Recently, Palantir announced a partnership with Anthropic and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop the Claude Cloud Platform for use by the U.S. government’s defense and intelligence sectors. According to the announcement from the three companies, this collaboration will integrate Claude 3 and 3.5 into Palantir’s artificial intelligence platform, which will be hosted on AWS. Notably, Palantir and AWS have already received approval from the U.S. Department of Defense.

On October 22, 2024, Qualcomm unveiled its new flagship mobile platform, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, at the Snapdragon Technology Summit. This chip is manufactured using TSMC's second-generation 3nm process and features Qualcomm's self-developed Oryon CPU architecture, achieving a dual enhancement in performance and energy efficiency. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is Qualcomm's first mobile platform to adopt an all-large core design, eliminating the previous mix of big and little cores. The CPU consists of two super cores with a frequency of up to 4.32GHz and six cores running at 3.53GHz.

Meta's Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth recently confirmed an important decision to The Verge: the company has canceled the high-end headset Quest Pro2 (codename La Jolla), originally scheduled for release in 2027, and is now developing a new ultra-lightweight headset. This news marks a significant change in Meta's hardware strategy and reveals a new direction for the company's VR technology development. According to Bosworth, the main reason for canceling Quest Pro2 was primarily...

At the 2024 China International Information and Communication Exhibition, Huawei once again showcased its innovative strength in the field of communication technology. Feng Zhishan, President of Huawei's Optical Access Division, delivered a speech at the forum "Accelerating the Commercialization of F5G-A 10Gb Optical Networks, Embracing New Opportunities in the Intelligent Era," painting a vivid picture of the booming optical broadband industry. With the rapid development of AI technology, various intelligent applications are emerging like mushrooms after rain, driving the optical broadband industry towards the 10Gb optical network. China's 10Gb optical network industry has entered a phase of large-scale explosion, with more than 10 provinces and cities nationwide implementing 10Gb optical network initiatives.

Recently, Amazon began testing advertisements in its newly launched shopping chatbot, Rufus. This information was revealed through an update log released by Amazon. The company stated that in the future, users of Rufus will see some sponsored ads related to their searches during conversations. These ads will not only appear in the chat interface, but may also be accompanied by text generated by Rufus to help users better understand the ad content.

Tom Hanks has issued a warning on social media, alerting the public to be cautious of fraudulent ads that misuse his image, pointing out that these ads are created using artificial intelligence to promote so-called miracle cures and wonder drugs. He emphasized that he is not associated with such ads or products and that genuine medical advice should come from professionals. Hanks' warning has raised concerns about the safety of celebrity and public figures' images, especially in the digital age where this misuse is becoming increasingly common. In response to this issue, Tennessee has passed the 'Image and Voice Safety Act' aimed at...

Meta has released a mid-term update showing a significant increase in the adoption rate of its Llama series models, especially after the launch of Llama 3.1. The downloads of the Llama models on the Hugging Face platform are approaching 350 million, a tenfold increase from last year, attracting well-known companies such as Zoom, Spotify, AT&T, and Goldman Sachs. The development of open-source AI not only approaches the performance of closed models but also achieves widespread application at the enterprise level.

Moore Threads has announced the open-source release of its audio understanding model, MooER, making it the first large-scale open-source speech model based on domestically produced full-feature GPUs. MooER supports Chinese and English speech recognition and translation, utilizing a three-part model structure that demonstrates robust multilingual processing capabilities. The inference code and a model trained on 5000 hours of data have been released as open source, with plans to further open-source training code and an enhanced version trained on 80,000 hours of data. In comparative testing, MooER-5K has shown outstanding performance, achieving a Chinese CER of 4.21% and an English WER of 17.98%, particularly.

Perplexity AI plans to launch advertising for its search application in the fourth quarter, which has been downloaded over 2 million times and responds to more than 230 million queries each month, with U.S. query volume increasing eightfold in the past year. By partnering with media and content platforms, Perplexity has introduced a revenue-sharing model that allows publishers to earn revenue through its search engine. Perplexity has also announced the adoption of a CPM model as part of its advertising strategy, and expects to include categories such as technology, health, art, finance, and food and beverage.

Under the magic of technology, Elon Musk's Neuralink company has brought new hope to a paralyzed gaming enthusiast named Alex. With brain-computer interface technology, Alex is not only able to play the game 'CS2' but has even achieved a stunning triple kill, something that was unimaginable before.

Recently, Moore Threads and Shiyin Intelligence announced a strategic partnership to jointly promote the application of domestically produced full-function GPUs in industry large model solutions. The two parties have completed the adaptation work of the Moore Threads Kuaguo Computing Cluster with Shiyin Intelligence's 'A Leaf Light Boat' multimodal large model, integrating their respective advantageous resources in the field of artificial intelligence, and are committed to providing a more intelligent and efficient service experience.

Alibaba Group recently released its financial report for the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, highlighting the outstanding performance of Alibaba Cloud. The report shows that Alibaba Cloud's revenue grew by 6% year-on-year, reaching 26.549 billion yuan, with AI-related product revenue achieving triple-digit growth and public cloud business also realizing double-digit growth. Adjusted EBITA profit increased by 155% year-on-year, reaching 2.337 billion yuan.

ByteDance and a research team from Shanghai University of Science and Technology have developed an innovative technology called 'HeadGAP' that can quickly generate highly realistic and animatable 3D virtual head models using just three photos taken from different angles, enabling facial expression synchronization. During the research process, the team first extracted 3D head prior information from a large multi-view dynamic dataset to customize the virtual avatar for the target individual. By utilizing a Gaussian point cloud-based self-decoding network and partial dynamic modeling, in conjunction with inversion and fine-tuning strategies, they efficiently achieved high-quality and diverse...