Performance Rivals GPT-4: Inflection AI Launches Next-Generation Language Model Inflection-2

Kingsoft Cloud's StarStream Training and Inference Platform Integrates with Zhipu GLM Series Inference Models

Kingsoft Cloud announced that its StarStream training and inference platform has fully integrated with Zhipu's GLM series inference models, becoming one of the first platforms to integrate this series. This move marks Kingsoft Cloud's further expansion in the AI field, providing users with more efficient, intelligent, and cost-effective model services.

BMW Brilliance and ByteDance's Volcano Engine Partner to Drive AI-Powered Automotive Marketing

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.

Beyond ChatGPT: OpenAI's Secret Weapon - A Practical Guide to Building Agents

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...?

Tencent Cloud's Wang Qi: Large Models and Knowledge Bases Empower Enterprise AI Application Landing

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:

Chatbot Arena, AI Benchmarking Platform, Launches New Company

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...

Zhipu AI Secures 500 Million RMB in Funding to Support Global Open-Source Community

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.

Asia's Rise: DeepSeek, Massive Investment, and Data Centers Fuel AI Competitiveness

At this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, numerous business and political leaders gathered, largely agreeing that US tech giants dominate the Artificial Intelligence (AI) landscape, with China and Asia seemingly lagging behind. However, in the wake of the event, this perception is being challenged. First, a previously unknown Chinese hedge fund, DeepSeek, has captured global attention. Its AI division has launched a large language model called R1,

Zhipu AI Receives Additional 200 Million RMB Investment from Beijing AI Industry Fund

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.

Microsoft Unveils New Language Model BitNet b1.58 2B4T, Requiring Only 0.4GB of Memory

ByteDance Doubao Open-Source Seed Agent Model UI-TARS-1.5

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.