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Microsoft Teams video conference feature has a separate sign language view on the platform, which can select up to two other participants’ videos to be fixed in a central location so that signers can be visible to every participant throughout the meeting. The feature can be enabled for all meetings or on a meeting-by-meeting basis, along with assigned internal or external interpreters through the Accessibility tab in the app settings. The company, won't however, provide sign language interpreters for app users. Prioritized screen pins will be distinguishable from other pinned screens, even when a presentation is being shared, with a larger size and high video quality. The feature is personal to users and won't be universally applied to all participants if one has been pinned as a sign language view. The Accessibility preferences will let users make changes during calls with options available on a pane to access settings like turning on sign language view by default...

Tencent Holdings said on Thursday companies could now use its large language artificial intelligence (AI) model "Hunyuan" as it premiered the much-awaited product amid a race by tech firms race to become China's AI champion. The Chinese tech giant and owner of the WeChat social media platform conducted a demonstration before a live audience at a conference in Shenzhen, and said Hunyuan had become the foundation of more than 50 of its products and services. "By July, there are more than 130 large language models in China," Jiang Jie, Tencent's vice president, said. "A war of a hundred models has begun." Hunyuan's debut comes after several Chinese tech firms including Baidu Inc and SenseTime Group recently unveiled their own AI model s. Tencent, China's most valuable internet company, said Hunyuan had more than 100 billion parameters and was trained with more than 2 trillion tokens, two metrics often used to measure AI mod...