New York-based artificial intelligence company Lightning AI has recently completed a new funding round of $50 million. The investment round includes notable firms such as Cisco Investments, JPMorgan Chase, K5 Global, and technology giant NVIDIA. To date, Lightning AI's total funding has reached $103 million. Led by founder and CEO William Falcon, Lightning AI is known for its deep learning framework, PyTorch Lightning.

Recently, San Francisco-based startup Wordware announced the completion of a $30 million seed funding round led by Spark Capital. This investment is one of the largest initial investments in Y Combinator's history. Wordware aims to simplify the AI development process through its natural language platform, enabling non-programmers to easily build AI agents. The core product of Wordware is a full-stack operating system that allows users to...

NVIDIA's leadership position in the field of artificial intelligence is undeniable. Recently, the company's quarterly financial report revealed that NVIDIA sold $31 billion worth of AI systems in the last quarter. Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of the company, emphasized the importance of AI applications across various industries during a conversation with Wall Street analysts. In this discussion, Huang mentioned Google's NotebookLM tool, stating that he uses this AI tool 'very frequently'.

Recently, Meta AI open-sourced a foundational multimodal language model named SPIRIT LM, which can freely mix text and speech, opening new possibilities for multimodal tasks involving audio and text. SPIRIT LM is based on a pre-trained text language model with 7 billion parameters, which has been continuously trained on text and speech units, expanding into the speech modality. It can understand and generate text like a large text model, while also being capable of understanding and generating speech, and even mixing text and speech to create various forms of expression.

At this year's Samsung Developers Conference, Samsung officially unveiled the new Gauss 2 AI model, marking another significant advancement in its artificial intelligence endeavors. The Gauss 2 model upgrades in performance and efficiency, with applications ranging from smartphones to home appliances, encompassing a variety of smart devices. Gauss 2 has multimodal capabilities, allowing it to process images, text, and code simultaneously, enhancing the integration of AI into various device ecosystems. Samsung has developed three versions: Compact, Balanced, and

Recently, the competition between Google and OpenAI has intensified again. Just one day after the new GPT-4o topped the AI rankings, Google launched its latest beta model, Gemini-Exp-1121, quickly regaining the championship title. Just a week prior, Google had released Gemini-Exp-1114, indicating a rapid response from Google to OpenAI's developments. Jack Rae, the Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind, stated that

Recently, a research team from the University of Washington released a new visual tracking model called SAMURAI. This model is based on the Segment Anything Model2 (SAM2) and aims to address the challenges encountered during visual object tracking in complex scenes, particularly when dealing with fast-moving and self-occluding objects. While SAM2 excels in object segmentation tasks, it has some limitations in visual tracking. For instance, its fixed-window memory approach fails to consider objects in crowded scenes.

After a 5-year restoration project, this masterpiece of Gothic architecture dating back to the 12th century is set to reopen to the public. The devastating fire in 2019 not only destroyed the iconic spire of Notre-Dame but also severely damaged this ancient building that holds the memory of human civilization. However, with the assistance of modern technology, this historical structure is returning with a renewed appearance. The ambitious project, costing approximately €700 million (about 5.3 billion RMB), involved more than 250 companies and over 2,000 craftsmen.

Amazon recently announced a $110 million investment in AI research to support the development of its own designed Trainium chips. This move aims to reduce Amazon's reliance on Nvidia and promote technological advancements in its cloud computing platform AWS. Note: Image generated by AI, image licensed from service provider Midjourney. Trainium is a machine learning chip tailored for deep learning training and inference tasks. Through this investment, Amazon hopes to encourage academic research.

Recently, a federal lawsuit regarding a Minnesota law on 'using deepfake technology to influence elections' has sparked new controversy. The plaintiff's legal team pointed out in the latest legal documents that the affidavits supporting this law may contain text generated by artificial intelligence. Image source note: The image was generated by AI, provided by Midjourney according to reports from the Minnesota Reformer, where the state's Attorney General Keith Ellison had requested the Stanford Social Media Lab's assistance.

Crusoe Energy is a startup focused on building data centers for major companies like Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Recently, the company filed a document with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicating it is conducting a funding round totaling $818 million, of which $686 million has been secured. This round has attracted participation from 70 investors. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image provided by service provider Midjourney.

OpenAI has launched a major upgrade to its ChatGPT Plus subscription users with the latest large language model (LLM) upgrade - the 'Creative Writing' feature of ChatGPT-4o. According to a brief statement from OpenAI on X (formerly Twitter), the upgraded model's writing capabilities are more natural and engaging, and can be tailored to user needs, enhancing the relevance and readability of the content. With this upgrade, ChatGPT-4o is considered to have reached new heights in the field of creative writing.

In today's highly competitive cloud computing market, Google Cloud has recently announced the launch of a new AI agent ecosystem project - AI Agent Space. With competitors like Microsoft and Amazon continuously rolling out innovative tools, Google's initiative aims to help businesses better discover, deploy, and co-create AI agents to achieve task automation, enhance customer experience, and optimize operational efficiency. The launch of AI Agent Space marks Google Cloud's further expansion in the enterprise service sector. Through this new ecosystem, Google aims to...

H2O.ai recently announced the launch of its new multi-agent platform h2oGPTe, which combines generative and predictive AI models to provide businesses with more consistent responses. Sri Ambati, founder and CEO of H2O.ai, stated that a major demand from enterprises for AI agents is to maintain response consistency. The h2oGPTe platform utilizes H2O.ai's proprietary models Mississippi and Danube, while also allowing access to other models.

Spanish BBVA Bank (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) recently announced the successful global deployment of the ChatGPT Enterprise Edition to enhance employee efficiency and innovation. In just five months, the bank has created over 2900 customized GPT applications by closely collaborating with legal, compliance, and IT security teams to ensure the safe and responsible use of AI. BBVA Bank has always been at the forefront of technological innovation.

Brave Search announced a significant update on Thursday: the addition of a conversation mode to its 'Answer with AI' feature, allowing users to ask follow-up questions based on the initial search, greatly enhancing the coherence and depth of the search experience. The operation of this innovative feature is very intuitive. For example, when searching for 'Christopher Nolan movies,' the system first generates an AI summary that introduces the background of the director Nolan and his representative works. Now, users can ask follow-up questions in the dialogue box below the summary.

YouTube introduced a significant update to its Shorts feature this Thursday. By integrating Google's DeepMind Veo video generation model, the Dream Screen functionality now supports AI video background generation, allowing for 1080p HD video output, greatly enhancing creators' short video production. The application of this technology is extremely simple and intuitive. Creators just need to open the Shorts camera, click the 'Green Screen' icon, select the 'Dream Screen' feature, and input the desired scene.