NetEase Youdao has announced a significant upgrade to its "Zi Yue" large language model, version 4.0, which now supports multimodal interactions including text, images, and audio. The company is also open-sourcing the core multimodal model and its text-to-speech (TTS) model. This move aims to advance AI capabilities and foster broader development within the AI community. AI
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IMPACT Open-sourcing key AI models can accelerate research and development in multimodal AI and speech synthesis.
RANK_REASON Open-sourcing of a multimodal and TTS model by a significant tech company. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]