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This article details LLaVA-UHD v3, developed by teams from Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Through its innovative Progressive Visual Compression (PVC) framework, the model tackles key challenges faced by multimodal large models (MLLMs) when processing high-resolution images: specifically, the heavy computational burden of global native resolution encoding and the lack of global context in patch-based encoding. It innovatively balances efficiency and performance. The PVC framework comprises Refined Patch Embedding (RPE) for fine-grained modeling and Windowed Token Compression (WTC) for efficient token compression, significantly reducing the number of visual tokens while maintaining global semantic consistency. Experiments demonstrate that LLaVA-UHD v3 achieves a 1.9 times speedup compared to mainstream models like Qwen2-VL and shows highly competitive performance across multiple vision-language benchmarks, proving its capability for "efficiency without degradation" without sacrificing performance.

The article emphasizes the critical role of UX professionals in guiding AI strategy within organizations. It argues that while management is excited about AI for efficiency and competitive advantage, UX input is essential to prevent common implementation failures that neglect user experience, quality, and judgment calls. Instead of fearing job displacement, UX professionals should embrace the evolution of their roles, leveraging their understanding of users, workflows, and quality standards to identify appropriate automation candidates, set guardrails, and define success metrics for AI initiatives. The article outlines a six-step framework: understanding management's motivations, auditing current states and opportunities, defining AI principles, building a UX-in-AI strategy, pitching it to leadership, and demonstrating value. By connecting UX priorities to AI momentum and framing their contributions in terms of ROI and risk mitigation, UX professionals can ensure AI implementations are effective, user-friendly, and strategically aligned.

This article provides a weekly roundup from the ModelScope Community, showcasing the latest technical resources available on the platform from November 29 to December 6. It covers 1,521 new models (e.g., DeepSeek-V3.2 for enhanced Agent capabilities, GELab-Zero-4B-preview supporting GUI Agents, and Meituan's efficient bilingual image generation and editing LongCat-Image series), 262 new datasets (including mobile UI descriptions, Chinese speech, and LLM failure cases), 535 innovative applications, and 5 featured technical articles. The aim is to offer tech professionals a one-stop overview of the latest AI domain progress and resource access, enabling users to promptly understand and utilize cutting-edge AI technologies and tools.

The article elaborates on a journey towards decentralizing architectural decision-making within engineering teams, inspired by the efficient, leaderless system of slime mold. It begins by outlining the challenges of a legacy system and the goal of re-architecting to a cloud-native SaaS platform. Key to this transformation were "Team Topologies" for team setup and "Accelerate" for promoting loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams. The core of their strategy is the 'advice process,' where any team can make a decision after consulting affected parties and experts, publicly recording their rationale. Tools discussed include Context Maps for visualizing system areas and relationships, Architectural Principles for guiding decisions aligned with business strategy, and Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) for documenting significant decisions and their 'why.' The Architectural Advisory Forum (AAF) serves as a weekly platform for sharing spikes, ADRs, and discussing DORA metrics, fostering collaborative decision-making and transparency. The article shares the emotional rollercoaster and learning experience of the first ADR, emphasizing the importance of distinguishing advice from opinion and adopting an iterative approach.

This article details the ByteDance Seed team's “Arm-Hand Shared Autonomy Framework” (DexGrasp-VLA), designed to tackle the challenge of acquiring high-quality operational data for general-purpose robot dexterous manipulation. The framework cleverly divides responsibilities: human operators manage the high-level positioning and obstacle avoidance of the robotic arm, while the autonomous AI system (DexGrasp-VLA) handles the fine grasping of the dexterous hand. This significantly reduces the operator’s cognitive load, boosting data collection efficiency by 25%. The core of the research lies in constructing a complete technical system that includes the DexGrasp-VLA strategy, a human-robot arm-hand collaborative framework, an arm-hand feature enhancement module, and a corrective human-robot closed-loop. It specifically emphasizes the importance of high-precision tactile feedback from the Xingdong XHAND1 dexterous hand for robust grasping, demonstrating a success rate of nearly 90% in various object grasping tasks. This technology lays the foundation for dexterous manipulation to move from laboratories into industrial applications.

This article, through an interview with Velotric founder Zhang Xi, reveals how a Chinese entrepreneur achieved remarkable success in the US E-bike market. After a successful exit as a co-founder of the shared mobility company Lime, Zhang Xi established Velotric, targeting the demand for recreational sports among affluent Americans aged 40 and above. Facing the imminent boom in the US E-bike market, Velotric focused on addressing user pain points (such as comfort and low step-through design), emphasizing product safety, and leveraging China's strengths in supply chain efficiency and rapid iteration speed. This strategy enabled them to build a sales network primarily based on offline dealers, effectively complemented by online marketing. Currently, Velotric has become the second-largest E-bike brand in the US and holds the top position in the offline market in the Eastern US, having sold 150,000 units and achieving profitability. The article also explores how entrepreneurs transition from an engineering mindset to being business results-driven, and the core philosophy for companies expanding internationally to balance Chinese supply chain capabilities with local market demands.

AWS has officially released Database Savings Plans, extending cost-saving opportunities to core database services including Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, and Neptune. Customers can achieve up to 35% cost savings by committing to a consistent usage rate ($/hour) over a one-year term. A key highlight of this plan is its flexibility: users can switch database engines, adjust deployment types (e.g., from provisioned to serverless), and even shift usage across different AWS Regions without losing their committed discounts. Betty Zheng, a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS, emphasized that this flexibility allows customers to optimize costs while maintaining choice in how their workloads run, particularly during migration or modernization efforts. AWS provides comprehensive tools like the Billing and Cost Management Console, recommendation tools, and a Purchase Analyzer to help customers select, evaluate, and manage their Savings Plans effectively.

This beginner-friendly guide introduces essential cloud security concepts in AWS, emphasizing the customer's role within the Shared Responsibility Model. It begins by defining cloud security and its importance, then delves into practical aspects like managing the AWS Root user versus IAM users. The article provides step-by-step instructions for creating an IAM user with appropriate permissions and highlights the critical role of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for both Root and IAM accounts. It further explains the AWS Shared Responsibility Model with examples for RDS and S3, clarifying what AWS secures ("security of the cloud") and what customers must secure ("security in the cloud"). Finally, it demonstrates how to grant specific permissions to an IAM user using inline policies, ensuring the principle of least privilege.

This article provides a detailed introduction to Zhipu's latest open-source large vision model series, GLM-4.6V, available in 106B and 9B versions. Through extensive hands-on testing, the author demonstrates their powerful capabilities in image recognition, multimodal output, tool calling, and Agent integration. The 9B version, GLM-4.6V-Flash, can be locally deployed on consumer-grade graphics cards, effectively addressing data privacy and edge deployment challenges, and showcasing immense potential in industrial quality inspection scenarios. The 106B version strikes an optimal balance between performance and private deployment. The article also uses practical examples, such as facial recognition, image search, product price comparison, and web page reproduction, to vividly illustrate how GLM-4.6V functions as the 'eyes' for an Agent, collaborating with models like GLM-4.6 to significantly enhance the processing efficiency and user experience for complex tasks. Furthermore, the article provides detailed instructions on the model's open-source access methods.

The author uses a case where a seasoned engineer 'exposed the flaws in' a novice's frontend validation to directly demonstrate its security inadequacies. It highlights that hackers can bypass the browser UI and directly modify and send requests using tools like cURL. The article deeply analyzes that the sole purpose of frontend validation is to enhance user experience, not to provide security, and elaborates on how the backend should defend against such attacks. This includes never trusting critical data transmitted from the frontend, utilizing Schema validation libraries, and performing comprehensive permission and state validation. Furthermore, the article introduces replay attacks and their defense mechanisms, such as employing Redis counters for rate limiting and unique Request IDs to ensure idempotency. The core idea is that backend developers should consistently assume all incoming data is malicious to construct a truly secure system.