Recently, the Create 2024 Baidu AI Developer Conference was held in Shenzhen. At the conference, Robin Lee, the founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, comprehensively demonstrated the new "intelligent cartoon" and "intelligent picture book" functions of Baidu Wenku, leading content creation into a cross modal era.
In August last year, under the empowerment of the big model, Baidu Wenku was fully restructured into a "one-stop AI content creation platform". It has released various AI capabilities such as PPT generation, document generation, mind map generation, research report generation, photo creation, and full scene instruction editing, and actively promoted cross modal content creation.
Recently, Baidu Wenku has launched a major "cross modal AI comic and picture book production capacity". Users only need "one sentence" to achieve "minute level" creation, connecting the entire creative path from "creative inspiration" to "content generation". Users can also earn profits through work publishing, sharing, and part-time jobs. Meanwhile, in family education, parents can also use "smart picture books" to create exclusive stories and create a unique parent-child journey.
It is understood that Baidu Wenku's "Smart Comics" and "Smart Picture Books" functions have fully opened for public testing.
At the same time, Baidu Wenku announced a strategic cooperation with top domestic animation production and operation enterprise "Xuanji Technology" to jointly create a globally leading intelligent comic solution, and to conduct in-depth exploration in cross modal technology, content, and IP co creation, creating more new AI based Chinese comic IPs. In the future, both sides will jointly carry out comic creation competitions, establish comic exchange communities, and provide incentive measures such as course training, technical support, and traffic support for high-quality comic content creators, providing a sharing and monetization platform for more comic enthusiasts.
Easy to learn, fast in speed, and with explosive effects, "everyone can become a manga artist"
At present, there are still certain pain points in the industry in "AI drawing comics". Many AI comic creation tools often can only generate single and four grid images, and there is still room for improvement in scene correlation, character consistency, and plot reproduction. There are also some degree of flaws in the graphics, which can usually only be remedied through a large amount of post production work.
And Baidu Wenku's new "smart comics" not only solve the problem of "drawing" a single link, but also encapsulate AI in the entire workflow, greatly optimize and improve in "instruction generation story" and other aspects, creating a full chain content production platform. At present, Baidu Wenku's "Smart Comics" are at the forefront of the industry in terms of multi scene and multi character processing, character consistency, and story completeness, and have basically achieved "direct usability".
Industry insiders point out that Baidu Wenku's cross modal content creation has a visual style that is closer to real comics and even difficult to recognize as AI works. On Baidu Wenku, everyone can easily become a manga artist. In just a few minutes, they can almost complete a week or even several weeks of work for a manga company, and their creative efficiency has been exponentially improved; Bloggers of stories, novels, and comic content on new media platforms can also easily take the "advanced path" from comic content creation to monetization with the help of Baidu Wenku.
And this time, Baidu has collaborated with the behind the scenes team of Xuanji Technology, which has participated in the creation of "Qin Shi Ming Yue" and "Douluo Continent", allowing Baidu Wenku AI to combine with the most cutting-edge and top-notch IP operations in the market for practical applications. This kind of "practical combat" facing the front line of the market will undoubtedly serve as a catalyst for the vertical evolution of AI, achieving twice the result with half the effort.
The ability to create cross modal illustrations with a combination of images, text, and sound, creating a collaborative journey in family education
In addition to "smart comics," Baidu Wenku has launched a cross modal "smart picture book" function that combines graphics, text, and sound. It can create a video picture book with both graphics and text and human voice reading in just one sentence and 3 minutes. Parents can create exclusive stories for their children, with lower barriers and simpler operations.
In the context of family education, the per capita reading volume of picture books for Chinese children is only 10 books per year, while for children in European and American countries it is around 50 books. Baidu Wenku's "Intelligent Paintbook" uses cross modal technology to allow parents who have no painting ability to create exclusive notebooks for their children, enjoying a unique journey of co creation.
For example, when parents are worried about "what to do if their child doesn't like to take a shower", they can enter a topic in the Baidu Wenku app, such as "help me generate a picture book with the theme of" Xiao Ming doesn't like to take a shower ". Baidu Wenku AI will automatically generate a story script. After the user selects the picture book style, AI will automatically generate a video picture book. The flipping and voice reading experience, similar to paper picture books, further enhances the interactivity and fun of parent-child communication. In addition to graphic and textual stories, Baidu Wenku's "Intelligent Picture Book" is about to launch a dubbing function, greatly improving the sound fidelity and environmental integration of picture book reading, and providing a richer and more diverse exclusive story creation experience.
Industry insiders say that it is foreseeable that the extension of Baidu Wenku's "one-stop AI content creation platform" in cross modal capabilities and scenarios will provide a low threshold creative experience for more ordinary people, leading the trend of mass and popular content production.