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Tencent Cloud Recognized Again in the Gartner® “Competitive Landscape: Video Platform Services” Report, solidifying its Pioneering Position in the Asia-Pacific Market

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HONG KONG, Jan. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of global technology company Tencent, announced today that it is once again recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® “Competitive Landscape: Video Platform Services” report. We believe this recognition highlights our leading audio and video technology and product portfolio advantages along with its comprehensive global services—reaffirming Tencent Cloud’s dominant position in the Asia-Pacific market for audio and video capabilities and its robust global competitiveness.

According to the recently released 2024 Gartner® “Magic Quadrant™ for Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS)” report, Tencent Cloud positioned highest in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of Ability to Execute, and was the only Chinese company recognized in the Magic Quadrant. Furthermore, Tencent Cloud has maintained its position in the CPaaS field as the Asia-Pacific region’s top market share holder for three consecutive years.

The Gartner® “Competitive Landscape: Video Platform Services” report pointed out, “Due to technological advancements, improved accessibility, and the rise of diverse and personalized content, the global demand for various OTT video content (such as streaming, entertainment, lifestyle, education, and social media digital platforms and applications) continues to grow. As a result, vendors are trying to differentiate themselves through additional services, expanding their product offerings beyond VPS workflow services, and integrating emerging technologies such as generative artificial intelligence.”

Industry Leading Technology Powers the Digital Transformation of Global Companies

Powered by globally leading technology, Tencent Cloud Media Processing Service offers a comprehensive, one-stop solution tailored for industries like M&E, e-commerce, and education, and expands its global footprint to drive the digital transformation of industries worldwide. Presently, Tencent Cloud has established close collaborations and provided stable technical support to numerous overseas enterprises, including Japan’s top karaoke application Pokekara, Singaporean streaming media service provider BeLive, Indonesia’s media giant TribunNews, Thailand’s digital content platform Ookbee, and Pakistan’s online TV platform ARY ZAP etc.

Serving the global market relies heavily on cutting-edge technological support. Tencent Cloud’s MPaaS offers a comprehensive suite of capabilities, including media processing (MPS), cloud live streaming (CSS), cloud video on-demand (VOD), and live event broadcasting (LEB). Notably, Tencent Cloud’s MPS boasts leading edges in encoding technology, image quality enhancement, media quality inspection, and media AI. Furthermore, Tencent Cloud keeps paying attention to media framework openness and fostering a robust industry ecosystem.

In terms of encoding technology, Tencent Cloud’s MPS possesses leading encoding capabilities in the audio and video industry. It can save over 50% of the bitrate without compromising quality, significantly reducing operational costs for enterprises. Its mainstream encoding formats support the most comprehensive standards, including H.264/H.265/H.266/VP9/AV1, as well as the Chinese standards AVS2/AVS3. In the MSU World Video Coding Contest held at Moscow State University in 2024, Tencent’s encoder took first place in all 15 indicators, once again achieving the best performance overall. Additionally, it supports the most comprehensive audio and video encoding standards, including VP8, H.264, VP9, H.265, AV1, AVS3, and H.266.

Audio and video quality is one of the industry’s major concerns. In this regard, for needs such as upgrading old video sources and enhancing image quality, MPS provides over ten enhancement capabilities through AI technology, including detail enhancement, color enhancement, SDR to HDR conversion, super-resolution, intelligent frame interpolation, and more, effectively helping enterprises and users address various audio and video quality issues.

In addition to its leading technology research and development capabilities, Tencent Cloud has actively participated in the development of the H.266/VVC standard, becoming the world’s first cloud provider to support H.266/VVC. Tencent Cloud holds key positions in the standardization organization, including as the joint chief editor and co-chair of the H.266/VVC standard, and is a significant technical contributor. Moreover, Tencent Cloud is the only Founding Member of AV1 in China and actively participates in the development of the AV2 standard, as well as the engineering of the H.267 standard.

On the ecological front, MPS collaborates with overseas ecosystem partners in areas such as audio and video processing and transmission. It supports technologies like Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, Nielsen, Nagra digital watermarks, and transmission standards such as SRT, SMPTE2022-07, SMPTE ST2110 with JPEG-XS, and NDI. This ensures that audio and video can be transmitted with low latency, stability, and smoothness.

The Tencent Cloud audio and video team actively leads or participates in the development of many open-source audio and video projects such as SRS, SRT, VLC, fostering a mutually beneficial relationship between the cloud and the open-source community.

AIGC innovation: leading the future of new audio and video experiences

Staying at the global forefront demands ongoing tech innovation, and Tencent Cloud’s audio-video solutions are delving into deep integration with AIGC. According to the recently released IDC “China Video Cloud Market Tracker, 2024 1H report”, Tencent Cloud maintains the top market share in both the video live streaming cloud services market and video production and media asset management field. Particularly noteworthy is the integration of audio and video with artificial intelligence, which exceeds expectations in terms of interaction and content creation. For instance, Tencent Cloud’s brand-new media intelligence products have been introduced and extensively applied in scenarios such as short dramas and live broadcasting.

Tencent Cloud has launched an all-in-one solution for short dramas, offering intelligent functions such as subtitle extraction, translation, original subtitle erasure, translation subtitle suppression, voice cloning, and video synthesis to facilitate low-cost international expansion of short dramas. In live broadcasting scenarios, by leveraging AI capabilities, Tencent Cloud also provides real-time subtitles without language restrictions and real-time translation and synthesis substitution capabilities, assisting international clients in overcoming language barriers during live broadcasts.

In addition to media intelligence, Tencent Cloud’s rendering capability also integrates AI capability, enriching the capabilities and application scenarios of digital humans. In the past, high-precision real-time interactive digital humans required a significant amount of computing power. By integrating with AI capabilities and leveraging Tencent Cloud’s cloud-based real-time rendering capability, users can now experience ultra-high precision, smooth, and delicate digital human content on lightweight terminals such as mini-programs and H5, enabling seamless communication anytime, anywhere.

Furthermore, Tencent Cloud’s rendering has introduced various solutions such as cloud phones, 24/7 live streaming of digital humans, and native recording, among others, deeply applied in education, e-commerce, and other scenarios. Combined with fast live streaming capabilities, it provides a one-stop bullet screen interactive live streaming solution. Hosts only need a mobile phone to conduct bullet screen game live broadcasts in the live room without the need to download or install games and purchase broadcasting equipment.

As innovative technologies continue to converge, Tencent Cloud will persist in constructing an international business landscape from a global perspective. Leveraging its deep accumulation in the audio and video domain, Tencent Cloud will continuously optimize core technologies, actively embrace innovative technologies, and enhance the competitiveness of its audio and video products. Simultaneously, through deep collaboration with various industries, Tencent Cloud aims to assist industries in achieving high-quality development and provide a digital support and business innovation path for enterprise internationalization.

Gartner, Competitive Landscape: Video Platform Services, 18 December 2024

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Communications Platform as a Service, 24 June 2024

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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About Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud, one of the world’s leading cloud companies, is committed to creating innovative solutions to resolve real-world issues and enabling digital transformation for smart industries. Through our extensive global infrastructure, Tencent Cloud provides businesses across the globe with stable and secure industry-leading cloud products and services, leveraging technological advancements such as cloud computing, Big Data analytics, AI, IoT and network security. It is our constant mission to meet the needs of industries across the board, including the fields of gaming, media and entertainment, finance, healthcare, property, retail, travel and transportation.

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Narrative Unveils LLM Fine-Tuning Platform and Rosetta Stone 2.0, Pioneering a New Era of Data Normalization and Custom Model Training

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NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Narrative, the industry’s leading data collaboration and commerce platform, today announced a groundbreaking suite of enhancements aimed at democratizing AI development and data utilization. Chief among these is the introduction of a new Large Language Model (LLM) fine-tuning capability, enabling companies of all sizes to customize their own AI models directly on the Narrative platform with unprecedented ease. Additionally, Narrative is thrilled to introduce Rosetta Stone™ 2.0, the next generation of the company’s acclaimed data normalization solution, engineered using the very fine-tuning tools now available to customers.

Narrative Unveils LLM Fine-Tuning Platform & Rosetta Stone 2.0, Revolutionizing Data Normalization & AI Customization

A Collaborative and Accessible Approach to LLM Fine-Tuning
At the core of Narrative’s approach is a “collaboration-first” philosophy. Users can now access a broad range of datasets—from proprietary and partner sources to publicly available and marketplace content—to train and refine their LLMs. This approach fosters an ecosystem where content creators and publishers can monetize their work directly, while businesses benefit from a richer, more diverse data pool to power increasingly sophisticated AI models. By removing technical barriers and simplifying the model-building process, Narrative empowers everyone from non-technical operators to seasoned data scientists to craft bespoke language models with a simple point-and-click interface.

Rosetta Stone 2.0: Next-Generation Data Normalization
A centerpiece of today’s announcement is Rosetta Stone 2.0, an evolution of Narrative’s pioneering data normalization capability. Leveraging Narrative’s new LLM fine-tuning platform, the updated Rosetta Stone model delivers remarkable performance gains and expanded functionality. It not only standardizes data automatically across disparate sources, ensuring seamless compatibility and readiness for training, but it also can serve as a foundational base model for customers looking to extend its core normalization capabilities into their specific domain. From ensuring coherent data formats to tackling complex, domain-specific semantic challenges, Rosetta Stone 2.0 is a flexible, next-level tool designed to accelerate data-driven innovation.

Key Features and Benefits:

Easy, No-Code Model Fine-Tuning:
Users can skip the complex coding, configuration files, and intricate infrastructure setups. Narrative’s platform translates raw datasets into meaningful training material through an intuitive, point-and-click interface.

Rich Data Ecosystem & Monetization Opportunities:
Through Narrative’s marketplace, publishers, content creators, and data owners can directly profit by offering their datasets for model training. Simultaneously, developers can tap into a vast reservoir of high-quality information to train models that align perfectly with their use cases.

Rosetta Stone 2.0 Engineered with Fine-Tuning:
Built using the same LLM customization features now offered to users, Rosetta Stone 2.0 exemplifies the power and potential of the Narrative platform. Its advanced normalization techniques handle complex and heterogeneous data sets, and it can be adapted into a specialized normalization model for industry- or business-specific contexts.

Bring fine tuning to your data
Narrative fine tuning is available anywhere Narrative is available, including in Narrative’s cloud and in your organization’s Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, or GCP account.

Customizing Rosetta Stone for Your Data

Narrative now gives you the option to tailor Rosetta Stone’s powerful data normalization capabilities so it fits your organization’s unique data and terminology—no major system overhauls required. This means you get more accurate and consistent results by aligning Rosetta Stone with your own industry language and internal structures.

When you’re ready to deploy Rosetta Stone, you can choose from different model sizes to strike the right balance of speed, detail, and cost. Simply pick the option that best fits your team’s priorities and infrastructure.

“The launch of our LLM fine-tuning platform and Rosetta Stone 2.0 marks a pivotal milestone in our journey to democratize AI development. With these offerings, anyone can create, refine, and extend powerful language models, and content creators can finally realize tangible value for their contributions. This is what the future of data and AI collaboration looks like—accessible, flexible, and mutually beneficial for all stakeholders.” –Nick Jordan, Founder, Narrative

For more information on Narrative’s LLM fine-tuning platform and Rosetta Stone 2.0, or to schedule a live demo, visit narrative.io.

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Fibocom Launches the Fibocom AI Stack to Facilitate On-device AI Deployment with a Fully Manageable Service at CES 2025

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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Fibocom (Stock code: 300638), a global leading provider of AIoT solutions and wireless communication modules, announces its brand-new Fibocom AI Stack, an integrated set of hardware, AI tools, AI engines, resourceful AI models, offering a fast-to-deploy solution for industry customers to intelligentize their devices with on-device AI. Laying the focus on device-side AI adoption, Fibocom AI Stack is designed to address the challenges of diverse demands for intelligent transformation across different industries by providing a complete solution to facilitate the deployment of AI models on smart devices.

Key Capabilities

Cross-Platform and Cross-System Flexibility: Leveraging the compatibility with mainstream AI frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX and MXNet, etc. and the support of multi-tier computing chips and modules, Fibocom AI Stack provides the optimal strategy for device-side AI deployment through the integration of an easy-to-deploy code and accessible AI toolchain for data annotation, model training, fine-tuning, achieving high-accuracy and high-speed inference.Powerful On-device AI Engine: Fibocom AI Stack’s high-performance inference engine ensures efficient operation, enhancing performance while minimizing power consumption. This aspect is crucial for real-world applications where resources are constrained. Additionally, it supports multi-language SDK interfaces, third-party apps as well as hardware accelerator.Simplifying On-device AI Development: Fibocom AI Stack provides an extensive library of AI models (e.g., for audio, CV, LLMs, multimodal LLMs) and provides the value-added model selection and fine-tuning service to help customers to develop industry-oriented models. Therefore, companies of any size can benefit from the manageable service, accelerating on-device AI deployment globally.

The versatility and compatibility of Fibocom AI Stack significantly ease the complexity of on-device AI deployments where many terminal devices are constrained with limited computational power and energy efficiency, making it a master tool for the intelligent transformation in smart retail, autonomous vehicles, smart wearables, robotics. It is worth mentioning that Fibocom AI Stack works across multiple Fibocom AI module and smart module series, supporting the computation power from entry to premium level.

“In the wave of AI-first, we are proudly seeing Fibocom leverages AI innovations and in-depth industry expertise to empower the on-device AI deployment with our game-changer Fibocom AI Stack, enabling businesses to scale smart devices in various industries with high-efficiency, cost-effective approaches,” said Willson Liu, President of Fibocom AI Research Institute. “Looking forward, we are expecting to collaborate with more industry customers to build their smart devices with Fibocom-empowered on-device AI solutions and enable a smart future with AI productivity.”

Explore more about Fibocom AI Stack, welcome to book a meeting with our sales team or visit us at IMC’s booth #10577 in the North hall at CES 2025 from January 7-10.

About Fibocom

Fibocom is a global leading provider of AIoT solutions and wireless communication modules as well as the first wireless communication module provider listed on China A-shares stock market (stock code: 300638). Fibocom offers a one-stop solution for industry customers by integrating wireless communication modules and IoT solutions. With over two decades of engagement in M2M and IoT communication technology and extensive expertise, we are capable of bringing reliable, convenient, secure and intelligent connectivity service to every industry, enriching smart life with a perfect wireless experience. Fibocom’s product portfolio ranges from cellular modules (5G/4G/3G/2G/LPWA), automotive-grade modules, AI modules, android-smart modules, GNSS modules and antenna service. Together, we aim to empower digital transformation across industries such as ACPC (Always Connected PC), mobile broadband, smart retail, C-V2X, robotics, smart energy, IIoT, smart cities, smart agriculture, smart home, telemedicine, etc.

Find out the latest news at www.fibocom.com, and follow us on LinkedIn /X /Facebook /Youtube.

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Manifest Achieves FedRAMP® High Authorization Through Palantir Technologies

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WESTPORT, Conn., Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Manifest, the industry leading software bill of materials (SBOM) and artificial intelligence bill of materials (AIBOM) management platform, today announced that it has achieved FedRAMP® High authorization through Palantir Technologies’ FedStart program. Manifest can deliver its industry-leading SBOM and AIBOM management platform to government customers in a FedRAMP®-authorized environment.

FedRAMP® High Authorization solidifies Manifest’s status as a trusted data platform to deliver SBOM and AIBOM management

FedRAMP® High authorization provides assurance that Manifest can handle the most sensitive data across the public sector including law enforcement data, healthcare data, or other mission-critical data.

“The ability to manage SBOM and AIBOM data in Manifest brings security and visibility into mission critical applications and models,” said Marc Frankel, CEO, Manifest. “With FedRAMP® High authorization, Manifest will continue to work closely with the Federal Government and its partners to bring SBOM and AIBOM management into their missions. We are honored to support our government customers and to help them secure software and AI supply chains.”

Manifest partnered with Palantir to achieve FedRAMP® High authorization. “We established Palantir FedStart with the aim of empowering companies to deliver solutions to the federal government quickly,” said Ali Monfre, Palantir’s FedStart Program Lead. “It is extremely exciting to see Manifest achieve this milestone through our program, an affirmation of our mutual ongoing commitment to ensuring secure and expedited access to cutting-edge technology for the government users who need it.”

Manifest launched in December 2021 in the wake of the catastrophic Log4shell vulnerability. The world’s most important industries – financial services, healthcare, defense, manufacturing – were left without insight into the open-source and third-party software components in the software they had procured, and Manifest has set out to deliver quantified software supply chain risk to critical infrastructure categories and governments.

Manifest has a proven history of success with various federal agencies, including at the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). With the successful achievement of FedRAMP® High authorization, Manifest is well-positioned to continue redefining the future of software and AI security in the public sector.

For more information on the Manifest FedRAMP® High authorization, click here. Manifest will host a webinar on February 4, 2025 to discuss delivering software supply chain security to Government. Click here to register.

For more information on Manifest and its solutions, please visit https://www.manifestcyber.com.

Media Contact:
Mike McDonel
mike@manifestcyber.com
(443) 537-9123

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