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1. xAI Launches API for Developers with a $25 Monthly Free Credit

Elon Musk's xAI announced today that its application programming interface (API) is now open to the public, offering a $25 monthly API credit free of charge until the end of the year. Although xAI's API pricing is slightly higher than other models, the free $25 credit may attract developers to at least check out xAI's tools and platform. Developers can expect more features and updates.

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AiBase Highlights:

✨ xAI's API allows developers to build applications on the Grok large language model.

🔥 xAI's API supports function calls, enabling LLMs to accept commands and access functionalities of other connected applications and services.

💡 xAI's API is compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic's SDKs, making it easy for developers to switch models to xAI's Grok-beta or other models on the platform.

2. Kunlun Wanwei's Tiangong AI Releases the Latest Version of Advanced AI Search Function

Kunlun Wanwei Technology Co., Ltd. announced that the latest version of its self-developed Tiangong AI advanced search function has been officially released, offering users more accurate and professional search experiences, especially in the fields of financial investment and scientific research. Tiangong AI has achieved a qualitative leap through multi-level analytical reasoning capabilities, financial investment professional AI search, scientific research professional AI search, and document AI reading analysis.

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AiBase Highlights:

🔍 Upgraded multi-level analytical reasoning capabilities provide accurate search results and transform user needs into intelligent answers.

💼 Financial investment professional AI search functions include financial data comparison, company analysis, research report interpretation, supporting key data extraction and analysis.

📚 Scientific research professional AI search includes over 200 million English papers, quickly presenting precise matching literature and summary citations, supporting users in obtaining the core content of papers.

3. Major Updates to the Claude AI Model Series: Claude 3.5 Haiku Launches, Significantly Enhancing AI Performance

Anthropic recently released major updates to its Claude AI model series, including the upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet and the newly launched Claude 3.5 Haiku. This update not only makes significant progress in performance but also demonstrates stronger competitiveness in cost efficiency. The new version of the model performs excellently in multiple performance benchmark tests, especially the Claude 3.5 Haiku model, which excels in programming tasks.

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AiBase Highlights:

🌟 The Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Haiku models have made significant progress in performance and cost efficiency.

💻 The new API allows Claude to interact directly with computer interfaces, enhancing human-computer collaboration capabilities.

🚀 The update will accelerate the adoption of AI technology across industries, helping businesses achieve efficient AI applications at a lower cost.

4. Apple Unveils Ferret-UI 2, Dramatically Enhancing UI Understanding!

With today's diverse and complex device screens, Apple has introduced Ferret-UI 2, a cross-platform UI understanding model, promising to unify user interfaces across various devices including iPhone, Android, iPad, web, and Apple TV. Ferret-UI 2 supports multiple platforms, introduces dynamic high-resolution image encoding technology and adaptive grid enhancement methods, and improves UI perception capabilities. It performs exceptionally in cross-platform UI understanding tasks through high-quality training data for basic and advanced tasks.

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AiBase Highlights:

🔍 Ferret-UI 2 supports multiple platforms, understanding UI screens of various devices, adapting to a diverse device ecosystem, and providing a wide range of application scenarios.

🖼 Ferret-UI 2 introduces dynamic high-resolution image encoding technology and adaptive grid enhancement methods, improving UI perception capabilities and accurately identifying visual elements and relationships.

🚀 Ferret-UI 2 learns basic and advanced tasks through high-quality training data, performing excellently in cross-platform UI understanding tasks, with good generalization capabilities.

Details: https://huggingface.co/jadechoghari/Ferret-UI-Llama8b

5. Apple to Integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT in iOS 18.2

Apple announced that it will integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT in the upcoming iOS 18.2 release, bringing users smarter Siri and other features. The new features include an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus, allowing users to subscribe to OpenAI's paid service for $20 per month. The profit model of Apple's collaboration with OpenAI is unclear, but both parties aim to achieve mutual benefits through increased exposure.

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AiBase Highlights:

🔹 iOS 18.2 will integrate ChatGPT, allowing users to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus.

🔹 ChatGPT Plus offers more features, with the free version being limited, and paid users experiencing a richer experience.

🔹 The profit model of Apple's collaboration with OpenAI is unclear, but both parties aim to achieve mutual benefits through increased exposure.

6. Rive Introduces Layouts Feature to Automatically Adapt Graphics to Various Screens, Solving Layout Challenges!

Rive's Layouts feature brings a breakthrough for designers and developers, freeing them from screen adaptation troubles. This feature allows animated graphics to automatically adapt to different devices and screen sizes, maintaining smooth animation effects and providing users with a better experience.

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AiBase Highlights:

✨ Automatically adapts to screen sizes, maintaining smooth animation effects, allowing designers to easily create responsive layouts.

🌟 Cross-device compatibility, graphics transition smoothly between different platforms, with multi-platform adaptation from a single creation.

💡 Multi-language support, automatically adjusts layout size based on language length, ensuring consistent display effects.

Details: https://rive.app/blog/introducing-layouts

7. New Open-Source Speech Recognition Model Moonshine: Five Times Faster Than OpenAI Whisper

Moonshine is an open-source speech recognition model designed to handle audio data more efficiently, especially suitable for short audio clips, supporting offline operation and consuming fewer computational resources.

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AiBase Highlights:

🚀 Moonshine processes audio five times faster than OpenAI Whisper, making it more economical and efficient.

🔍 Suitable for handling short audio clips, adjusting processing time based on audio length.

💻 Supports offline operation, suitable for hardware devices with limited resources.

Details: https://github.com/usefulsensors/moonshine

8. Shanghai AI Lab Releases LLaMA Version of o1 Project

Recently, the Shanghai AI Lab team released the LLaMA version of the o1 project, aiming to replicate OpenAI's o1, a tool for solving Olympiad-level math problems. The project uses Monte Carlo tree search, Self-Play reinforcement learning, PPO, and AlphaGo Zero technology, drawing widespread attention from the developer community. The project has made significant progress, surpassing other commercial closed-source solutions, and has made major advances in replicating OpenAI's o1 based on the AlphaGo Zero architecture. It has also open-sourced pre-trained datasets, models, and reinforcement learning training code.

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AiBase Highlights:

🔍 Uses advanced technologies to replicate OpenAI's o1, a tool for solving Olympiad-level math problems.

💡 Achieves significant progress in paired optimization strategies, surpassing other commercial closed-source solutions.

🚀 Makes major advances in replicating OpenAI's o1 based on the AlphaGo Zero architecture.

Details: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.02884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.07394

9. World's First Restaurant Using Generative AI Services Opens

A disruptive AI company has launched the world's first project using generative AI to assist restaurant waiters, making high-end restaurant Cibo Vino the first to adopt AI services. This technology enhances waiter training efficiency, offering customers up to 2.7 million perfect food, wine, and cocktail pairing suggestions, while also supporting handling customer allergies, dietary needs, and multilingual support.

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AiBase Highlights:

🍽️ Cibo Vino becomes the world's first restaurant using generative AI services, providing innovative employee training and recommendation support.

🤖 Brown Bacon AI technology offers nearly 2.7 million food and drink perfect pairing suggestions, significantly enhancing service quality.

🌍 The technology supports multiple languages, accurately handling customers' dietary needs and allergy information, improving dining experiences.