Apple is holding a shareholder meeting where its diversification policies and collaborations with AI companies will be discussed, highlighting potential challenges and opportunities.

Amidst the intensifying global competition in AI technology, the Indian government has launched a significant artificial intelligence project called BharatGen. Supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, this project has allocated approximately ₹23.5 billion (approximately $27 million USD) to build India's own foundational AI models, aiming to secure the country's technological sovereignty. Image Note: Image generated by AI, image licensing service provider Midjourney. The BharatGen project's development is not coincidental. It follows China's DeepSeek...

On February 24th, Tencent Cloud's Smart Digital Humans and Tencent Qidian Customer Service officially announced their integration with the DeepSeek large language model. Leveraging DeepSeek's superior semantic understanding and intent recognition capabilities, this integration further optimizes user experience and enhances service quality and customer satisfaction.

Xiaomi founder, chairman, and CEO Lei Jun announced on Weibo that Xiaomi's first AI-powered professional laptop, the Redmi Book Pro 16 2025, will be launched on February 27th at 7 PM CST, with immediate sales. According to the official poster, the Redmi Book Pro 16 2025 will be among the first to feature Intel's 2nd generation Core "Ultra" processors, boasting leading computing power up to 96 TOPS and a 150%+ increase in platform AI computing power, along with high-speed LPDDR5X-8400MT memory.

Tencent's Yuanbao app has climbed to second place on Apple's free app chart in China, surpassing Doubao. DeepSeek continues to hold the top spot.

Recently, a netizen reported on social media that Tencent's intelligent assistant, "Yuanbao," displayed suspected advertisements in its responses when using DeepSeek-R1, raising concerns among users. In response, Tencent's PR director, Zhang Jun, commented that this shouldn't theoretically happen and that the technical team is investigating. Zhang explained that the issue may stem from the AI referencing content from the WeChat public account "58tohome Home Cleaning, Nanny, Moving Services," which may have been obtained through online search. The issue is being addressed.

Delta Electronics recently unveiled its D-Bot series of collaborative robots (Cobots) and several new products for the smart manufacturing market at ELECRAMA2025 in India. The event, held in Noida, northern India, aims to promote automation in smart factories. Image Note: Image generated by AI, image licensing provider Midjourney. The D-Bot series robots are specifically designed for automated tasks in smart factories and feature advanced safety mechanisms. These 6-axis collaborative robots boast a payload capacity of up to 30 kg.

In recent years, Apple's commitment to diversity and inclusion (DEI) policies has been challenged by some shareholders. As one of the few companies in Silicon Valley standing against conservative forces, Apple is facing scrutiny and pressure from shareholders while maintaining its diversity policies. Shareholders are calling for a reevaluation of these policies, believing they could impact the company's performance. Additionally, Apple's recent collaboration with the artificial intelligence company OpenAI has become a focal point of debate. Some shareholders are concerned that this partnership may bring more ethical dilemmas.

Today, Baidu App announced a major update, officially launching a completely new AI entry, and deeply integrating the Wenxin large model with the capabilities of DeepSeek to provide users with an upgraded experience. The core highlights of this upgrade include the integration of several cutting-edge intelligent features, such as 'AI Search', 'Web Information Refinement', 'Squeeze AI Summary', and 'Digital Human Intelligence'. These features enable the Baidu App to better understand user needs and offer more personalized search results.

Recently, Indian IT giant Infosys has been actively engaging in talks with German automobile manufacturer Daimler to seek an early renewal of a $3 billion contract, aiming to extend their collaboration beyond 2028 based on the existing agreement. A highlight of this renewal is that Infosys plans to incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology into the new agreement, adding a new revenue stream to its existing service offerings. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed from service provider Midjour.

On February 24, Tencent Health announced a comprehensive integration with the DeepSeek large model through Tencent Cloud, teaming up with Tencent's proprietary Mixed Yuan large model to significantly upgrade medical services. This encompasses intelligent triage, pre-consultation, health Q&A, smart medication, symptom self-examination, imaging report interpretation, and quality control across multiple scenarios. This upgrade aims to help over 1,000 hospitals nationwide to rapidly enhance their intelligent application capabilities, while providing multi-model deployment and application solutions for medical institutions, health check centers, medical device companies, and genetic sequencing enterprises.

According to Tianyancha App, there has been a change in the business registration of Shenzhen Shenglin Qijing Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. recently. Anhui iFLYTEK Yun Chuang Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of iFLYTEK, and Wuhan Changhu Technology Co., Ltd. have become new shareholders. This change was completed on February 21, 2023, and the company's registered capital increased from 2 million RMB to approximately 2.02 million RMB. Shenglin Qijing was established in July 2019, and the legal representative is Zhou Chao. The company's business scope includes electronic hardware, wiring, audio processing, software development, and artificial intelligence.

Recently, the debate over artificial intelligence benchmarking has intensified in the public eye. An employee of OpenAI accused Elon Musk's AI company xAI of releasing misleading Grok3 benchmark results, while xAI co-founder Igor Babushkin insisted that there are no issues with the company. The incident was sparked by xAI's publication of a chart on its blog demonstrating Grok3's performance in the AIME2025 test, which is part of a recent series of math invitation competitions.

Recently, Infinix, a brand under Transsion Holdings, announced the integration of its smartphone series with the full version of DeepSeek-R1 AI technology. According to official information, starting from February 26, users of Infinix smartphones running XOS 14.5 and above can experience this new feature through a system upgrade. Additionally, Transsion revealed that the new NOTE series smartphones, set to launch in March, will also be equipped with DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1 is an advanced

According to foreign media reports, Apple may be planning to integrate Google's Gemini AI model into its Apple Intelligence system. This news comes from firmware analyst Aaron Perris's research of the code in the first beta of iOS 18.4, where he discovered new references in the backend code that include "Google" as a third-party model option. This finding aligns with Apple's previous strategic layout. According to 9to5Mac, Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi,

Elon Musk's xAI company has announced the official launch of the voice function for its AI chatbot Grok3. This highly anticipated feature is now available to users through the Grok app, currently supporting English interactions. According to the latest news on the X platform, users simply need to update the Grok app to find the new voice icon next to the 'New Conversation' button in the upper right corner of the interface, where they can click to experience this new feature. xAI revealed that Grok3's voice function offers up to 10 different modes, including two marked as

On February 24, LiblibAI announced it has completed four rounds of financing within just one year, setting a new record for the speed of financing in the domestic AI application sector. Following hundreds of millions in financing disclosed in July 2024, LiblibAI has successfully secured hundreds of millions again. The latest two rounds of financing were led by Yongce Capital and Shunwei Capital, with existing shareholders like Ming Shi Venture Capital also participating heavily.

Recently, the Meta AI team launched the video joint embedding prediction architecture (V-JEPA) model, an innovative initiative aimed at advancing machine intelligence. Humans can naturally process information from visual signals and recognize surrounding objects and motion patterns. An important goal of machine learning is to reveal the fundamental principles that drive unsupervised learning in humans. Researchers proposed a key hypothesis—the predictive feature principle—arguing that the representations of continuous sensory inputs should be able to predict each other. Early research methods utilized slow feature analysis.