Qihoo 360 has officially launched its AI product “Digital Human Square,” a platform enabling users to interact with over 200 virtual characters. These characters encompass a wide range of personalities, including classic Chinese literary figures like the Monkey King and historical figures like Zhuge Liang. Additionally, the platform features digital employees from different functions including marketing, operations, and programming. Users can initiate conversations with these virtual beings and receive personalized answers and suggestions. The company also announced testing a large language model, boasting 100 billion parameters. The language model features cross-modal generating capabilities, enabling it to process text, image, voice, and video. It supports text-to-image, image-to-image, and text-to-video generation. The model also passed evaluation by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a research institution under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). [PingWest, in Chinese; PingWest, in Chinese]