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The Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund recently announced an additional investment of 200 million RMB in Beijing Zhipu AI Technology Co., Ltd. (Zhipu). According to the fund, Zhipu is the first AI large language model company invested in since the fund's establishment and is one of the fastest-growing companies in the field. Zhipu has accumulated deep expertise in model development across text, reasoning, speech, image, video, and code, and boasts a robust commercialization strategy, having established a developer community and enterprise user base exceeding one million. This investment aims to further support Zhipu's growth and development.

New York-based AI startup 1Fort announced a $7.5 million seed funding round to improve the process of small businesses obtaining commercial insurance through its AI-powered platform. The company, which saw 200% revenue growth in 2024, aims to automate cumbersome and outdated manual processes, helping millions of underserved small businesses address insurance gaps. The funding round was led by Bonfire Ventures, with participation from Draper Associates.

To address the increasingly competitive AI market, OpenAI recently introduced a new API called Flex Processing. This new option allows users to utilize AI models at a lower cost, although with some trade-offs in response speed and availability. Flex Processing is designed to support lower-priority and non-production tasks such as model evaluation, data enrichment, and asynchronous workloads. Specifically, Flex Processing offers significantly reduced costs. For example, when using the o3 model, Flex Processing's price is...

With advancements in AI technology, OpenAI recently launched its latest inference models—o3 and o4-mini. These new models are not only more powerful in text understanding but also possess image reasoning capabilities, quickly becoming user favorites. According to TechCrunch, more users are leveraging ChatGPT to pinpoint the exact location where photos were taken, a phenomenon sparking widespread attention on social media. The o3 and o4-mini models offer powerful...

OpenAI's Chief Product Officer recently stated publicly that educational AI is one of the most valuable areas for artificial intelligence, with a vision of providing every child with an AI tutor. Research shows that children receiving tutoring significantly outperform those in traditional education, and the widespread adoption of AI will extend this advantage to 3 billion children globally. AIbase observes that this vision is driving a wave of intelligent transformation in global education. OpenAI is committed to fully supporting the widespread adoption of educational AI applications, injecting new energy into educational equity and efficiency. Image source note:

ByteDance has officially released UI-TARS-1.5 on the Hugging Face platform, an open-source multimodal agent built upon a powerful vision-language model. This release marks another significant breakthrough for ByteDance in the field of AI automated interaction, providing developers and users with a highly efficient and intelligent cross-platform GUI (Graphical User Interface) automation solution. UI-TARS-1.5: A New Benchmark for Multimodal Agents. UI-TARS-1.5 is the latest in ByteDance's UI-TARS series...

The ByteDance Doubao large model team announced the open-sourcing of UI-TARS-1.5, an open-source multimodal agent built on a vision-language model capable of efficiently executing various tasks in a virtual world. The model achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on seven typical GUI (Graphical User Interface) benchmark evaluations and demonstrated, for the first time, its long-term reasoning capabilities in games and interactive capabilities in open spaces. This open-source project marks a significant advancement in multimodal agent technology for GUIs.

Alibaba's Tongyi announced the open-sourcing of the Wan2.1 series of models, including a powerful first and last frame video generation model. This model utilizes the advanced DiT architecture, achieving several technological breakthroughs. It significantly reduces the computational cost of generating high-definition videos while ensuring high temporal and spatial consistency. This open-sourcing provides developers and creators with powerful tools, driving the advancement of video generation technology.

Recent advancements in generative AI have fueled innovation in video generation. A new video diffusion technology called FramePack has garnered significant attention. According to information compiled by AIbase from recent posts on X, FramePack's remarkably low VRAM requirements and efficient generation capabilities promise to usher in a new era of video generation accessible to mainstream GPUs. Technical Breakthrough: Only 6GB VRAM needed, effortlessly generating thousands of frames. FramePack's most significant advantage is its extremely low...

With advancements in AI technology, AI-powered face-swapping techniques are increasingly used across various sectors, leading to a rise in malicious applications for scams. To address this growing challenge, Lenovo has introduced a new technology: a Deepfake detection tool. Unveiled in Lenovo's recent promotional video, "Protecting AI with AI," this detector boasts over 96% accuracy. Powered by DeepSe

The open-source community recently welcomed a heavyweight tool – FastAPI-MCP. This near zero-configuration tool automatically converts FastAPI application interfaces into Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, opening a new path for seamless interaction between AI models and backend services. According to AIbase, FastAPI-MCP has quickly gained popularity among developers for its ease of use and high flexibility, finding widespread application in AI-driven automation scenarios. The project is now open-source; source code available.

Today, the official poster for Baidu founder Robin Li's first keynote speech in 25 years was released. According to the poster, Li will deliver a one-hour keynote speech titled "The World of Models, the Realm of Applications" at the Create 2025 Baidu AI Developer Conference on April 25th. The speech will focus on hot topics in the AI field, including MCP, intelligent agents, digital humans, and model costs, attracting widespread attention from the industry. A highlight of the conference will be Li's official release of Baidu AI's latest products and business progress. Previously, Baidu has...

ABB Group announced plans to spin off its robotics business as a 100% independent entity, intending to submit the proposal to the 2026 Annual General Meeting. The plan aims to launch ABB Robotics as an independently traded public company in the second quarter of 2026. This move is designed to provide ABB Robotics with a more focused capital structure and governance, enhancing its growth potential. ABB Chairman, Peter Voser, stated that the board believes that spinning off the robotics business will better optimize both companies for their customers.

Amidst the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, a significant strategic deployment concerning the future AI infrastructure is quietly unfolding. Sources reveal the UK is emerging as a prime contender to host a new overseas AI infrastructure project jointly developed by OpenAI and SoftBank, a development that has captured significant attention within the global tech community. This massive data center initiative, dubbed Stargate, boasts a staggering $500 billion investment, representing a colossal undertaking in the history of AI infrastructure. Although the project will initially be entirely based in the US,

404-GEN is pioneering a new era in digital content creation by becoming the first decentralized 3D model generation platform integrated with Unity. This integration empowers creators with seamless access to innovative tools, fostering a more democratic and accessible content creation landscape.