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Li Auto recently announced the major upgrade of its in-car intelligent assistant, Li Xiang, with the launch of its MindGPT 3.0 model. This upgrade not only marks another significant advancement for Li Auto in the field of artificial intelligence but also brings a more intelligent and efficient user experience.

At the grand opening of the 2025 Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference in Chengdu, Tencent announced its latest enterprise-grade AI application – the Tencent Cloud Large Model Knowledge Engine. This innovative tool aims to provide businesses with more flexible atomic capabilities and application development models, helping them build their own knowledge management systems. The Tencent Cloud Large Model Knowledge Engine has reportedly been successfully implemented in various sectors, including finance, energy, transportation, retail, healthcare, government, education, and tourism. Numerous companies, such as Sichuan Wen...

With the upcoming May Day holiday, travel is once again a hot topic. Feizhu's AI product, "Ask," has recently generated buzz on Xiaohongshu, with scalpers even selling invitation codes. This seemingly ordinary chat assistant boasts powerful capabilities, enabling users to quickly book flights and hotels, achieving an ideal 'what you see is what you get' travel planning experience. Unlike previous travel AI, Feizhu's "Ask" not only provides interactive communication but also completes the process from communication to transaction in a short time.

Midjourney has announced a major update to its image editor, introducing a revamped user interface (UI), layers functionality, a smart selection tool, and a more intelligent moderation system. This update not only optimizes the user experience but also significantly enhances the flexibility and precision of AI image editing, further solidifying Midjourney's leading position in the AI art generation field. Revamped UI: More Intuitive User Experience. A major highlight of this Midjourney image editor update is the newly designed user interface.

Recently, BMW Brilliance Lynk & Co Digital Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Lynk & Co) and ByteDance's Volcano Engine have partnered to innovate automotive marketing services with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. This collaboration leverages AI to achieve precise product matching and purchase recommendations, optimize content guidance, and enhance the user car-buying experience and dealer operational efficiency. BMW Group President and CEO in Greater China, Gao Xiang, stated that AI is key to BMW's creation of smarter and more considerate mobility solutions, and is being rapidly integrated into R&D, production, supply chain, product, service, and operations.

OpenAI recently released a practical guide to building agents, a true handbook for AI practitioners! This guide will demystify the process of creating your own AI agents in a fun and accessible way. Get ready to learn the essentials! But first, what exactly is an Agent...?

At the recently concluded 2025 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit Chengdu Forum, Tencent Cloud Vice President Wang Qi delivered a compelling speech on how enterprises can effectively implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. He highlighted that combining large models with knowledge bases is currently the optimal path for enterprises to achieve AI implementation. Wang Qi emphasized that Tencent Cloud adheres to a "core technology self-research + embracing advanced open source" multi-model strategy, a philosophy that permeates Tencent's comprehensive layout across underlying computing power, foundational large models, model development platforms, and intelligent applications. Image source note:

Amidst the rapid growth of the AI industry, Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced AI benchmarking project, is expanding its reach by officially launching a new company, Arena Intelligence Inc. According to Bloomberg, Chatbot Arena aims to leverage this new entity to secure more resources, significantly enhancing the platform's functionality and services. Founded in 2023, Chatbot Arena is primarily spearheaded by the University of California, Berkeley...

In today's increasingly prevalent AI landscape, LinkedIn's Chief Operating Officer, Dan Shapero, actively integrates these new tools into his daily work. He highlights AI's significant potential for boosting productivity, particularly in areas such as meeting preparation, rapid knowledge acquisition, and information summarization. However, he emphasizes that AI cannot replace human judgment in recruitment and decision-making processes. Shapero encourages business leaders to proactively embrace AI technology to meet future challenges.

With the ongoing impact of Trump-era tariffs, businesses face increasing geopolitical risks. Making effective decisions in a rapidly changing environment presents a significant challenge for corporations, non-profits, and consulting firms. London-based startup Hence AI recently launched Hence Global, an AI software product designed to help organizations monitor and manage these risks. Hence Global offers two primary functions: Firstly, it provides risk tracking for companies of all sizes.

On April 17, 2025, OpenAI announced via social media the release of a 34-page "Practical Guide to Intelligent Agents," offering developers comprehensive guidance on building agent applications. This marks another significant advancement in OpenAI's efforts to promote the practical application and standardization of AI technology. According to the announcement, the guide details how to utilize OpenAI's Responses API to build agents capable of web search, file search, and computer interaction. The Responses API is an evolution of Cha...

Tencent HunYuan has announced the open-sourcing of its customizable image generation plugin, InstantCharacter, with compatibility for the open-source text-to-image model Flux. This launch signifies a major breakthrough in character consistency and image generation accuracy, providing content creators with a more efficient and flexible creative tool.

This practical guide from OpenAI provides a hands-on approach to building intelligent agents. Includes helpful resources and documentation to aid in the development process.

In April 2025, Moonvalley, a video generation technology company, announced the successful completion of a $43 million Series B funding round. The round involved 11 unnamed investors, bringing the company's total funding to $113 million. This investment will further fuel Moonvalley's technological innovation and market expansion in the AI video generation field. Just ten days prior to the funding announcement, Moonvalley launched its first video generation model, Marey.

Beijing's Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund has announced an additional investment of 200 million RMB in Zhipu (Z.ai), building on its previous investment, to support the development of Zhipu's open-source models and the construction of its open-source community ecosystem. Zhipu is the first AI large language model company invested in by the fund and is currently the fastest-growing company. Zhipu has comprehensive accumulation in model capabilities including text, reasoning, speech, image, video, and code, a well-established commercial layout, and a developer community and enterprise user base exceeding one million.

X-ORIGIN-AI (Xuan Yuan Technology), a consumer-grade AI robot company, recently announced it has completed a Pre-A round of financing totaling nearly 100 million yuan. The round was led by Oriental Fortune Capital, with participation from Kingtop Capital and Lenovo Star, and Renchen Capital served as the financial advisor. This funding accelerates X-ORIGIN-AI's development in AI hardware and affective interaction, showcasing its breakthroughs in the development of emotionally intelligent AI products. X-ORIGIN-AI is dedicated to breaking the limitations of traditional AI tools and pushing human-computer interaction from a 'tool-based' to an 'emotionally intelligent' approach.