DingTalk recently announced a significant upgrade to its platform, introducing a series of selected AI assistants designed to delve into key business scenarios and enhance work efficiency and intelligence levels. This batch of AI assistants includes ticket assistants, administrative assistants, Excel assistants, reputation assistants, legal assistants, and approval assistants; they are equipped with pre-set workflows and AI skills tailored for specific scenarios and are deeply integrated with other applications within DingTalk, allowing employees to use them directly. Users can search for these selected AI assistants directly within DingTalk and try them for free.

Recently, Microsoft launched a new platform called Windows Agent Arena (WAA) specifically designed to test the performance of AI assistants in real Windows operating system environments. This innovative benchmarking tool aims to accelerate the development of AI assistants, enabling them to perform complex computational tasks across various applications and enhance human-computer interaction efficiency. The research team published a paper on arXiv.org highlighting the immense potential of large language models as computer assistants.

As AI continues to improve its coding capabilities, the structure of software development teams is facing significant changes, with the prospects for junior developers and Quality Assurance (QA) positions becoming precarious. An increasing number of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and heads of development teams are indicating that with the widespread adoption of AI assistants, they will reassess the composition of their teams, which will mainly rely on AI experts and senior developers to oversee AI-generated code.

xAI has released two intelligent models, Grok-2 and Grok-2mini, showcasing significant performance improvements with powerful reasoning, programming, dialogue, and image generation capabilities, surpassing Claude 3.5 and GPT-4 Turbo. The new models excel in solving mathematical problems, news querying, writing cover letters, and game recommendations, and are integrated with FLUX.1 for multitasking. The interface and features on the 𝕏 platform have been updated, offering richer services for Premium and Premium+ users. Enterprise A

According to multiple media reports, social media giant Meta is actively in talks to incorporate voices of several well-known actors and influencers for its AI products. This new feature may debut as early as this year's Meta Connect conference in September.

Kingsoft Office announced the WPS AI 2.0 version at the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and launched its self-developed model for government affairs - the Kingsoft Government Office Model 1.0. The upgrade of WPS AI 2.0 aims to enhance office productivity for users and clients through innovative applications in the personal, enterprise, and government versions. WPS AI Office Assistant has added four AI assistants, including AI Writing Assistant, AI Reading Assistant, AI Data Assista

The demographic dividend and platform traffic benefits have basically come to an end, and past traffic strategies are no longer effective. The next phase should focus on customer management, using content marketing to attract new user growth and improve the repurchase rate of existing customers. This may be the marketing strategy with the highest ROI in the next era. Merchants need a complete, executable, and supervisable AI solution, while platforms should seize new emerging core application scenarios and rethink new business models.

At the 2023 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming stated that AI assistants will be ubiquitous, becoming companions in work, life, and learning for everyone. Wu emphasized that Alibaba will provide infrastructure support for AI innovation across various industries. He pointed out that Alibaba is offering efficient AI technology services, including computing power, network storage, and big data, to meet the AI application needs in various fields.