90% can’t be a director. Are these "future Jia Zhangke" ok?

"How did you come up with this story?"

"Where does the money for filming come from?"

"Are you still making movies after graduation?"

……

 

Special feature of 1905 film network All these problems occurred in the "Pingyao Corner" unit of this year’s Pingyao International Film Exhibition. Many students from major film and television universities in China gathered here to raise their doubts in interactive communication.

These problems are not concentrated in Pingyao Film Festival. It can be said that this is the puzzle and problem that students in film and television colleges have been lingering in the stage of learning to create movies.

 

"One Corner of Pingyao" is the educational module of Pingyao Film Festival. Every day, excellent short film collections shot by students from a film and television university are arranged to be screened, and a venue is provided for students to communicate freely after the screening.


This year, seven film and television universities participated in the activities. Taking this opportunity, we got in touch with the film director students and teachers from different schools. In the interviews with them, we can vaguely spy out the development status of student directors in domestic film and television universities.


Learning film technology has benefited a lot, but I am still confused.

 

Domestic film director majors are mainly distributed in three types: film professional colleges, media colleges and Chinese-foreign joint-venture colleges. These different schools have different teaching modes for film creation.

 

For example, Zheng Yue, director of the School of Drama, Film and Television, Communication University of China, introduced after the screening that their directing courses will integrate the cultivation of drama, television and film. The director department of Beijing Film Academy is divided into three directions: film director, documentary director and film editing. Jia Zhangke, the founder and director of the film festival, is the dean of the vancouver film school. He introduced at the event that the director major of the college is to use the international teaching mode, especially to strengthen students’ actual combat training on the set.

 


Huang, Yue and Xu’s graduation short films were all selected to show in Pingyao this year. They came from different schools, and they all studied directing. When they mentioned the teaching mode of the school, they all agreed that what they learned the most was the technology and skills of the film, which benefited them a lot:

 

"Movies have an industrial system, and they need to learn technical skills. They are not free to play, and they can be filmed well if they want to.In addition to stories, you still need to master editing, photography and other technical means to make a good movie. The school mainly teaches the technical level, and then does free creation and expression by itself. "

 

Jia Zhangke also said that it is very free to create movies now, and the equipment for filming is also very convenient. However, after mastering the technology of filming, you have to improve your own cultural literacy and humanistic literacy, so that the level of your works can be improved.


 

We will all be confused.",almost every student interviewed mentioned his confusion period, but their confusion is not the same. Some people like movies at first, but after learning movies, they find that they are incompetent and give up halfway. Some people just want to get a diploma from the beginning, and some people encounter difficulties in expression in their creation. …

 

Teacher Zhou Xinxia told us that these phenomena abound among the students she has taught:

 

"There is a great distance between hobbies and majors. From high school to college, it is a different leap. No one in college is staring at you, so you must be inspired by hobbies. In the environment of free learning, some people can’t find the north at once.


 

Watching movies is very interesting, but learning movies is very boring.Majors need to learn skills, not to master them at once. He will feel happy when he can really use these skills to create. But in the boring stage of learning, they often can’t survive. "

 

Lack of creative experience, the money for filming depends on parents.

 

After mastering the professional knowledge and technology of filming, many students also encounter many practical problems in the process of creating movie scripts.

 

Song, a local director in Shanxi, has been to Pingyao Film Festival for three years in a row. He has many questions in writing the script, such as whether to shoot a complete story or a simple event in a short film, but the school teacher did not give him a good answer. However, after consulting Qiu Yang, the director of this year’s "Pingyao Corner" opening film, he said that he was somewhat enlightened.



This actually reflects the students’ lack of experience in film creation, and another question commonly mentioned by the interviewed students also reflects this situation. They say that when writing a script, they are always uncertain about the understanding of roles other than the protagonist. "You may use your own logic and worldview to shape what you write, and you will imagine some unrealistic information for these characters, which is very unreal.”。

 

Zhang Yimou said in the master class of Pingyao Film Festival that suffering was the source of their previous creation. Teacher Zhou Xinxia also observed that she thought that students’ living conditions were better than in the past, and their understanding of a theme expression or role could not be as tight as in the past.

 

Although it is not mature enough, the works directed by students are richer in theme and type than in the past. Judging from a series of short films shown this time,Most students like to focus on personal emotional expression in their works.About their restless youth love, the life closely related to students and the affection between father and son.

 

Even though the production seems a little rough, these works are all based on their own truth, trying to dig out their softest feelings.

When it comes to specific shooting and production, the interviewed students all said that the behind-the-scenes team is not the main problem. Xu told us, "Since the freshman year, there have been small assignments that cooperate with other departments, and teachers will deliberately connect our cooperative relationship. For example, students in the recording class must cooperate with students in the director class once, so by the time the shooting is completed, the team is relatively mature.The hardest thing is actually money."

 

Although the school will provide some budget support, most of it will be raised by students themselves. “I’m grateful to my parents, who contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars."At the post-screening exchange meeting, Yue said directly that his short graduation film was entirely funded by his parents.

 

It is understood that at present, the production cost of joint graduation short films of students from major film and television universities in China is roughly 100,000-— 150,000 yuan, such a large sum is basically supported by family members, and many students indirectly made money from many projects or borrowed money from each other last semester.

 

Majored in film, but it costs a lot of money.",an interviewed student said.

 

90% didn’t become a director after graduation, waiting for opportunities in the film and television circle.


After the graduation work is completed, do the directors directly enter the profession? The reality is not so ideal.


Zhou, a student from a media college, revealed, "Nearly half of the students in our class go to do variety shows, shoot advertisements and shoot Tik Tok after graduation, but few insist on making movies.There are also some graduates who continue to work in the film industry, including literary planning, editing, project development, publicity and distribution, but they are far from the core director’s work.



Teacher Zhou Xinxia also provided us with a data.In a certain session, 90% of the graduates of the North Film Director Department she brought were screenwriters.. She believes that the film market in China is getting bigger and bigger, and the demand for talents is getting higher and higher. Students who graduate from the director department don’t have to be directors. She often encourages students not to lock in the future immediately. It can take two or three years to find it, but it can’t take too long.


Several students from Beijing Film School who graduated this year also told us that the employment rate of graduates is very high, and there are many opportunities in the film industry. It is easy to find a job, but it is difficult to directly engage in director work.

 

They also revealed that if their own scripts are put into the venture capital units of major film festivals in China, the success rate of final implementation is not high, so they should sign a film company first, help the first-line creators, and silently wait for the opportunity of directing.


For these young people who are interested in directing, Ms. Zhou also gave some suggestions. She advocated that we can first talk to several film crews and get to know the various work departments of the film. "A film director needs the ability to organize and deal with people. I have worked with director Chen Kaige.Even a great director like Chen Kaige said that he carried seven or eight fire extinguishers every day and put out fires every day. Movies are created by many people. As a director, it is difficult to lead them if they don’t understand their majors."


Among the directors interviewed in this interview, they all have the dream of being a film director to make a feature film, but most of them still treat it with a normal heart, as one of the students said, "There is no hurry, just keep your passion, make money first, sharpen the script first, and accumulate first."


Guided by scientific and technological innovation, promoting China to move towards a strong country of biological fermentation

"2022 China Biofermentation Industry Conference and Biofermentation Nutrition and Health Industry Series Summit Forum" was held in Jinan.

Guided by scientific and technological innovation, promoting China to move towards a strong country of biological fermentation

□ Intern reporter of this newspaper Yan Li

On March 6th, when General Secretary of the Supreme Leader attended the joint meeting of the Fifth Session of the 13th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, he pointed out that it is necessary to establish a big food concept. We should ask for food from forests, rivers, lakes and seas, and protected agriculture. At the same time, we should expand from traditional crops and livestock and poultry resources to richer biological resources, develop biotechnology and biological industries, and ask plants, animals and microorganisms for heat and protein. Key words such as "biotechnology", "bio-industry" and "developing food resources" mentioned in the meeting pointed out the direction for the development of bio-fermentation industry in China.

In order to promote the integration of bio-economy and health industry, and promote the healthy, orderly and rapid development of bio-fermentation nutrition and health industry. From July 13th to 15th, the "2022 China Bio-fermentation Industry Conference and Bio-fermentation Nutrition and Health Industry Series Summit Forum" hosted by China Bio-fermentation Industry Association was held in Jinan, Shandong. At the forum, experts shared with the participants on topics such as "food protein resources", "nutrition and health", "industrial innovation" and "bioengineering technology" to discuss the road of high-quality development of China’s bio-fermentation industry.

Develop under the guidance of the concept of big food

The core of the concept of big food is diversification, which aims to meet the growing flavor, nutrition, health and cultural needs of the people.

Yu Xuejun, chairman of the China Bio-fermentation Industry Association, said that the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that since Socialism with Chinese characteristics entered a new era, the main contradiction in our society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people’s growing need for a better life and the unbalanced development. Food is the most important thing for the people. In the new stage of China’s development towards a moderately developed country, the diversity and individualized demand of food, especially the increasing nutritional balance, has brought about a growing demand for nutrition-fortified products, functions and health foods, which has brought new development opportunities for the restructuring and variety increase of the bio-fermentation industry. The promulgation of the Tenth Five-Year Plan for Bio-economic Development and Guiding Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Light Industry has put forward new requirements and given new missions to the development of bio-fermentation industry in China. At the same time, it has pointed out a new path and provided a new direction for the development of the industry. The bio-fermentation industry has broad prospects and great achievements, and the whole industry should conscientiously implement relevant policies.

Talking about the future development of the bio-fermentation industry, Yu Xuejun said that at present, the nutritional functional raw materials made by bio-fermentation in China have been widely used in food, feed, medicine, cosmetics and other industries, and the bio-fermentation industry has continued to promote the "three products" strategy, and related products have shifted from meeting consumers’ basic needs for food, clothing, housing and transportation to meeting consumers’ higher-level physical and mental health needs. During the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, the bio-fermentation industry will actively respond to the national industrial policy, take scientific and technological innovation as the guide, adhere to green and low-carbon development, optimize the standard system, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern with domestic macro-cycle as the main body and domestic and international dual-cycle promoting each other, open up blocking points, fill shortcomings, form effective supply, continuously meet people’s new needs for a better life, and solidly promote China’s progress from a big bio-fermentation country to a strong bio-fermentation country.

The high-quality development of bio-fermentation industry is inseparable from the help of scientific and technological innovation. Sun Baoguo, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, believes that the raw materials and products of China food industry should be diversified and standardized, the production should be modernized and the market should be internationalized. Talking about food innovation, Sun Baoguo said that in terms of food raw material innovation, industry enterprises should make healthy food that consumers love through functional mining, industrialization and modern production; The variety of food ingredients should be increased to realize the standard first and technological breakthrough; The industry should speed up the localization of advanced food additives and develop varieties of food additives with independent intellectual property rights. In terms of functional innovation of food, industrial enterprises should develop and produce various functional substances, and appropriately increase the content of functional substances in food through scientific and technological innovation to enhance the healthy function of food. In terms of food production innovation, industrial enterprises should rely on advanced and sustainable technology to upgrade and transform the traditional food industry with modern science and technology, and realize the leap from craft to craft, from experience to science, from manual operation to intelligent control.

Ma Yanhe, director of Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, China Academy of Sciences, said that the bio-fermentation industry should pay attention to three issues during its development. First, the raw material problem. At present, the raw material of China’s bio-fermentation industry is mainly grain starch, so it is necessary to speed up the breakthrough of non-grain raw material route. The second is the supply of core technologies. From raw materials to products, we need to rely on the integration of strains and processes to greatly improve the supply of key technologies in bio-manufacturing and transform the traditional chemical industry into a green and sustainable bio-manufacturing industry. Third, the issue of intellectual property rights. China’s fermentation industry ranks first in the world, but the lack of industrial strains is a bottleneck problem in the development of China’s bio-manufacturing industry. We should speed up the construction of independent intellectual property strains, establish an independent intellectual property system and a patent protection system, and participate in the international market competition of the industry.

Explore and advance in technological innovation

With the continuous improvement of productivity, the ability of human beings to use, transform and harmonize nature is constantly enhanced. Amino acids, enzyme preparations, yeast, probiotics … In various sub-sectors of the bio-fermentation industry, researchers are constantly overcoming technical difficulties and exploring rich food resources.

"Asking for heat and protein from plant and animal microorganisms" means that the bio-fermentation industry should constantly explore food protein resources. Chen Jian, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, believes that the bio-fermentation industry needs to pay special attention to three key points in obtaining protein from plants, microorganisms and animals. First, extreme enzymes will be more widely used in the future food industry because of their unique structure and chemical adaptation mechanism; Secondly, the construction technology of chassis cells, the synthetic ability of natural microbial strains is limited, and reprogramming specific cell chassis by synthetic biology is beneficial to improve efficiency. Researchers should start with the reconstruction and optimization of metabolic network, the design and creation of metabolic model, and the analysis and regulation of metabolic mechanism. The third is gas fermentation, in which industrial enterprises can use biological carbon fixation technology to produce fuel, chemicals, protein and other production necessities by using non-food gases with large stock and low value.

In addition to protein, nutrition and health are also the focus of the bio-fermentation industry, and vitamins, as an important nutritional chemical, have a direct relationship with people’s nutrition and health. Zheng Yuguo, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, said that the production technology of vitamin nutrition products is in a critical period of transition from chemical synthesis to biosynthesis. There are still some problems in vitamin biosynthesis technology, such as long synthetic route, complex process control, inability to accurately control and low yield. It is necessary to combine tools and strategies of compositional analysis, laboratory evolution, metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and downstream integrated industry. The discovery and biosynthesis of vitamin products are the result of scientific discovery, technological development, engineering innovation and integrated industry in the biological industry. The development of more vitamin nutrition products and their bio-manufacturing technologies in the industry can break foreign monopoly, improve product quality and reduce production costs.

In terms of nutrition and health, Ren Fazheng, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, paid attention to fermented milk. He said that researchers discovered the functional mechanism of probiotics through the study of fermented milk, which gave birth to the development of probiotic industry. As a metabolic component of probiotics, metazoa can regulate intestinal flora, enhance intestinal barrier, and regulate immunity and metabolism. "In terms of technology, metametamaterials are stable in processing and storage, easy to produce and industrialize, and have a wider range of products. In terms of safety, metazoa will not cause bacteremia and transfer drug-resistant genes, which is suitable for newborns and sensitive people. In terms of probiotic function, metazoans have a wider target, are more easily absorbed by the intestine, and are not interfered by antibiotics. At present, metaproducts still need to break through the selection and engineering of key strains in production technology, establish qualitative and quantitative methods, and mine and separate functional factors. " Ren Fazheng said.

"It is the development direction of healthy food production technology to develop healthy food with natural food as raw material and gentle biological manufacturing strategy of nature." Lu Fuping, president of Tianjin University of Science and Technology, believes that at present, some traditional food processing technologies are being seriously challenged in terms of healthy food development technology. In the production process, chemical reaction is used to treat food raw materials, which increases the doping of harmful substances; Excessive processing reduces the nutritional value of food and increases the potential hazards. Large-scale material processing and transformation by using organisms is a new field of food. In the future, microbial cells and enzyme proteins will be used as catalysts, or modified new biomass will be used as raw materials to make food. This kind of food will be combined with genetic engineering, cell engineering, fermentation engineering, enzyme engineering, bioengineering and other technologies in the production process.

The exploration of bio-fermentation industry resources, technological breakthroughs and the application of achievements will ultimately serve the people’s good demand for healthy and delicious food.

Wish Dragon exposed Chinese dubbing lineup Jackie Chan and Junfeng Niu Weiwei.


1905 movie network news Recently, the animated film released the first Chinese dubbing preview and announced the Chinese dubbing lineup. The Dragon in the film is voiced by Jackie Chan, and the leading actor Ding Siqi and the leading actress Wang Lina are voiced by the new generation actors Junfeng Niu and Wei Wei respectively. The dragon in the trailer is naughty and cute, and even the "Little Dragon" shape has aroused many netizens. The friendship story between Ding Siqi and Wang Lina vividly shows the joy of reunion of old friends with the voice of Junfeng Niu and Wei Wei.


The "wishing" version of the dubbing poster and the "dancing dragon" version of the dubbing poster were also exposed. Junfeng Niu and Wei Wei closed their eyes and made a wish, making the "wishing" version of the poster look quite blessed; And the "Dancing Dragon" version of the dubbing poster Jackie Chan dances the dragon with Junfeng Niu and Wei Wei, and the joyful atmosphere is coming, which makes people look forward to the arrival of the New Year and good luck.


The animated film Wish Dragon is directed by Chris Eberhans, and the father of the series, Aron Warner, will join hands with Chris Brambo and Jackie Chan as producers. It will be released on January 15th, 2021, and will be shown nationwide during the New Year holiday.


Jackie Chan’s dubbing shows "contrast and sprouting power" to be funny and eye-catching.  

Junfeng Niu Weiwei interprets friendship and companionship with heart.


In the Chinese dubbing preview, Shenlong appeared in front of Ding Siqi for the first time "handsome for three seconds", and was praised by Ding Siqi for "good skin", but also tortured by the soul "Can you breathe fire?" Especially in the promotion of the best-selling wishes in history, such as "a golden mountain" and "a thousand troops and horses, the apprentice", the scene of being beaten in series is unbearable.


Jackie Chan vividly interprets the changeable character of the Dragon through various voices, especially in Little Dragon, who is equipped with a teapot lid, asking Ding Siqi to make a wish as soon as possible, which is even more impressive for off the charts. The fierce milk fiercely highlights the ghost horse and cuteness of the Dragon, leaving a very deep impression on the audience.


Junfeng Niu has attracted a lot of attention because of his wonderful performance in the hit drama "Hidden and Great". Before that, he won the championship in the first season of "Actor in Place". After 17 years of playing, he has accumulated profound performance experience. This time, he is very familiar with the voice of the leading actor "Ding Siqi" in Wish Dragon, saying, "Is there anything more precious than friendship?" Four or two strokes show Ding Siqi’s kindness and simplicity, and point out the important theme of the film: friendship and companionship.


Wei Wei made her mark with the role of "Xiao Su Mingyu" in the phenomenal TV series "Everything’s Fine", and also participated in the first season of "Actor in Place", and her performance was well received. In Wish Dragon, Wei Wei shows the gentle and firm character of the heroine "Wang Lina" incisively and vividly by handling and grasping the sound details. Their voices are well coordinated and complementary, which makes people look forward to their more wonderful performances in the film.


Good luck in the new year, auspicious dragons flying in the sky, full of blessings 

The first choice for family fun to watch movies 


The dubbing poster of "Make a Wish" released together, Junfeng Niu and Wei Wei made a wish to Shenlong in a pious manner. The wishing words on the poster should not only match the names of the two actors, "Come and make a wish, and the Year of the Ox will bring good luck and blessings to the audience next year," Take a share immediately, and Wei will laugh all the year round "will bring you happy wishes in the comedy atmosphere of the film.


The dubbing poster of "Dancing Dragon" is even more festive. Jackie Chan, Junfeng Niu and Wei Wei "Dancing Dragon" together, and the joyful atmosphere of celebrating the New Year is coming to the fore. The flying of auspicious dragons also symbolizes good luck. The poster of "Dancing Dragon" adds a warmth to the upcoming New Year.


The animated film Wish Dragon will be shown on New Year’s Day holiday in 2021, and the pink cute dragon will be airborne to the national cinema in advance. Whether it is the affection between Ding Siqi and his mother, the friendship between Ding Siqi and Wang Lina and Shenlong, or the action scenes full of jokes, Wish Dragon can make audiences of different ages experience different movie-watching fun, which can be described as the first choice for family fun in 2021.


Bytes of the first AI hardware, just a quiet test of water?

Source: Geek Park

ByteDance, who just bought the open earphone brand Oladance a few months ago, released the first generative AI hardware device.

On the morning of 10th, ByteDance Doubao released a hardware product-AI intelligent earphone Ola Friend. This product is an open earphone, 6.6 grams per ear is the lightest of its kind; Can be connected to the bean bag model and deeply integrated with the bean bag APP; Pre-sales have been started on major e-commerce platforms, and will be officially delivered on October 17, with a price of 1199 yuan. One price comparison is that Apple’s latest AirPods 4 active noise reduction model is priced at 1399 yuan.

After wearing headphones, users don’t need to turn on their mobile phones. They just need to shout out the keyword "bean bag bean bag" to arouse the bean bag to have a dialogue, which can help users in information inquiry, travel, English learning and emotional communication.

Since the beginning of this year, with the acceleration of the application of large-scale models, AI hardware has mushroomed, and new products such as AI mobile phones, AI headsets and AI glasses have emerged one after another. Even Apple can’t help but leave, not only in the new iPhone and the new version of iOS, but also to make AI glasses.

Who can become the first entrance for users to interact with artificial intelligence in the AI ​ ​ era? Today, it seems that smart glasses and smart headphones are the most likely hot candidates. Obviously, the bytes acquired by Oladance and Pico will not be missed, and Ola Friend is the first card played by bytes.

01 Ola Friend: byte version of "Her"

The release of Bytes was very low-key, and even the conference was not held. It was only published online on official accounts such as WeChat WeChat official account and Xiaohongshu.

Judging from the information posted on the page, Ola Friend focuses on companionship. "TA is an AI friend who is always in your ear. When you need it, TA is always in your ear. 」

Image source: Ola Friend

Ola Friend is an open earphone, 6.6 grams per ear is the lightest of its kind, and it is said that it has achieved almost no feeling of wearing. This headset is connected to the bean bag model and deeply integrated with the bean bag APP.

After wearing headphones, users don’t need to turn on their mobile phones. They just need to shout out the keyword "bean bag bean bag" to arouse the bean bag to have a dialogue, which can help users in information inquiry, travel, English learning and emotional communication.

At present, Ola Friend has started pre-sales on major e-commerce platforms, and will be officially delivered on October 17, with a price of 1,199 yuan.

As the first AI hardware product based on bean curd model, the launch of Ola Friend means that the AI ecosystem in ByteDance is further improved from hardware to content.

The hardware of Ola Friend headphones was completed by the original Oladance team recently acquired by ByteDance. The team is famous for its innovative OWS patented technology. Although the merger did not cause a particularly big wave when it was completed, people in the industry are discussing that ByteDance’s intention is very clear-to deeply integrate AI with earphone products.

The so-called OWS, namely Open Wearable Stereo, an open wearable stereo system, is a brand-new sound solution put forward by Oladance globally.

Compared with traditional bone conduction headphones, OWS headphones use air conduction technology to transmit sound to the ear through bones and bypass the eardrum, which is more natural. At the same time, bone conduction headphones need to be closely attached to the head, which may not be suitable for wearing for a long time. OWS headphones are not in the ear and do not need to be attached, which is more comfortable and more suitable for wearing for a long time.

Oladance was previously acquired by ByteDance, which held 100% of the brand. Oladance was founded in 2019 by former BOSE executive Li Haogan and several BOSE engineers. Its core product line includes OWS fully open true wireless Bluetooth headset series, featuring light and comfortable wearing, long battery life and unique open and inaudible design.

Through this acquisition, ByteDance not only acquired the core technology of Oladance, but also absorbed an experienced team composed of former Bose engineers, laying a good foundation in the field of audio technology.

Oladance technology should be able to help ByteDance improve the audio performance of its VR/AR equipment. The design of open headphones not only provides space for a larger battery, but also creates the possibility of integrating various sensors. Combined with Pico, a head display manufacturer previously acquired by ByteDance, the integration of these technologies has brought more potential for its expansion in audio-visual experience and wearable devices.

In the past year, many AI headset products have been released one after another. At present, it seems that Ola Friend has no special morphological innovation, which is quite different from the earphones before Oladance. It is an "earphone" and has no imaginary camera. It just connects to a large model and calls the model without turning on the mobile phone. Such an "AI earphone" does not seem to have as many black technologies as expected.

However, in the "Tonight’s Technology Talk" in Geek Park two days ago, Gu Jiawei, the founder of Spirit Universe, said that Byte’s launch of Ola Friend this time is intended to explore a personal AI scene similar to "Her", although it is not obviously different from the traditional OWS headphones in appearance design, nor does it infinitely improve the expectations of many personalized capabilities and boundaries, but this is a management method that grasps the expectations of users. In essence, they let you know that this is an ordinary earphone first, and then when its software capabilities are reflected, there will be some unexpected possibilities.

In his view, one of the important purposes of Byte’s launch of this headset is actually to make bean bags have more convenient ways to reach faster and lower the threshold for accessing bean bags.

Bean bag is already the most popular native AI application in China. At the same time, in terms of AI big model and application, bytes have been fully laid out, and a number of text and multi-modal big models have been developed, including bean bag big model family, covering general model, role-playing model, speech synthesis model, sound reproduction model, speech recognition model, text-based graph model, Function Call model and vectorization model.

In addition, Byte has also developed a number of AI native applications based on the bean bag model. In addition to bean bags, there are more than 10 AI products such as the AI application development platform "Button" and the interactive entertainment application "Cat Box".

The end-to-end AI hardware may be the last piece of puzzle that bytes fill the AI layout.

02 glasses or headphones, the first entrance of the big model landing reality?

Since the second half of the year, the commercialization of large model software seems to be less than expected, and large model+hardware seems to be a new way out, especially after the popularity of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses.

Earlier, Guojin Securities released a research report saying that it is estimated that the shipment of Meta Ray-Ban may reach 500,000 units in Q2 of 2024, with an annual sales volume of 2 million units.

Image source: Ray-Ban official website

Among foreign giants, Apple seems equally interested in joining the battlefield. According to Bloomberg News, the devices being developed by Apple’s Vision Products Group include the affordable version of Apple Vision, the second generation of Apple Vision Pro, and an AI smart glasses similar to Ray Ban Meta.

Domestic companies have also launched products. In April, Xiaomi Mijia Smart Audio Glasses Enjoy Edition was officially released; In May, Huawei launched smart glasses equipped with Pangu model; In August, Honeycomb Technology launched AI audio glasses.

Then why did Byte first introduce headphones, not glasses?

"Byte is definitely making glasses." Looking at Jia Weilai, Byte is actively exploring and iterating whether it is helmet-mounted VR or other lightweight devices or devices that realize perspective effect through optical frame technology.

For Internet giants like Byte, the choice of hardware is not only based on feelings, but also the continuous pursuit of building portals. Exploration and trial and error are the only way.

Although we haven’t seen Byte release hardware products like Ray-Ban Meta yet, it can be predicted that they will inevitably look for opportunities along this path and gradually introduce related devices. Don’t underestimate the capital, motivation and determination of bytes in layout hardware.

Of course, the AI ​ ​ headset is not limited to bytes. In May, Future Smart and Iflytek launched the iFLYTEK AI conference headset Pro 2, which has the functions of recording shorthand, voice recognition, simultaneous interpretation, etc. It also integrates the viaim AI conference assistant, which can intelligently analyze the conference content, automatically generate summaries and to-do items, and support intelligent question-and-answer functions.

Previously, in July, Xiaomi released the new headset Buds 5. Although it is not clearly positioned as AI hardware, this product supports the rapid conversion of voice to text, and can generate meeting summaries with one click, demonstrating its increasingly intelligent characteristics; In March, Numiao Technology, founded by Li Nan, the former vice president of Meizu, announced that it was cooperating with Meizu to develop an AI headset.

However, if we look at it from a longer period of time, whether it is AI+ glasses or headphones, there is still a long way to go before the big model can become a personal assistant with hardware. This involves not only the technology itself, but also the opening of the business ecology. In the emerging technology entrance dispute, the first to enter the game is often the mobile phone manufacturer, followed by super applications like WeChat. In other words, once the AI assistant technology develops to a highly mature PMF stage, mobile phone manufacturers and these super application giants will rapidly flood in.

Bytes launched Ola Friend at this time, just taking the lead and seeking to take the lead.

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