2024年前沿人工智慧工俱全面概述

Revolutionizing Industries with Advanced Models

In 2023, the AI industry witnessed a transformative breakthrough, spanning from deep learning to natural language processing, image, and video generation to the cloning of digital personalities. The rise of innovative AI tools reshaped lifestyles, redefining the future of the business landscape.

John Carlin’s words, “We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us,” resonate in an era dominated by groundbreaking AI applications. Reflecting on the past year, iFoto presents a curated list of the most prominent AI tools, aiming to offer insights into the evolution and current state of AI technology and its profound impact on our world.

AI Chatbots: Revolutionizing Communication and Information Retrieval

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ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI and released on November 30, 2022, stands as the forefront AI chatbot, propelling advancements in natural language processing. Subscribers to ChatGPT Plus gain access to GPT-4, the latest language model from OpenAI, offering faster response times, enhanced features, and a more flexible user experience for $20 per month. OpenAI’s DevDay in November 2023 introduced updates such as GPT-4 Turbo and a multi-mode API. The upcoming GPT Store will allow users to create custom GPTs for profit.

Claude by Anthropic

Anthropic, a US-based AI startup founded by former OpenAI members, unveiled Claude, their AI chatbot, in March 2023. Upgrades in Claude 2.1, released on November 22, significantly improved its coding, mathematical reasoning, and processing capabilities. Anthropic’s valuation has reached nearly $5 billion, with a total funding of nearly $1.5 billion.

Bard by Google

Google introduced Bard, powered by the LaMDA model, on February 6, 2023. Bard transitioned to the more potent PaLM language model on April 10 and further upgraded to PaLM2 on May 10, enhancing multilingual translation and logical reasoning capabilities.

Bing Chat by Microsoft

Microsoft integrated GPT-4 into the New Bing and Microsoft Edge browser on February 7, 2023, creating Bing Chat. The introduction of “Precise,” “Balanced,” and “Creative” modes on March 4 provided users with varied chat tones. Bing Chat also incorporated the Bing Image Creator on March 22, generating images based on user input text.

Character.ai

Founded by former Google LaMDA team members in 2021, Character.ai created an AI role-playing community. The mobile app, launched globally in May 2023, surpassed 3 million downloads on Android. Character.ai’s valuation surpassed $5 billion in September 2023.

Pi by Inflection AI

Inflection AI presented Pi, an emotional intelligence-focused AI chatbot, in May 2023. Founded in 2022, Inflection AI’s valuation has reached $4 billion.

Perplexity.ai

Perplexity.ai, a free AI chatbot with a unique “Answer Engine” design, secured $73.6 million in Series B funding on January 4, 2024, valuing the company at $520 million. Boasting 10 million monthly active users before this funding round, Perplexity.ai offers a distinctive interface for natural language queries.

Grok by xAI

Elon Musk-backed xAI introduced Grok in November 2023, an AI model fetching real-time information from the ? platform. Grok-1 showcases a humorous and rebellious style in its responses.

Gemini by Google
Launched on December 6, 2023, Google’s Gemini includes three versions catering to different needs. Gemini Pro, integrated with Bard, enhances Google’s ecosystem intelligence.

Janitor AI

Janitor AI provides a platform for creating AI chatbot characters with diverse personalities, allowing users to engage in natural language interactions. Offering rich API and SDK support, Janitor AI doubles as a tool for developers.

AI Image Generation Tools: Transforming the Artistic Landscape

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As a pioneer in the AI art generation field, Midjourney sets the industry benchmark. Updated to V6, the Discord-based tool expanded to a web version on December 13, 2023, enhancing accessibility.

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Developed by Stability AI, Stable Diffusion, an AI painting tool, released the SDXL 0.9 update in June 2023. The release of SDXL Turbo on November 29 marked a significant stride, reducing image generation steps and boosting inference speed for real-time image creation.

DALL·E 3 by OpenAI

Released in September 2023, DALL·E 3 integrates with ChatGPT, allowing users to provide detailed prompts. This integration enhances DALL·E 3’s understanding and processing of abstract and lengthy prompts.

Adobe Firefly

Adobe’s Firefly, a web application, signifies a breakthrough in AI drawing. Enabling users to describe images through simple text prompts, Firefly extends AI integration possibilities within Creative Cloud applications.

Leonardo AI

Leonardo is both an AI drawing community and a tool deeply integrated with Stable Diffusion. Offering various plugins, prompts, and even online training model features, Leonardo serves as a hub for AI art enthusiasts.

AI Tools Revolutionizing Creative Videos: A Comprehensive Overview

In recent years, the rapid advancement of AI technologies has ushered in a new era of innovation, particularly in the creative industries. From video and audio generation to digital character creation, AI tools have demonstrated their transformative potential. In this article, we’ll explore some of the cutting-edge AI tools that have emerged as game-changers in the creative landscape.

Runway Gen-2: Elevating Video Creation

Runway, a US-based AI startup established in 2018, has been a trailblazer in the field. In February 2023, Runway unveiled its Gen-1 and Gen-2 text-to-video models, marking a significant leap in AI-generated video content. On November 2, 2023, Gen-2 underwent a milestone update, addressing issues like flickering, incoherence, and distortion that had plagued AI-generated videos. The improvements resulted in enhanced fidelity and consistency, with resolutions reaching up to 4K.

Runway’s extensive lineup of over 30 AI creative tools spans audio, video, 3D, and general content generation, finding applications in major Hollywood productions. The company secured a substantial $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Google in July 2023, reaching a valuation of $1.5 billion.

Pika Labs: The Challenger

Pika Labs emerged as a formidable competitor to Runway Gen-2. Founded by two Chinese entrepreneurs, Guo Wenjing (CEO) and Meng Chenlin (CTO), both Stanford AI lab alumni, Pika Labs gained attention with the release of Pika 1.0 on November 29, 2023. The product quickly garnered acclaim for its stunning video generation capabilities, prompting a free public beta on December 26, 2023. In a swift move, Pika Labs secured a $55 million Series A funding in November, valuing the company at nearly $200 million.

Stable Video Diffusion: Animating Still Images

Stability AI introduced “Stable Video Diffusion” on November 21, a model based on the existing text-to-image Stable Diffusion model. This innovation allows the animation of still images into videos. Stable Video Diffusion offers two models, SVD and SVD-XT, generating videos at speeds ranging from 3 to 30 frames per second. The platform has opened a waiting list for interested users.

Morph Studio: The Dark Horse

Morph Studio, often considered the dark horse in the text-to-video domain, pioneered public testing of its product before Runway’s Gen-2. Unlike some competitors offering only 720P free services, Morph Studio has consistently provided default 1080P videos with a maximum duration of 7 seconds for free. Interested users can experience it by registering on Discord.

Animate Anyone and Magic Animate: Breathing Life into Images

Animate Anyone, developed by Alibaba’s Intelligent Computing Research Institute, transforms static images into animated videos. Similarly, Magic Animate, a collaboration between the National University of Singapore and ByteDance, creates body motion animations based on user-specified characters and actions. These tools have demonstrated the potential to bring realism to animations, whether for humans, cartoons, or anime characters.

AI Audio Tools: A Symphony of Innovation

Following the visual marvels brought about by AI drawing tools like Midjourney and SD, the AI audio generation sector is undergoing a revolutionary transformation. Leading the charge are innovative tools that redefine music composition, voice synthesis, and sound design.

ElevenLabs: Crafting Realistic Text-to-Speech

ElevenLabs, a software company specializing in natural language processing and deep learning, developed a Text-to-Speech software capable of creating emotionally realistic voices from input text. The company raised $190 million in Series A funding in June 2023, reaching a valuation of around $1 billion.

In October 2023, ElevenLabs introduced “AI Dubbing,” a tool capable of translating speech into over 20 languages while preserving the speaker’s original voice, emotions, and intonation.

Suno AI: Orchestrating Music and Voices

Suno AI introduces BaRK, a voice generation model creating various voiceovers for advertisements, animations, and gaming industries based on short text prompts. Additionally, Chirp, Suno AI’s music generation model, produces 30-second music clips covering various genres and styles.

Mubert: AI-Powered Music Creation

Mubert stands out as an AI music generation platform, enabling users to generate real-time music of specific lengths, styles, and moods. It caters primarily to music producers, creators, and brands, facilitating the creation of royalty-free music with AI assistance.

Google MusicLM: Harmonizing Text and Melody

As part of Google’s “AI Test Kitchen” project, MusicLM is a text-to-music generation model. It composes high-fidelity music with a sampling rate of 24kHz, ensuring superior audio quality. The model’s rapid music generation capabilities make it almost instantaneous, showcasing the potential of AI in creative endeavors

AI Digital Characters: Bridging Reality and Virtuality

As AI technology reaches unprecedented heights, AI-generated digital characters have become a hot topic in 2023. These characters boast lifelike appearances, intelligent conversational abilities, and personalized services, making them a popular trend.

However, challenges persist in overcoming technological barriers related to image synthesis, voice synthesis, and emotion simulation. Achieving greater realism and interaction capabilities for digital characters requires ongoing advancements. On the business front, as competition intensifies, product differentiation and user experience will be critical factors in determining market competitiveness.

Synthesia: Virtual People, Real Impact

Synthesia, a UK-based AI startup founded in 2017, offers an AI video creation platform primarily targeting enterprise clients. According to the CEO, 35% of Fortune Global 100 companies use Synthesia for training and marketing, with over 50,000 teams leveraging the tool for large-scale video production, resulting in substantial budget savings. In June 2023, Synthesia secured approximately $90 million in funding, reaching a valuation of $1 billion.

HeyGen: Transforming Celebrities and Beyond

In late October 2023, a video of Taylor Swift speaking Mandarin went viral, drawing attention to the tool behind it – HeyGen. Launched in July 2022, HeyGen reached $1 million in ARR in just 178 days. Unlike its counterparts targeting creatives and consumers, HeyGen focuses on addressing the needs of B2B clients in marketing, training, and educational video production. In a funding round led by Conviction Partners on November 29, 2023, HeyGen secured $5.6 million, pushing its valuation to $75 million.

D-ID: AI-Driven Simulated Personalities

D-ID offers AI-driven simulated human video production services. Users upload a portrait photo and input the desired dialogue, and D-ID utilizes AI voicebots to automatically transform the input into a video. The company specializes in facial de-identification technology, creating virtual presenters that replace human hosts in videos, providing content introductions.

AI Efficiency Tools: Transforming Workplaces

With a vast user base and seamless integration with various AI capabilities, AI efficiency tools have found a natural fit in office environments. From generating meeting summaries to automating document creation, AI has become an integral part of the modern workplace.

QuillBot: NLP-Powered Writing Assistant

QuillBot is a based on NLP (Natural Language Processing) that serves as an article summarizer and writing enhancement tool. By analyzing semantics, it automatically helps users rewrite, summarize, and expand articles.

These writing assistance tools have experienced rapid development over the past year. However, QuillBot recently faced some user attrition, attributed mainly to the robust zero-shot learning capabilities of ChatGPT. The latter can generate content on an infinite range of topics with simple prompts, making it more attractive.

However, in terms of practical effectiveness, professional writing assistants like QuillBot still hold an advantage. They provide richer grammar, logic, and style guidance, resulting in smoother and more logically structured articles.

Novel AI: Sparking Creativity for Content Creators

Novel AI is an AI tool designed for content creators, providing assistance in writing. It aids writers and creators in generating new ideas, offering inspiration, and even automatically completing or editing stories.

Jasper AI: Empowering Content Creation

Jasper AI is a popular AI writing assistant aimed at helping users create content faster and more efficiently. It caters primarily to professionals in advertising, content marketing, and entrepreneurship.

Jasper AI offers various writing templates, including blog articles, social media posts, marketing emails, and website content.

Copy AI: AI-Generated Content for Marketing

Copy AI is a content generation tool driven by AI. It can automatically generate creative copy, marketing text, and other types of writing content. Particularly useful in marketing and advertising, Copy.AI comes with a built-in document editor that allows users to input prompts or questions on the left side and edit and optimize the output on the right side.

Notion AI: Integrating AI into Notion

Notion AI is integrated into the Notion product, a note-taking and project management tool. The AI features within Notion include text generation, content organization, and data analysis. The goal is to assist users in managing notes, organizing projects, and automating routine tasks, enhancing overall work efficiency.

In retrospect, the year 2023 witnessed the vibrant development and innovation in the field of artificial intelligence.

Aside from the attention garnered by large-scale models and unicorn enterprises in the generative AI space, emerging AI products with star-studded founding teams and vast application prospects have easily attracted capital from various sources.

As AI technology continues to advance, data accumulates, and computational power further improves, it is foreseeable that in the coming years, AI products and applications will become more diverse. AI technology will continue to penetrate into broader fields, including healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and more. AI will bring intelligent solutions to these domains, enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and driving industrial transformation and upgrading.

Simultaneously, addressing crucial topics such as ensuring fairness, transparency, and interpretability of AI systems, balancing the development of AI with privacy protection, and avoiding misuse or potential risks of AI technology will become essential considerations in the AI landscape.