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At this morning's Google I/O 2025 conference, Google announced a series of exciting new technologies, further showcasing its latest advancements in artificial intelligence, immersive experiences, and developer tools. Here are the major highlights we can expect: 1. Material 3 Expressive: The Future of Expressive Design. Google will unveil Material 3 Expressive at the conference, a new design system described as "the future of Google's user experience design." Material 3 Ex...

At the recent Shanghai Auto Show, Zhuoyu Technology (hereinafter referred to as "Zhuoyu") announced its successful integration of Alibaba's Tongyi large model, marking another significant advancement in the field of intelligent driving. As an intelligent driving solutions provider and service provider, Zhuoyu leverages Alibaba Cloud's powerful computing capabilities to build an end-to-end intelligent driving world model, aiming to enhance the intelligence level of vehicles. In recent years, intelligent driving technology has rapidly developed, with major automakers significantly increasing their investment in this area. Zhuoyu Technology's collaboration with Alibaba's Tongyi large model has...

Listen Labs, an AI-powered market research company backed by Sequoia Capital, has secured $27 million in funding to revolutionize the market research industry.

Xiaomi has released a new smart speaker for ¥199, featuring an integrated AI large language model for enhanced intelligent dialogue capabilities.

Jieyue Xingchen and Yuanli Lingji have signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing. Both parties will leverage their respective technological advantages to carry out in-depth cooperation in multimodal large model technology, intelligent terminal Agents, and embodied AI scenarios. The goal of this cooperation is to achieve "reasoning in the physical world", jointly developing an intelligent robot named "RoboAgent", and promoting the practical application of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). At the signing ceremony, Dr. Jiang Daxin, founder and CEO of Jieyue Xingchen, and the co-founders of Yuanli Lingji...

According to the State Intellectual Property Office of China, China now holds the largest number of global AI patents, accounting for 60% of the total.

JSON Visuals for ChatGPT is officially released, injecting a new creative dimension into ChatGPT's image generation capabilities. According to AIbase, this tool offers over 50 unique aesthetic codes, combined with an attribute randomizer, to generate an infinite number of style combinations. Users simply input an image and JSON style code to create personalized visual content. The release announcement has sparked enthusiastic responses on social media, with the community particularly praising its surreal tech style. Core features: Flexible style generation and randomized JSON combinations.

Zhipu BigModel's open platform has adjusted prices for several of its model offerings. GLM-4-FlashX, for example, is now priced at just 10 RMB per 100 million tokens. Built on a powerful pre-trained base, this model boasts exceptionally fast inference speeds and functional capabilities comparable to GPT-4, excelling in data extraction, generation, and translation.

The first Embodied AI Robot Games will be grandly held in Wuxi City. As one of the key participating teams, Unitree Robotics will compete with robot companies from all over China in intense racing competitions and exciting dance performances. To date, more than 100 related companies have registered to participate. Top robot companies from Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Chongqing and other places will participate in the racing event. Unitree Robotics will compete in this event alongside the jointly-built Embodied AI Robot Innovation Center (Beijing) and the Humanoid Robot Innovation Center (Shanghai).

Mozilla recently launched a new feature in Firefox Labs – "Link Preview." This feature aims to improve browsing experience by allowing users to quickly understand the content of a link without opening a new page, using a simple mouse operation. With the feature enabled, users only need to hold down the Shift and Alt keys and hover their mouse over any link to have a preview card pop up. The card displays the page title, a short description, images, estimated reading time, and three automatically generated summary points.

Perplexity AI has launched a new voice assistant feature within its iOS app, significantly enhancing the utility and interactive experience of its AI assistant. According to AIbase, the new feature supports setting alarms, finding directions, sending messages, making restaurant reservations, and more. Combined with powerful real-time search and multi-app integration, it offers users a seamless smart living experience. The update is now live on the App Store and has received enthusiastic community feedback, marking Perplexity's strong advance into the comprehensive AI assistant market. Core features.

Meta recently announced the global rollout of real-time translation for its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Previously, this feature was limited to early testing users in select markets. This full launch allows users to enjoy more convenient language conversion across various scenarios, especially the ability to overcome language barriers offline. According to Meta, the real-time translation feature on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses now covers global sales markets and supports English, French, and Italian (among other languages).

On April 24th, Kunlun Wanwei announced the official open-sourcing of its multimodal reasoning model, Skywork-R1V2.0 (hereinafter referred to as R1V2.0). This upgraded version demonstrates significant improvements in both visual and text reasoning capabilities, particularly excelling in deep reasoning for challenging science problems in the College Entrance Examination and general task scenarios. It is considered the currently most balanced open-source multimodal model, equally adept at visual and text reasoning.