Perplexity announced on Tuesday the launch of its enterprise-level API service "Sonar", allowing businesses and developers to integrate its generative AI search capabilities into their own applications. The service is available in two versions: the basic Sonar and the advanced Sonar Pro, and it supports customers in customizing the information sources of the AI search engine. Unlike traditional AI models that rely solely on training data, Perplexity emphasizes that Sonar can connect to the internet in real-time and obtain information from reliable sources, thereby providing more factual and authoritative results.

A research team from the United States and the United Kingdom has recently succeeded in reviving a chatbot code known as ELIZA, which is considered the first electronic chatbot in history. According to their paper published on the arXiv preprint server, this code was originally written by the late MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s. In 2021, an MIT archivist named Miles Crowley discovered printed copies of this code in a box containing Weizenbaum's personal belongings. The revival of this code marks an important milestone in the history of artificial intelligence.

On January 15, 2025, Beijing Dark Side of the Moon Technology Co., Ltd. announced the official release of the new multimodal image understanding model moonshot-v1-vision-preview. This model enhances the multimodal capabilities of the moonshot-v1 model series, helping Kimi better understand the world. The Vision model boasts powerful image recognition capabilities, accurately identifying complex details and subtle differences in images, distinguishing similar yet different objects, whether they are food or animals.

In the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, OpenAI launched its latest real-time API on October 1, 2023, aimed at providing developers with powerful tools to build intelligent voice applications. The release of this API garnered widespread attention, especially during the OpenAI DevDay in Singapore, where engineers from Daily.co shared their experiences and lessons learned while using this API. These engineers not only built products using the real-time API but also actively contributed to open source.

Kuaishou Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced that its self-developed visual generation large model, Kling AI, version 1.6, has now opened its API. This announcement marks a further enhancement in the quality of generation, providing users with a more stable and high-quality content creation experience. The Kling AI V1.6 model performs exceptionally well in responding to text descriptions related to motion, sequential actions, and camera movements, significantly improving text responsiveness, which greatly increases the success rate of generating advertising video materials. Additionally, the model excels in maintaining style and color rendering.

Against the backdrop of the global generative AI wave in 2022, YuanShi Intelligence (RWKV) completed tens of millions of RMB in angel round financing in December 2023, with investment from Tianji Capital. Following this financing, the company’s valuation doubled, and the funds will be used for team expansion, new architecture development, and product commercialization. The emergence of RWKV presents a strong challenge to the traditional Transformer architecture. With the advancement of large language models (LLMs), although the parameter scale of models is becoming increasingly large, issues like hallucination and accuracy persist.

Yuanshi Intelligence Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen recently announced that it has completed tens of millions of RMB in angel round financing on December 25, 2024, with Tianji Capital as the investor. This financing will accelerate Yuanshi Intelligence's efforts in ecological development, strengthening technological capabilities, and launching AI applications targeting end consumers. Founded in June 2023, Yuanshi Intelligence is a high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of large model architectures and AI applications. With its innovative technology and clear development strategy, the company has continuously attracted the favor of the capital markets. Prior to this financing, Yuanshi Intelligence had

In the turbulent field of artificial intelligence in 2024, there have been revolutionary breakthroughs in large model technology. With the emergence of OpenAI's Sora and the launch of significant products by several tech giants, not only has the market monopoly of GPT-4 been broken, but there have also been dual breakthroughs in performance and pricing. This year, competition in the AI sector has been exceptionally fierce, with 18 companies intensively releasing over 70 models, including outstanding works that surpass the performance of GPT-4. Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro stands out with its groundbreaking capabilities in long-text processing and video understanding.

The Shanghai Municipal Cyberspace Administration announced the latest registration notice for generative AI services, aimed at further promoting the innovative development and standardized application of generative AI in the city. According to the requirements of the 'Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services', Shanghai has orderly carried out the filing work for generative AI services and registered services that call the registered model capabilities through API or other methods. As of now, Shanghai has added 9 newly registered generative AI services, bringing the total number of registered services to 63.

Kuaishou Technology Co., Ltd. announced that its independently developed visual generation large model, Kling AI, has completed a new round of capability upgrades. The upgraded Kling AI API has achieved significant improvements in virtual fitting and lip-syncing, providing stronger technical support for clients in e-commerce, advertising marketing, pan-entertainment, and AI tools.

Chinese emerging AI large model company Jumps Star recently announced significant news, completing hundreds of millions in financing. This round was led by Fortera Capital, a private equity investment institution under the Shanghai state-owned capital investment and operation platform, with well-known firms such as Tencent and Qiming Venture Partners participating. Founded just over a year ago by former Microsoft Asia Research Institute Chief Scientist Jiang Daxin in April 2023, Jumps Star has already made breakthrough progress in the field of multimodal large language models.