Ant Group

According to a report by Blue Whale News on November 20, model track startup Biancai Technology confirmed that it has been acquired by Ant Group, and the company will operate independently, but the investor has already withdrawn. The report mentioned that there is news that Ant Group has recently set up a reinforcement learning laboratory, and the founder of the border technology, Wu Yi, has been employed as the chief scientist of the laboratory. Wu Yi responded in a circle of friends on the event of joining the ants, saying: "Recently invited by the ants to do ants big model reinforcement learning direction of the research, my teaching in the Tsinghua University Institute of cross-information, as well as the edge of the science and technology are continuing. Ant has a very good big model application scene, I hope to make an impact together...

At the Bund Conference Wealth Forum on September 6, a new version of Ant Group's AI financial butler "Ant Xiaozai" was upgraded and unveiled in the Alipay App. The upgraded "Ant Xiao Cai" can interpret hotspots in real time and provide "question-and-answer, personalized" services. At the same time, Ant Wealth's new App equipped with "Ant Xiao Cai" Pro version is on line for grey test, bringing a new service experience such as "language control everything, customized briefings", which is also the first financial management App in China to realize AI native experience. According to Ant Group, AI is the most popular way to manage financial affairs. The AI Native Experience is the first AI-native financial management app in China.

Ant Group, together with Beijing News and Beike Finance, has jointly developed and launched a generative big model product called "Beike Finance·Smart ESG". This product aims to provide users with more accurate, comprehensive and valuable analysis and interpretation of ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) reports of A-share listed companies. It can answer various questions of users in real time and provide in-depth analysis and summary. "Beike Finance·Smart ESG" uses the big model and multi-agent technical support provided by Ant Group's AI industry assistant Zhi Xiaozhu. Based on the big model customized by Ant for rigorous applications, Zhi Xiaozhu combined agentU...

Ant Group open-sourced a new project called EchoMimic on the 10th, which can help people "lip-sync" through facial features and audio, and combine facial landmarks and audio content to generate relatively stable and natural videos. The project has high stability and naturalness. By integrating the features of audio and facial landmarks (key facial features and structures, usually located in the eyes, nose, mouth, etc.), it can generate videos that are more in line with real facial movements and expression changes. It supports the use of audio or facial landmarks alone to generate portrait videos, and also supports combining audio and portrait photos to make "lip-syncing...

The 27th United Nations Science and Technology Conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Digital Technology Academy (WDTA) released a series of breakthrough results, including the two international standards "Generative Artificial Intelligence Application Security Testing Standard" and "Large Language Model Security Testing Method". It is reported that these two international standards were jointly compiled by experts and scholars from dozens of units including OpenAI, Ant Group, iFlytek, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Baidu, Tencent, etc. Among them, the "Large Language Model Security Testing Method" was compiled by Ant Group. The standards released this time bring together the wisdom of experts in the field of global AI security,…

Ant Group's self-developed intelligent R&D platform CodeFuse has launched a new feature called "Graphics to Code", which supports developers to generate code with one click using product design drawings, greatly improving the development efficiency of front-end pages. The relevant function is currently being tested internally. It is reported that Ant Group is fully promoting AI programming internally, and the number of engineers using CodeFuse to support daily R&D work has reached more than 50%, and 10% of the code submitted by these engineers is generated by AI. Currently, within Ant Group, more than 50% of programmers use CodeFuse in daily R&D every week. Co…

With the rapid development of the era of artificial intelligence, Ant Group has actively increased its investment in the field of AI. It is reported that Ant Group has set up an AI innovation R&D and application department, NextEvo, and appointed Xu Peng as the head of the department. Xu Peng worked at Google for 11 years, during which time he was responsible for and led the R&D of Google Translate's core technology and participated in the development of Google's display advertising system algorithm. It is reported that the NextEvo department will be fully responsible for the core technology R&D of Ant AI, including the R&D of the Ant Lark model. This move aims to further…