On the 3rd of January 2023 MPAI has posted the MPAI Metaverse Model (MMM) calling for comments and contributions until the 23rd of January. The MMM is a proposal for a method to develop Metaverse standards. It is based on an experience honed during decades of digital media standardisation that seeks to accommodate the extreme heterogeneity of industries all needing a common technology complemented by industry specificities. You can see the recording of the online presentation and the PowerPoint file:…

MPAI is pleased to announce that, after a full year of efforts, it has been able to publish the MPAI Metaverse Model, the master plan of a project designed to facilitate the establishment of standards promoting Metaverse Interoperability. Two online presentations of MPAI-MMM will be made on 2023/01/10 at two time slots convenient for Asia-EU and EU-America: 08:00 UTC: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtcuuurTsuHdcbXCAy-we7soWkIqK5a2MK 18:00 UTC: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqtrjkuGdz0_nQWhLIJMvSHbfAkqP39 The industry is showing a growing interest in the Metaverse that is expected to create new jobs,…

MPAI is pleased to announce that Multimodal Conversation (MPAI-MMC), AI Framework (MPAI-AIF), and Context-based Audio Enhancement (MPAI-CAE) have been adopted without modification by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) Standards Association as IEEE Standards 3300-2022, 3301-2022, and 3302-2022, respectively. The sequence of steps that has led to this result has involved the granting to IEEE of the right to publish and distribute the text of IEEE Standards 3300-2022, 3301-2022, and 3302-2022 as derivative works of MPAI-MMC, MPAI-AIF, and MPAI-CAE. It has also…

After establishing 25 months ago, adding 5 standards in its game bag, and submitting 4 of them to IEEE for adoption, what is the next MPAI challenge? The answer is that MPAI has more than one challenge in its viewfinder and that this post will report on the first of them, namely the next standards MPAI is working on. AI Framework (MPAI-AIF). Version 1 (V1) of this standard specifies an environment where non-monolithic component-based AI applications are executed. The new (V2)…