Google's Gemini AI Assistant has not yet introduced advertising, but this may change in the future. During Alphabet's investor conference call, CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned that the company has 'very good ideas' regarding how to display advertising with Gemini in the future. While users currently access Gemini through either a free or paid subscription model, advertising could become part of the product. Pichai responded to a Wells Fargo analyst regarding G

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek recently released the open version of its inference model R1, which has quickly sparked discussions in the tech community. Its remarkable breakthrough achievements left venture capitalist Marc Andreessen in awe, describing it as 'one of the most astounding and impressive breakthroughs I've ever seen,' and it has demonstrated capabilities in AI benchmarking that rival or even surpass those of OpenAI's o1 model. Notably, DeepSeek claims that its model training cost is only $5.6 million, whereas leading U.S. companies require hundreds of millions.

Recently, the technology platform Gloo announced the acquisition of Faith Assistant (formerly known as Bible Chat), an AI-powered chatbot designed to help churches and faith groups engage more deeply with their members. Faith Assistant can be trained on the church's own content to ensure that the AI assistant's responses align with its beliefs and mission. Gloo is dedicated to serving a variety of organizations, including churches, support agencies, publishers, seminaries, and homeschooling families.

Recently, Tencent Meeting announced a significant product upgrade with the official launch of AI Assistant Pro, and it has comprehensively optimized its organizational collaboration features. This news has attracted widespread attention. It is reported that AI Assistant Pro is an intelligent tool built on Tencent's trillion-parameter model. It can deeply understand and quickly respond to meeting information, providing users with more precise and targeted answers based on historical and real-time meeting content. This smart assistant not only supports online searches but can also handle questions related to documents or images, and assist in content creation and reporting.

In the healthcare sector, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an attractive solution to enhance efficiency in clinical, research, and administrative tasks. Recently, healthcare technology startup Qventus successfully completed a $105 million Series D funding round, further solidifying its position in the AI healthcare field. This round was led by KKR and included $85 million in equity financing and $20 million in optional debt. Qventus's CEO and co-founder Mudit G...

Recently, the AI Assistant DeepSeek surprisingly launched an official app, covering both iOS and Android versions. The release was quite low-key, with even DeepSeek not conducting extensive promotion. Currently, DeepSeek's features are relatively simple and straightforward, focusing primarily on 'deep thinking' and 'online search'. Deep thinking involves generating an internal reasoning chain before answering user questions, analyzing the problem step by step, and arriving at a conclusion, utilizing DeepSeek-R1-Lit.

At the 2025 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Delta Air Lines once again captured significant attention by announcing a series of anticipated updates. This event took place at the impressive Sphere venue, showcasing their latest technological advancements, including an AI assistant called 'Delta Concierge' and an upgraded in-flight entertainment system. The newly launched 'Delta Concierge' AI assistant is expected to be rolled out gradually over the next year, allowing users to interact via voice.

Nvidia has announced that its newly developed G-Assist system assistant will be officially launched in February, providing services to GeForce RTX users. This AI assistant was first showcased at the launch event in June 2024 and aims to help users better manage and optimize various settings on their personal computers through simple voice or text commands. As modern PC performance continues to improve, users face countless combinations of hardware and software settings when configuring their PCs for optimal performance. This aims to address that.

In the context of rapid development in the global AI industry, Nvidia made a significant launch of a series of new products and services at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), aimed at helping businesses build AI assistants and robotic work teams. CEO Jensen Huang showcased the powerful capabilities of these AI agents, including the ability to automate task completion, during his keynote speech. He presented animated depictions of himself in various roles, indicating that AI agents can handle.

In the upcoming annual summary live stream, Xiaomi President Lu Weibing will highlight the latest updates of Xiaomi Surging OS 2. This update marks the first major version upgrade since the release of Surging OS 2, with the most notable feature being the debut of the Super Xiao Ai functionality for official users. Lu Weibing revealed that the updates will be rolled out in batches, targeting different models for adaptation and distribution, with specific upgrade plans expected to be announced during tonight's live stream.

Well-known AI assistant Grammarly recently announced its acquisition of productivity platform Coda, marking an important step for Grammarly towards becoming an AI productivity platform. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed through provider Midjourney. Coda's CEO and co-founder Shishir Mehrotra will take over as the new CEO of Grammarly. This acquisition will combine Coda's flexible and powerful AI.

Slack recently announced a deep integration of its Agentforce AI assistant with Salesforce, aimed at enhancing business efficiency through contextual intelligence. This integration will be a key component of Salesforce Agentforce 2.0, which is expected to launch officially on December 17. In an exclusive interview, Slack's Chief Product Officer Rob Seaman pointed out that the Slack platform typically reflects the structure of the organization and when

With the upcoming launch of the Samsung Galaxy S25 series smartphones, the highly anticipated upgraded Bixby voice assistant will also make its way to the global market. Currently, this powerful AI assistant is only available on the Galaxy W25 and W25 Flip phones in China, but it is expected to expand to most markets soon after the Galaxy S25 launches. According to Korean media ETNews, the new Bixby assistant features a custom large language model (LLM), which