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1. Baidu Ventures Responds to Missing Investment in DeepSeek: Visited First but Huanfang Wasn't Short on Funds
Recently, the domestic AI company DeepSeek has gained widespread attention for its outstanding performance. Although DeepSeek and Baidu Ventures are in the same building, they did not collaborate. Baidu Ventures CEO Gao Xue responded that although they proactively visited DeepSeek, they could not become an investor as DeepSeek had not yet split off its independent financing plan.
【AiBase Highlights:】
🏢 DeepSeek and Baidu Ventures are in the same building but did not collaborate.
🤝 Baidu Ventures proactively visited DeepSeek, maintaining friendly interactions.
💡 Baidu Ventures focuses on investing in AI startups to promote industry development.
2. 2024 Product Hunt Awards Announced: AI Programming Tool Cursor Named Best of the Year, Many AI Products Recognized
Product Hunt recently released the 2024 Golden Kitty Awards list, honoring products that excel in technology and innovation. The AI product category performed particularly well, with Cursor being named the best product of the year, significantly enhancing developer productivity. Additionally, Notion Sites and Supabase AI Assistant received awards in the no-code and data security fields, showcasing the importance of technology in streamlining workflows and managing data.
【AiBase Highlights:】
🌟 Cursor wins Product of the Year, boosting developer efficiency.
🌐 Notion Sites wins the no-code award, simplifying website building processes.
🔒 Supabase AI Assistant wins the data security award, promoting intelligent data management.
Details link: https://www.producthunt.com/golden-kitty-awards/hall-of-fame
3. Doubao: Video Generation Model “VideoWorld” Now Open Source
The Doubao large model team, under joint research from Beijing Jiaotong University and the University of Science and Technology of China, has launched the “VideoWorld” video generation experimental model. This model's innovation lies in relying solely on visual information for knowledge learning, breaking through the limitations of traditional language models. By analyzing video data, the model demonstrates outstanding reasoning and planning capabilities in Go and robotic tasks, especially excelling in complex tasks.
【AiBase Highlights:】
🌟 The “VideoWorld” model achieves knowledge learning solely through visual information, without needing a language model.
🤖 The model exhibits excellent reasoning and planning capabilities in Go and robotic simulation tasks.
🔓 The project code and model are open source, welcoming participation and exchange from all sectors.
Details link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09781
4. ChatGPT Traffic Surges to Sixth Globally, Surpassing Netflix and Reddit
According to Similarweb statistics, ChatGPT ranked sixth in global traffic in January 2025, indicating its growing popularity among users. Although it still has a long way to go to catch up with Google, ChatGPT's traffic share has reached 2.33%. OpenAI recently opened the ChatGPT search function, further attracting users and indicating a rising demand for AI tools in the market.
【AiBase Highlights:】
📈 ChatGPT has become the sixth most visited website globally, with a traffic share of 2.33%.
📊 Google and YouTube account for 29.21% and 20.40% of global traffic, respectively.
🚀 OpenAI's ChatGPT search function is fully open, attracting more users.
5. The Top-Level Domain ai.com Redirects to DeepSeek's Official Website
Recently, the ai.com domain has redirected to the official website of the Chinese AI company DeepSeek, marking the first time this domain has shifted to a Chinese enterprise. Since its registration in 1993, ai.com has switched between several AI companies, including ChatGPT and x.ai. Although there were rumors that OpenAI attempted to acquire the domain for $11 million, this has not been officially confirmed.
【AiBase Highlights:】
🔄 The ai.com domain has redirected to the Chinese AI company DeepSeek for the first time, marking its rise in global technology.
💰 There were rumors that OpenAI tried to acquire ai.com for $11 million, but this has not been confirmed, highlighting the domain's contentious nature.
🌍 This change raises attention to the influence of Chinese AI companies in the global market, reflecting fierce industry competition.
6. Meta AI Launches Brain-Machine Interface Model Brain2Qwerty, Decoding Typing Content via Brainwaves
The Brain2Qwerty model launched by Meta AI brings new hope to brain-machine interface (BCI) technology. This model uses a non-invasive approach, employing EEG and MEG to decode participants' typing content with high accuracy. Research shows that MEG decoding significantly outperforms EEG, reducing the character error rate to 32%.
【AiBase Highlights:】
🧬 The Brain2Qwerty model decodes typing content via EEG and MEG, providing new insights for BCI technology.
📊 The character error rate for MEG decoding is significantly lower than that of EEG, with the best participants achieving a CER of 19%.
🔍 Future challenges include real-time decoding, portability of MEG devices, and their application among individuals with disabilities.
Details link: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/brain-to-text-decoding-a-non-invasive-approach-via-typing/
7. OpenAI's New Project Sora Tests Image Generation, Possible Launch of DALL-E 4?
OpenAI recently announced that its internal testing project Sora is developing image generation features, allowing users to quickly switch between video and image generation. This new feature aims to simplify user operations and enhance the relevance and quality of content generation. Additionally, Sora has reclassified video pushes, introducing “Best” and “Top” categories for better content filtering.
【AiBase Highlights:】
🎨 Sora will introduce image generation features, allowing users to quickly switch between video and image generation.
📊 The new video push categories “Best” and “Top” will optimize content filtering.
🤔 Sora's image generator is codenamed “papaya,” possibly introducing DALL-E 4.
8. OpenAI's $14 Million Super Bowl Ad Debut
In the latest Super Bowl, OpenAI showcased a captivating 60-second advertisement that highlights the close relationship between artificial intelligence and human innovation. The ad features a unique pointillism style, vividly presenting the evolution of technology from early tools to modern AI technologies, aimed at helping the general audience understand the practical applications of AI. The production process of the advertisement utilized the AI tool Sora, ultimately completed by human artists, emphasizing the combination of human creativity and AI.
【AiBase Highlights:】
🎉 OpenAI's first advertisement aired during the Super Bowl, showcasing the close relationship between AI and human innovation.
💡 The advertisement cost $14 million, aiming to help the general audience understand the practical applications of AI.
📈 OpenAI hopes to use this advertisement to increase brand exposure, targeting a valuation of $300 billion and an annual revenue of $11.6 billion.
9. Meta AI Launches MILS System, Teaching LLMs to Handle Multimedia Data Without Specialized Training
The MILS system from Meta AI enables large language models to process images, videos, and audio without specialized training through an innovative multimodal iterative approach. This system uses a pairing mechanism of generators and scorers, continuously optimizing generation schemes, demonstrating significant advantages in image description and multimodal information fusion.
【AiBase Highlights:】
🖼️ The MILS system optimizes the ability of large language models to handle multimedia data through a pairing mechanism of generators and scorers.
🎥 MILS outperforms existing models in video content description, showcasing strong multimodal information fusion capabilities.
🌐 With the development of multimodal AI systems, MILS is expected to drive smarter reasoning capabilities and applications in the future.
10. Hackers Use “Corrupted” Pickle Files to Upload Malicious AI Models on HuggingFace
Recently, cybersecurity researchers discovered two malicious machine learning models on the well-known platform HuggingFace. These models employed “corrupted” pickle file techniques to successfully bypass security checks, raising concerns. Research indicates that these models contain hidden reverse shells, allowing them to connect to hard-coded IP addresses for remote control by hackers. HuggingFace has updated its security scanning tools to address related vulnerabilities.
【AiBase Highlights:】
🛡️ Malicious models use “corrupted” pickle file techniques to successfully evade security detection.
🔍 Researchers found that these models contain reverse shells that connect to hard-coded IP addresses.
🔧 Hugging Face has updated its security scanning tools to fix related vulnerabilities.
11. Altman Reveals: GPT-4.5 is Here, AI Programming Ability Will Surpass Top Human Programmers by Year-End
During a dialogue event at the University of Tokyo, OpenAI CEO Altman revealed the latest internal reasoning model GPT-4.5, claiming its programming ability has reached the top 50 programmers globally and is expected to become the best by year-end. He emphasized that advancements in AI technology will change the demands for education and professional skills, and traditional math and programming tasks will no longer be human strengths, making it particularly important to cultivate creative thinking and adaptability.
【AiBase Highlights:】
🚀 The GPT-4.5 model's programming ability has reached the top 50 programmers globally and is expected to surpass top human programmers by year-end.
📚 The impact of AI on education and professional skills is becoming increasingly significant, with traditional tasks no longer being human strengths, necessitating the cultivation of creative thinking.
🔍 OpenAI plans to move towards open source, leveraging the immense contributions brought by open source to promote a leap in social productivity.
12. Christie's Auction House to Hold Its First AI Art Auction
Christie's Auction House announced it will hold its first auction focused on AI artworks on February 20, sparking heated discussions in the art world. This auction, titled “Augmented Intelligence,” will showcase works by multiple artists, including robots that paint live. While Christie's is enthusiastic about this emerging art form, many artists and critics express concerns about the use of AI generation tools, fearing it may infringe on artists' rights.
【AiBase Highlights:】
🎨 Christie's will hold its first auction focused on AI artworks on February 20.
🤖 The exhibition will showcase works by multiple artists, including live-painting robots.
⚖️ Public reaction to this auction is polarized, with some supporting AI art, while others worry about infringement of artists' rights.
