AI search engine Perplexity officially launched its advertising program in the US market this week, creating a new model for search advertising. This highly anticipated AI company has successfully attracted several advertising giants, including Indeed, Whole Foods, Universal McCann, and PMG. Unlike traditional search advertising, Perplexity has innovated an advertising format that integrates into the AI interaction process. Advertisers can naturally incorporate questions in relevant contexts, such as how to use Indeed to optimize job search strategies.

IBM and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently announced the launch of two groundbreaking free AI interaction models designed to predict global energy access and simulate energy equity. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in employing artificial intelligence technology to address global energy challenges. The newly introduced power access prediction model utilizes AI technology to analyze population, urbanization, infrastructure, and satellite data to provide power access predictions for 102 countries up to 2030. Meanwhile, the Clean Energy Equity Index, as a pioneering index, employs AI to gauge...

The Anthropic API introduces a new prompt caching feature aimed at optimizing the user experience with the Claude model. This feature allows users to cache frequently used contextual information between API calls, significantly reducing the costs and latency of long prompts by up to 90% and 85%, respectively. Currently, it supports the public beta versions of Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku, with plans to expand to Claude 3 Opus in the future. It is suitable for use cases such as conversational agents, coding assistants, handling large documents, and agent searches.

The 2nd MER24 Challenge focused on the application of AI in emotional recognition within real human-computer interaction scenarios, attracting renowned international scholars. The voice technology team from Soul App excelled in the highly challenging Semi track, winning first place. Their success stemmed from innovations in multimodal data understanding, emotional recognition algorithms, model optimization, and efficient collaboration. To tackle ....

Recently, Xiaomi's AI assistant 'Xiao Ai' has collaborated with ByteDance's Volcano Engine, utilizing the latter's large language model 'Doubao' to provide users with a more intelligent AI interaction experience.

Intuitive AI usage is becoming a trend, generative AI is being integrated into various platforms, AI interaction continues to improve, AI expands into the video domain, and data democratization promotes AI innovation.

Baidu will release the newly upgraded version V19 of Baidu Maps on October 17. This version will provide new AI interaction and navigation features. Baidu Maps V19 is rebuilt on the Wenxin large model, introducing a completely new AI guide and a one-sentence wake-up feature. It also supports personalized search and recommendations.