Meitu riding cutting-edge AI breakthroughs

Chinese tech company Meitu Inc, which is known for its popular image-editing app and content sharing software, is doubling down on artificial intelligence-powered large language models, which are expected to see a wide range of applications in fields like e-commerce, advertising, gaming, film, television and animation.

Wu Xinhong, founder, chairman and CEO of Meitu, said AI is disrupting the traditional imaging and design industry, and serves as a significant driving force in bolstering innovation and improving work efficiency.

The multimodal LLMs that integrate different types of content like text, images, audio and video into AI models are key to the development of AI technology overall, Wu said, adding that Meitu is mainly concentrating on the visual domain, which covers the creation of images and videos.