Recently, automated AI agent startup CrewAI announced that it has successfully raised $18 million in funding. This round includes a seed round led by Boldstart Ventures and a Series A round led by Insight Partners. Additionally, Blitzscaling Ventures, Craft Ventures, Earl Grey Capital, and other prominent investors participated, along with well-known AI experts.

Microsoft is conducting 'AI Tour' events in 60 cities worldwide. These one-day events aim to bridge the gap, allowing business professionals interested in AI to engage directly with Microsoft engineers and sales teams to discuss how to create 'AI-first' enterprises and the potential applications of its core technology, Copilot.

In a recent study, the OpenAI research team launched a new benchmark called MLE-bench, aimed at assessing the performance of AI agents in machine learning engineering. This research particularly focuses on 75 machine learning engineering-related competitions from Kaggle, intending to test agents' abilities in various skills required in the real world, including model training, dataset preparation, and experiment execution. To facilitate better evaluation, the research team utilized foundational data from Kaggle's public leaderboard to establish performance metrics for each competition.

On the stage of scientific research, MIT's team has just introduced a new 'Research Agent' - SciAgents, an AI system capable of conducting research autonomously. Its powerful capabilities are truly impressive. In research on bio-inspired materials, SciAgents revealed some previously considered unrelated interdisciplinary connections, successfully achieving a scale, precision, and exploratory capacity that surpass conventional human research. SciAgents is a 'super assistant' in the research community. This intelligent system can independently read literature, confirm

Hisense has announced an exciting new product - the E7N Ultra Picture Quality Mini LED TV. This TV not only excels in configuration and picture quality but also claims to surpass flagship products on the market. The E7N is equipped with Hisense's self-developed Mini LED backlight control chip, with each chip accurately controlling 8 light sources, achieving an ultra-high standard of 4224 zones, with a brightness reaching 4000 nits! This design makes the E7N stand out among similar products, with real-time precise backlight control.

Recently, a Bilibili creator named "A Big Har Fish" released a video titled "AI, Don't Be Too Absurd", which attracted over 4 million viewers. In the video, he engages in a thrilling conversation with an AI agent set up as "a cold school beauty, whose gambling father owes you 10 billion in debts, and whose mother died during childbirth". What starts as a debt collection scenario gradually evolves into a complex story involving themes of debt, family ties, and betrayal as the dialogue deepens.

The latest release by QuestMobile, the '2024 AI Agent Application Insights Semi-Annual Report', shows that the monthly active users of artificial intelligence (AI) applications have exceeded 66 million, marking the rapid development and popularization of AI technology at the application level. The report highlights that AI applications have formed eight major categories, including emotional companionship, office efficiency, education and learning, lifestyle assistance, entertainment and leisure, copywriting, and industry consulting, with commercialization paths now opened.

Small businesses play an indispensable role in the U.S. economy, employing nearly half of the workforce and contributing 44% of GDP. However, when owners of these economic pillars consider exiting, they often face a dilemma of limited choices. OffDeal, a startup nurtured by the Y Combinator Winter 2024 accelerator, is dedicated to solving this issue through innovative AI technology. OffDeal is co-founded by former investment banker Ori Eldarov and former Meta engineer Alston Lin.

Tencent recently announced the official launch of its Tencent Yuanbao brand Smart Agent Zone, which has invited 11 partners to jointly create a high-quality AI smart agent application ecosystem. These applications cover various fields including entertainment, tourism, shopping, health, e-sports, express delivery, design, and recruitment, featuring well-known companies such as Yuanwen Group, Tongcheng Travel, Weimob, Zhiming Technology, China Resources Sanjiu, Kuaidi 100, Canva, High Competition Culture, Mafengwo, as well as VIPKID and Zhilian Recruitment Smart Agent.

In the virtual game Minecraft, a civilization constructed by agents has emerged. Over 1000 agents displayed astonishing cooperation in this pixelated world, building economic, cultural, religious, and governance systems, creating a trading market with gems as currency, and establishing an independently functioning economic system. The agents not only exchanged goods but also spread religion through 'bribing' villagers, with activities remarkably similar to human society, operating 24/7. The cooperative ability among the agents even surpasses large-scale cooperation seen in human history.

Fetch.ai announces the establishment of an innovation laboratory aimed at advancing the development of AI smart agent solutions to enhance technological value for businesses and consumers. The laboratory will provide funding, expert guidance, and strategic support, organize competitions, and offer rapid development opportunities to foster innovation. Fetch.ai commits to investing $10 million annually to support projects focused on building AI smart agents. Additionally, Fetch.ai has launched the 'Innovation Ambassador Club' and 'Intern Incubator Program' to promote innovation within the ecosystem and support talent.

The establishment of the joint laboratory signifies that both parties will engage in in-depth cooperation in cutting-edge technological fields such as large model pre-training, alignment, retrieval enhancement, intelligent agents, and multimodality. Renmin University of China will leverage its talent and technical advantages in large model research, combining forces with Baichuan Intelligence in engineering and product development to jointly advance related research and applications.

AI startup Ema raised $36 million in Series A funding, bringing total funding to $61 million, led by Accel and Section32. Ema aims to automate tedious tasks for businesses through no-code AI agents capable of handling various functions like customer support, employee experience, sales, marketing, and compliance. Their AI agents are deployed across fintech, legal, healthcare, e-commerce, and insurance sectors, providing advanced experiences with l....