China unveiled what was described as the country's first multilingual, fully multimodal AI input method for the Tibetan language on Sunday in Xining, Northwest China's Qinghai Province, at an event marking the 70th anniversary of Qinghai Normal University. The Zhida AI Input Method, developed by the State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Intelligence and powered by the laboratory's proprietary large language models and supporting AI infrastructure, supports text, voice and image-based input across devices, allowing users to synchronize personal dictionaries and input preferences through a single account. A professor at Qinghai Normal University and executive deputy director of the laboratory said the tool integrates a Tibetan keyboard, Latin transliteration, mixed voice input, image recognition and AI-powered assistance into a single interface. Given differences between spoken Tibetan dialects and written Tibetan, it supports spoken and written forms of three major Tibetan dialects - U-Tsang, Amdo, Kamba. Its image recognition function can extract text in all three languages from photos or screenshots. The tool offers automatic error correction, text refinement and two-way translation, with formal, friendly and academic writing styles, and its vocabulary database covers 23 disciplines, including education, law and literature. The Zhida large language model was also showcased, with nine versions ranging from 800 million to 100 billion parameters, three main models deployed online, and support for translation across 56 languages.