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💰 Amazon adds $4 billion investment in Anthropic, the two will collaborate on developing and deploying AI systems on AWS platform, with total investment reaching $8 billion.

🤖 Grok model upgrades with enhanced capabilities, adding image understanding, web search, PDF parsing, and intelligent analysis of X platform content.

🎭 Alibaba open-sources EchoMinicV2 digital human project, supporting half-body generation, capable of producing realistic digital human videos through images, audio, and gesture videos.

Latest News

1. Anthropic AI receives additional $4 billion investment from Amazon.

Anthropic announces deeper collaboration with AWS to jointly develop and deploy advanced AI systems, with Amazon's cumulative investment in Anthropic reaching $8 billion.

Announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-trainium

In the future, Claude will provide intelligent access within AWS through Amazon Bedrock, becoming core infrastructure for tens of thousands of companies.

2. xAI's Grok model capabilities significantly enhanced.

Longer context window, image understanding capability, support for web search results, source citation display, PDF upload support, and ability to summarize and understand posts on X.

Cutting-edge Technology

1. Alibaba's digital human generation project EchoMinicV2.

Compared to v1 version, it expands from portrait faces to half-body generation. By providing character images, audio, and gesture videos, it can generate realistic digital human videos with gestures and head movements.

Detailed introduction: https://antgroup.github.io/ai/echomimic_v2/

GitHub: https://github.com/antgroup/echomimic_v2

The code is now open-source, and the demonstration videos show impressive results. Those interested can deploy and experience it themselves.