "Muse" supports watercolor, sketching, oil painting, 3D cartoon and other styles of painting. In addition, this version also adds a variety of AI tools such as Luban camera, smart portrait, graffiti painting, legal assistant, etc., providing AI photo, digital clone, AI painting, AI lawyer and other services.

Mastercard has launched its Shopping Muse service, which leverages generative AI to help consumers search and discover products in retailers' digital catalogs, as reported by VentureBeat on December 1. It is reported that Shopping Muse is powered by Dynamic Yield, a personalization platform and decision-making engine acquired by Mastercard from McDonald's in April 2022. To date, Dynamic Yield has helped more than 400 brands deliver personalized product recommendations, offers, and content based on a range of factors, such as purchase history, page views, customer affinity profile information, and AI algorithms.

On November 16, at the Unite 2023 event in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, game engine developer Unity showcased an evolved version of its AI tools, Muse, an AI-driven extension, that makes it easy for developers to turn their ideas into reality in the creative process, and Sentis, a tool designed specifically for the Unity engine that seamlessly integrates custom AI models. Muse is currently in early access and is scheduled to end in spring 2024 for $30 per month. Sentis is in free beta and will be released in 2024 with the Unity 6 engine.

According to DoNews, on October 26, Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) and Hongsheng Culture Co., Ltd. (Wang Leehom Studio) jointly created the first officially licensed "full AI" singer - AI Leehom, whose sound, visual and derivative products are all generated by AI, officially released their first single "Letting Go". It is reported that the AI synthesis technology used in AI Leehom's voice comes from the TME Lyra Lab's "Qin Yun Engine". Through the two technologies of "singing synthesis" and "singing voice conversion", the piano rhyme engine can quickly learn the timbre and singing characteristics of singers, and can further improve the naturalness and timbre similarity of singing voice by adjusting the relevant parameters of singing skills, such as breath, vibrato and true falsehood. In terms of visual presentation, AI Leehom leveraged the MUSE AI vision generation engine from TME Lyra Labs and the MUX design team.

Golden Finance reported that Transient Labs, a Web3 creator innovation company, officially announced that it has cooperated with AlphaCentauriKid to launch the art authentication hardware device "TRACE" and will debut it at Christie's "The Muse - Sage Green" event. It is reported that the device can be used for artworks Tokenized records of certification and evolution support L1 and L2 blockchain contracts, on-chain traceability story inscriptions, chip anti-tampering, etc. to strengthen the security of digital artworks and digital collections.

According to 36 Krypton reports, on August 16, the personal version of DingTalk officially launched the internal test, and everyone can apply to join the test on the official website of DingTalk. According to reports, DingTalk Personal Edition takes AI as the core and provides "Jarvis" Wen Shengwen AI and "Muse" Wen Shengtu AI. Users can answer various questions, make planning plans or draw through natural language dialogue.

According to news from IT House on June 30, Unity launched a new AI development resource tool and AI software market earlier this week to help developers better use AI technology to create games and 3D content. Home AI digital asset partner. However, Unity officially tweeted yesterday that it has removed one of its partners, Atlas 3 D Asset Creator, from the Unity Asset Store (Unity's AI digital asset store), because the digital assets sold by Atlas on the platform are not generated by AI, but Just grabbed it from the 3D modeling platform SketchFab. Unity emphasized that the company is actively vetting all proven solution providers in the AI category and remains committed to maintaining the quality of the ecosystem. At present, the digital assets of the remaining nine partners can still be purchased normally. It was reported earlier that Unity launched AI Hub, an AI software market for developers, and new AI development resource tools Unity Muse and Unity Sentis on June 27, driving the stock price to soar 15%.