Apple Inc. announced through its official website early today that its smart features are set to undergo a significant update, with a notably expanded range of supported languages. The newly added languages include French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese, along with localized English versions for Singapore and India.

On February 20, 2024, in response to market rumors that 'AI company DeepSeek is preparing for its initial public financing', the 'Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily' reported that these rumors are all false information, stating that 'the financing matter is purely a rumor.' Recently, as the generative AI sector continues to heat up, many Chinese AI startups have reported financing activities. Companies such as Moonlight's Dark Side and Minimax have consecutively reported financing news with valuations exceeding $1 billion, sparking significant market attention towards investment trends in the AI field. In this context, the focus remains on AI fundamental research and applications.

Recently, Musk officially launched the brand new chatbot Grok 3 in a live stream and disclosed the astonishing cost of training the model. Grok 3 is currently available to Premium + subscribers and has shown outstanding performance in various evaluation areas, even surpassing other competitors in the market, such as Gemini, DeepSeek, and ChatGPT. During the live stream, Musk mentioned that the training process for Grok 3 consumed a total of 200,000 NVIDIA GPUs, a figure that is truly shocking.

On Monday local time, Mistral unveiled a large model called Mistral Saba in Paris, which is specifically optimized for Arabic interaction capabilities. This innovative move is seen as a significant breakthrough in the European AI field. The success of Mistral Saba is closely related to its specially curated dataset. The model is trained using carefully selected language data from the Middle East and South Asia, enabling it to demonstrate higher accuracy and relevance in handling Arabic-related queries compared to other large general models.

A recent study from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University indicates that excessive reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) tools may be eroding people's critical thinking abilities. The research team surveyed 319 knowledge workers and collected 936 real-world examples of generative AI usage across various industries, including IT, design, administration, and finance. The study analyzed six dimensions of critical thinking: knowledge, understanding, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The findings reveal that people's thinking patterns in problem-solving change significantly after using AI tools.

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to advance, businesses are beginning to explore whether to rely on a single AI agent or to build a multi-agent network that encompasses a broader range of functions. Recently, the orchestration framework company LangChain conducted related experiments aimed at exploring the performance limits of AI agents when faced with an overload of instructions and tools. LangChain detailed its experimental process in a blog, focusing on the central question: 'What happens when a ReAct agent is asked to handle...

Recently, a study by the BBC has revealed that leading AI assistants often produce misleading and inaccurate content when answering questions related to news and current affairs. The research indicates that over half of the responses generated by four mainstream AI tools—ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity—are deemed to have 'significant issues'. Note: The image is AI-generated, provided by the image licensing service Midjourney, as requested by researchers for these four generative AI tools.

Recently, a Russian hacker identifying as 'emirking' posted what he claimed to be login credentials for 20 million OpenAI ChatGPT accounts on the famous hacker market BreachForums and is selling them at a price. This news was jointly released by AI startup OpenAI and cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes Labs on Friday, highlighting the seriousness of cybersecurity threats. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed by provider.

OpenAI recently announced the detailed inference process of its latest inference model, o3-mini, which is seen as a response to the increasing pressure from competitors like DeepSeek-R1. This change marks a significant shift in OpenAI's strategy towards model transparency. Previously, OpenAI regarded the 'Chain of Thought' (CoT) as a core competitive advantage and chose to keep it concealed. However, with open models like DeepSeek-R1 fully showing their inference paths, this has led to a reevaluation.

The next-generation AI application building platform 'Kouzi' has officially announced support for DeepSeek's R1 and V3 models, offering free trials to all users. It is reported that the Kouzi platform aims to assist users in rapidly building various bots based on large models and publishing them to social platforms, messaging apps, or websites.

Recently, the purebred version of Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT received a significant update, with its built-in XiaoYi assistant app successfully integrating with the artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek. At the same time, the Intelligent Agent Plaza has officially launched the Beta version of DeepSeek-R1, bringing users a smarter and more convenient experience.

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